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INDOOR AIR QUALITY CHECKLIST

 

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Provide Minimum Indoor Air Quality per ASHRAE 62 - 1999 - Specifies minimum ventilation rates and indoor air quality that will be acceptable to human occupants. The standard is intended to minimize the potential for adverse health effects and applies to all indoor or enclosed spaces that people may occupy.

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Keep air intake shafts/inlets away from cooling towers, sanitary vents, loading docks, parking garages, kitchen exhausts, trash enclosures and heavily traveled roads.

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Meet ASHRAE 129-1997 - This standard defines a method of measuring air-change effectiveness in mechanically ventilated buildings. The method involves an age-of-air approach to air-change effectiveness and employs tracer gas procedures to measure the age of air. The age of the air at a given location is the average amount of time that has elapsed since the air molecules at that location entered the building. The definition of air-change effectiveness is based on a comparison of the age of air in the occupied portions of the building to the age of air that would exist under conditions of perfect mixing of the ventilation air. Meet air effectiveness E greater than 0.9.

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Provide natural ventilation - Use operable windows.

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Low VOC materials - Select appropriate materials such as Low Volatile Organic Compound (VOC) paint, adhesives, and sealants.

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Adhesives shall  meet or exceed the VOC limits of the AQMD Rule 1168.

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Sealers shall meet or exceed Bay Area Air Quality Management District Reg. 8, Rule 51.

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Carpet shall meet Carpet and Rug institute Green Label Air Quality Test Program.

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Paints and Coatings must meet or exceed the VOC and the chemical components of Green Seal requirements.

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No Smoking Indoors - provide outside smoking areas away from entrances and air inlets.

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Carbon Dioxide Detectors - CO2 must be less than 530 ppm.

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Indoor Pollution Control - Separate copy machine and fax machine room ventilation system.

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Environmental Protection Agency: EPA's mission is to protect human health and to safeguard the natural environment — air, water, and land — upon which life depends. For 30 years, EPA has been working for a cleaner, healthier environment for the American people.

American Society of Heating, Refrigerating and Air-Conditioning Engineers ASHRAE is organized for the sole purpose of advancing the arts and sciences of heating, ventilation, air conditioning and refrigeration for the public's benefit through research, standards writing, and continuing education.

 

 

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