Managing Indoor Air Quality, Fifth Edition

Contents\n......Page 6
From the Primary Revision Author\n......Page 10
Preface\n......Page 12
The Building as a Habitat......Page 14
When Buildings Become Sickening\n......Page 15
Why Now? What Is Driving the IAQ Issue?\n......Page 16
Humane Concerns Become Public Health Concerns\n......Page 18
Economic Issues\n......Page 20
Legal Implications\n......Page 21
Indoor Air Pollutants\n......Page 23
IAQ Controls\n......Page 24
Environmental Medicine\n......Page 26
The Management Challenge\n......Page 27
2. Indoor Air Quality in Retrospect: How Did We Get Here?\n......Page 28
Body Odor, Tobacco Smoke, and Disease: Factors of Transition\n......Page 29
IAQ Today\n......Page 31
Summary: What Does All This Mean?\n......Page 39
3. Classifying Indoor Air Problems: What Can Go Wrong?\n......Page 40
Sick Building Syndrome and Building Related Illness\n......Page 41
SBS Symptomology\n......Page 42
Building Related Illness Diagnosis\n......Page 43
Putting Health Information to Work\n......Page 52
Contaminants and Their Sources\n......Page 53
Environmental Conditions\n......Page 74
Health, Contaminants and Environmental Factors\n......Page 79
4. Investigating Indoor Air Problems: How to Find Out What Went Wrong\n......Page 86
Investigation Procedures\n......Page 88
Measures of Acceptability\n......Page 122
Investigation Difficulties\n......Page 124
Selecting a Diagnostics Team\n......Page 127
Toxicity and Hazard\n......Page 130
Measuring Contaminants\n......Page 131
Controls\n......Page 132
Special Control Considerations\n......Page 136
Control Evaluation and Monitoring\n......Page 145
Control by Contaminant\n......Page 146
6. The Thermal Environment: The Internal Habitat\n......Page 160
Comfort and Health\n......Page 161
Temperature\n......Page 162
Relative Humidity\n......Page 164
Humidity and ASHRAE 62\n......Page 168
Ventilation\n......Page 169
Ventilation Limitations\n......Page 171
Ventilation and Energy Efficiency\n......Page 175
HVAC Design\n......Page 178
Inspecting the HVAC System\n......Page 180
HVAC IAQ Opportunities\n......Page 181
Outdoor Air Intake\n......Page 184
Mixing Plenum\n......Page 185
Water Systems\n......Page 186
Air Systems\n......Page 189
Pay Now or Pay Later......Page 202
History of Filters\n......Page 204
Applying Filtration\n......Page 209
Basic Principles of Air Cleaning\n......Page 211
Particulate Filtration\n......Page 215
Testing and Rating Methods for Particulate Filters\n......Page 217
Gas Phase Filtration\n......Page 225
Application of Gas Phase/Chemical Filtration\n......Page 230
Selection and Application of Filtration and Air Cleaning\n......Page 232
Acknowledgments\n......Page 235
Foreword\n......Page 238
\"9/11\" Changed the World\n......Page 239
Assessment Guidance\n......Page 243
Checklist for CB Hardening Preparations\n......Page 247
Filtration Is an Important Building Security Tool\n......Page 250
10. Operations and Maintenance: An Ounce of Prevention\n......Page 256
Inherited \"Energy Crisis\" Problems\n......Page 257
The High Cost of Neglected Maintenance\n......Page 258
Operation & Maintenance: The Key IAQ Ingredient......Page 259
Preventive Maintenance for Quality Indoor Air\n......Page 260
Putting It All Together\n......Page 269
Poor Maintenance by Design\n......Page 270
Maintenance Fallacies That Work Against Productive Environments\n......Page 272
Complaint Response\n......Page 276
Complaint Response Procedures\n......Page 277
Management by Complaint\n......Page 287
Policy\n......Page 289
Management Plan\n......Page 291
IAQ Resource Notebook\n......Page 294
Economic Factors\n......Page 295
Legal Matters\n......Page 296
Securing Consultant Services\n......Page 297
Education and Training\n......Page 299
Communications in IAQ Management\n......Page 300
12. What \"They\" Say: External Influences on IAQ\n......Page 302
ASHRAE 62, Ventilation for Acceptable Indoor Air Quality\n......Page 303
Ventilation Rate Procedure\n......Page 305
Air Quality Procedure\n......Page 306
\"Acceptable\" Air Quality\n......Page 308
Revision Activity of ASHRAE Standard 62\n......Page 310
Where to Next?\n......Page 313
Appendix A: Glossary of Acronyms and Abbreviations\n......Page 316
Appendix B: Glossary of Terms\n......Page 318
Appendix C: Selected Resources and References......Page 328
Appendix D: Investigation Forms\n......Page 348
Appendix E: Guidance Checklist for Design Documentation\n......Page 364
Index\n......Page 366