Indoor Air Quality (IAQ) Radio: Recent Episodes
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This is the place where the world discusses indoor air quality, the built environment and disaster restoration issues. Every Friday at noon ET the show is live. The shows host are Joe Hughes, President of IAQ Training Institute and Cliff Zlotnik, President of Microban Systems. Every week we interview experts from the indoor air quality, building sciences and disaster restoration industry. As instructors for IAQ and disaster restoration training programs and active participants in industry associations we have the credibility and contacts necessary to bring top industry experts as guests on the show every week. The show is designed to help promote education and communication for industry professionals and consumers in need of assistance with IAQ, built environment and disaster restoration issues.
This week we welcome back Dr. Joe Spurgeon to continue our conversation on the use of sampling as part of a mold inspection. We will focus on his latest paper and answer the question can airborne mold samples be interpreted objectively using numerical guidelines?
Dr. Spurgeon has a multidisciplinary doctorate degree in Analytical Chemistry and Environmental Health from the University of Pittsburgh; and was a Certified Industrial Hygienist from 1993 – 2013. His career has included working as a research chemist on the NBS Lead-Paint Poisoning Program, directing the FAA’s Combustion Toxicology Laboratory, performing Health Assessments for CDC/ATSDR, implementing US EPA’s Laboratory Exposure Assessment Project, and working as a consultant specializing in microbial indoor air quality for US PHS. He has performed over 4,000 residential and commercial investigations involving water intrusions and microbial contaminants; has taught courses on mold investigations, sampling, and data interpretation methods; and has served as an expert witness in numerous mold cases. Additional articles from Dr. Spurgeon are available at www.bi-air.com. His books are available at http://expertonmold.com/
Today on IAQ Radio+ we welcome Matthew S. Perzanowski, PhD. Radio Joe attended an excellent conference earlier this week at The Ohio State University, on “The Implications of Carpet on Indoor Chemistry and Microbiology”. Dr. Perzanowski was a presenter at the event that was organized by Karen Danemmiller, PhD and Rachel Adams, PhD, both of whom have joined us for shows on IAQ Radio+.
Today on IAQ Radio+ Radio Joe will interview John Downey and the Z-man for their overview of key points from each speaker at this weeks ClRI conference. We also expect the Restoration Global Watchdog, Pete Consigli to join us for the roundup.
Today on IAQ Radio+ Radio Joe will interview John Downey and the Z-man for their overview of key points from each speaker at this weeks ClRI conference. We also expect the Restoration Global Watchdog, Pete Consigli to join us for the roundup.
Cleanfax did a nice job summarizing the event: “The annual Cleaning Industry Research Institute(CIRI) Science Symposium concluded Wednesday after two days of intense discussions and presentations outlining the critical nature of protecting health with the science of cleaning. Held at Miami University in Oxford, OH, the conference featured researchers, educators, trainers, and consultants who spoke to a packed room of more than 50 seasoned cleaning and restoration professionals.
An All Star Panel Weighs-in: Harvey Cohen, John Lapotaire, David Popper & Peter Crosa. Joining Radio Joe from South Florida, the Restoration Global Watchdog will be On site with a Live Audience!
Many in the restoration industry feel July 1st, 2019 was a dark day for Florida’s policyholders, disaster victims and those who service their emergency mitigation, drying, mold remediation, restoration and reconstruction needs after a loss or weather event! A Town Hall was held Thursday, July 11th in South Florida to address the restoration and remediation marketplace in the post AOB era. IAQradio will be covering the proceedings and key issues raised and discussed at the Town Hall on this week’s show.
This week we look forward to a conversation with home performance and IAQ industry veteran Joe Medosch of Hayward Score. Joe is one of the smartest people in the industry and not just book smart, he has been there and done that with almost 30 years of experience as a contractor and 10 as a master trainer. Joe has deep experience in the home performance field, especially in the areas of health and energy-efficiency. His expertise includes building science and diagnostics, IAQ/IEQ assessments and home performance. He has a long history of involvement with the ICC, BPI, RESNET, SMACNA, and ASTM. He has served on numerous committees developing industry standards including: RESNET Standard 380, Equipment Sub-Committee, and BPI multifamily standards development.
Joe is an advocate for updating how home performance work is done and focuses on health of the occupants. He is adamant that we need to find ways to document that home performance improvements not only help with energy but that they treat the home holistically and help improve energy use, comfort and health.
Dr. Lauren Tessier, is a Naturopathic Physician licensed by the state of Vermont. Her practice, Life After Mold, uses a patient centered approach to help those suffering from mold related illness. Her approach is informed by my Naturopathic Medical education, in combination with Functional and Integrative Medicine. These tools allow her to truly address the entire person who establishes care with her.
Dr. Tessier’s passion for treating those with mold related illnesses started when she moved to Waterbury, Vermont in 2013. She wanted to serve a small community in rural Vermont, however, nothing could have prepared her for what she was about to see. Waterbury, two years later, was still recovering from an unimaginable flood caused by Hurricane Irene in 2011. Patients sick with unexplainable rashes, allergies non-responsive to treatment, fatigue, breathing difficulties, neurological complaints, headaches, nausea, and general immune system dysfunction came to be seen, day after day. When the traditional western medicine and Naturopathic approaches didn’t seem to work, that was when she decided to “dive deep” into what she suspected to be mold related illness.
On May 17, 2019, IAQradio launched the first of a 4 part exclusive series with RIA and IICRC on the Maturing of the Cleaning and Restoration industry. Frequent IAQradio listeners and “followers” of the Z-man’s blog are aware, on May 1st, 2019 in Phoenix, Arizona an historic announcement was made at RIA’s 73rd annual Convention and Exposition. RIA President Lee King, CR and IICRC Chairman Pete Duncanson taking a page from Reagan and Gorbachev’s historic Glasnost agreement executed a Strategic Partnership on behalf of their respective organizations. After the execution of the agreement Mark Springer, CR who is RIA’s President Elect announced the launch of RIA’s AGA committee. The Advocacy and Government Affairs (AGA) committee chair is well known restoration contractor advocate and counselor Ed Cross known in the industry as “The Restoration Lawyer”.
This week on IAQ radio we welcome back one of our favorite guests to talk about a new AIHA mold document and some other industry current events. Donald Weekes was a Partner at InAIR Environmental, Ltd. an occupational and environmental health and safety consultancy based in Ottawa, ON. He is now a full-time volunteer. Mr. Weekes has been providing environmental and occupational health and safety technical assistance for more than forty-three (43) years.
Mr. Weekes is a Certified Industrial Hygienist (CIH) and Certified Safety Professional (CSP). He is currently a Director of the American Conference of Governmental Industrial Hygienist (ACGIH). He is a Past President of IAQA (Indoor Air Quality Association), as well as Past President of the Ottawa Valley Chapter for ASHRAE (American Society of Heating, Refrigerating and Air-Conditioning Engineers). Besides these professional organizations, Mr. Weekes has also involved as a volunteer with the following professional organizations: American Industrial Hygiene Association (AIHA), International Society of Indoor Air Quality (ISIAQ), Canada Green Building Council (CaGBC).
On May 17, 2019, IAQradio launched the first of a 4 part exclusive series with RIA and IICRC on the Maturing of the Cleaning and Restoration industry. Frequent IAQradio listeners and “followers” of the Z-man’s blog are aware, on May 1st, 2019 in Phoenix, Arizona an historic announcement was made at RIA’s 73rd annual Convention and Exposition.
RIA President Lee King, CR and IICRC Chairman Pete Duncanson taking a page from Reagan and Gorbachev’s historic Glasnost agreement executed a Strategic Partnership on behalf of their respective organizations. After the execution of the agreement Mark Springer, CR who is RIA’s President Elect announced the launch of RIA’s AGA committee. The Advocacy and Government Affairs (AGA) committee chair is well known restoration contractor advocate and counselor Ed Cross known in the industry as “The Restoration Lawyer”.
This week on IAQradio+ we Flashback to an excellent show with Dr. Claudette Hanks Reichel. Dr. Hanks Reichel discusses energy efficiency, building science, LaHouse, resilience and bringing research to practice. Dr. Hanks Reichel is Professor and Extension Housing Specialist with Louisiana State University AgCenter. She serves as Director of LaHouse Resource Center, a public exhibit of multiple high performance housing solutions and hub of Extension education programs to advance resource-efficient, durable and healthy housing for the southern climate and natural hazards.
Reichel has developed numerous educational outreach programs and resources relating to housing, including energy-efficiency, healthy homes, hurricane and flood resilience and others. She has authored more than 100 Extension publications, presented at numerous professional events, was twice a featured speaker at the National Building Museum in Washington DC, and has received 12 national and state level awards for program excellence and impact
On May 1st, 2019 in Phoenix, Arizona an historic announcement was made at RIA’s 73rd annual Convention and Exposition. The convention opened with a Town Hall session traditionally done as the association’s closing general session with breaking news that shall shape the direction of the industry for years to come!
RIA President Lee King, CR and IICRC Chairman Pete Duncanson taking a page from Regan and Gorbachev’s historic Glasnost agreement executed the Strategic Partnership on behalf of their respective organizations. RIA 1st VP Mark Springer, CR and longtime IICRC board member Craig Kersemeier, WLS were instrumental in helping facilitate the negotiation on behalf of each organizations board of directors leading to the signing ceremony in Phoenix on May 1st. After the execution of the agreement Mark Springer announced the launch of RIA’s AGA task force. The Advocacy and Government Affairs (AGA) committee chair was then introduced. Well known restoration contractor advocate and counselor Ed Cross known in the industry as “The Restoration Lawyer” then addressed the convention delegates about the AGA’s inaugural initiatives.
Please join us live for this exciting exclusive interview by “Radio” Joe Hughes and the Cliff “Z-man” Zlotnik this week with Springer and Cross who will share their unique insights into the making of the partnership agreement and the task force’s advocacy plans for the future. This show is the first in a 4 part series that will evolve over the next several months as the IICRC is invited to weigh-in with their unique perspective in part two. Part 3 will provide an update by Cross on the AGA activities. After Labor Day a collaborative show is planned with King and Duncanson to inform the industry on the progress of the partnership’s ambitious plans to unify the industry and advance the trade for professional cleaning and restoration contractors! This week, IAQradio’s Restoration Global Watchdog will join the show and weighs in with his thoughts on the historic announcement. Pete Consigli, CR, WLS says, “Over the past decade a succession of volunteer leadership and executive management of both RIA an IICRC have worked towards this historic day. I am thrilled to see the industry come together to collaborate for the greater good. Consigli goes on to say, I thank everyone who played a part in the agreement and hope with broad base support from industry stakeholders the partners will accomplish their goals”.
This week Iaqradio will have another one of their signature “Fireside Chat” shows with an industry pioneer and iconic personality. John Downey is well known to our listeners from his appearances on the show over the years in his former role as the former editor of the IICRC Journal and more recently in his new role as the Executive Director of CIRI.
This week’s show will be more personal and share John’s “story” from his family’s roots in the carpet cleaning industry that spans 5 generations over a century! John’s activism is legendary from his days of helping organize his local carpet cleaning association in Ohio to the story behind Cleanfax which he founded and sold in the 1990’s. His various dalliances in related segments of the cleaning, restoration and Jan San industries have given John some hard lessons learned he will share with our growing audience of loyal listeners.
This week IAQradio’s Restoration Global Watchdog will be joining the show to share some of his insights gleaned from knowing John for over 3 decades. Downey, Consigli and the Z-man share a common interest as industry observers, watchdogs and activists in their mission to advance the profession for the betterment of those who derive their livelihood from cleaning, restoration and remediation. Please join us this week as the “boys” have a chat with John Downey and share their heartwarming anecdotes which will make you smile, laugh and maybe along the way pick up a few tips that can be applied to your own professional and personal life journey!
This week we look forward to our interview with Eugene C. Cole DrPH. Dr. Gene Cole is Director of Research for LRC Indoor Testing & Research, Cary, NC; and formerly Professor of Environmental Health Sciences at Brigham Young University, Provo, UT. He has 35 years of research experience, with a primary focus on the ecology of indoor and work environments, with special emphasis on identification and reduction of pollutant reservoirs and sources, bioaerosols, human exposure assessment and control, product evaluation, cleaning and restoration, mold and sewage remediation, and biocides. Since 2000, he has continued to conduct research on the relationship between the use of antibacterial cleaning and hygiene products in the home, and antibiotic resistance; as well as on the effectiveness of cleaning to reduce the transmission of disease agents in schools. He has also worked with national and international organizations to address environmental health and infectious disease concerns such as medical waste management in Central Europe and South East Asia, hygiene promotion in Africa, and healthy homes and buildings in the U.S. and Asia.
Dr. Cole is a member of the Scientific Advisory Council of the Cleaning Industry Research Institute (CIRI), and a Fellow of the American Industrial Hygiene Association. He holds a Master of Science in Public Health Microbiology and a Doctor of Public Health in Biohazard Science and Occupational Health, both from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
This week we look forward to our interview with Jim Harris, Sr., a consultant, trainer, corporate executive, and entrepreneur. Jim has had a productive and successful career in the cleaning industry for 45 years. Jim started Janitronics Facility Services in 1972 as a local cleaning service. The company has since evolved into a seven branch, comprehensive cleaning, maintenance and management service, but has a new approach: Thinking small; they specialize in creating, and sustaining a healthy indoor environment utilizing state of the art, effective ‘cleaning systems’ based on validated cleaning science research. Mr. Harris is also co-founder and chairman of the Cleaning Industry Research Institute (CIRI). CIRI is the clearinghouse for unbiased, peer-reviewed technical information and research about the science of cleaning or restoration of the indoor environment.
Jim Harris has done what others have only dreamed of while building a profitable company. His company was built first and foremost on the science of cleaning. The company uses state-of-the-art equipment and processes to clean for health. To increase productivity, Janitronics developed its’ SysteamCleaning (TM) concept, utilizing state of the art workflow based on systems thinking and high performance standards. In 2000 the leadership of the company completed a succession transition to Jim Harris, Jr. and is headquartered in Albany, N.Y. They are not just dumping wastebaskets and cleaning restrooms. They pride themselves on cleaning a work environment to maintain a high health standard; focused on properly removing bio-contaminants and airborne particles. Janitronics has been successful in transforming cleaning into a science.
This week we look forward to our interview with Jim Harris, Sr., a consultant, trainer, corporate executive, and entrepreneur. Jim has had a productive and successful career in the cleaning industry for 45 years. Jim started Janitronics Facility Services in 1972 as a local cleaning service. The company has since evolved into a seven branch, comprehensive cleaning, maintenance and management service, but has a new approach: Thinking small; they specialize in creating, and sustaining a healthy indoor environment utilizing state of the art, effective ‘cleaning systems’ based on validated cleaning science research. Mr. Harris is also co-founder and chairman of the Cleaning Industry Research Institute (CIRI). CIRI is the clearinghouse for unbiased, peer-reviewed technical information and research about the science of cleaning or restoration of the indoor environment.
Jim Harris has done what others have only dreamed of while building a profitable company. His company was built first and foremost on the science of cleaning. The company uses state-of-the-art equipment and processes to clean for health. To increase productivity, Janitronics developed its’ SysteamCleaning (TM) concept, utilizing state of the art workflow based on systems thinking and high performance standards. In 2000 the leadership of the company completed a succession transition to Jim Harris, Jr. and is headquartered in Albany, N.Y. They are not just dumping wastebaskets and cleaning restrooms. They pride themselves on cleaning a work environment to maintain a high health standard; focused on properly removing bio-contaminants and airborne particles. Janitronics has been successful in transforming cleaning into a science.
This week we look forward to another Research to Practice presentation from one of the leading IAQ researchers in the world Rachel Adams, PhD. Dr. Adams is a microbiologist with a deep curiosity for how microbes work and how microbial interactions shape the environment around them, including our homes and our health. She is a Microbiologist with the California Department of Public Health and a Project Scientist at the University of California, Berkeley, in the Department of Plant & Microbial Biology. Dr. Adams has expertise in using sequence-based technology to study microbial exposures in indoor environments, has developed methods to improve the identification of microbes, and has interest in understanding the consequences of indoor microbial exposures on human health. Dr. Adams holds a B.S. from Georgetown University and a Ph.D. from Stanford University and is a member of the Mycological Society of America and the International Society of Indoor Air Quality and Climate (ISIAQ).
This week we Flashback to one of our more popular shows with Christine Oliver, MD. Dr. Oliver joined us to discuss Odors and Chemical Sensitivities about 2 years ago. This was prior to our first YouTube videos so we are going to add some graphics and photos this week. Dr. Oliver is President of Occupational Health Initiatives, Inc. in Brookline, MA. She is an Associate Physician in the Department of Medicine (Pulmonary and Critical Care Division) at the Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) and Associate Clinical Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School in Boston. Board certified in occupational medicine and in internal medicine. Dr. Oliver’s primary specialty is Occupational and Environmental Medicine, with an emphasis on occupational and environmental lung disease. At the MGH she evaluates and cares for patients with occupational and environmental illness and disease, including occupational asthma, interstitial lung disease, building-related health problems, and chemical sensitivities. Dr. Oliver has done research and published in the area of occupational lung disease and she has testified before the United States Congress with regard to work-related health issues and risks.
For the past three decades an important focus of Dr. Oliver’s consulting work has been indoor air quality and related health effects. She has lectured and published on this subject and she has been actively involved in indoor air quality assessments in a variety of settings. These include health care facilities, courthouses and other government buildings, schools, and commercial office buildings. Together with industrial hygienists, engineers, and human systems specialists she has worked to identify, characterize, and resolve air quality problems and their related health effects. In 2009 she was a participant and presenter in the ASTM Johnson Conference on the standardization of mold response procedures. An important component of Dr. Oliver’s clinical work has been in the area of fragrances and their related health effects, including causation and/or exacerbation of chemical sensitivities. She has lectured on these topics, counseled patients and their families with regard to steps that can be taken to identify and remove fragranced products from their environment, and advocated for a fragrance-free policy in the clinic in which she works.
Radio Joe is on the road this week. On Iaqradio+ we will Flashback to Part 2 of our original series with Ritchie Shoemaker, MD. We will review key points from week one and get into more detail about Dr. Shoemakers research on sick building syndrome and water damaged buildings plus information on treatment options for patients and answers to questions sent in by our listeners.
This week we welcome Parham Azimi, PhD to Iaqradio+. Dr Azimi is a research associate in the Department of Civil, Architectural and Environmental Engineering at Illinois Institute of Technology. Much of his research work has focused on fate, transport, and control of indoor aerosols of indoor and ambient origin, chronic health impacts of fine particles in various microenvironments, and energy performance of residential and commercial buildings. Parham is a member of ASHRAE Technical Committee 2.4, UL 2904 Standard Technical Panel, International Society for Indoor Air Quality and Climate (ISIAQ) and American Association for Aerosol Research (AAAR).
Dr. Azimi’s work came to our attention recently when we were sent a copy of a recent paper he worked on with Brent Stephens, PhD called “A framework for estimating the US mortality burden of fine particulate matter exposure attributable to indoor and outdoor microenvironments”. Dr. Stephens joined us on March 13, 2015 for a great show on The Intersection of Building Science, Energy Efficiency & IAQ.
Dr. Ritchie Shoemaker first joined Iaqradio as a guest back in April of 2008. Since then we have welcomed him back once a year or so to update us on his research into Chronic Inflammatory Response Syndrome (CIRS). Today we are going to replay our first show with Dr. Shoemaker and we hope to have him join us again soon for another update. Following his bio we have listed all our shows with him over the years.
Ritchie Shoemaker, M. D., is a recognized leader in patient care, research and education pioneer in the field of biotoxin related illness. While illness acquired following exposure to the interior environment of water-damaged buildings (WDB) comprises the bulk of Shoemaker’s daily practice, other illnesses caused by exposure to biologically produced toxins are quite similar in their “final common pathway.” What this means is that while the illness might begin acutely with exposure to fungi, spirochetes, apicomplexans, dinoflagellates and cyanobacteria, for example, in its chronic form, each of these illnesses has similar symptoms, lab findings, and Visual Contrast Sensitivity findings. Taken together the inflammatory illness from each of these diverse sources is known as a Chronic Inflammatory Response Syndrome.
We do not have a blog for Dr. Shoemakers first few shows. He joined us before Cliff started doing a weekly blog. It may take a few time listening to make sense of everything he is proposing. It was very helpful when he sent me the Bio-toxin Pathway chart to follow. Print this out and have it handy while listening to his shows and it will help you immensely.
Over the past 30 years Oliver Threlfall has been totally dedicated to the cleaning and restoration industry. He studied biology at Deakin University- before commencing Steamatic in Melbourne, Victoria in 1986. He then completed IICRC (The Institute of Inspection, Cleaning and Restoration Certification) training in various modules and in addition took Microbial and Bioaerosol remediation training under the guidance of Dr. Tullis and Dr. Thulman of Duke University. Steamatic was formed in Australia in 1986 following requests from underwriters to establish proven claims reduction services that had been demonstrated overseas. They then transformed an established cleaning company into a specialist cleaning technologies firm. Oliver is the Steamatic of Australia CEO which makes him a very busy and connected man "down under".
Corbett Lunsford, wasn't a home performance expert- he used to play piano for ballerinas. In 2008, he learned a few things very quickly: construction is unbelievably messy, most pros are over-rushed and under-paid, and homeowners end up suffering in small ways, for their entire lives in a house. None of this has to be so- we can opt out of the whole thing with performance testing. His goal is to package building performance so it can easily be understood and used by professionals and consumers alike, for better buildings worldwide. In 2009, he started teaching pros through the Building Performance Workshop and he has hosted over 300 YouTube videos and 80 interviews for the Building Performance Podcast. He also wrote the book Home Performance Diagnostics: the Guide to Advanced Testing, and developed the APT Reports software tool.
In 2016 he and his wife Grace built the world's highest performance tiny house on wheels, the #TinyLab, and toured the US before settling down in Atlanta, Georgia. Along the way, they created the first TV series about home performance, Home Diagnosis, which airs on public TV across the U.S. Corbett, Grace, and their new baby went on a 13,000 mile, 34-city U.S. Tour from April 2016-January 2017 in the world's highest performance tiny house on wheels, the #TinyLab. Their mission was simple: to revolutionize the home market by teaching consumers and contractors alike to use scientific testing to prove the work gets done to quality standards. Each city on the Proof Is Possible Tour was sponsored by a local company that shared the passion for empowering homeowners and changing the game. Along the way certain cities shared in filming of the couple's TV show Home Diagnosis. They invited over 7,000 strangers into their home on the tour, and now live in Atlanta, Georgia.
Today we are going to try something new and if it works we will make it a regular part of the line up. We are going to throw out some topics, invite a few friends and have a discussion about IAQ, disaster restoration and building science. We also encourage listeners to text in your questions or comments. Today we expect to hear from Jay Stake, Eric Shapiro, Carl Grimes, John Downey and Pete Consigli. The topics we will throw out for discussion will come from the list in this week’s show title. We have some of the leaders of the industry join us every week so lets take advantage of that and start a conversation.
Today we are going to try something new and if it works we will make it a regular part of the line up. We are going to throw out some topics, invite a few friends and have a discussion about IAQ, disaster restoration and building science. We also encourage listeners to text in your questions or comments. Today we expect to hear from Jay Stake, Eric Shapiro, Carl Grimes, John Downey and Pete Consigli. The topics we will throw out for discussion will come from the list in this week’s show title. We have some of the leaders of the industry join us every week so lets take advantage of that and start a conversation.
Today we flash back to a great Research to Practice show with Brett C. Singer, PhD. Dr. Singer is the Staff Scientist and Group Leader of Indoor Environment in the Energy Analysis and Environmental Impacts Division of Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL). He is also a Principal Investigator in the Whole Building Systems Group in the Building Technologies and Urban Systems Division. Dr. Singer conceives and leads research projects related to air pollutant emissions and physical-chemical processes, and pollutant exposures in both outdoor and indoor environments, aiming to understand real world processes and systems that affect air pollutant exposures. The recent focus of Dr. Singer’s work has been indoor environmental quality and risk reduction in high performance homes, with the goal of accelerating adoption of IAQ, comfort, durability and sustainability measures into new homes and retrofits of existing homes. Key focus areas of this work are low-energy systems for filtration, smart ventilation and mitigation approaches to indoor pollutant sources including cooking. Dr. Singer co-developed the Population Impact Assessment Modeling Framework (PIAMF). He holds a PhD in Civil & Environmental Engineering from the University of California, Berkeley.
Today we flash back to a great Research to Practice show with Brett C. Singer, PhD. Dr. Singer is the Staff Scientist and Group Leader of Indoor Environment in the Energy Analysis and Environmental Impacts Division of Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL). He is also a Principal Investigator in the Whole Building Systems Group in the Building Technologies and Urban Systems Division. Dr. Singer conceives and leads research projects related to air pollutant emissions and physical-chemical processes, and pollutant exposures in both outdoor and indoor environments, aiming to understand real world processes and systems that affect air pollutant exposures. The recent focus of Dr. Singer’s work has been indoor environmental quality and risk reduction in high performance homes, with the goal of accelerating adoption of IAQ, comfort, durability and sustainability measures into new homes and retrofits of existing homes. Key focus areas of this work are low-energy systems for filtration, smart ventilation and mitigation approaches to indoor pollutant sources including cooking. Dr. Singer co-developed the Population Impact Assessment Modeling Framework (PIAMF). He holds a PhD in Civil & Environmental Engineering from the University of California, Berkeley.
Today we flash back to a great Research to Practice show with Brett C. Singer, PhD. Dr. Singer is the Staff Scientist and Group Leader of Indoor Environment in the Energy Analysis and Environmental Impacts Division of Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL). He is also a Principal Investigator in the Whole Building Systems Group in the Building Technologies and Urban Systems Division. Dr. Singer conceives and leads research projects related to air pollutant emissions and physical-chemical processes, and pollutant exposures in both outdoor and indoor environments, aiming to understand real world processes and systems that affect air pollutant exposures. The recent focus of Dr. Singer’s work has been indoor environmental quality and risk reduction in high performance homes, with the goal of accelerating adoption of IAQ, comfort, durability and sustainability measures into new homes and retrofits of existing homes. Key focus areas of this work are low-energy systems for filtration, smart ventilation and mitigation approaches to indoor pollutant sources including cooking. Dr. Singer co-developed the Population Impact Assessment Modeling Framework (PIAMF). He holds a PhD in Civil & Environmental Engineering from the University of California, Berkeley.
Today we flash back to a great Research to Practice show with Brett C. Singer, PhD. Dr. Singer is the Staff Scientist and Group Leader of Indoor Environment in the Energy Analysis and Environmental Impacts Division of Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL). He is also a Principal Investigator in the Whole Building Systems Group in the Building Technologies and Urban Systems Division. Dr. Singer conceives and leads research projects related to air pollutant emissions and physical-chemical processes, and pollutant exposures in both outdoor and indoor environments, aiming to understand real world processes and systems that affect air pollutant exposures. The recent focus of Dr. Singer’s work has been indoor environmental quality and risk reduction in high performance homes, with the goal of accelerating adoption of IAQ, comfort, durability and sustainability measures into new homes and retrofits of existing homes. Key focus areas of this work are low-energy systems for filtration, smart ventilation and mitigation approaches to indoor pollutant sources including cooking. Dr. Singer co-developed the Population Impact Assessment Modeling Framework (PIAMF). He holds a PhD in Civil & Environmental Engineering from the University of California, Berkeley.
Today we flash back to a great Research to Practice show with Brett C. Singer, PhD. Dr. Singer is the Staff Scientist and Group Leader of Indoor Environment in the Energy Analysis and Environmental Impacts Division of Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL). He is also a Principal Investigator in the Whole Building Systems Group in the Building Technologies and Urban Systems Division. Dr. Singer conceives and leads research projects related to air pollutant emissions and physical-chemical processes, and pollutant exposures in both outdoor and indoor environments, aiming to understand real world processes and systems that affect air pollutant exposures. The recent focus of Dr. Singer’s work has been indoor environmental quality and risk reduction in high performance homes, with the goal of accelerating adoption of IAQ, comfort, durability and sustainability measures into new homes and retrofits of existing homes. Key focus areas of this work are low-energy systems for filtration, smart ventilation and mitigation approaches to indoor pollutant sources including cooking. Dr. Singer co-developed the Population Impact Assessment Modeling Framework (PIAMF). He holds a PhD in Civil & Environmental Engineering from the University of California, Berkeley.
This week we welcome Professor of Pathology & Immunology and Medicine, David B. Corry, MD of Baylor College of Medicine, Michael E. Debakey VA Medical Center. We are looking forward to a fascinating discussion on Fungi in Health and Disease with Dr. Corry.
Dr. Corry is a pulmonologist by clinical background and still practices, mostly focusing on allergic airway diseases such as asthma and sinusitis. Most of the time, he is an immunologist and his research focus is into the mechanisms underlying inflammatory lung and other diseases including smoking-related emphysema, asthma, and sinusitis.
Among his groups contributions to science, they have shown how fungi cause allergic inflammation-largely through their release of powerful proteases. They have further demonstrated the ability of fungi to infect the mouse airway and produce a disease that is essentially identical to asthma and further demonstrated that common human disorders such as asthma and chronic sinusitis are often times, in essence chronic fungal infections. His group primarily relies on antifungal medications to treat their asthma and sinusitis patients. It has been revolutionary and they have published some of their experience, with more to come.
Dr. Corry also recently published a paper on Candida and how it goes directly from the blood stream to the brain in mice. We will also talk about non respiratory health issues and fungi including the state of evidence on Alzheimers, Chronic Fatigue and other health issues sometimes blamed on Fungi. If you are interested in Fungi and Health don’t miss this show.
This week we welcome Professor of Pathology & Immunology and Medicine, David B. Corry, MD of Baylor College of Medicine, Michael E. Debakey VA Medical Center. We are looking forward to a fascinating discussion on Fungi in Health and Disease with Dr. Corry.
Dr. Corry is a pulmonologist by clinical background and still practices, mostly focusing on allergic airway diseases such as asthma and sinusitis. Most of the time, he is an immunologist and his research focus is into the mechanisms underlying inflammatory lung and other diseases including smoking-related emphysema, asthma, and sinusitis.
Among his groups contributions to science, they have shown how fungi cause allergic inflammation-largely through their release of powerful proteases. They have further demonstrated the ability of fungi to infect the mouse airway and produce a disease that is essentially identical to asthma and further demonstrated that common human disorders such as asthma and chronic sinusitis are often times, in essence chronic fungal infections. His group primarily relies on antifungal medications to treat their asthma and sinusitis patients. It has been revolutionary and they have published some of their experience, with more to come.
Dr. Corry also recently published a paper on Candida and how it goes directly from the blood stream to the brain in mice. We will also talk about non respiratory health issues and fungi including the state of evidence on Alzheimers, Chronic Fatigue and other health issues sometimes blamed on Fungi. If you are interested in Fungi and Health don’t miss this show.
This week Shelly Miller, PhD joins us to discuss some recent research and thoughts on weatherization, ventilation & respiration. We hear a lot that we need to tighten homes and ventilate them. What does that do with respect to occupant health? Today we will go over some results from work Dr. Miller has done.
Dr. Miller is an Associate Professor at the University of Colorado Boulder in the Mechanical Engineering Department and faculty in the interdisciplinary undergraduate Environmental Engineering Program. At the University of Colorado Boulder Dr. Miller investigates indoor air quality, assesses exposures to air pollutants, and develops and evaluates air pollution control measures. Her research has included studying weatherization of homes and indoor air quality, understanding the role of ventilation systems in the transmission of infectious agents in buildings, engineering controls for reducing exposures to infectious diseases, studying ultraviolet germicidal coil cleaning technology, source apportionment of particulate matter and associated health effects, characterization of indoor air quality and the microbial communities in homes, and investigating urban air quality issues including industrial odor episodes. Dr. Miller has received funding for her research program from the US EPA, CDC, NIOSH, NSF, NIH, ASHRAE, HUD, Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, and various private foundations and industry sponsors.
This week Mr. Henry Gifford of Building Energy Science joins us to discuss building science issues and his new book “Buildings Don’t Lie”. Henry Gifford has 25+ years experience making buildings energy efficient, using common sense approaches. He’s worked on all kinds of buildings, but apartment houses are his favorite. Henry Gifford has worked on and designed over 40 Energy Efficient buildings and houses. Henry Gifford is also a well known speaker, an expert on Building Science and using real measurements not just estimates.
Henry spent 11 years working on this over 500 page masterpiece and created a truly remarkable book. Order your copy and learn all the science behind better buildings. Buildings Don’t Lie includes all the science behind creating better buildings and houses.
This week we welcome Jay Stake to back to Iaqradio+. Mr. Stake joined us last year right after the Indoor Air Quality Association announced they were leaving the ASHRAE fold. We will preview the upcoming conference, see how things are working out, learn about plans for the future, review 2018 and preview 2019. A few friends of the show will be calling in to join the conversation.
Jay Stake is the new Indoor Air Quality Association (IAQA) President for 2018-19. He is also the owner of J&J Consultants a total indoor air quality assessment company and President of Structural Sciences, Inc. Structural Sciences provides indoor air quality consulting services to the relocation industry throughout North America. Mr. Stake uses a network of 269 inspectors to assist with the relocation of clients in the network. The majority of the inspectors in his network are IAQA members. He has been a member of the IAQA Board of Directors for 3 years and prior served as Vice Chair of the IESO before it became inactive under the ASHRAE umbrella.
This past June RIA held its first International restoration conference and trade show on Australia’s beautiful Sunshine Coast. The event which will be an annual offering in the region was organized and delivered by RIA’s Australasian Council. The local RIA conference planning committee collaborated with the Australian IAQA chapter leadership and featured several education sessions by local leading IAQ experts. Mold seemed to be a hot topic at the conference with several labs exhibiting at the trade show! The event was also attended by IICRC leadership and several other regional dignitaries from related segments of the cleaning, restoration and remediation industries.
This week we welcome Tom Phillips to Iaqradio+. Mr. Phillips is a consultant on healthy sustainable buildings and lives in Davis, California. He has spent over 35 years working at the intersection of research and policy addressing public health, pollution, and buildings, mainly at the California Air Resources Board. From 1985 to 2009, he designed and managed research contracts on human exposure to indoor and outdoor pollutants, ventilation, air cleaning, and building ventilation. He also produced health-based guidelines on indoor combustion pollutants and air cleaners.
Tom has served as a technical adviser to national, state, and local agencies, NGOs, and private firms on various IAQ issues, climate change adaptation, and green building programs for homes, schools, and offices. Since 2010 Tom has served as the principal scientist at Healthy Building Research, where he has assessed IAQ research needs for net zero energy buildings, effective ways to prevent intrusion of outdoor pollutants, and ways to adapt and mitigate climate change and health impacts in the building sector.
This week we welcome Tom Phillips to Iaqradio+. Mr. Phillips is a consultant on healthy sustainable buildings and lives in Davis, California. He has spent over 35 years working at the intersection of research and policy addressing public health, pollution, and buildings, mainly at the California Air Resources Board. From 1985 to 2009, he designed and managed research contracts on human exposure to indoor and outdoor pollutants, ventilation, air cleaning, and building ventilation. He also produced health-based guidelines on indoor combustion pollutants and air cleaners.
Tom has served as a technical adviser to national, state, and local agencies, NGOs, and private firms on various IAQ issues, climate change adaptation, and green building programs for homes, schools, and offices. Since 2010 Tom has served as the principal scientist at Healthy Building Research, where he has assessed IAQ research needs for net zero energy buildings, effective ways to prevent intrusion of outdoor pollutants, and ways to adapt and mitigate climate change and health impacts in the building sector.
This week we welcome Tom Phillips to Iaqradio+. Mr. Phillips is a consultant on healthy sustainable buildings and lives in Davis, California. He has spent over 35 years working at the intersection of research and policy addressing public health, pollution, and buildings, mainly at the California Air Resources Board. From 1985 to 2009, he designed and managed research contracts on human exposure to indoor and outdoor pollutants, ventilation, air cleaning, and building ventilation. He also produced health-based guidelines on indoor combustion pollutants and air cleaners.
Tom has served as a technical adviser to national, state, and local agencies, NGOs, and private firms on various IAQ issues, climate change adaptation, and green building programs for homes, schools, and offices. Since 2010 Tom has served as the principal scientist at Healthy Building Research, where he has assessed IAQ research needs for net zero energy buildings, effective ways to prevent intrusion of outdoor pollutants, and ways to adapt and mitigate climate change and health impacts in the building sector.
Radio Joe and the team of IAQ Training Institute instructors are in Greenville, SC teaching all week so this week we will flash back to a great show we did with Dr. William (Bill) Vaughan about methods for assessing mold contamination and best practices for preparing for clearance air sampling. Over the years Dr. Vaughan has perfected a method for assessing Condition 2 areas in buildings and a method (air polishing) for cleaning the air prior to post remediation verification. He has had great success using and teaching these methods. We look forward to talking in detail today at noon.
Dr. William (Bill) Vaughan is President & Principal Scientist for Nauset Environmental Services, Inc. on Cape Cod Massachusetts. He has worked in the area of air quality investigations since the late ’60s with a focus on IAQ issues for the last 15-20 years. He and his staff have carried out investigations at more than 3,000 locations in New England. Dr. Vaughan became interested in the IICRC’s concept of Condition 2, settled spore, contamination just after the IICRC S520 was initially released in 2003. He asked the question, “If you can’t see settled spores and colony fragments, how do you know if they are there much less if they have been cleaned up adequately? His group developed the concept of paired air sampling – quiet and fan-disturbed – to address this question and have been utilizing it productively since 2004. Dr. Vaughan’s PhD is in Biophysics from the University of Illinois, Department of Physiology and Biophysics. Join us live at noon or download the show later, either way Learn more this week on Iaqradio+
Radio Joe and the team of IAQ Training Institute instructors are in Greenville, SC teaching all week so this week we will flash back to a great show we did with Dr. William (Bill) Vaughan about methods for assessing mold contamination and best practices for preparing for clearance air sampling. Over the years Dr. Vaughan has perfected a method for assessing Condition 2 areas in buildings and a method (air polishing) for cleaning the air prior to post remediation verification. He has had great success using and teaching these methods. We look forward to talking in detail today at noon.
Dr. William (Bill) Vaughan is President & Principal Scientist for Nauset Environmental Services, Inc. on Cape Cod Massachusetts. He has worked in the area of air quality investigations since the late ’60s with a focus on IAQ issues for the last 15-20 years. He and his staff have carried out investigations at more than 3,000 locations in New England. Dr. Vaughan became interested in the IICRC’s concept of Condition 2, settled spore, contamination just after the IICRC S520 was initially released in 2003. He asked the question, “If you can’t see settled spores and colony fragments, how do you know if they are there much less if they have been cleaned up adequately? His group developed the concept of paired air sampling – quiet and fan-disturbed – to address this question and have been utilizing it productively since 2004. Dr. Vaughan’s PhD is in Biophysics from the University of Illinois, Department of Physiology and Biophysics. Join us live at noon or download the show later, either way Learn more this week on Iaqradio+
This week we welcome back Dr. Joe Spurgeon to continue our conversation on the use of sampling as part of a mold inspection. We will focus on his latest paper and answer the question can airborne mold samples be interpreted objectively using numerical guidelines?
Dr. Spurgeon has a multidisciplinary doctorate degree in Analytical Chemistry and Environmental Health from the University of Pittsburgh; and was a Certified Industrial Hygienist from 1993 – 2013. His career has included working as a research chemist on the NBS Lead-Paint Poisoning Program, directing the FAA’s Combustion Toxicology Laboratory, performing Health Assessments for CDC/ATSDR, implementing US EPA’s Laboratory Exposure Assessment Project, and working as a consultant specializing in microbial indoor air quality for US PHS. He has performed over 4,000 residential and commercial investigations involving water intrusions and microbial contaminants; has taught courses on mold investigations, sampling, and data interpretation methods; and has served as an expert witness in numerous mold cases. Additional articles from Dr. Spurgeon are available at www.bi-air.com. His books are available at http://expertonmold.com/
This week we welcome back Dr. Joe Spurgeon to continue our conversation on the use of sampling as part of a mold inspection. We will focus on his latest paper and answer the question can airborne mold samples be interpreted objectively using numerical guidelines?
Dr. Spurgeon has a multidisciplinary doctorate degree in Analytical Chemistry and Environmental Health from the University of Pittsburgh; and was a Certified Industrial Hygienist from 1993 – 2013. His career has included working as a research chemist on the NBS Lead-Paint Poisoning Program, directing the FAA’s Combustion Toxicology Laboratory, performing Health Assessments for CDC/ATSDR, implementing US EPA’s Laboratory Exposure Assessment Project, and working as a consultant specializing in microbial indoor air quality for US PHS. He has performed over 4,000 residential and commercial investigations involving water intrusions and microbial contaminants; has taught courses on mold investigations, sampling, and data interpretation methods; and has served as an expert witness in numerous mold cases. Additional articles from Dr. Spurgeon are available at www.bi-air.com. His books are available at http://expertonmold.com/
This week on Iaqradio+ we flashback to a great show with Lew Harriman and Terry Brennan from 7-11-24. The EPA Moisture Control Guide is one of the best, if not the best document EPA has developed in 20 years. Terry Brennan and Lew Harriman join us to discuss the document and give us their thoughts on evaluating moisture issues in buildings. If you do not have this document in your library, get it, its free and your tax dollars helped to put it together. Terry Brennan was the lead author for the EPA’s new Guidance for Moisture Control in Buildings. He is a founder and managing partner of Camroden Associates, a building science consulting firm located in Westmoreland, New York. He began his career as a physics major at Northeastern University, but some how, some way got diverted into building science, working on the earliest research into radon problems and radon behavior in buildings, and moving on to energy and moisture issues. For the last 40 years, he’s spent more time crawling around damp basements and hot attics than most normal people would find pleasant. But in return for those decades of investigation, Terry knows a LOT about what makes buildings tick… how they go wrong… and how to make sure they don’t.
Lew Harriman was a contributor to the new EPA guidance for Moisture Control in Buildings on the HVAC aspects of moisture control. He began his career as an architecture student at Dartmouth, but after five years as an Air Force officer, he went to work for a manufacturer of dehumidification systems, and got permanently diverted into HVAC engineering, where he’s spent the last 38 years. He is the founder of Mason-Grant Consulting, a building science consulting firm located in Portsmouth, NH. He is active in ASHRAE as the vice-chair of technical committee 1.12 (Moisture Management in Buildings), and is an ASHRAE Fellow and Distinguished Lecturer.
This week on Iaqradio+ we welcome “Nate the House Whisperer” Adams back to talk with Radio Joe about “What We Learned… Healthy Buildings Summit 2018” (HBS 2018). This year was our 6th year putting together the Healthy Buildings Summit. Our Keynote speakers were Jordan Peccian, PhD and Jeff “My House is Killing Me” May. Yesterday Nate Adams and Radio Joe sat down to go over the presentations at this years event and discuss key points from each presentation. Both the Youtube version and our podcast are up now! We will return live next Friday at noon.
Nate is the founder of Energy Smart Home Performance outside Cleveland Ohio. He is the author of The Home Comfort Book; The ultimate guide to creating a comfortable, healthy, efficient and long-lasting home. Our thanks go out to Nate for attending the conference and for joining us to go over the highlights.
Today on IAQ Radio we welcome “Nate the House Whisperer“ Adams. Nate is the founder of Energy Smart Home Performance outside Cleveland Ohio. Today we conclude our 3 part series “The Evolving World of Home Performance”. This week we will focus on Building Science, IAQ & Insulation. Much or what we will discuss today comes from Nate’s excellent book, The Home Comfort Book; The ultimate guide to creating a comfortable, healthy, efficient and long-lasting home. Nate is knowledgeable, entertaining and always eager to share his ideas and unique perspective on home performance
Nate Adams, Cleveland, Ohio based company Energy Smart started out as an insulation contractor for existing homes and evolved into doing Comprehensive Home Performance retrofits. These projects are somewhere between a simple attic insulation job and a deep energy retrofit. These projects are sweeping in scope with thorough planning process and careful attention paid to what problems the client wants to solve, what the house needs, and what fits within the homeowner budget. No two projects are alike. Through substantial air tightness and insulation upgrades, and sometimes HVAC replacement, homes are made far more comfortable.
Dr. Peter DeCarlo is an Associate Professor with appointment in the Department of Civil, Architectural, and Environmental Engineering, and the Department of Chemistry at Drexel University. He is also an affiliate of the Urban Health Collaborative in the School of Public Health at Drexel University and an adjunct member of the Center for Excellence in Environmental Toxicology (CEET) at the University of Pennsylvania. Dr. DeCarlo has a Ph.D. in Atmospheric Science from the University of Colorado, and a BS in Biochemistry from the University of Notre Dame. He uses state-of-the-art instrumentation to measure the chemical composition of particulates and gases in indoors, outdoors, and in the laboratory to better understand the intersection between air quality, health, and climate impacts of human emissions. He has made air quality and climate related measurements from planes, trucks, and stationary sites all over the world to better understand direct emissions, sources, and subsequent chemical reactions of pollutants in the atmosphere.
More recently Dr. DeCarlo has begun measuring the relationship between outdoor and indoor air pollutants, to understand transport of outdoor pollutants to the indoor environment, and to identify indoor specific sources such as residual tobacco smoke, and direct human emissions. He also is interested in the intersection of science and policy and was an AAAS Science Policy Fellow at the US EPA working on issues related to clean cookstoves in the developing world and public sharing of environmental data prior to starting his faculty position at Drexel. Funding for his research comes from the National Science Foundation, Sloan Foundation, Electric Power Research Institute, Camille and Henry Dreyfus Foundation, and the Department of Transportation. Dr. DeCarlo has co-authored over 80 peer reviewed publication and has been identified as a highly cited researcher by Clarivate Analytics (2014, 2015, 2016, and 2017).
Rusty Amarante is a Certified Restorer and Director of Operations for BELFOR Property Restoration the global leader in disaster recovery. He is also President of the BELFOR Franchise Group a leading national franchisor of service brands including 1-800-WATER DAMAGE, DUCTZ International and HOODZ International. Rusty’s career started in the 1970’s in suburban Philadelphia, PA and has ranged from the owner of a small cleaning and restoration company that grew to a large regional full service restoration contractor before joining the BELFOR Team in the 1990’s. Over the past forty plus years he has been an IICRC instructor, state approved CEC trainer for the insurance industry and avid contributor and volunteer to the industry’s not-for-profit sector.
Rusty Amarante is a Certified Restorer and Director of Operations for BELFOR Property Restoration the global leader in disaster recovery. He is also President of the BELFOR Franchise Group a leading national franchisor of service brands including 1-800-WATER DAMAGE, DUCTZ International and HOODZ International.
Rusty’s career started in the 1970’s in suburban Philadelphia, PA and has ranged from the owner of a small cleaning and restoration company that grew to a large regional full service restoration contractor before joining the BELFOR Team in the 1990’s. Over the past forty plus years he has been an IICRC instructor, state approved CEC trainer for the insurance industry and avid contributor and volunteer to the industry’s not-for-profit sector.
Rusty’s accomplishments and service include chairing RIA’s Restoration Council and ascending to the Restoration Industry Association’s Presidency in 2008. Rusty also has served on the IICRC FRST Technical Advisory Committee (TAC) and served as Vice Chair for the Institute’s S500 Water Damage Restoration Standard. In 2006 Rusty received RIA’s most prestigious honor when he received the Martin L. King Award.
From his early day’s in the 20th century to his global responsibilities of the last two decades with BELFOR, Rusty has been a tireless advocate for the professionalization of the industry. This week his good friend and colleague Cliff Zlotnik, the Z-man will have a “Fireside Chat” to talk about Rusty’s career, his relationship with the late Marty King and his insights into the future of the restoration industry.
Today Radio Joe and the Z-man will be discussing how to solve indoor environmental quality problems by using building science fundamentals and the “EPA Moisture Control Guide”. To get at the root of IEQ problems you must understand buildings and building science. Today we will discuss some great information from people like Joe Lstiburek, Terry Brennan, Bill Rose, Mike McGuinness and Lew Harriman. We start with an overview of building science concepts that will help you solve problems.
Our foundation will be the 4 P’s (people, pollutant, pathway, pressurization). From there we will go into how to use the wealth of information in the EPA “Moisture Control Guide” and then go through some case studies. On a future show we will get into how to include the information in your reports
Jay Stake is the new Indoor Air Quality Association (IAQA) President for 2018-19. He is also the owner of J&J Consultants a total indoor air quality assessment company and President of Structural Sciences, Inc. Structural Sciences provides indoor air quality consulting services to the relocation industry throughout North America. Mr. Stake uses a network of 269 inspectors to assist with the relocation of clients in the network. The majority of the inspectors in his network are IAQA members. He has been a member of the IAQA Board of Directors for 3 years and prior served as Vice Chair of the IESO before it became inactive under the ASHRAE umbrella.
Mr. Stake is going to give us the scoop on the upcoming transition of IAQA away from ASHRAE and to the new management company Association Headquarters (AH) of Mount Laurel, NJ. Jay believes that IAQA has to be very open with its membership and do a better job of keeping them informed about plans for the future. He joins us today to tell listeners about the next chapter in the IAQA story.
Jay Stake is the new Indoor Air Quality Association (IAQA) President for 2018-19. He is also the owner of J&J Consultants a total indoor air quality assessment company and President of Structural Sciences, Inc. Structural Sciences provides indoor air quality consulting services to the relocation industry throughout North America. Mr. Stake uses a network of 269 inspectors to assist with the relocation of clients in the network. The majority of the inspectors in his network are IAQA members. He has been a member of the IAQA Board of Directors for 3 years and prior served as Vice Chair of the IESO before it became inactive under the ASHRAE umbrella.
Mr. Stake is going to give us the scoop on the upcoming transition of IAQA away from ASHRAE and to the new management company Association Headquarters (AH) of Mount Laurel, NJ. Jay believes that IAQA has to be very open with its membership and do a better job of keeping them informed about plans for the future. He joins us today to tell listeners about the next chapter in the IAQA story.
This week on IAQradio+ we welcome Karen Dannemiller, PhD, Assistant Professor at The Ohio State University. Dr. Dannemiller’s interdisciplinary research integrates engineering with microbiology and addresses emerging health challenges and environmental concerns using -omics approaches. Within the indoor environment, we are simultaneously exposed to thousands of chemicals and microorganisms which compose our indoor exposures, and these exposures are different from those of our ancestors. Broadly, the goal of Dr. Dannemiller’s work is to understand these exposures, their sources, and their impact on human health. Her unique background combines training in both engineering and public health to tackle difficult questions, particularly with regards to exposures in the built environment where we spend 90% of our time.
Dr. Dannemiller graduated with honors in Chemical and Biochemical Engineering from Brown University and earned her PhD at Yale University in Chemical and Environmental Engineering. During this time she completed an internship at the California Department of Public Health in the Indoor Air Quality Program. She also completed a Microbiology of the Built Environment postdoctoral fellowship. Her work improved our understanding of human exposures linked to childhood asthma development and severity. Her research also elucidated resident microbial populations and fundamental transport processes occurring in homes. Dr. Dannemiller is currently an Assistant Professor at Ohio State University and her current research is on microbial activity in house dust and health outcomes associated with early-life exposures to fungi. She is also working on the development of new system to detect formaldehyde indoors by coupling colorimetric badges with a Smartphone app.
In addition to a fundamental background in engineering and quantitative sciences, her skill set in microbiology includes phylogenetics, metagenomics, proteomics, and transcriptomics and allows for exploration of microbial communities and biological processes. Dr. Dannemiller has extensive experience with next-generation DNA sequencing of fungi and bacteria, and using this data she has also addressed relevant challenges in bioinformatics, including software development, and in statistics, to demonstrate complex associations with human health outcomes.
This week on IAQradio+ we welcome Karen Dannemiller, PhD, Assistant Professor at The Ohio State University. Dr. Dannemiller’s interdisciplinary research integrates engineering with microbiology and addresses emerging health challenges and environmental concerns using -omics approaches. Within the indoor environment, we are simultaneously exposed to thousands of chemicals and microorganisms which compose our indoor exposures, and these exposures are different from those of our ancestors. Broadly, the goal of Dr. Dannemiller’s work is to understand these exposures, their sources, and their impact on human health. Her unique background combines training in both engineering and public health to tackle difficult questions, particularly with regards to exposures in the built environment where we spend 90% of our time.
Dr. Dannemiller graduated with honors in Chemical and Biochemical Engineering from Brown University and earned her PhD at Yale University in Chemical and Environmental Engineering. During this time she completed an internship at the California Department of Public Health in the Indoor Air Quality Program. She also completed a Microbiology of the Built Environment postdoctoral fellowship. Her work improved our understanding of human exposures linked to childhood asthma development and severity. Her research also elucidated resident microbial populations and fundamental transport processes occurring in homes. Dr. Dannemiller is currently an Assistant Professor at Ohio State University and her current research is on microbial activity in house dust and health outcomes associated with early-life exposures to fungi. She is also working on the development of new system to detect formaldehyde indoors by coupling colorimetric badges with a Smartphone app.
In addition to a fundamental background in engineering and quantitative sciences, her skill set in microbiology includes phylogenetics, metagenomics, proteomics, and transcriptomics and allows for exploration of microbial communities and biological processes. Dr. Dannemiller has extensive experience with next-generation DNA sequencing of fungi and bacteria, and using this data she has also addressed relevant challenges in bioinformatics, including software development, and in statistics, to demonstrate complex associations with human health outcomes.
Paul Francisco runs The Indoor Climate Research and Training Group at The Applied Research Institute of the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. He does both research and training on issues related to home performance, and his research focuses on indoor air quality, energy efficiency and emphasizing field measurements. His training focuses on teaching practitioners building diagnostics and Health and Safety. He’s also been a trainer in that area in the home weatherization assistance program. He’s done extensive work on curriculum development for weatherization workers and also research on energy efficiency and indoor air quality in existing homes. He is also the current Chair of the ASHRAE 62.2 Ventilation and Acceptable Indoor Quality in Residential Buildings. He’s got his Bachelors degree from University of Delaware and a Masters in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Washington
Paul Francisco runs The Indoor Climate Research and Training Group at The Applied Research Institute of the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. He does both research and training on issues related to home performance, and his research focuses on indoor air quality, energy efficiency and emphasizing field measurements. His training focuses on teaching practitioners building diagnostics and Health and Safety. He’s also been a trainer in that area in the home weatherization assistance program. He’s done extensive work on curriculum development for weatherization workers and also research on energy efficiency and indoor air quality in existing homes. He is also the current Chair of the ASHRAE 62.2 Ventilation and Acceptable Indoor Quality in Residential Buildings. He’s got his Bachelors degree from University of Delaware and a Masters in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Washington
This week on IAQradio+ we welcome Nick Hurst. Nick is an Environmental Protection Specialist with the US EPA and the Program Manager of EPA’s Indoor airPLUS label for new homes. He has been involved in the construction industry for over 17 years as a self-employed remodeling contractor, project manager, green building consultant, and trainer.
Nick earned a Master’s in Technology concentrating in Building Science from Appalachian State University in Boone, NC, and he later served as Education and Outreach Director for the North Carolina Energy Efficiency Alliance at ASU’s Energy Center. Before coming to EPA, Nick also worked as a consultant at ICF in their Federal Energy Efficiency portfolio. Nick is also a BPI Building Analyst and participates with a number of standard setting organizations and technical committees in the building industry.
This week on IAQradio+ will be broadcasting live from the Open House event for the HOMEChem study at the University of Texas Austin’s, J.J. Pickle Research Campus. The HOMEChem experiment (House Observations of Microbial and Environmental Chemistry) incorporates state-of-the-art measurements performed by over 20 investigators and their teams from the fields of chemistry, microbiology, and engineering. This experiment engages far more institutions and disciplines than ever applied to the study of a home. This research study is sponsored by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Chemistry of Indoor Environments Program and it will take place this summer at the University of Texas at Austin’s UTest House. Our guests for this special show are Marina Vance (HOMEChem Co-PIs / organizer) Delphine Farmer (HOMEChem Co-PIs / organizer) Atila Novoselac (HOMEChem host, specialist on the UTest house) Rich Corsi (HOMEChem host, indoor air specialist)
Dr. Richard L. Corsi is the Joe J. King Chair in Engineering #2 in the Department of Civil, Architectural and Environmental Engineering (CAEE) at The University of Texas at Austin (UT Austin). He has served on the faculty of CAEE at UT Austin for nearly 25 years, after starting his career in the School of Engineering at the University of Guelph in Ontario, Canada. Dr. Corsi is highly regarded as an educator. He has received numerous teaching awards, and in 2015 was inducted into the Academy of Distinguished Teachers, an honor held for the top 5% of teachers across UT Austin. He also received a Regents’ Outstanding Teaching Award for the entire UT system in 2016. Dr. Corsi’s research focuses on sources, physics and chemistry of indoor air pollution, particularly as related to pollutant interactions with indoor materials and innovative strategies for using such interactions to reduce human exposure to air pollution of both outdoor and indoor origin. He has served as principal investigator on over 70 projects, as major advisor to over 50 undergraduate and 70 graduate students, and as co-author on over 300 journal/conference papers, reports, and book chapters. His work has been featured in National Geographic, The Economist, Business Week, National Wildlife, Prevention, Men’s Health, National Public Radio’s Science Friday, Science Studio, the Academic Minute, the Canadian television series The Nature of Things, and more. Delphine Farmer, PhD Dr. Delphine Farmer is an Associate Professor in the Department of Chemistry at Colorado State
This week on IAQradio+ will be broadcasting live from the Open House event for the HOMEChem study at the University of Texas Austin’s, J.J. Pickle Research Campus. The HOMEChem experiment (House Observations of Microbial and Environmental Chemistry) incorporates state-of-the-art measurements performed by over 20 investigators and their teams from the fields of chemistry, microbiology, and engineering. This experiment engages far more institutions and disciplines than ever applied to the study of a home. This research study is sponsored by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Chemistry of Indoor Environments Program and it will take place this summer at the University of Texas at Austin’s UTest House. Our guests for this special show are Marina Vance (HOMEChem Co-PIs / organizer) Delphine Farmer (HOMEChem Co-PIs / organizer) Atila Novoselac (HOMEChem host, specialist on the UTest house) Rich Corsi (HOMEChem host, indoor air specialist)
Dr. Richard L. Corsi is the Joe J. King Chair in Engineering #2 in the Department of Civil, Architectural and Environmental Engineering (CAEE) at The University of Texas at Austin (UT Austin). He has served on the faculty of CAEE at UT Austin for nearly 25 years, after starting his career in the School of Engineering at the University of Guelph in Ontario, Canada. Dr. Corsi is highly regarded as an educator. He has received numerous teaching awards, and in 2015 was inducted into the Academy of Distinguished Teachers, an honor held for the top 5% of teachers across UT Austin. He also received a Regents’ Outstanding Teaching Award for the entire UT system in 2016. Dr. Corsi’s research focuses on sources, physics and chemistry of indoor air pollution, particularly as related to pollutant interactions with indoor materials and innovative strategies for using such interactions to reduce human exposure to air pollution of both outdoor and indoor origin. He has served as principal investigator on over 70 projects, as major advisor to over 50 undergraduate and 70 graduate students, and as co-author on over 300 journal/conference papers, reports, and book chapters. His work has been featured in National Geographic, The Economist, Business Week, National Wildlife, Prevention, Men’s Health, National Public Radio’s Science Friday, Science Studio, the Academic Minute, the Canadian television series The Nature of Things, and more. Delphine Farmer, PhD Dr. Delphine Farmer is an Associate Professor in the Department of Chemistry at Colorado State
This week on IAQradio+ will be broadcasting live from the Open House event for the HOMEChem study at the University of Texas Austin’s, J.J. Pickle Research Campus. The HOMEChem experiment (House Observations of Microbial and Environmental Chemistry) incorporates state-of-the-art measurements performed by over 20 investigators and their teams from the fields of chemistry, microbiology, and engineering. This experiment engages far more institutions and disciplines than ever applied to the study of a home. This research study is sponsored by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Chemistry of Indoor Environments Program and it will take place this summer at the University of Texas at Austin’s UTest House. Our guests for this special show are Marina Vance (HOMEChem Co-PIs / organizer) Delphine Farmer (HOMEChem Co-PIs / organizer) Atila Novoselac (HOMEChem host, specialist on the UTest house) Rich Corsi (HOMEChem host, indoor air specialist)
Dr. Richard L. Corsi is the Joe J. King Chair in Engineering #2 in the Department of Civil, Architectural and Environmental Engineering (CAEE) at The University of Texas at Austin (UT Austin). He has served on the faculty of CAEE at UT Austin for nearly 25 years, after starting his career in the School of Engineering at the University of Guelph in Ontario, Canada. Dr. Corsi is highly regarded as an educator. He has received numerous teaching awards, and in 2015 was inducted into the Academy of Distinguished Teachers, an honor held for the top 5% of teachers across UT Austin. He also received a Regents’ Outstanding Teaching Award for the entire UT system in 2016. Dr. Corsi’s research focuses on sources, physics and chemistry of indoor air pollution, particularly as related to pollutant interactions with indoor materials and innovative strategies for using such interactions to reduce human exposure to air pollution of both outdoor and indoor origin. He has served as principal investigator on over 70 projects, as major advisor to over 50 undergraduate and 70 graduate students, and as co-author on over 300 journal/conference papers, reports, and book chapters. His work has been featured in National Geographic, The Economist, Business Week, National Wildlife, Prevention, Men’s Health, National Public Radio’s Science Friday, Science Studio, the Academic Minute, the Canadian television series The Nature of Things, and more. Delphine Farmer, PhD Dr. Delphine Farmer is an Associate Professor in the Department of Chemistry at Colorado State
This week on IAQradio+ and Healthy Indoors Magazine are coordinating on a live show from the IAQA Mid Atlantic Conference in Princeton, New Jersey. Today’s guests include Eva King, PhD and Wei Tang, PhD. Dr. Eva King, CIEC is the Principal Scientist and Founder of AURA EnviroScience. Eva received her Masters degree in Biochemistry from the University of Bielefeld, Germany, and her Doctorate from the University of Oxford, UK. Dr. Wei Tang is the founder, President and Laboratory Director of QLab in Metuchen, New Jersey.
Dr. Eva King, CIEC is the Principal Scientist and Founder of AURA EnviroScience. Eva received her Masters degree in Biochemistry from the University of Bielefeld, Germany, and her Doctorate from the University of Oxford, UK. She has been involved in investigations and research into indoor environments and health, allergens, asthma and immunology for over 10 years, and has developed a wide range of new methods for exposure assessment. She has helped clients in different industry sectors, accelerating product development and validation, and assisted in clinical trials and other research studies. Her work has been published in many peer-reviewed scientific publications. Eva is an active member of the indoor air quality, industrial hygiene, and allergy research communities, and served on the Board of Directors of IAQA, and as Convention Committee Chair between 2013 and 2017.
Dr. Wei Tang is the founder, President and Laboratory Director of QLab in Metuchen, New Jersey. Dr. Tang graduated from Cornell University with his Master and Ph.D. degrees in Soil Microbiology. He has conducted numerous research projects in Cornell University Soil Microbiology Laboratory in using microorganisms for bioremediation of environmental organic pollutants. His work in recent years has been focused on microbiological sampling and analysis methods for indoor environmental quality assessment. He has taught professional development courses and presented frequently at national conferences on analysis of indoor microorganisms and also on various topics including investigation and remediation of microbial growth in indoor environment. Dr. Tang is the inventor of several advanced microbial sampling devices including AccuScience Triple Gel-Tape, Sweep-Swab and Sponge-Swab. He also developed several advanced analytical methods such as AccuScience High Performance Spore Count and AccuScience Triplicate Analysis. Dr. Tang served on IAQA Board of Directors for three terms. H
This week on IAQradio+ and Healthy Indoors Magazine are coordinating on a live show from the IAQA Mid Atlantic Conference in Princeton, New Jersey. Today’s guests include Eva King, PhD and Wei Tang, PhD. Dr. Eva King, CIEC is the Principal Scientist and Founder of AURA EnviroScience. Eva received her Masters degree in Biochemistry from the University of Bielefeld, Germany, and her Doctorate from the University of Oxford, UK. Dr. Wei Tang is the founder, President and Laboratory Director of QLab in Metuchen, New Jersey.
Dr. Eva King, CIEC is the Principal Scientist and Founder of AURA EnviroScience. Eva received her Masters degree in Biochemistry from the University of Bielefeld, Germany, and her Doctorate from the University of Oxford, UK. She has been involved in investigations and research into indoor environments and health, allergens, asthma and immunology for over 10 years, and has developed a wide range of new methods for exposure assessment. She has helped clients in different industry sectors, accelerating product development and validation, and assisted in clinical trials and other research studies. Her work has been published in many peer-reviewed scientific publications. Eva is an active member of the indoor air quality, industrial hygiene, and allergy research communities, and served on the Board of Directors of IAQA, and as Convention Committee Chair between 2013 and 2017.
Dr. Wei Tang is the founder, President and Laboratory Director of QLab in Metuchen, New Jersey. Dr. Tang graduated from Cornell University with his Master and Ph.D. degrees in Soil Microbiology. He has conducted numerous research projects in Cornell University Soil Microbiology Laboratory in using microorganisms for bioremediation of environmental organic pollutants. His work in recent years has been focused on microbiological sampling and analysis methods for indoor environmental quality assessment. He has taught professional development courses and presented frequently at national conferences on analysis of indoor microorganisms and also on various topics including investigation and remediation of microbial growth in indoor environment. Dr. Tang is the inventor of several advanced microbial sampling devices including AccuScience Triple Gel-Tape, Sweep-Swab and Sponge-Swab. He also developed several advanced analytical methods such as AccuScience High Performance Spore Count and AccuScience Triplicate Analysis. Dr. Tang served on IAQA Board of Directors for three terms. H
This week on IAQradio+ we welcome Dr. Claudette Hanks Reichel for a discussion on building science, LaHouse, resilience and bringing research to practice. Dr. Hanks Reichel is Professor and Extension Housing Specialist with Louisiana State University AgCenter. She serves as Director of LaHouse Resource Center, a public exhibit of multiple high performance housing solutions and hub of Extension education programs to advance resource-efficient, durable and healthy housing for the southern climate and natural hazards.
Reichel has developed numerous educational outreach programs and resources relating to housing, including energy-efficiency, healthy homes, hurricane and flood resilience and others. She has authored more than 100 Extension publications, presented at numerous professional events, was twice a featured speaker at the National Building Museum in Washington DC, and has received 12 national and state level awards for program excellence and impact.
This week on IAQradio+ we welcome “The Restoration Lawyer” Ed Cross to discuss current legal issues and answers for restoration professionals. Mr. Cross has built a successful law practice that specially caters to the needs of insurance damage repair contractors and remediators. Mr. Cross received a Bachelor’s Degree in Speech Communications with an emphasis on Public Speaking from California State University at Northridge in 1986 (Dean’s Honor Roll), and his Juris Doctor Degree from Western State University in Fullerton California. Ed is also well known for his risk management advice, cleaning and restoration contracts and related forms available for free and/or for purchase on his website edcross.com . These are simple one page forms in plain English that protect payment rights and deter lawsuits. He has recently added contract forms specific to the needs of those doing work in Texas and Florida.
This week on IAQradio+ we welcome “The Restoration Lawyer” Ed Cross to discuss current legal issues and answers for restoration professionals. Mr. Cross has built a successful law practice that specially caters to the needs of insurance damage repair contractors and remediators. Mr. Cross received a Bachelor’s Degree in Speech Communications with an emphasis on Public Speaking from California State University at Northridge in 1986 (Dean’s Honor Roll), and his Juris Doctor Degree from Western State University in Fullerton California. Ed is also well known for his risk management advice, cleaning and restoration contracts and related forms available for free and/or for purchase on his website edcross.com . These are simple one page forms in plain English that protect payment rights and deter lawsuits. He has recently added contract forms specific to the needs of those doing work in Texas and Florida.
This week on IAQradio+ we welcome two of the founders of the Restoration Rebels. The disaster restoration industry is going through trying times and the rebels’ mission is to take back the industry that they love. We will talk about the reason the group was formed, the current state of the industry, and what the future looks like with Andy McCabe and Joe Ledbetter.
Andy McCabe is a long-time restoration professional who lives in Bend, OR. He has written a book for mitigation contractors called The 24HR TECH, created an online training course by the same name, runs a podcast called The Claim Clinic and is President of the Alliance of Independent Restorers. Andy started his career in restoration, after brief stints as an electrician and financial advisor, with Dow Columbia restoration based in Portland, OR. Murray Dow Sr., the founder, was an original member and past president of both the NIRC and ASCR. Andy has worked his way up through just about every position in the industry. During that time he witnessed two former employers go bankrupt, and saw the rise of the TPA. After starting an Xactimate estimating service, Claims Delegates in 2012, he began to see some common problems that contractors deal with nearly every day. The two biggest problems were declining profits and increasing overhead. Everyone saw it, but it seemed no one was willing to do anything about it. So Andy decided to do something. Since the spring of 2017, he has run a free, contractor-focused Facebook group called the Restoration Rebels. Restoration contractors come to the group to solve problems and create solutions. Membership sits around 2,400 people as of the time of this writing. Andy is a vocal advocate for restoration contractors internationally. Joe Ledbetter is the Owner and Senior Business Consultant for DISASTERCO.COM(previously Clean Source Consulting) of Warren, MI. He is also President – Founder of Mannle Construction in Warren, MI. Prior to founding his current companies he was the Co-Founder/President of the Cleaning Connection of Warren, MI and the Director of Business Development of Drytech Group, in Ottawa, CA. In 2016 Joe surpassed 1 billion square feet of mitigation to commercial buildings and 1,000’s of residential losses ranging in size from $5,000.00 to $200,000.00. He is also one of the Restoration Rebel Leaders and his role is to help build and grow the group through sharing his knowledge and experience and helping develop the management and revenue opportunit
This week on IAQ Radio we unveil a new feature we are calling “IAQradio+ Classics. In the past we have done Flashback Friday’s where we simply replayed a show from the archives. IAQradio Classics+ will be much more than a replay. IAQradio Classics+ are live shows with a video transcript of the show. We are having some of our best shows transcribed and will remix then to include the transcription. We start this week with a fantastic show with Dr. Harriet Ammann.
Dr. Ammann holds a Ph.D. degree in Zoology and Biochemistry from North Carolina State University. She was a diplomate of the American Board of Toxicology from 1989 through 2014. She taught cell, human, vertebrate and comparative animal physiology for 14 years before joining the US EPA Hazardous Air Pollutant and Indoor Air Teams in 1984. She was senior toxicologist for Environmental Health of the Washington State Department of Health for 12 years, and then held the same position with the Air Quality Program of the Washington State Department of Ecology for 4 years. While interested in toxic effects from exposure for any exposure route, she is especially interested in inhalation and has worked extensively in indoor and ambient air pollution. She was a member of the NAS Institute of Medicine Committee on Damp Indoor Spaces and Health, and authored the microbial toxicity of the book published by the IOM. She has been working on public health issues since 1984. She is an affiliate associate professor in the Department of Environmental and Occupational Health Sciences at the School of Public Health of the University of Washington, Seattle, Washington. She teaches in courses in Toxicology and Community Air Pollution at the University, and teaches in Healthy Building courses on moisture, microbes and health in the indoor environment in Washington and in Oregon, and has presented on updates on asthma and the epidemiology and toxicology of indoor mold exposure at the Washington Department of Health Epidemiology Program, and for the Washington 2014 Asthma Summit. She will retire from her affiliate with the University of Washington School of Public Health in July, 2018
This week on IAQ Radio+ we look forward to a great discussion on better ways to build and an industry update. Tedd Benson of Bensonwood and Unity Homes and Bob Krell of Healthy Indoors Magazine are our guests this week. Tedd Benson the founder of Bensonwood (1973) and Unity Homes (2012), has devoted his life to developing a better way to build. A key figure in the revival of timber framing in America, he was one of the founders of the Timber Framers Guild of North America (1984) and authored four books on the subject. Through the decades, Bensonwood established itself as a creative leader in timber frame design, engineering, craftsmanship, and CAD-CAM technology.
This week on IAQ Radio+ we look forward to a great discussion on better ways to build and an industry update. Tedd Benson of Bensonwood and Unity Homes and Bob Krell of Healthy Indoors Magazine are our guests this week. Tedd Benson the founder of Bensonwood (1973) and Unity Homes (2012), has devoted his life to developing a better way to build. A key figure in the revival of timber framing in America, he was one of the founders of the Timber Framers Guild of North America (1984) and authored four books on the subject. Through the decades, Bensonwood established itself as a creative leader in timber frame design, engineering, craftsmanship, and CAD-CAM technology.
Today on IAQ Radio+ we welcome Nate Adams for Part 2 on the Evolving World of Home Performance. This week we will focus on the HVAC system and how it fits into home comfort. In Part 1 we discussed how what was once called an energy audit is now evolving into something different. The energy programs are changing and the people that perform/ed energy audits are changing how they market their services and what they provide. Some have gone into healthy housing others are pitching home performance and much more comprehensive and costly changes to existing homes. Nate has a unique perspective on the topic and has released the first edition of his book, “The Home Comfort Book” on the topic. We will go into depth on how HVAC systems affect comfort. There may be things that you disagree with but Nate has done the numbers on his project and is confident in his process.
Today on IAQ Radio+ we welcome Nate Adams for Part 2 on the Evolving World of Home Performance. This week we will focus on the HVAC system and how it fits into home comfort. In Part 1 we discussed how what was once called an energy audit is now evolving into something different. The energy programs are changing and the people that perform/ed energy audits are changing how they market their services and what they provide. Some have gone into healthy housing others are pitching home performance and much more comprehensive and costly changes to existing homes. Nate has a unique perspective on the topic and has released the first edition of his book, “The Home Comfort Book” on the topic. We will go into depth on how HVAC systems affect comfort. There may be things that you disagree with but Nate has done the numbers on his project and is confident in his process.
This week on IAQradio+, Radio Joe & The Z-man are celebrating 10+ Years and 500 shows! It’s been an interesting journey from when podcasts were a new thing to where it seems everyone has a podcast. This week we turn the tables on the IAQ Radio co-hosts with questions from frequent listeners, guests and industry leaders. The four industry experts we have lined up come from unique perspectives and all have been guests and contributors. They have also listened to the show over our 10+ years and they have given freely of their time to help their respective portions of the indoor air quality and restoration industries. We look forward to answering their questions about IAQ Radio and what we have learned through 500 shows and 10+ years “on the air”.
This week on IAQradio+, Radio Joe & The Z-man are celebrating 10+ Years and 500 shows! It’s been an interesting journey from when podcasts were a new thing to where it seems everyone has a podcast. This week we turn the tables on the IAQ Radio co-hosts with questions from frequent listeners, guests and industry leaders. The four industry experts we have lined up come from unique perspectives and all have been guests and contributors. They have also listened to the show over our 10+ years and they have given freely of their time to help their respective portions of the indoor air quality and restoration industries. We look forward to answering their questions about IAQ Radio and what we have learned through 500 shows and 10+ years “on the air”.
John, together with his wife Lydia, has owned and operated Orlando, Florida based Indoor Air Quality Solutions since 2001. John is a Building Envelope & Indoor Environment Consultant specializing in building product failure investigations, forensic water intrusion investigations, and building envelope failure investigations for commercial and residential structures. John and Lydia also provide indoor environmental assessments and mold & odor investigations. John is the current President of the Indoor Air Quality Association, a Florida Licensed Mold Assessor and ACAC Certified Indoor Environmental Consultant. John has served as an expert witness in over 100 court cases involving indoor air quality, mold, building envelope failure, building product failure and spray polyurethane foam insulation.
This week we talk to Australian restoration and IAQ veterans Penny Tralau and Ashley Easterby about their experiences and insights after attending the recent RIA Convention and their extensive tour of southern US restoration projects, labs and facilities. Their tour guide was none other than IAQ Radio contributor and “Restoration Industry Global Watchdog” Pete Consigli. All three will be joining us today to talk about what they learned, how our IAQ/restoration industry looks from the outside, how that affects the Aussie market and most importantly what we can learn from each other. Penny and Ashley based their road trip in Fort Lauderdale and then visited sites around the South. Their tour included stops at microbiology lab, a high end water/mould intrusion site visit, and a visit with a pro that specializes in real estate inspections. Their tour also included stops at a high profile restoration companies offices/plant, visits with equipment rental companies and concluded a site visit to a 70 plus condo project in Key West. Ashley Easterby has over 38 years’ experience in owner/operator small business in Australia and an extensive understanding of the need to build and maintain successful relationships and strategic alliances to ensure a successful business. In 2002 he was instrumental in the formation of a group of like minded Water Damage Restoration companies into the leading independent restoration network in Australia. This network provides restoration services with national coverage for the needs of Corporate Clients & Insurance Companies via a transparent, local and cost effective service. Penny Tralau has a background of 9 years in Restoration and Remediation Services. In the beginning, the work was primarily water loss but very quickly became interested in and specialised in Mould. Penny has a unique approach to mould, providing unbiased assessments to homeowners, builders and insurance companies. Penny is also a founding member and secretary of the Indoor Air Quality Association (IAQA) of Australia and a Council member of the Restoration Industry Association
This week we talk to Australian restoration and IAQ veterans Penny Tralau and Ashley Easterby about their experiences and insights after attending the recent RIA Convention and their extensive tour of southern US restoration projects, labs and facilities. Their tour guide was none other than IAQ Radio contributor and “Restoration Industry Global Watchdog” Pete Consigli. All three will be joining us today to talk about what they learned, how our IAQ/restoration industry looks from the outside, how that affects the Aussie market and most importantly what we can learn from each other. Penny and Ashley based their road trip in Fort Lauderdale and then visited sites around the South. Their tour included stops at microbiology lab, a high end water/mould intrusion site visit, and a visit with a pro that specializes in real estate inspections. Their tour also included stops at a high profile restoration companies offices/plant, visits with equipment rental companies and concluded a site visit to a 70 plus condo project in Key West. Ashley Easterby has over 38 years’ experience in owner/operator small business in Australia and an extensive understanding of the need to build and maintain successful relationships and strategic alliances to ensure a successful business. In 2002 he was instrumental in the formation of a group of like minded Water Damage Restoration companies into the leading independent restoration network in Australia. This network provides restoration services with national coverage for the needs of Corporate Clients & Insurance Companies via a transparent, local and cost effective service. Penny Tralau has a background of 9 years in Restoration and Remediation Services. In the beginning, the work was primarily water loss but very quickly became interested in and specialised in Mould. Penny has a unique approach to mould, providing unbiased assessments to homeowners, builders and insurance companies. Penny is also a founding member and secretary of the Indoor Air Quality Association (IAQA) of Australia and a Council member of the Restoration Industry Association
Today on IAQ Radio we welcome Nate Adams the founder of Energy Smart Home Performance outside Cleveland Ohio. This week we will talk about â??The Evolving World of Home Performanceâ??. What was once called an energy audit is now evolving into something different. The energy programs are changing and the people that perform/ed energy audits are changing how they market their services and what they provide. Some have gone into healthy housing others are pitching home performance and much more comprehensive and costly changes to existing homes. Nate has a unique perspective on the topic and has released the first edition of his book on the topic. We will explore the topic in detail today on an IAQ Radio+ episode. Nateâ??s company Energy Smart started out as an insulation contractor for existing homes, but has evolved into doing Comprehensive Home Performance retrofits. Their projects are somewhere between a simple attic insulation job and a deep energy retrofit. These projects are sweeping in scope with thorough planning process and careful attention paid to what problems the client wants to solve, what the house needs, and what fits within the homeowner budget. No two projects are alike. Through substantial air tightness and insulation upgrades, and sometimes HVAC replacement, homes are made far more comfortable.
This week we are bringing back Sal La Duca for part 2 of our discussion on electricity, EMF's & IEQ. Electricity and electric fields are all around us we keep adding them yet we do not know much about how they affect the health of occupants or if they affect health. Is it possible that they have affects we don't understand? We do know that when installed improperly electric systems can cause a variety of issues. We also know how to find improper installations and to how to reduce the potential for exposure. In Part 1 Mr. La Duca walked us through the basics from the generating facility to the wiring in our home. Part 2 will focus on how to evaluate the issues and what equipment is used to help determine if we have issues.
This week we will be finishing up our hurricane coverage series with two gentlemen that are known for seeing the big picture. Dr. Ralph Moon is based in the Tampa, FL region and Attorney Michael Bowdoinâ??s practice is in the Houston, TX area. Both have extensive personal and professional experience dealing with the aftermath of the hurricanes that hit in 2017. Both also work closely with contractors, consultants, building owners, insurance adjusters and others that have been trying to bring things back to normal. We plan a wide ranging discussion of what happened, how the response was handled and how these events will affect our future dealing with large natural disasters.
Radio Joe is on the road at the IAQA Annual Meeting and last week attended a Sloan Workshop: Roadmap Research to Practice. Radio Joe will be reporting on both events this week and we will debut our new format for the show. The Sloan workshop was put together by Richard Shaughnessy, PhD and Jordan Peccia, PhD. It was a fascinating meeting of about 15 practitioners, 15 researchers and a handful of government representatives from agencies such as EPA, HUD and CDC. It was designed to allow practitioners to let researchers know what we need from research to do a better job helping people live in better indoor environments. This workshop focused on the Microbiome of the Built Environment and included a lot of discussion on mold and water damage topics. Radio Joe will review the presentations by both researchers and practitioners to bring listeners up to speed on what was discussed. The IAQA Annual Meeting is always a highlight of the conference season. This year it was in Chicago and was in conjunction with the ASHRAE AHR Expo. As always there was a huge expo hall with thousands of exhibitors and some excellent presentations at the Hilton Chicago.
Radio Joe is on the road at a Sloan "Research to Practice" Conference and will be back live next Friday to report on the event and the IAQA Conference. This week we are playing back a great show with a guest we tried to get for a long time. Tiina Reponen, PhD is a Professor in the Department of Environmental Health, College of Medicine at the University of Cincinnati. As an expert in indoor allergens and mold, she served as the principal investigator in several major laboratory and field experiments on airborne allergens, bacteria and fungi and has directed exposure assessment teams in population-based studies. Dr. Reponen is the Director of the NIOSH-funded University of Cincinnati Education and Research Center (ERC), which includes graduate programs related to occupational health from three colleges: Medicine, Nursing and Applied Science and Engineering. She is currently directing two cohort studies. One is focused on the association between indoor bioaerosol exposures and the development of children's allergy and asthma and the other is focused on the effects of green renovation on indoor air quality and occupants' health.
This week on IAQ Radio we welcome Anthony "Tony" Havics to talk about how occupational exposure limits are related to limits for the general public. This is a topic that causes a lot of confusion and at times misinformation. Can we use OEL's or should we avoid them altogether? Join us and LEARN MORE on IAQ Radio! Mr. Havics is an Honors graduate from Georgia Institute of Technology with a Bachelor's Degree in Mechanical Engineering and is a registered Professional Environmental Engineer (PE) with over 25 years of experience. He has provided front end investigation, development of plans & specifications, development of work plans, cost estimation, and oversight of numerous facilities for remediation, refurbishing, or decommissioning including a launch pad, dam gates, a baseball stadium, a tire factory with 59 buildings, a biologically contaminated L1011, a hospital, JP-6 fuel tanks, former mental institute, former military buildings, etc. In the field of microscopy, he has performed analysis for asbestos, contaminants in products, other minerals, fibers, fungi, engineering properties, and has testified in federal court as an expert microscopist. Andrew has also performed failure analysis and forensic testing on numerous building products such as roofs, windows, flooring, drywall, piping, etc.
This week on IAQ Radio we welcome Mr. Bruce White, Vice President at American Environmental Specialists & IAQA First Vice President. Mr. White's and his company provide IAQ and environmental consulting on a wide range of issues from their Southern California office. We will discuss wildfires and IAQ, Hospital Construction Monitoring, The new OSHA Silica Rule and Mechanical Systems and IAQ. Bruce brings a unique perspective to his consulting, he has been in the environmental business for over 30 years with a wide range of experience in the real world. He started out in the restoration industry and was also part of the early days of asbestos abatement and other types of environmental contracting. From there he has spent almost 20 years as an environmental consultant with a stint working for a large distributor of environmental safety supplies and equipment. He also has a long history of volunteering for industry related associations and is currently the First Vice President of the Indoor Air Quality Association (IAQA). Bruce has numerous tips and techniques to share with listeners and will also share his insights on the future of our industry. LEARN MORE this week on IAQ Radio!
This week on IAQ Radio we welcome Ken Larsen and Mickey Lee back to the show to continue our hurricane coverage and to discuss tips for how to develop proper scopes of work on water damage restoration projects. Both pros are working in the areas damaged by Hurricane Irma and both are long time water damage restoration pros, contributors to industry standards and instructors. Ken Larsen, CR, WLS, CSDS has been in the restoration industry since 1978. He holds RIA, ACAC and IICRC advanced designations. His career includes 18 years as an independent property restoration contractor, consultant to restorative drying during catastrophes and large loss drying coordination, expert witness, Director of Education for North America's largest disaster restoration contracting organization, and now the author of one of the industry's leading technical resource books on the subject of structural restorative drying - Leadership in Restorative Drying. He is currently an IICRC Approved instructor of WRT, ASD and CDS certificate courses. He is also an RIA instructor of the restoration industry's advanced certification credentials: Water Loss Specialist (WLS) and Certified Restorer (CR). He serves as Chairman for RIA approved Instructors, Trainers and Subject Matter Experts, a sub-committee of RIA's Education Committee. Larsen presently serves as Senior Technical Director for the International Dry Standard Organization (IDSO) and Director of Education for the Restoration Leadership Institute (RLI) and lead consultant for the Restoration Expert Panel (REP). Ken lives with his wife Barbie (yes - really!) in Santa Rosa Beach in Northwest Florida. He can be contacted at ken at drystandard dot org. Mickey Lee is currently a private consultant providing consulting, training, research and writing services in the fields of property damage restoration, psychrometrics, drying science, mold remediation and structural drying after water intrusions. Mr. Lee retired from the Munters Corp (US) in 2011 after serving in various roles for over 20 years. At various points Mr. Lee was Vice-President - Global Technology & Sustainability for Munters AB - MCS and Global and National Technical & Training Manager for Munters Corp (US). He was responsible for training program development, curriculum writing and course facilitation in addition to managing projects for structural drying and restoration of commercial buildings of every type. He also has extensive experience in application of air treatment technology in restorative drying projects, corrosion-control methods, mold mitigation and humidity control in commercial and industrial facilities while working with Munters Corporation - Moisture Control Services Division. Recognizing his vast experience in water damage restoration the IICRC asked him to lead the development of their Commercial Drying Specialist certification. This program completed its' full roll-out in 2009 and continues to be a popular offering. Mr. Lee continues to serve as committee chair for the Commercial Drying Specialist Certification program and also serves on the IICRC S500 Standard and Reference Guide for Professional Water Damage Restoration revision committee.
This week on IAQ Radio we discuss a topic that gets blood pressure up among some in the restoration world. Third Party Administrators TPAs are a fact of life today in many industries and RIA has been helping their members make the adjustments necessary. This week we welcome two widely respected restoration professionals to IAQ Radio. Mark Springer and Phill Rosebrook are both RIA members and were speakers at the recent RIA Strictly TPAs Fall Conference. We look forward to having them join us along with frequent contributor Pete Consigl. Mark Springer If you know Mark Springer, you probably know when the platitude, How are you doing? comes up in conversation, his likely answer is, Living the dream! Thats because its true. Mark has been married to his high school sweetheart, Angie for 20 years and they have been blessed with five beautiful daughters who, fortunately for Mark, take after their mother. Living in Montana accentuates the dream as he is able to pursue doing things he loves like downhill skiing, bow hunting, competitive shooting, and the mountains in general. Its not all hobbies though, Mark also gets to work all over the great state of Montana helping people who have experienced disasters, primarily from fires and floods. He is the President of Dayspring Restoration, a company that specializes in disaster restoration. Dayspring has 6 locations and about 100 team members. Mark has become a mini, (emphasis on �¢??mini�¢??) celebrity in Montana due to several television advertising campaigns where he flooded and burned his house and then demonstrated to the community the restoration process, (these videos can be viewed at www.calldayspring.com). Giving back to his community and his industry has always been a priority for Mark as he serves on numerous non-profit and trade association committees and boards Phillip Rosebrook Jr., Cr. Phillip is a graduate of the University of Oregons Lundquist School of Business. He worked his way through college in the family restoration business. He filled most all roles in the company including working on the cleaning crew, carpet cleaning, water damage emergency services, and other various restoration and construction related services. He ran the retail and wholesale carpet cleaning division managing several employees and coordinating the installation crews. After college Phillip managed the water damage division and scheduled all company production crews. He managed the branch office in Coos Bay, Oregon and served the Southern Oregon Coast region. The office was in a very rural area of the state with a small population yet the office grew from $300,000 in annual sales to over $1,000,000 under his management. In managing this office he filled every role from Estimator to Marketing Manager. After training the new Manager Phillip returned to the main office with oversight of all branch offices. He served as the Education Committee representative for the Western Chapter of Disaster Kleenup International. In 1997 when the company sold, Phillip moved to Fort Collins, Colorado to assist in opening a new office for Rocky Mountain Catastrophe. He was in charge of training the new manager, developing the marketing campaign, implementing systems and procedures and training the water damage and cleaning staff. The office quickly grew to over $300,000 in monthly sales. Phillip joined his father as a Partner in Business Mentors in March of 1998. He specializes in implementing change in restoration companies. He works with the individual managers, key employees and sometimes even the field staff to implement new systems and procedures. He developed the Operations Manual and Personnel Manual that is utilized in all of Business Mentors consulting. He is a frequent presenter at industry conferences, contributing author to the WLI course book and has authored many articles in Cleaning and Restoration magazine. Phillip is the founding partner of ELC Training a training resource for restoration companies. He is also a faculty member of the Restoration Leadership Institute. Phillip is the father of four children and has been married to Deanna since 2000. He enjoys gardening, hiking, and cycling. Phil lives in Portland, Oregon.
This week on IAQ Radio we are going to talk about an IEQ issue we do not hear a lot about, electricity and electromagnetic frequencies (EMF's). EMF's and other issues related to electrical currents are increasingly part of our indoor environment, we keep adding them yet we do not know much about how they affect the health of occupants or if they affect health. Is it possible that they have affects we don't understand? We do know that when installed improperly electric systems can cause a variety of issues. We also know how to find improper installations and to how to reduce the potential for exposure. Sal will walk us through the issue in layman's terms and give us ideas on how to find and fix issues. LEARN MORE this week on IAQ Radio! Sal La Duca is an Environmental Consultant specializing in the built environment, with over 40 years' experience in instrumentation and controls. Mr. La Duca started out as a Nuclear Reactor Operator / Reactor Technician (Instrumentation and Control Technician - Nuclear) on the USS Mississippi . After discharge, he was offered employment by Jersey Central Power and Light to help built a Radiological Survey instrument repair facility at their Oyster Creek Nuclear Power Plant in Forked River, NJ. From there he migrated to the Communications department, where he performed installation, calibration, and repairs of various generations of remote-control supervisory equipment for power system control. In 1994 he incorporated and began offering Electromagnetic Field services to clients. In 1999 he sought and acquired additional training with the Institute of Building Biology and Ecology, and expanded service offerings to include Indoor Air Quality. Since then he has added IAQ certifications through IAQA and ACAC. Most importantly he has real world experience on residential, commercial and industrial projects and takes a practical approach to the topic. LEARN MORE this week on IAQ Radio!
This week on IAQ Radio we are going to discuss what we learned at the Healthy Buildings Summit 2017 at Seven Springs Resort with three industry pros that were in attendance. For those that could not attend we will go over some of the key presentations from the event and discuss how it affects IAQ, disaster restoration, home performance and other industry professionals. Nate Adams is the founder of Energy Smart Home Performance outside Cleveland Ohio. Energy Smart started out as an insulation contractor for existing homes, but has evolved into doing Comprehensive Home Performance retrofits. Carl Grimes, HHS CIEC, has consulted with people who have questions or issues with the indoor environment since 1987 as President of Healthy Habitats LLC in Denver, CO. Carl is a frequent presenter nationally and internationally, past President of IAQA, and past Vice President of Practice of ISIAQ. He is the current Managing Director of the Hayward Healthy Home Institute in Carmel, CA, and the Hayward Score Director of Healthy Homes. Eric Shapiro has extensive experience in Building Maintenance and Environmental Remediation. He also has a Master Degree in Forensic Psychology from the John Jay College of Criminal Justice in New York City. Mr. Shapiro has extensive training and education in IAQ Investigations, Remediation, Diagnostics, Building Science and Moisture Control. He is also an instructor for an IAQA approved training provider and has helped hundreds of people prepare for various American Council for Accredited Certification ACAC certifications. He is a nationally recognized lecturer and trainer in Microbial Remediation, Inspections, Diagnostics, and Air Duct Cleaning. He is also experienced in training IAQA approved Indoor Environmentalist training programs and the National Center for Helthy Housing Home Health Specialist training.
This week on IAQ Radio we welcome Joe Nagan of Home Building Technology Services of Kauhauna, Wisconsin. Since 1985 Joe has been involved in residential building science research in both the US and Canada and has been very active in State wide conservation efforts in Wisconsin. Working with the Wisconsin Energy Conservation Corporation of Madison, he helped co-author the nationally recognized Wisconsin ENERGY STAR® Homes program where he served as Technical Director. This program certified 16,502 homes during its 11 year run. In addition to involvement with Energy Star Homes he worked with the administrator of the Statewide Focus On Energy® programs to co-author a new construction program, known as "Focus on Energy New Homes", which was launched in January 2011 and is currently in effect having now certified over 25,000 new homes collectively. Mr. Nagan is the go to guy when it comes to residential building science in Wisconsin. He has been involved in the energy efficiency and building trades since the early days of the first energy crisis and continues to be recognized as a leader in the world of building science. Join us today and LEARN MORE about how things have changed over the years, what works, what doesn't and where we go from here on IAQ Radio!
This week's show will dive into insurance coverage issues, the use and application of the Assignment of Benefits (AOB) and a report on Harvey Cohen's visit to Puerto Rico. Well known independent adjuster investigator and sitting President of the NAIIA Peter Crosa will be joined by Cohen Law Group partner Jayme Buchanan. IAQradio's ongoing coverage of the aftermath of 2017's Atlantic hurricane season will take a closer look at the issues Peter and Jayme see restoration contractors and policyholders are grappling with in their efforts to restore damaged property and settling insurance claims. Some of the issues to be addressed will be investigation and causation protocols, coverage and exclusion determinations, when and how to apply an AOB and some insider tips of how to best deal with insurance companies once the policyholder has selected their restoration contractor of record who may not b on the "approved" vendor list! Jayme M. Buchanan joined the firm in the fall of 2012. She received her B.A. in Psychology from the University of Delaware in 2006. After graduating from college, she worked at an asbestos law firm in Wilmington, Delaware. Thereafter, Jayme attended law school and received her law degree from Barry University School of Law in 2010. During law school, Jayme was involved with the Environmental Law Society and functioned as the treasurer. She also was involved in Barry Universitys Earth Advocacy Clinic where she assisted in representing groups or individuals in preparing for environmental litigation, administrative proceedings and rule challenges. She also assisted in organizing and developing the first annual Environmental Justice Summit and the Green attorneys Roundtable Discussion. Her article detailing the Environmental Justice Summit was printed in the December 2009 Environmental and Land Use Law section of the Florida Bar Reporter. Jayme also worked at a general litigation firm in Maryland during law school and for a family law solo-practitioner during her third year of law school. Prior to joining the firm, Jayme practiced in the field of health insurance law for a revenue recovery company in Florida. Since joining the firm, Jaymes practice is focused on first-party insurance claims in the intake department and has been recently named as partner at Cohen Law Group. Peter Crosa is a independent assurance adjuster and current president of the National Independent Insurance Adjusters Association NAIAA. Mr. Crosa has been a licensed independent adjuster and private investigator for over 30 years handling large complex losses throughout the United States and Latin America. Since 2000 he has traveled the country conducting workshops and keynote speeches on the topic of marketing vendor services to adjusters and insurance companies. Mr. Crosa is also the author of 4 books including: 2012 Restoration Contractors Guide to Insurance Repair, Soft Selling Hardened Claims Adjusters, Claims Marketing Tipz & An Adjuster Is What An Adjuster Does. Peter is also a frequent contributor to Cleanfax Magazine and other industry publications.
This week on IAQ Radio we welcome Henri Fennell is a building envelope specialist and architect with over forty years of experience in energy conservation design, products, and services. His background covers many disciplines providing a unique perspective on the real-world design and implementation of high-performance building envelopes. Mr. Fennell's work with polyurethane foam materials began with energy-efficient demonstration projects during the energy crisis of the 1970's, including the Pittsburgh Children's Museum, his first spray foam project, in 1971. Mr. Fennell's work experience has included positions as a practicing architect, a building envelope contractor, and a building envelope remediation and commissioning consultant. Mr. Fennell's contracting work has included thousands of remediation, building failure, and historic renovation projects, including major projects like the Guggenheim Museum and numerous other high-profile and historic buildings. His projects have included the installation of millions of pounds of polyurethane foam. This work included the development of on-site techniques and delivery systems that made closed-cell injected polyurethane (IPF) foam insulation/sealants available to the general construction industry. Mr. Fennell has authored or co-authored four energy-related U.S. patents and participated in the development of ASTM standards and other industry protocols. He has been an energy educator since 1975, making presentations and providing training to a broad range of industry audiences. He has contributed to ASHRAE Journal and other national publications and is often cited in articles related to energy conservation, materials technology, and building performance. He currently works as a consultant on spray foam projects and is commonly called on to help determine what to do when foam jobs go bad
While preparing for our tenth anniversary we have spent a great deal of time going back through the archives and discussing the fantastic guests we have had over the years. One name that stands out is J. David Miller, PhD. Radio Joe saw Dr. Miller speak and spent some time talking to him at the Microbiology of the Built Environment Conference in Boulder CO. His presentation was one that every IAQ, mold and disaster restoration professional should hear. Professor Miller joins us us this week, listen in and LEARN MORE this week on IAQ Radio!
This week we welcome Jim Thompson, "The Big Dog of Large Losses" and "The Restoration Industry Global Watchdog" and RIA Industry Adviser Pete Consigli for another special report on Hurricanes, Harvey, Irma and Maria. In addition we have Chris and Maria Slay owners of Rainbow Restoration of Sugarland & Katy joining us with an on the ground report from Texas. IAQ Radio continues its coverage of the extensive damage and efforts to restore properties throughout the hardest hit areas. Jim Thompson & Company has handled large commercial and industrial fire and water losses all over the US and Puerto Rico. If you think you're ready to up the ante and compete against the big guns on large insurance claims; Jim offers to teach you how. Jim has handled large complex commercial and industrial insurance losses in 43 states and Puerto Rico. While many restoration contractors strive to get on the State Farm or Farmer's Insurance list of preferred contractors, Jim Thompson wanted off the list. Jim's a hands-on guy, who abhors working in an office and prefers to lead from the front. Chris Slay comes to the water restoration industry from a corporate background where he was most recently a business consultant for Accenture. He is a Rainbow Restoration franchise owner in Sugarland, Texas. As the owner, Chris makes it a point to meet each customer personally to ensure the work is going according to plan and according to the insured's desire. He has been omnipresent in the Texas area on the news and in the trenches helping with recovery following Hurricane Harvey. Maria Slay has a Master degree in business and 19 years' experience in the insurance industry and is a licensed adjuster. She understands how property insurance works and how to make each loss beneficial to both the insured and the insurer. In addition to managing the branch, scheduling jobs, writing estimates and managing contractors, you will find Maria on the job site helping the technicians with the hard work at hand. Pete Consigli, CR, WLS is the Restoration Industry's Global Watchdog has been a long time friend and guest on IAQ Radio. Pete Consigli has been a member of the Restoration Industry Association (RIA) since 1977. In 2008 Pete was the recipient of the Martin L. King award and in 2012 was made an honorary member of the RIA. He has served the association the past several years in the dual role of RIA Education Director and Industry Adviser. Pete presently serves as an adviser with RIA's education and certification committees and staff. He is a Water Loss Specialist (WLS) prep course facilitator and program adviser. Pete also advises the RIA board of directors and the association management team on matters impacting the restoration industry and RIA's mission.
This week we welcome The Restoration Lawyer Ed Cross and The Restoration Industry Global Watchdog and RIA Industry Adviser Pete Consigli for another special report on Hurricanes, Harvey, Irma and Maria. We will focus on legal issues for those doing restoration after hurricanes and also get some tips for consumers dealing with restoration related issue. Pete Consigli is based in Naples/Bonita Springs area and has been driving through Florida and networking with Restoration Industry Association (RIA) members from all the areas affected by these storms, we also look forward to an update from him on how things are going on the ground after this tri-fecta of storms hit the mainland and Caribbean portions of the US. Ed Cross, J.D. The "Restoration Lawyer" Ed Cross has built a successful law practice that specially caters to the needs of insurance damage repair contractors and remediators. Mr. Cross received a Bachelor's Degree in Speech Communications with an emphasis on Public Speaking from California State University at Northridge in 1986 (Dean's Honor Roll), and his Juris Doctor Degree from Western State University in Fullerton California. Ed is also well known for his risk management advice, cleaning and restoration contracts and related forms available for free and/or for purchase on his website. These are simple one page forms in plain English that protect payment rights and deter lawsuits. He has recently added contract forms specific to the needs of those doing work in Texas and Florida LEARN MORE at edcross.com Pete Consigli, CR, WLS The Restoration Industry's Global Watchdog has been a long time friend and guest on IAQ Radio. Pete Consigli has been a member of the Restoration Industry Association (RIA) since 1977. In 2008 Pete was the recipient of the Martin L. King award and in 2012 was made an honorary member of the RIA. He has served the association the past several years in the dual role of RIA Education Director and Industry Adviser. Pete presently serves as an adviser with RIA's education and certification committees and staff. He is a Water Loss Specialist (WLS) prep course facilitator and program adviser. Pete also advises the RIA board of directors and the association management team on matters impacting the restoration industry and RIA's mission.
This week we welcome two up and coming researchers and academics to discuss a topic that has recently been getting some much deserved attention. Most people spend about 1/3 of their lives in bed and or sleeping. What are we breathing or absorbing and how does it affect our health and performance? Dr. Boor and Dr. Laverge will tell us what they have learned during their literature review on the topic. We also look forward to learning what these up and coming academics feel are other important IAQ questions and answers we will be discussing over the next decade. Dr. Boor joined us once before with Dr. Richard Corsi for one of our Research to Practice shows Episode 343 Dr. Brandon E. Boor is an Assistant Professor in the Lyles School of Civil Engineering at Purdue University. His research group at Purdue is focused on understanding the dynamics of airborne particles (aerosols) in buildings and human exposure to indoor air pollution. He teaches courses on indoor air quality and architectural engineering and advises the Global Air Quality Trekkers undergraduate EPICS team. He has previously worked with indoor air quality and aerosol research groups at the University of Helsinki, Finnish Institute of Occupational Health, and VTT Technical Research Centre in Finland, as well as the National Institute of Standards and Technology in Maryland. He received his Ph.D. from the Department of Civil, Architectural, and Environmental Engineering at the University of Texas at Austin in 2015. Dr. Jelle Laverge (1984) received his engineering masters from Ghent University in 2007. From 2005 to 2007 he was a part-time employee of Bureau Bouwtechniek in Antwerp. Since 2007 he is a fulltime researcher and PhD-candidate at the building physics, construction and building services research group of the department of architecture and urban planning at Ghent University. In 2011 he received a master's degree in Law from the same university. He was a part-time building physics lecturer at KaHo Sint-Lieven Gent for the 2011 spring semester. With the support of the FWO (grant V430911N), he was a visiting scholar at the University of Texas at Austin during the summer of 2011. With a dissertation entitled 'Design strategies for residential ventilation systems', he obtained a PhD in 2013. He is a member of ISIAQ, SRS and ASHRAE.
This week on IAQ Radio we continue with our coverage of the recent hurricanes and recovery. We will be talking to professionals on the ground in Florida and the US Virgin Islands for their perspective on the recovery from Hurricane Irma. Irma was massive and many IAQ and restoration professionals have been called in to help. Learn from the pros what mistakes and pitfalls to avoid. Also, get first hand eyewitness accounts from your colleagues on the ground. Harvey and now Irma are the two most powerful storms to hit the mainland United States in over ten years. We all knew sooner or later this type of scenario was possible. Now that it's here how do we deal with it? What should IAQ and Restoration professionals watch for while responding to the needs of those devastated by these storms? How do you help out yet not lose your business by making judgments based on feelings vs. rational thoughts? Do you go to the hot spots or stay put and service your clients and of those of people that left for Texas or Florida? IAQ Radio has lined up some experts to help you make these important decisions. John Lapotaire, together with his wife Lydia, has owned and operated Orlando Florida based Indoor Air Quality Solutions since 2001. John is a Building Envelope & Indoor Environment Consultant specializing in building product failure investigations, forensic water intrusion investigations, and building envelope failure investigations for commercial and residential structures. John is also the current President of the Indoor Air Quality Association. He is a Florida Licensed Mold Assessors and a Certified Indoor Environmental Consultant (CIEC). Josh Winton is the owner of Discreet Restoration and Discreet Protect Systems of Pompano Beach, FL. He has over 12 years experience in water damage restoration and mold remediation is considered to be one of the young guns of restoration. His bachelor's degree in Technical Management and Associates in Computer Engineering makes him a rare restoration pro with expertise in Information Technology and over a decade of field experience in water damage restoration and mold remediation. He is becoming a leader of the next generation of restoration pros utilizing time tested field techniques and equipment supplemented with today's technologies. Addison Christian is owner of ADCON Environmental Services located in Fredericksted, St. Croix US Virgin Islands. He has 20 years experience in the asbestos, IAQ, disaster restoration, HAZMAT, medical waste, waste oil recycling and HVAC cleaning professions. He has also has been a general contractor in the Caribbean for over 30 years. Mr. Christian holds numerous certifications, licenses and titles in the related areas. He also has a degree from American University in Business Administration. He frequently travels to the mainland for training and to expand his knowledge base and provide more services for the Caribbean Islands and S. Florida.
This week on IAQ Radio we go into disaster mode and talk to professionals on the ground in Texas plus the JonDon Director of Marketing for their perspective on the recovery from the devastating hurricane that recently hit southeast Texas. Hurricane Harvey was massive and many IAQ and restoration professionals have been called in to help. The recovery will take years and many of our listeners will be involved. Learn from these pro's what mistakes and pitfalls to avoid. Also, get first hand eyewitness accounts from your colleagues on the ground and one of the major companies helping with supplies, materials and expertise in the recovery. Harvey and now Irma are the two most powerful storms to hit the mainland United States in over ten years. We all knew sooner or later this type of scenario was possible. Now that it's here how do we deal with it? What should IAQ and Restoration professionals watch for while responding to the needs of those devastated by these storms? How do you help out yet not lose your business by making judgments based on feelings vs. rational thoughts? Do you go to the hot spots or stay put and service the clients of those that left for Texas or Florida? Radio Joe and the Z-man have lined up some experts to help you make these important decisions
This week on IAQ Radio we Flashback to two of three shows we have done with author and indoor environmental professional Jeff May. Radio Joe has gone back to show 25 and show 117 with to put together a highlight show with Jeff May. Mr. May is Principal Scientist of May Indoor Air Investigations, LLC in Tyngsborough, MA. He is the author of four books on IAQ (published by The Johns Hopkins University Press), including My House is Killing Me and The Mold Survival Guide, Jeff has been investigating building problems in homes, schools and office for over 25 years, and has examined by microscopy over 35,000 air and dust samples. A nationally recognized speaker on IAQ topics, Jeff is a member of IAQA, the Pan American Aerobiology Association, American Chemical Society, and the New England Chapter of the American Industrial Hygiene Association, among others. He is a Certified Indoor Air Quality Professional (CIAQP, Association of Energy Engineers), and is a licensed Mold Assessor in the state of Florida. He holds a B.A. from Columbia College (chemistry) and an M.A. from Harvard University (organic chemistry), and has served as an Adjunct Professor in the Department of Work Environment at the University of Massachusetts Lowell. LEARN MORE with Jeff May this week on IAQradio!
We are back live this week with a special guest, Pawel Wargocki, PhD of the Technical University of Denmark. Dr. Wargocki is a prolific researcher and has Chaired or been on just about every important IAQ committee and association in the world. Radio Joe got a chance to hear him speak at the 2017 IAQA Conference and had to get him on the show. Today we will discuss the questions, is CO2 a pollutant or merely an index for IAQ? Dr. Wargocki is an Associate Professor at the Technical University of Denmark; Past President of the International Society of Indoor Air Quality and Climate; Past Chair of ASHRAE Environmental Health Committee and the Position Document Committee; Vice President of Indoor Air 2008 Conference; Secretary of Academy of Indoor Air Sciences; incoming Director of the International Centre for Indoor Environment and Energy. He is a widely respected indoor climate scientist and expert, teacher at undergraduate, graduate and Ph.D. courses; supervisor of several Ph.D. and numerous M.Sc. students. His research has influenced development of indoor air sciences not least because of his studies on the effects of indoor environment on mental performance, on office work by adults and on schoolwork by children. He has carried out numerous laboratory chamber experiments with human subjects (equivalent to 5,000 subject hours) and field experiments (in more than 100 buildings).
Today on IAQ Radio we bring out of the archival vault the Z-mans favorite episode from 8-13-2010, Episode 177 with Claude Blackburn. We are calling this one "From humble beginning to raging success, a candid conversation with the Dri-Eaz Products Founder". Radio Joe and the Z-man will be back live next week but do not miss this classic. Claude Blackburn became involved in the cleaning and restoration industry in 1972. Through a combination of courage, determination, hard work and creativity he founded and built Dri-Eaz Products (based in Burlington, Washington) into a business and brand recognized globally as a leader in structural drying. When Claude sold Dri-Eaz in 2006 it had almost 200 employees, 150 distributors and sales of 50 million. LEARN MORE about this remarkable man and how he built his company this week on IAQ Radio!
Dr. Jeff Siegel is an Associate Professor in the Department of Civil Engineering and the Dalla Lana School of Public Health at The University of Toronto. Prior to accepting his current position he was an Associate Professor at the University of Texas, Austin. His interests and research have focused on healthy and sustainable buildings, ventilation and indoor air quality in residential and commercial buildings, control of indoor particulate matter, secondary impacts of control technologies and strategies, aerosol dynamics in indoor environments and HVAC systems. He is also keenly interested in ensuring that good research works its way into practice and this week we want to focus on that theme. Dr. Siegel's Ph.D. is in Mechanical Engineering (2002) from the University of California, Berkeley, he also has an M.S. in Mechanical Engineering (1999) from the same institution and a B.S. in Engineering (1995) from Swarthmore College. He is a prolific researcher and speaker and a very active member of professionals societies and associations including ISIAQ and ASHRAE.
This week we go back in the archives to a few shows we did with an IAQ and Mold pioneer Larry Robertson. Larry joined us twice over the years and Radio Joe has gone back through those shows to put together a highlight real. LEARN MORE this week on IAQ Radio! Larry Robertson, the Indoor Air Quality Association's 1st President and founding Board Member. Mr. Robertson was a leader in IAQ research and services for over 3 decades. He is known for establishing Mycotech Biological, Inc. (MBI), one of the first environmental laboratories that specialized in the identification of fungi associated with HVAC systems. He also contributed in the initial development of the CIE and CMR certification programs and served on the Texas Mold Task Force relative to the development of mold regulations in the State of Texas. Larry published many papers in peer reviewed journals along with a mountain of other papers, articles and presentations. He was a prolific volunteer to industry associations and received numerous special recognition's and awards.
This week on IAQ Radio we welcome Andrew Streifel. Andrew J. Streifel is a Hospital Environment Specialist with the Department of Environmental Health & Safety at the University of Minnesota. Whenever there is a high profile hospital acquired infection one of the first names that comes to mind is Andy Streifel. Mr. Streifel has been involved in the investigation of over 80 clusters of infection related to hospital air quality. He has served as a consultant in over 400 hospitals worldwide on a variety of indoor air quality issues, water microbial contamination and has investigated clusters of bacterial infections due to unsanitary clinical practice. His current research interests involve energy management impact on infection prevention and validation of the air and water safety in healthcare facilities. Andy is a registered Environmental Health Specialist in Minnesota. He currently serves as an invited nonvoting member on the Maintenance Committee for the SSPC 170: ASHRAE Standard for Ventilation of Health Care Facilities 2008 - present. Mr. Streifel is also serving on the revision committee for the 2014 edition of the FGI Guidelines for Design and Construction of Health Care Facilities. He has served on this committee since 1994 and has participated in the development of the 1996, 2001, and 2006, 2010, 2014 & 2018 editions. In addition Mr. Streifel has served on the Special Project committee that authored the HVAC Design Manual for Hospitals and Clinics. He was an author on ASHRAE published articles on Ventilation for the Protection of Immune Compromised Patients-1988, Construction Impact on Indoor Air Quality-1995 and Air Leakage Analysis of Special Ventilation Hospital Rooms-2008. Mr. Streifel has assisted University of Minnesota Institute of Technology & School of Public Health as technical advisor on filtration, patient room airflow studies and particle management projects. He also serves on the National Air Duct Cleaners Association Standards Committee. In addition, he is an author in over 50 articles, published in the academic and professional journals, related to ventilation and water quality in health care.
This week on IAQ Radio we welcome two people with a rare combination of credentials in the industry. Kristy and Justin Sifford both have extensive experience in the construction and flooring industry and are also experienced professionals on hiring, promoting and retaining employees along with other business operations issues. Just about every business has to wrestle with employment issues and very few business owners are also experts in hiring and recruitment of employees. Some will hire a company like Wylander and others will learn as much about the process as possible and do it themselves. Whatever your style you will learn more during this show. Kristy Sifford founded the company after years of flooring industry experience that included an excellent track record of finding and placing top talent in both flooring and restoration positions. She is a highly successful matchmaker in this business. Kristy started working in her family owned flooring store in college, and grew to develop a flooring company, which was part of a large Disaster Restoration and Carpet Cleaning Company in the Dallas/Fort Worth area. In addition to recruiting, she has worked with many clients in the flooring industry on process improvement and handling remote accounting for flooring companies. Justin Sifford worked in the flooring industry for over 20 years and the restoration industry for over a decade. Having owned flooring companies in the past he has a unique perspective that allows him to appreciate the struggles his clients have owning a business and employing and keeping top talent. He previously worked as the Vice President of Operations for a company that offered consulting and recruiting services to the flooring and restoration industries. He worked with a wide range of companies, from companies as small as $500,000 up to $20 million. He was able to successfully streamline processes for other companies, identify KPI's, and was the chief architect in the growth of our own company
Radio Joe and the Zman are on their summer hiatus, returning next week live. This week we are going to flashback to a show from 12-3-2010 with Joe Ponessa, PhD who at the time had recently retired from Rutgers Cooperative Extension after serving 25 years as the Housing, Indoor Environment and Health Specialist. In that position, he worked on curriculum development and outreach education, serving both lay and professional audiences. Areas of specialization included the indoor environment and its impact on health; management of building moisture problems and building science/construction technology. Dr. Ponessa has consulted for The Department of Housing and Urban Development and the Centers for Disease Control on Housing-Environmental Health issues. He also taught a course in Building Science Moisture Management Principles for New Jersey Building Code Officials and architects.
Join us as we go back in time and discuss the early days of the disaster restoration field with industry pioneer Major Long. Major was one of the first disaster restoration practitioners. Major Long, CR is a past president of the RIA (1978-1980) and also served a term as the association's disaster restoration technical director. Don't miss this opportunity to hear from one of the early innovators in the field of disaster restoration field.
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This week on IAQ Radio we welcome another international researcher from the University of Lisbon Nuno Canha, PhD. Dr. Canha recently published a paper "Indoor air quality during sleep under different ventilation patterns". This is a topic we have been interested in but there has not been much research to discuss. We look forward to talking about this paper and and other research Dr. Canha has done related to IAQ issues. Dr. Canha holds a MSc in Chemistry from Instituto Superior Tecnico of University of Lisbon, Portugal, and completed a PhD degree in Environmental Sciences in Delft University of Technology (Delft, The Netherlands) in 2014. His main research interests are instrumental neutron activation analysis, indoor air quality, source apportionment, ventilation rates, atmospheric air quality, exposure to air pollutants and biomonitoring of air pollution with lichens. Join us live today at noon or download the show later to LEARN MORE on IAQ Radio!
We are back at the annual Violand Executive Summit and have lined up a great cast of restoration veterans and up and comers to discuss the topic "Restoration a Changing Industry". 2017 marks the 30th anniversary for Violand Management Associates, who during that time, has grown to become a leading Advisory Services firm in the restoration and cleaning industries. In the spirit of watching a company like Violand Management grow and develop over three decades, we thought it would be fun to explore how the restoration industry itself has changed during that time, sometimes for the good and sometimes for the not so good. We also plan to explore what this group feels are the potential future opportunities and where the industry is going. To help us do that, we have asked a group of Violand Executive Summit participants to help us out and have assembled a talented group of industry veterans and savvy rising stars in restoration. It's great to be back at the Violand Executive Summit! The Veterans Lee King -President After Disaster and current RIA Board of Directors member Wes Williams - Founder and President CJB in the Vancouver BC Scott Stamper - CEO Regency DKI and past RIA president Tom Laska - President ICC Restoration Minneapolis, MN The Next Generation of Leaders Chris Yanker - Production Manager Buffalo Restoration in Bozeman, MT Jacelyn Carpenter - CEO Ideal Restoration, San Francisco, CA and RIA board member Grant Nitzche - President SERVPRO of Wheaton, IL Tom McMahon - Senior Project Manager McMahon Restoration Chicago, IL
This week we flashback to a show from 3-28-2008 with Martin L. King, ASA, CR. Unfortunately Mr. King is no longer with us but we feel blessed to have this interview with him. We have cleaned up some audio issues and are thrilled that this fantastic interview will live on many years to come. We are proud to have done this interview and plan on dedicating quite a few future Flashback Fridayâ??s to shows with industry leaders that are unfortunately no longer with us, this is the first in that series. Martin King, ASA, CR was the Restoration Industries Association Technical Adviser for 30 years, where he developed a broad range of restoration procedures and published over 300 articles in trade journals. As the CEO of Martin Churchill Associates, Inc. Damage Investigators and Appraisers Mr. King also investigated and prepared formal reports on over 2000 property damage cases. Marty also taught at the University of Maryland in the Fire Sciences group. Mr. King was the man disaster restoration people went to when nobody else could answer their questions. Donâ??t miss this rare opportunity to hear the â??Dean of Disaster Restorationâ??. Also joining us on this show was The â??Restoration Industries Global Watchdogâ?? Pete Consigli and our Technical Director, Dr. Dietrich Weyel.
This week on IAQ Radio we explore a new credential from the home performance world that is directly related to indoor environmental quality. The Building Performance Institute, has recently established the Healthy Home Evaluator credential to add to their list of credentials available. We look forward to talking about this and other home performance community trends with Larry Zarker and Joe Medosch. Larry Zarker is the CEO of the Building Performance Institute, the professional standards setting and credentialing organization for both the weatherization and home performance contracting industries. He oversees BPI's national network of over 12,000 certified professionals and BPI GoldStar contracting companies. He helped found and served on the Board of Directors of Efficiency First, the trade association for America's home performance workforce. Prior to BPI, he worked for nearly twenty years with the NAHB Research Center and was the Vice President of Marketing for over a decade, serving both the new home and remodeling sectors with innovative product development and research. Joe Medosch - Owner of Energy & Environmental Consulting, LLC and Executive Director of Healthy Home Environment Association. He participated in the development of the BPI HHE credential and is a Healthy Homes Master Trainer. His certifications include: BPI Proctor - Building Analyst & Envelope Professional, Healthy Home Evaluator, Infiltration & Duct Leakage, ICC- Commercial & Residential Energy Inspector / Plans Examiner and Residential Building Inspector.
This week we flashback to a show from 9-26-14 with Richard Corsi, PhD. We had a great series with Dr. Corsi and several of his students. We called the series Research to Practice. This show set up the next three we did with him and his students. It was a great discussion of the challenges and opportunitiescoming for the IAQ world. Richard Corsi, PhD is the Chair & ECH Bantel Professor for Professional Practice Civil, Architectural & Environmental Engineering at The University of Texas at Austin. He earned his Ph.D. in civil engineering from the University of California at Davis in 1989. He joined the faculty of The University of Texas at Austin in 1994. Dr. Corsi researches indoor air quality, including sources and control of indoor air pollution and human exposure to indoor toxins. He has also studied how architectural materials can remove chemicals from building air, offering protection for occupants following terrorist attacks.
This week on IAQ Radio we welcome Rachel Gutter, Chief Product Officer for the International WELL Building Institute. Ms. Gutter joined the International WELL Building Institute in late 2016 as senior vice president, bringing with her a wealth of cross-cutting experience in safer, healthier environments where they matter the most: in school rooms across the globe. She joins IWBI after a nine-year career at the U.S. Green Building Council, where she founded the Center for Green Schools, convening and collaborating with a diverse group of partners, including teachers unions, the National PTA, the Department of Education, the Princeton Review, executives from Fortune 100 companies, and green building councils around the world. Under her direction, the Center published more than 1,000 pages of technical guides and original research, mobilized more than $275 billion in investments in LEED certified educational facilities, and deployed more than half a million volunteers to contribute $50 million in donated time to transform schools and campuses on every continent. In her current role she is helping the International WELL Building Institute continue their development and implementation of the WELL Building Standards. According to the Institute this is the first standard of its kind that focuses solely on the health and wellness of building occupants. WELL identifies 100 performance metrics, design strategies, and policies that can be implemented by the owners, designers, engineers, contractors, users and operators of a building. It is based on a thorough review of the existing research on the effects of spaces on individuals and has been advanced through a thorough scientific and technical review. In order to achieve the requirements of the WELL Building Standard, the space must undergo a process that includes an on-site assessment and performance testing by a third party. Overall, the WELL Building Standard is designed to comprehensively cover the various individual needs of building occupants while also building a common foundation for measuring wellness in the built environment.
This week we flashback to a show from 10-28-16 with William Fisk. This is an interview we have been trying to line up for quite some time and its exciting to have this research giant join us live for the hour. Few have contributed as much to our knowledge of IAQ as Bill and his group at LBL. We look forward to discussing how that research can be better used in practice with the Leader of the LBL Indoor Environment Group. Mr. Fisk is a Sr. Scientist (mechanical engineer) and is the leader of the Indoor Environment Group. He has more than 30 years of experience in research on the interrelated issues of building energy performance, ventilation, indoor environmental quality (IEQ), and occupant health and performance. His research focuses primarily on energy efficient methods of maintaining and improving ventilation and IEQ in commercial buildings and on quantifying the impacts of building ventilation and IEQ on health and performance. He is a fellow of ASHRAE, a member of the Academy of Indoor Air Sciences, and he serves on the editorial board for Indoor Air Journal. He is an author of approximately 100 refereed archival journal articles or book chapters. He has BS and MS degrees in Mechanical Engineering.
Mr. Light holds degrees in Environmental Science from the University of Massachusetts (B.S.) and Marshall University (M.S.), is a Senior Fellow of the American Industrial Hygiene Association, has authored over 40 scientific publications on assessment and control of the indoor environment and has chaired several national scientific committees. In the 1980s, Ed established the West Virginia Department of Health IAQ Program, pioneering efforts to resolve exposure issues related to formaldehyde, asbestos, and termiticides. In the 1990s, he developed widely used protocols for addressing IEQ complaints (published by EPA, NIOSH and ISIAQ) and managing air quality in occupied buildings under construction (for SMACNA, promulgated by ANSI). As a consultant, Ed has directed more than 1000 multi-disciplinary IEQ investigations, ranging from the White House to the South Pole Station. He has been admitted in numerous proceedings as a litigation expert in industrial hygiene.
This week IAQ Radio welcomes Ellen Tohn of Tohn Environmental Strategies. Ms. Tohn is an environmental health consultant with over 30 years of experience. She is a nationally recognized expert in housing based environmental health threats, green and healthy housing, and indoor air quality. Ms. Tohn works with housing developers, owners and managers to create green and healthy housing and developed the nationally recognized â??One Touchâ?? approach. She has assisted health advocates catalyze policy solutions; designed energy efficiency programs incorporating health protections; and managed environmental health research studies. Ms. Tohn served as an advisor on health issues to the US Green Building Councilâ??s LEED program, Enterprise Green Communities, Delos Living, EPA, Department of Energy, Local Initiatives Support Corporation (LISC), and numerous green building programs. Ms. Tohn is a nationally recognized trainer, providing professional development to over 7,000 individuals. She received her BA from Cornell University and a Masters from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). Ms. Tohn is also an Assistant Professor of Practice at the Brown School of Public Health. Home Performance professionals are becoming much more focused on indoor air quality and that focus is a game changer for their industry and possibly the IAQ world.
This week on IAQradio we welcome an All Star cast for a frank discussion on the future of the restoration industry. Our guests were all speakers at last week's 71st International Restoration Convention and Industry Expo in Palm Springs, CA. They all gave important presentations or Keynotes at the Restoration Industry Association's (RIA) annual event. The Town Hall theme for this year's event was "The Future of the Water Damage Restoration Industry" and was facilitated by none other than IAQradio's Restoration Global Watchdog Pete Consigli! The Town Hall was the culmination of one of RIA's convention story line's that included a breakout session moderated by Ken Larsen on the Do's and Don'ts of Rebates, Referral Fees, Comps and Gratuities with Peter Crosa and well known IAQ attorney Michael Bowdoin. Ed Cross was the convention's Day 2 keynote speaker and addressed the RIA members on "The 6 New Legal Points Restorers must Understand to Survive in 2017". Crosa who is the sitting President for the National Association of Independent Insurance Adjusters (NAIIA) presented the Independent Adjusters viewpoint on the Town Hall Panel. Well known industry advocate Ed Cross aka "The Restoration Lawyer" made his case for industry unification through one voice and closed out his Town Hall panel presentation with a message to band together, "Band or Burn" was the reoccurring message! The RTPE program (Registered Third Party Evaluator) recently explained to RIA members at their annual convention in Palm Springs during their Town Hall meeting by Ken Larsen, CR, WLS, CMP may be a solution for contractors who are constantly challenged by TPA's on their scope of work and invoices. Longtime industry activist and RIA supporter Ken Larsen presented his vision for the RTPE program on the RIA Town Hall panel along with Peter Crosa, AIC, RPA and Ed Cross, Esq. Larsen has a 5 part series on the TPE concept that was previewed in the 2017 February issue of Cleaning and Restoration (C&R) magazine. A high point of the RIA annual banquet and awards ceremony was the presentation of C&R's Golden Quill award won this year by IAQradio's own, Cliff "The Z-man" Zlotnik for his article on "Concerns over the Water Restoration Industry". The culmination of the ceremony was the awarding of the association's most prestigious honor, the presentation of the Martin L. King award. The 32nd annual recipient of the Marty King award was Ken Larsen for his years of service and activism to RIA and the industry! Way to go Ken!!
This week we welcome Christine Oliver, MD to the show. Dr. Oliver is President of Occupational Health Initiatives, Inc. in Brookline, MA. She is an Associate Physician in the Department of Medicine (Pulmonary and Critical Care Division) at the Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) and Associate Clinical Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School in Boston. Board certified in occupational medicine and in internal medicine, Dr. Oliver's primary specialty is Occupational and Environmental Medicine, with an emphasis on occupational and environmental lung disease. At the MGH she evaluates and cares for patients with occupational and environmental illness and disease, including occupational asthma, interstitial lung disease, building-related health problems, and chemical sensitivities. Dr. Oliver has done research and published in the area of occupational lung disease and she has testified before the United States Congress with regard to work-related health issues and risks. For the past three decades an important focus of Dr. Oliver's consulting work has been indoor air quality and related health effects. She has lectured and published on this subject and she has been actively involved in indoor air quality assessments in a variety of settings. These include health care facilities, courthouses and other government buildings, schools, and commercial office buildings. Together with industrial hygienists, engineers, and human systems specialists she has worked to identify, characterize, and resolve air quality problems and their related health effects. In 2009 she was a participant and presenter in the ASTM Johnson Conference on the standardization of mold response procedures. An important component of Dr. Oliver's clinical work has been in the area of fragrances and their related health effects, including causation and/or exacerbation of chemical sensitivities. She has lectured on these topics, counseled patients and their families with regard to steps that can be taken to identify and remove fragranced products from their environment, and advocated for a fragrance-free policy in the clinic in which she works
This week on IAQ Radio we welcome John and Lydia Lapotaire. John, together with his wife Lydia, has owned and operated Orlando Florida based Indoor Air Quality Solutions since 2001. John is a Building Envelope & Indoor Environment Consultant specializing in building product failure investigations, forensic water intrusion investigations, and building envelope failure investigations for commercial and residential structures. John and Lydia also provide indoor environmental assessments and mold & odor investigations. John is also the current President of the Indoor Air Quality Association. John and Lydia are Florida Licensed Mold Assessors, Certified Indoor Environmental Consultants CIEC's. They have performed investigations, and forensic diagnostic inspections throughout the mid-West and Eastern United States for both commercial and residential properties. John has served as an expert witness in court cases involving indoor air quality, mold, building envelope failure, building product failure and spray polyurethane foam insulation. He has provided consultation and or testimony in several hundred litigation cases.
This week we are very happy to welcome Tiina Reponen, PhD to IAQ Radio. Dr. Reponen is a Professor in the Department of Environmental Health, College of Medicine at the University of Cincinnati. As an expert in indoor allergens and mold, she served as the principal investigator in several major laboratory and field experiments on airborne allergens, bacteria and fungi and has directed exposure assessment teams in population-based studies. Dr. Reponen is the Director of the NIOSH-funded University of Cincinnati Education and Research Center (ERC), which includes graduate programs related to occupational health from three colleges: Medicine, Nursing and Applied Science and Engineering. She is currently directing two cohort studies. One is focused on the association between indoor bioaerosol exposures and the development of children's allergy and asthma and the other is focused on the effects of green renovation on indoor air quality and occupants' health.
This week we are thrilled to welcome William "Bill" Turner, CEO of Turner Building Science and Design, LLC. He has published and lectured extensively. Bill has 35 years of experience in the implementation of moisture, indoor air quality/HVAC evaluation, energy, and engineering HVAC/building science diagnostic program evaluations in school, commercial, health care, laboratory, residential, and industrial settings. Experience includes energy analysis, HVAC performance, occupant complaints, building science/moisture intrusion evaluations, air monitoring data collection, quality assurance, technical report preparation, forensics/expert witness, and specific recommendations for corrective action. He also contributed to the USEPA/NIOSH Indoor Air Quality Guide and has served as an adviser for several other documents. Mr. Turner works with a group of experienced mechanical engineers and building scientists whose main responsibilities involve conducting indoor air quality, HVAC, energy, and building science evaluations in complaint and non-complaint buildings. He and his staff conduct evaluations nationally and recommend appropriate mitigation/renovation as warranted. Design of corrective measures or evaluation, and design of new sustainable "green" designs are also provided. Join us and LEARN MORE today at noon eastern on IAQ Radio! Special thanks for Christy Crocker at the Maine IAQ Council for helping getting Bill on this show. You can also see him live at the MIAQC sponsored 2016 Northeast Indoor Air Quality & Energy Conference
This week on IAQ Radio we welcome May Dooley, Principal of EnviroHealth Consulting, Inc. of Hummelstown, PA. May started her career as a secondary science teacher prior to going into home inspection and indoor environmental health consulting in the mid 80's. She has now completed over 3,000 residential and commercial IEQ inspections in the Mid-Atlantic and Northeast US. May is one of those people that never stops learning and the list of seminars, conferences and meetings she has attended is impressive. She has dealt with both routine and unusual IEQ issues and we look forward to discussing her interest in what she refers to as electrical pressure and much more. May has an MS in Secondary Science Education from Hofstra University and an MA in English from the State University of New York at Stony Brook.
This week on IAQ Radio we welcome Ritchie C. Shoemaker, M.D. Dr. Shoemaker has been involved in the field of medical evaluation and treatment of patients sickened by exposure to the interior environment of water-damaged buildings for over 18 years. He has diagnosed and treated over 7000 patients; written and published multiple academic papers in peer reviewed literature; as well as three books, with the last published in 2014, State of the Art Answers to 500 Mold Questions, Volume 2. He lectures widely in the US and internationally. Since his medical retirement in January 2013 he has continued research into the basic genomics and brain inflammation effects of exposure. Through his website, www.survivingmold.com, he has trained physicians to certify in his treatment protocols. Dr. Shoemaker last joined us on 1-9-15 Episode 351. We discussed how things were going with his growing the network of doctors trained in his protocol, reviewed some of the foundational information underpinning what he and some colleagues have labeled Chronic Inflammatory Response Syndrome (CIRS) from Water Damaged Buildings (WDB). We also discussed his latest research and use of the NeuroQuant® technology. Dr. Shoemaker and his colleagues have been using brain imaging combined with an FDA cleared software that correlates with symptoms and physiology. Try to listen to Episode 351 before today's show it will help you follow the discussion which can get pretty technical.
The Indoor Environmental Science Forum was held this week in Tampa, Florida. The event included two days of top notch speakers on timely topics including: Assessment and Developing Protocols; Applied Research on Duration and Causation; Risk Management, Legal Issues, Contracts and AOB's; Malodor Complaints; Working with Insurance Companies, TPA's and Remediation Verification/Project Clearance and more. Four of the organizers and speakers will be joining us live today to recap what they learned and discuss where it goes from here. Richard Alexis is a consultant and educator in South Florida, Pete Consigli is the Restoration Industry Global Watchdog and John Lapotaire is an Orlando Consultant and the IAQA President. Peter Crosa is a independent assurance adjuster and current president of the National Independent Insurance Adjusters Association NAIAA.
This week on IAQ Radio we welcome Paul Francisco. Paul Francisco runs the Indoor Climate Research & Training group at the Applied Research Institute of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He does both research & training on issues related to home performance. His research focuses on indoor air quality and energy efficiency, emphasizing field measurements. His training focuses on teaching practitioners building diagnostics and health & safety. Paul has also been a trainer in Building Diagnostics for the Illinois Home Weatherization Assistance Program. He has done extensive work on curriculum development for weatherization workers and does research on energy efficiency and indoor air quality issues in existing homes. He aims to be a bridge between research and practice. He is also the current chair of ASHRAE's Standard 62.2, Ventilation and Acceptable Indoor Air Quality in Residential Buildings. Mr. Francisco has a BSME from the University of Delaware and an MSME University of Washington.
This week on IAQ Radio we will continue our discussion of a topic that we have been focused on for several years now. Why aren't more researchers and practitioners working together to give better guidance to those working in the field? Every year at the Healthy Building Summit the IAQ Radio team and IAQ Training Institute, LLC sponsor research that is designed to answer important questions about assessment and remediation of indoor environments. There are a few researchers trying to help but there is not enough cooperation. Individuals and some companies are also doing important research but its often times designed to show their product works and not to benefit the industry. Today we will discuss, what type of engineering controls work best for particle reduction during indoor environmental remediation? How do these engineering controls affect other IAQ parameters? How quickly do engineering controls reduce particulate? Do particle counts, spore traps and other optical particle recognition methods match up? What is the best way to determine when a project is complete? Join us for the discussion today at noon eastern.
This week on IAQ Radio we get a rundown of the highlights from the IAQA 20th Annual Meeting with Radio Joe and IAQA Past-President Don Weekes, CIH, CSP. Earlier this week the Indoor Air Quality Association (IAQA) held their 20th Annual Meeting in conjunction with the ASHRAE AHR Expo in Las Vegas, NV. Radio Joe spoke, attended sessions and interviewed members and speakers. He and IAQA Past-President Don Weekes will discuss what's new and what they learned at this year's event.
This week on IAQ Radio we welcome Sarah Elizabeth Kwan. Sarah Kwan is a Ph.D. candidate and NSF Graduate Research Fellow in the Peccia Environmental Biotechnology Laboratory at Yale University. She also received her M.S and Ph.M. in Environmental Engineering from Yale. For her dissertation she has been investigating the correlation of indoor air pollution in homes & schools of the Cherokee Nation with asthma prevalence, allergy rates, & school absenteeism. As part of this research she has been conducting research on The Impact of Ventilation & Cleaning Intervention on the Indoor Microbiology of the Built Environment along with other projects we will discuss this week. Ms. Kwan received her BS Degree in Environmental Engineering at the University of California, Riverside CA and a BA in Interior Design at Surrey Institute of Art & Design in Surrey, UK (now known as the University for the Creative Arts). In addition to her academic research Ms. Kwan has done field work as an Interior Designer for IKEA, an Interior Architect at tBP Architecture in Newport Beach CA where she worked alongside LEED certified architects to design sustainable education buildings, and as a Physical Science Technician at the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), Clean Energy & Climate Change Office (CECL) & Air Quality Analysis Office in San Francisco. Her varied background along with her skills in Chemical/Biological Analysis and skills in programming and software make her a valued fixture in the Peccia Lab. She is a rare commodity as a researcher with real world practical experience. Join us and at noon eastern to LEARN MORE about the Microbiology of the Built Environment and more this week on IAQ Radio!
This week on IAQ Radio we welcome Jacques Touillon. Jacques Touillon is co-founder and CEO of Airboxlab, creators of the Foobot smart indoor air quality monitor. He worked in environmental communication for many years, but co-founded the company after watching his own son, who suffers from asthma, struggle to breathe in his own home. Now the company protects building occupants from pollutants by sending friendly alerts to consumers, integrating directly with smart devices to automate IAQ, and giving contractors a real-time view of a client's air pollutants, temperature and humidity via a detailed contractor dashboard. Join us today and LEARN MORE about the latest craze in the IAQ world. These units are not going away and should make consumers more knowledgeable about their indoor environment. How will this affect your work in the IAQ, disaster restoration and buildings science world?
Cliff Cooper is an industrial hygienist, health and safety manager, forensic investigator and IAQ consultant. Mr. Cooper designs auditable Environmental, Occupational Health and Safety Programs which meet program requirements under US OSHA, US EPA, US DOT, ISO 14001, ISO 9001, OHSAS 18001, JCAHO, ASHRAE, and GBCI LEED. He is an experienced investigator for chemical safety, biological safety, quantitative exposure assessment, process health & safety, process ventilation and negative/positive pressure rooms design and testing. Mr. Cooper carries out work hazard assessments, health and safety plans (HASPs), Quality Assurance Project Plans (QAPPs), Community Protection Plans, and Health and Safety RTK employee and community training programs. Mr. Cooper's interests include design, commissioning and operation of building ventilation and forensic investigation of environmental factors associated with human well being in indoor environments. Mr. Cooper teaches building science and sustainable building professional development courses. He is a qualified Sustainability Consultant and has contributed on a number of LEED building projects including LEED NC, LEED CI, LEED Homes, and LEED EBOM. Mr. Cooper currently serves on the Board of Directors of the NY Upstate Chapter of the US Green Building Council.
This week we welcome Mr. Phil Green owner of Green Remodeling, LLC dba Advantaclean of Madison County and Green Home Solutions. Phil is a military veteran having served 6 years in the Coast Guard. He has 30 years of experience in the construction trades as a carpenter, electrician, and HVAC technician. He has been superintendent of million-dollar construction projects and is an adjunct professor at Southwestern IL College teaching in the technical education department. In his role as co-owner of AdvantaClean of Madison County, he provides guidance and advice in the overall management of the company. He became interested in pursuing a franchise with AdvantaClean while researching ways to expand Green Home Solutions. AdvantaClean's service offerings and company culture was a great addition to the services already being offered by Green Home Solutions. Phil has been in the field for over 30 years and has an interesting story to tell. Franchises, green construction, radon, IAQ, mold, fire and water damage restoration are part of his daily life lets's LEARN MORE this week on IAQ Radio!
We have a very special show today with a special guest that is joining us to get some important thoughts on the record. Brian has been a guest and more importantly a tremendous supporter of our show. We appreciate his long time support, friendship and advice over the years. He is the kind of guy that helps make you appreciate every day that you wake up and can continue to affect positive change around you. Our Canadian friend will be joined by his friend and colleague Mr. Joe Kokinda from the great state of Ohio! Brian Baker is owner of Custom Vac Limited of Winnipeg, Manitoba. Mr. Baker has been in the HVAC and IAQ industry for almost 40 years and is a huge education advocate. His list of training and certifications is extensive as is his hands on experience in this industry. We got to know Brian through his passion for IAQ Radio and realized he has something special to offer our listeners. Knowledge of HVAC is vital to evaluating IAQ issues and very few have Mr. Baker's combination of experience and education. Brian taught HVACR related courses for the Refrigeration Service Engineers Society (RSES) Winnipeg Chapter. In 2009 he opened Westech Energy Training Center where he currently teaches 5th Class Power Engineering, Preparation for Residential HVACR, Refrigerant Handling Certification, and manages the education/training for RSES Winnipeg Chapter via an on-line Internet delivery platform. Joseph Allan Kokinda, President/CEO of Professional HVAC/R Services Inc. of Avon, OH. Mr. Kokinda has 41 years of involvement in Marine, Industrial and Commercial Mechanical Trades. He is a licensed as a Master Refrigerant and/or Mechanical Contractor in six states. Joe started his mechanical career in 1975 with the US Navy on the USS Independence. Since then he has worked his way through various positions at several companies, in 2006 he opened Professional HVAC/R Services in Avon, OH. Professional has offered refrigeration and HVAC service for all Dollar Tree locations in Ohio, as well as other local restaurants and businesses. Since 2006 Professional has been installing pre-charged and remote refrigeration equipment for existing and new Dollar Tree stores, Family Dollar stores, and other entities throughout the Midwest. LEARN MORE this week on IAQ Radio!
This week we put my co-host in the guest seat to talk about odor control issues. Cliff Zlotnik has been helping people deal with odor problems for over 30 years. Our Technical Director Dr. Dietrich Weyel is back and we may have a surprise guest as well.
This week we welcome one of the top IAQ researchers in the world William "Bill" Nazaroff, PhD. Dr. Nazaroff is a Daniel Tellep Distinguished Professor at the University of California Berkeley and has served as a Faculty Senior Scientist at Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory. His research centers on air quality engineering, emphasizing two themes: pollutant dynamics in indoor air and exposure science. On the first, his primary interest is to better understand the physics and chemistry that control the concentrations, fates, and effects of pollutants in indoor environments. On the second topic, he and his group apply basic knowledge about air pollutants to build a quantitative and mechanistic understanding of the relationship between emissions from sources and consequent human exposures. His group pursues research through a combination of laboratory and field experiments, modeling, and data analysis. In recent years, in addition to maintaining vigorous activities in the two primary areas, he has had a growing concern about and interest in the themes of sustainability, climate change, and energy-use efficiency. He has recently been pursuing research opportunities in these newer thematic areas, especially when opportunities arise that intersect with his primary research themes.
This week on IAQ Radio we have finally synced schedules and welcome Dr. Glenn Morrison. Dr. Morrison is a professor of Civil, Architectural and Environmental Engineering at the Missouri University of Science and Technology. Dr. Morrison graduated with his PhD from the University of California, Berkeley in 1999 after working for 6 years as a chemical engineer in research and development of catalysts. Has over 25 years of chemical and environmental engineering experience, most of that focusing on chemistry and transport phenomena in indoor environments. An NSF Career award winner and the current President of the International Society of Indoor Air Quality and Climate, his research has included ozone surface chemistry, building forensics, sensor development, pollutant movement in buildings, aerosol transport of SVOCs, exposure implications of smog reactions with human surfaces and hair, methamphetamine contamination of residences, design of indoor surfaces for improved air quality and related projects. He has been responsible for over $2.8 M in research funding from NSF, EPA, NIST, NIOSH, the California Air Resources Board, Missouri Research Board and the Green Building Council. He and his students have published over 100 peer-reviewed journal articles, conference papers and reports. We will ask to discuss the major themes and some specific presentations he attended at Healthy Buildings America 2015 and we want to discuss the current emphasis on SVOCâ??s plus much more with one of the most prolific IEQ researchers in the country. LEARN MORE this week on IAQ Radio!
This week on IAQ Radio we welcome energy efficiency and building science expert Linda Wigington. Through her company, Linda M. Wigington Associates, is involved in initiatives to evaluate and redefine the process, scope, and value of residential energy reductions. She is demonstrating the feasibility of achieving deep reductions (beyond 70%) in existing dwellings through North American Thousand Home Challenge. Some listeners may know her better as being the founder of and being associated with the Affordable Comfort Conference from its inception in 1986, (when she worked for ACTION-Housing), through 2013. As program director, she convened the program committees and confirmed the agendas for over 50 North American and regional conferences. These events have been instrumental in promoting an integrated approach to health, safety, durability, and energy performance. Linda has also been a technical consultant for residential utility programs. She was a founding member of the Passive House Institute U.S. (PHIUS) board of directors (2009) and is a board member of Community Solutions based in Yellow Springs, OH, and Cornerstone Care, a community health center serving several counties in southwestern PA. She has led the Reducing Outdoor Contaminants in Indoor Air ROCIS initiative since its inception in June 2014, and the ROCIS Low Cost Monitoring Project since it began in September 2015. . In the past Linda served as an advisor for Habitat for Humanity International's Green Team and is currently on the Editorial Board of Home Energy magazine. She received the American Council for an Energy Efficient Economy's 2002 Champion of Energy Efficiency Award. LEARN MORE with Linda Wigington this week on IAQ Radio!
This week on IAQ Radio we welcome Ken Larsen, CR, WLS, CSDS for Part 3 of our Industry Education and Certification series. Jim Pemberton joined us on 9-23-16 for Part 1 and Lisa Wagner joined us on 10-7-16 for Part 2. This week we wrap it up and put a bow on it with Mr. Larsen. The discussion has centered around how to make industry education more credible and valuable for those in the field and for their employers who are paying the freight. Check out parts 1 & 2 at the links above and then join us live as we wrap things up live at noon today. As a bonus joining us for "The Roundup" will be the Restoration Industry Global Watchdog, Pete Consigli. Ken Larsen, CR, WLS, CSDS has been in the restoration industry since 1978. He holds RIA, ACAC and IICRC advanced designations. His career includes 18 years as an independent property restoration contractor, consultant to restorative drying during catastrophes and large loss drying coordination, expert witness, Director of Education for North America's largest disaster restoration contracting organization, and now the author of one of the industry's leading technical resource book on the subject of structural restorative drying - Leadership in Restorative Drying. He is currently an IICRC Approved instructor of WRT, ASD and CDS certificate courses. Larsen is also a RIA instructor of the restoration industry's advanced certification credentials: Water Loss Specialist (WLS) and Certified Restorer (CR). He serves as Chairman for RIA approved Instructors, Trainers and Subject Matter Experts, a sub-committee of RIA's Education Committee. Larsen presently serves as Senior Technical Director for the International Dry Standard Organization (IDSO) and Director of Education for the Restoration Leadership Institute (RLI) and lead consultant for the Restoration Expert Panel (REP). Ken lives with his wife Barbie (yes - really!) in Santa Rosa Beach in Northwest Florida. He can be contacted at ken@drystandard.org.
This week we welcome William "Bill" Fisk to IAQ Radio. This is an interview we have been trying to line up for quite some time and its exciting to have this research giant join us live for the hour. Few have contributed as much to our knowledge of IAQ as Bill and his group at LBL. We look forward to discussing how that research can be better used in practice with the Leader of the LBL Indoor Environment Group. Mr. Fisk is a Sr. Scientist (mechanical engineer) and is the leader of the Indoor Environment Group. He has more than 30 years of experience in research on the interrelated issues of building energy performance, ventilation, indoor environmental quality (IEQ), and occupant health and performance. His research focuses primarily on energy efficient methods of maintaining and improving ventilation and IEQ in commercial buildings and on quantifying the impacts of building ventilation and IEQ on health and performance. He is a fellow of ASHRAE, a member of the Academy of Indoor Air Sciences, and he serves on the editorial board for Indoor Air Journal. He is an author of approximately 100 refereed archival journal articles or book chapters. He has BS and MS degrees in Mechanical Engineering.
This week on IAQ Radio we welcome Penn State Professor and ASHRAE Past President William P. Bahnfleth, Ph.D., P.E. We last interviewed Dr. Bahnfleth in July of 2015 on Episode 335. Our first interview was not not long after the ASHRAE, IAQA merger and we spent a good bit of time on that topic. This time around we want to discuss some highlights from the recent ASHRAE IAQ 2016 Conference and Dr. Bahnfleths extensive knowledge and research on UVGI. We also want to discuss the IEQ Global Alliance and of course how things are look over a year into the ASHRAE, IAQA merger. Bill Bahnfleth is a professor and director of the Indoor Environment Center in the Department of Architectural Engineering at The Pennsylvania State University-University Park. He holds a doctorate in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and is a Registered Professional Engineer. He has more than 30 years of experience as a consulting engineer, researcher and educator. Dr. Bahnfleth has been a member of ASHRAE since 1981 and in addition to being Past President he is an ASHRAE Fellow and Distinguished Lecturer.
This week we welcome Lisa Wagner "The Rug Chick" to IAQ Radio. Lisa is a smart women who is known for telling it like it is. She is a 2nd generation rug cleaner and industry trainer. She is passionate about industry training and is committed to improving it. Join us at noon eastern time when Lisa Wagner discusses industry education and ways to make it better with Cliff "Z-Man" Zlotnik and RadioJoe Hughes
This week on IAQ Radio the Z-Man welcomes Jim Pemberton to discuss industry education issues. Jim has been involved in the cleaning and restoration industry for 37 years. He is a 2nd generation industry trainer who is passionate about industry training and is committed to improving it. Jim Pemberton grew up working in his father's cleaning and restoration business, is a 2nd generation industry trainer and is President of Pembertons Cleaning and Restoration Supplies. Jim has been training cleaners throughout the US and Canada since 1979, has been a featured presenter at many industry events, has contributed articles to leading trade journals and is recognized as a "master of most things textile". Join them at noon eastern time today when Cliff "Z-Man" Zlotnik and Jim Pemberton discuss industry education and suggest ways to make it better.
This week we welcome Don Weekes, CIH, CSP and Stephanie Sears, MBA, PMP, CMP to IAQ Radio. Most listeners know Don as a regular guest and Past President of IAQA. Stephanie joined early this year along with ASHRAE President David Underwood and IAQA Past President Kent Rawhauser to review the ASHRAE/IAQA Conference in Orlando, Florida. This week we look forward to discussing how IEQ issues in the US and the rest of the world are the same and how they differ. We also want to learn from Stephanie about the IAQA Strategic Plan for moving forward now that the merger is complete. Don has been traveling around the world for conferences and presentations for years now, Stephanie had extensive international experience in her previous positions. They are both recently returning from India where a new IAQA Chapter was set up. We look forward to this opportunity to LEARN MORE about IEQ Around the World and the IAQA Strategic Direction this week on IAQ Radio. Donald Weekes, CIH is InAIR Environmental's Certified Industrial Hygienist and has been providing environmental and occupational health and safety assistance for more than 35 years. He is affiliated with the American Industrial of Hygiene Association (AIHA) as past Chair of the Indoor Environmental Quality Committee and as a Fellow of the Association. He is a four-time recipient of the AIHA's Best Seller award for the 'Report of the Microbial Task Force' in 2001 and 2002, the 'Assessment, Remediation and Post-Remediation Verification of Mold in Buildings' publication in 2004, and the Green Book, aka 'Recognition, Evaluation and Control of Indoor Mold, book in 2008. Stephanie Sears is currently the serving as the executive director for the Indoor Air Quality Association (IAQA). As the Association's Executive Director, Sears serves as the primary liaison to IAQA's Board of Directors, coordinating projects between IAQA's 2,500 volunteers and eight staff. Prior to IAQA, Sears was at Equifax, where she served as the Director of Global Operations Business Planning and Analysis since 2013. Prior to Equifax, she spent 10 years at the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME).
It's hard to believe that ten years have gone by and IAQ Radio continues to provide education and communication for IAQ, Disaster Restoration and Building Science communities. While preparing for our tenth anniversary we have spent a great deal of time going back through the archives and discussing the fantastic guests we have had over the years. This week for the Ten Year Anniversary Show we plan to look at how much things have changed and/or stayed the same during ten years of IAQ Radio. We will also discuss what the future looks like and get the thoughts of some of our regular guests who will call in and give their perspective. We started ten years ago with the following description on the Talkshoe website. This is the place where the world discusses indoor air quality, the built environment and disaster restoration issues. Every Friday at noon ET the show is live. The shows host are Joe Hughes, President of IAQ Training Institute and Cliff Zlotnik, President Emeritus of Microban Systems. Every week we interview experts from the indoor air quality, building sciences and disaster restoration industry. As instructors for IAQ and disaster restoration training programs and active participants in industry associations we have the credibility and contacts necessary to bring top industry experts as guests on the show every week. The show is designed to help promote education and communication for industry professionals and consumers in need of assistance with IAQ, built environment and disaster restoration issues. We THANK our listeners and hope you all feel we have been true to that description for all these years!
While preparing for our tenth anniversary we have spent a great deal of time going back through the archives and discussing the fantastic guests we have had over the years. One name that stands out is J. David Miller, PhD. Radio Joe saw Dr. Miller speak and spent some time talking to him at the Microbiology of the Built Environment Conference in Boulder CO. His presentation was one that every IAQ, mold and disaster restoration professional should hear. Professor Miller joins us us this week, listen in and LEARN MORE this week on IAQ Radio! Dr. Miller received his secondary education at the University of New Brunswick, before studying at the University of Portsmouth in England, where he was also a NATO Science Postdoctoral Fellow. He began his post-university career at Agriculture Canada in 1982, and became head of the Fusarium mycotoxin program in 1988. He became a Professor & NSERC Research Chair at Carleton University in 2000. From 1999-2008, he was a visiting scientist and science advisor in the air health effects section of Health Canada. His work involves the development of methods to assess exposure to determinants of respiratory health in indoor environments and on fungal toxins in food and feed. Dr. Miller has published 300 papers on fungi and fungal toxins and has co-written 9 books on the public health aspects of exposures to fungi, and has several patents. He has served on many national and international committees on mold and dampness in the built environment. Currently he serves on the American Academy of Allergy Asthma & Immunology committee that produces practice parameters for environmental allergens.
This week we are back live with some great clips from ten years of IEQ and building science shows on IAQ Radio. Radio Joe will be playing the clips and commenting live as we gear up for our ten year anniversary show on September 9th. While preparing for that show we wanted to go back and see how things have changed and how much has stayed the same. Radio Joe went into the archives and pulled up some memorable clips from our unbelievable list of guests over the past ten years. The sheer volume of information made it hard to decide what clips to include so if anyone of your favorites is missing let us know and we will include them in a future show. Cliff will be doing this in the future for restoration shows.
Dr Jack A Gilbert earned his Ph.D. from Unilever and Nottingham University, UK in 2002, and received his postdoctoral training at Queens University, Canada. He subsequently returned to the UK in 2005 to Plymouth Marine Laboratory at a senior scientist until his move to Argonne National Laboratory and the University of Chicago in 2010. Dr Gilbert is Group Leader for Microbial Ecology at Argonne National Laboratory, Associate Professor in the Department of Ecology and Evolution and the Department of Surgery at University of Chicago, Associate Director of the Institute of Genomic and Systems Biology, and Senior Scientist at the Marine Biological Laboratory. Dr. Gilbert uses molecular analysis and sequencing tools to test fundamental hypotheses in ARgone National Labmicrobial ecology. He has authored more than 160 peer reviewed publications and book chapters on metagenomics and approaches to ecosystem ecology (www.gilbertlab.com). He is currently working on generating observational and mechanistic models of microbial communities in natural, urban, built and human ecosystems. He is on the board of the Genomic Standards Consortium is a section editor for PLoS ONE and senior editor for the ISME Journal and Environmental Microbiology. Among other projects, he leads the Earth Microbiome Project Home Microbiome Project Hospital Microbiome Project and co-founded American Gut. In 2014 he was recognized on Crainâ??s Buisness Chicagoâ??s 40 Under 40 List. Dr. Gilbert was mentioned in a few interviews recently when we got into discussions on the microbiome of the built environment. He is a prolific researcher and speaker we are thrilled to have been able to schedule him this week.
The most recent edition of the IICRC Journal of Cleaning, Restoration & Inspection included two articles about the state of the water damage restoration industry. The article "Concerns over the State of the Water Damage Restoration Industry" by Cliff Zlotnik detailed the history of water damage restoration and provided a fascinating critique of the foundation behind the IICRC Applied Structural Drying certification and its subsequent incorporation into the IICRC S500 Standard and Reference Guide for Professional Water Damage Restoration. The article by Ken Larsen Unintended Consequences of In-Place Drying and the ANSI/IICRC S500 re-enforced and added to the critique by Zlotnik. These articles have got people thinking and have lead to a great deal of positive feedback to the authors and "The Journal's" editor John Downey. This week on IAQ Radio we have all the key players joining us along with a few people that commented on the articles. We also have frequent IAQ Radio contributor and The Global Restoration Industry Watchdog Pete Consigli. These articles question some of the foundation of a multi-billion dollar industry and a commonly used drying process.
We are back live with Mark Hernandez, PhD, PE this week on IAQ Radio. Our focus will be the Microbiology of the normal and water damaged built environment. Dr. Mark Hernandez received all his degrees, and did a post-doctoral tenure in the Civil and Environmental Engineering Department at the University of Colorado at Boulder. After several years of civil engineering practice, he joined the University of Colorado faculty in 1996, where he is now a full professor. Dr. Hernandez is a registered professional engineer, and an expert on the quantitation and remediation of bioaerosols; a generation of his research lies in characterizing the biological aspects of air pollution - both indoors and out. With respect to environmental investigations, his aerobiology characterization work has focused on large scale disasters including bioaerosols generated by major metropolitan floods. Dr. Hernandez's research group is based in an environmental microbiology laboratory, which houses the largest bioaerosol chamber in the United States, with full environmental controls. Since it's commissioning, this laboratory has been active in aerobiology research supported by the National Science Foundation, the National Institutes of Health (CDC/NIOSH), the US EPA and various private and public companies. Dr. Hernandez was a recent recipient of a Lindbergh Foundation Environmental award and a National Science Foundation's Early Career award for bioaerosol research.
Please join us to talk about building science issues with Mr. Andy Ask, PE and Consulting Engineer. Andy has forgotten more about building science than most people know. What is HARM? Why does HVAC so commonly cause IAQ problems? What have been the biggest changes in the field of building science? This week also will include segments with Dr. Dietrich Weyel.
This week we go back to the archives and replay a favorite from 1-15-16 with Max Sherman, PhD. Max is a Senior Scientist at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory with over 30 years of experience in building physics. He has a Ph.D. in Physics from Berkeley and is an international expert in air leakage, HVAC, indoor air quality, infiltration, moisture, energy efficiency, and related topics. He is a well-regarded member of ASHRAE having served on the Board of Directors and many technical positions and is currently a Distinguished Lecturer; he is a recipient of ASHRAE's Exceptional Service Award and ASHRAE's highest technical award as a Holladay Distinguished Fellow. He has also been elected a Fellow of the International Society of Indoor Air Quality and Climate (ISIAQ). He represents the United States on International Energy Agency tasks such as the Air Infiltration and Ventilation Center. He serves on national and international committees and editorial boards and does outside consulting. LEARN MORE this week on IAQ Radio!
This week IAQ Radio will be flashing back to January 21, 2011 for a show we did with Mark J. Mendell, PhD. of the Lawrence Berkeley Lab and the California Dept. of Health. When looking back at shows to replay this one stood out so we remixed the sound, tweaked a few things and will replay it today. Mark Mendell, Ph.D., is currently a Staff Scientist/Epidemiologist in the Indoor Environment Group at EETD, and an Air Pollution Research Specialist at the California Department of Public Health. Dr. Mendell is on the editorial board of the journal Indoor Air and a member of the International Academy of Indoor Air Sciences. He was formerly at the Centers for Disease Control/National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health, where he was head of the National Occupational Research Agenda Team on Indoor Environments. Dr. Mendell holds a BA from Cornell University; a Bachelor of Landscape Architecture from the University of Oregon; and a PhD in epidemiology from the University of California at Berkeley, School of Public Health. Dr. Mendell has worked for 20 years in the field of environmental epidemiology, focused on health effects related to indoor environments in buildings. His work includes field research to help understand relationships between specific factors and conditions in buildings and health effects in occupants, and critical reviews of the literature that summarize what we know, how well we know it, and what we do not know, about specific environment/health relationships in buildings. His research interests include health risks associated with buildings, ventilation systems, moisture, and microbial growth; effects of indoor environments in schools on health and performance of students, and effects of indoor chemical exposures in residences on asthma and allergies. LEARN MORE about indoor environments and the health effects related to mold and moisture this week on IAQ Radio!
This week on IAQ Radio we welcome John Lapotaire who just last month became President of the Indoor Air Quality Association (IAQA). IAQA has had its ups and downs recently and we look forward to hearing from him about the strategic vision for the future. We also want to hear more about his thoughts on Florida's mold licensing program and the state of the IAQ and mold industry in general. John has an outspoken opinions on these and other issues we look forward to the interview. John, together with his wife Lydia, have owned and operated Orlando, Florida based Indoor Air Quality Solutions, since 2001. John is a Building Envelope & Indoor Environment Consultant specializing in building product failure investigations, forensic water intrusion investigations, and building envelope failure investigations for commercial and residential structures. John and his wife Lydia also provide indoor environmental assessments and mold & odor investigations. John has presented to many professional organizations on subjects that include Spray Polyurethane Foam Insulation, Building Envelope Failures Investigations, Indoor Environmental Assessments, Green Building and IAQ, LEED Buildings and IAQ, and Reducing VOC's in New Construction. In addition to being the new IAQA President, John has volunteered on committees for the AIHA, NAHB, USGBC, ACAC and NADCA. LEARN MORE this week on IAQ Radio!
This week we flash back to a tremendous show we did in early 2013 with Janet E. Stout, PhD. Dr. Stout is director of Special Pathogens Laboratory, and a research associate professor at the University of Pittsburgh Swanson School of Engineering in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering. A clinical and environmental microbiologist, Dr. Stout is internationally recognized for more than 30 years of pioneering research in Legionella. Credited as the first to demonstrate the link between Legionnaires disease and the presence of Legionella in hospital water systems, her seminal discovery in 1982, shifted the focus from cooling towers to water distributions systems as the primary source for Legionnaires disease. This changed the direction of research and expanded the water treatment industrys approach to controlling Legionella. Since then, Dr. Stout has evaluated every major Legionella disinfection technology used today. An advocate for prevention, Dr. Stout was instrumental in developing the first U.S. prevention strategy for hospital-acquired Legionnairesdisease in 1993. Later adopted by the Veterans Health Administration and others, the guideline continues to serve as a national model for Legionella prevention. In addition to Dr. Stouts numerous research articles published in major medical and scientific peer-reviewed publications, she co-authors the Legionella chapter in Hospital Epidemiology and Infection Control , Harrisons Principles of Internal Medicine, and the Manual of Clinical Microbiology. Active in scientific and professional associations, Dr. Stout serves on the Legionella standard committee for the Cooling Technology Institute and on the American Society of Heating, Refrigerating and Air Conditioning Engineers committees for Legionella Guideline 12 and the ASHRAE Legionella standard. LEARN MORE this week on IAQ Radio!
This week on IAQ Radio we will be discussing tools of the trade for IAQ and Energy professionals and an interesting comparison of home IAQ monitors. Our guests are Bill Spohn, PE President of TruTech Tools, LTD and Nate Adams of Energy Smart Home Performance. Bill works every day determining which tools of the trade his customers need and Nate is in the field plus has produced a recent paper on home IAQ monitors. The two of them will make for a great tag team to discuss the topic. Bill Spohn has designed, marketed and sold a wide array of test and measurement products in the last twenty-five years. He was design-engineering manager at Bacharach, Inc. for 10 years and HVAC Product Marketing Manager at Testo, Inc. for 10 years. Since 2009, he has managed and is now President, CEO and majority owner of TruTech Tools, LTD. He regularly presents technically complex topics to a wide range of audiences on the applications of testing and measurement instrumentation in building science, weatherization, and HVACR. He has worked on BPI, RESNET, GAMA, AHRI, OMA, RSES, NATE, and ACCA Technical Committees,and holds three US patents in instrumentation design. He also consults in instrumentation design,development and application along with expert witness work on HVAC equipment, heat exchanger, carbon monoxide and related issues. Bill is majority owner of www.TruTechTools.com and runs a consulting business, William P. Spohn, LLC, which engages in HVACR Expert Witness work, technical education and e-commerce consulting. Bill's BS & MS in Mechanical Engineering are from the University Of Rochester. Nate Adams is the founder of Energy Smart Home Performance outside Cleveland Ohio. Energy Smart started out as an insulation contractor for existing homes, but has evolved into doing Comprehensive Home Performance retrofits. Their projects are somewhere between a simple attic insulation job and a deep energy retrofit.These projects are sweeping in scope with thorough planning process and careful attention paid to what problems the client wants to solve, what the house needs, and what fits within the homeowner budget. No two projects are alike.Through substantial air tightness and insulation upgrades, and sometimes HVAC replacement, homes are made far more comfortable. Nate became concerned that they weren't always far more healthy. Over the last two years he has dug into how his work affects the Indoor Air Quality of client homes and is beginning to draw some conclusions. He has recently completed a comparison of seven new or newer consumer grade Indoor Air Quality testing devices, and has found several of them useful in his practice. They are particularly useful for before and after studies as well as continuous optimization, which is making small adjustments to deliver better comfort and healthier conditions for clients. LEARN MORE this week on IAQ Radio!
This week IAQ Radio will be flashing back to December 9, 2011 for a show we did with Jean Cox-Ganser, Ph.D. Dr. Cox-Ganser is the Research Team leader for the Field Studies Branch, Division of Respiratory Disease Studies, NIOSH. For the past 15 years she has been a principal investigator for research studies on the respiratory health effects of dampness and mold in office buildings and schools, and is author or co-author on over 20 peer-reviewed publications, book chapters and reports resulting from this research. From 2002-2005 she was Team leader of the NIOSH National Occupational Research Agenda Indoor Environment Team. In 2009-2010 she was a member of the International Scientific committee for ASHRAE's IAQ 2010 Conference - Airborne Infection Control - Ventilation, IAQ and Energy, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. She was also a member of the Conference Scientific advisory group for the 6th International Scientific Conference on Bioaerosols, Fungi, Bacteria, Mycotoxins in Indoor and Outdoor Environments and Human Health, September 6-9, 2011 - Saratoga Springs, New York.
This week IAQ Radio returns to the Violand Executive Summit to do a live show for the third year in a row. The folks at Violand have lined up a great group of young business owners that are doing big things in the restoration world. We will interview these "Young Guns" and see what is helping them be successful in a tough industry during a difficult time. Join us to LEARN MORE this week on IAQ Radio! Joining us will be: Josh and Justin Tubero's company is Alliance Disaster Kleenup, Wheeling IL. We understand that they couldn't be any more different and work together exceptionally well as owners to run an extremely efficient and profitable company. Their company was recently rated as one of the top 100 companies to work for in their state. Dean Stamper - Regency DKI, Michigan. is the son of a well-known and accomplished person in restoration. We all learn from our mistakes. One of the hardest things for a parent or boss to do, is to stand-by and watch as someone less experienced makes the same mistakes the older or more experienced person made. Zach Reets - Is a member of a well-known family in the industry, Zach runs Champion Cleaning Services. Katie Smith - Is a 2nd Generation owner of PHC Restoration in North Carolina. She and Josh Smith are the only husband/wife Certified Restorers in the world. She serves on the board of RIA, chairs the RIA Membership Committee, and is current President of MSPCA. Mitch Caron - General Manager of his family's large WINMAR franchise. Mitch is a rising star in the industry and a leader in both RIA's Young Restorers Council and Canadian Council. Shawn Folks - Shawn is a 2nd generation owner of Guaranteed Restoration in Baton Rouge. Formerly the largest STOP Franchise in the country, Shawn has taken the company independent and continues to grow the business at an impressive rate. Jocelyn Dornfield - Is the Manager at A&J Restoration, Kent Rawhouser the owner, contributes much of his company's current success to her efforts. She is also serving on the RIA's Young Restorers Council, is the brains and brawn behind the Restoring Kindness movement, and recently launched her own social media marketing company called Three65 Marketing to help restoration companies with their marketing efforts. Jarrett Dixon and his wife Whitney founded and have run Master Restoration in Clearwater, Florida since 2008 and have built an extremely impressive company focused on highly trained employees and a dedication to customer service. Dayron Rodriquez - Cuban immigrant who escaped to this country with nothing (and I mean nothing) and is in the process of building an impressive cleaning and restoration company. He started with no capital and limited English. He is now killing it in the Louisville, KY market. This is an American success story. He owns Rodriquez Cleaning Services. Matt Hensley - Manager at Total Restoration Services in Indianapolis. Total Restoration is a very fast growing and extremely well-run company that has several 30 and under sharp individuals at high levels within the organization. Matt serves on the Young Restorers group of RIA and will be a leader in this industry for a long time. Indianapolis is a competitive market for restoration services. Alissa Nitzsche - Her and her husband Grant own one of the fastest growing ServPro franchises in the country. They were completely new to restoration when they started and figured out the game really quick. Joe Donley - Was about to take over the family business when his father passed and the company fell apart. He and his wife had to start over completely new with a brand new company. They have spent the last several years building from the ground up and made Claria Clean into a restoration leader in the St. Louis market. Clifford Stratton II - Owner of Regent Restoration DKI in Dallas TX. His father is in the construction business in San Antonio but Clifford has built this company on his own. He is young and aggressive and his company continues to double in size every year. He is a firm believer in Executive Development and training. Construction is in your blood. Blake Moak and his wife Jillian of Century Construction are crushing it in Houston. They are DKI and Contractor Connections members and recently purchased a ServiceMaster franchise in San Antonio. Their entire team is under 40. These guys are taking restoration by storm.
This week Radio Joe is live from beautiful Boulder Colorado and Colorado University at the 5th SLOAN Microbiology of the Built Environment Conference. The conference is a gathering of the leading researchers in the world that study the microbiome of the built environment. A diverse group of scientists from around the world have been meeting for the past five years to present their findings and collaborate on how the microbiome of the indoor environment can be defined, investigated, maintained and when necessary remediated. Joining us live from the conference were Carl Grimes, Ulla Harvenin Shaughnessy, PhD, Sarah Kwan, PhM, EIT and PhD Candidate at Cal Berkeley Iman Sylvain. This event has been a fascinating glimpse into the work that scientists and researchers are doing to help us better understand the microbiome of our indoor indoor environment. The research being discussed in Boulder this week will shape the future of the indoor environmental quality industry for years to come. Join us today to learn more about the microbiome of the built environment and the future of the IAQ industry from this diverse group of long time industry veterans, association leaders and the next generation of IAQ researchers. LEARN MORE this week on IAQ Radio! This event has been a fascinating glimpse into the work that scientists and researchers are doing to help us better understand the microbiome of our indoor indoor environment. The research being discussed in Boulder this week will shape the future of the indoor environmental quality industry for years to come. Join us today to learn more about the microbiome of the built environment and the future of the IAQ industry from this diverse group of long time industry veterans, association leaders and the next generation of IAQ researchers. LEARN MORE this week on IAQ Radio!
This week on IAQ Radio we welcome two industry veterans to discuss their take on how restoration claims management should be be handled, how the revised IICRC S500 fits in, when and how projects go legal and more. Howard Wolf has been involved with the cleaning and restoration industries since 1984. He has worked his way through a series of progressively more responsible positions in the industry and has responded to large losses since Hurricane Andrew in 1992. Mr. Wolf has also always been deeply involved in the industry as a volunteer, currently, he is the Chairman of the IICRC Standards Committee, an accredited ANSI writing body. In 2001 Mr. Wolf started HW3 Group, LLC, a firm committed to serving the restoration industry. HW3 Group is a firm that supports the disaster restoration industry with management, administration, claim preparation, logistics, dispute resolution, and technical expert consulting. Monica Aquino is the Managing Partner of HW3 Group, LLC. She has been involved in the claims preparation and claims management industry since 1999. She began as an analyst and claims coordinator, and then moved into claim management and development of programs for large clients. Monica has managed claims for some of the largest property claims in the country and has particular expertise in the hospitality, complex multi-tenant and large retail industries. Monica has managed claims with values up to and exceeding $500M. She leads teams in preparing claims analyses for various aspects of the claim, interfaces closely with clients to understand loss damages/business needs and collaborates with insurer representatives to present claims and request partial payments until final settlement is negotiated. Her perspective on these issues is one our listeners will appreciate and learn from.
This week on IAQ Radio we have a man in the field interview with the facilities coordinator at the Greenville, SC School District. Steve Pascoe has a crew of _ people helping keep the lights on and the IAQ acceptable in over 200 buildings in mixed humid Greenville, SC. Radio Joe is teaching in Greenville at the Greenville Technical College, Buck Mickel Center. Over the years Steve and Joe have worked together training Steveâ??s crew and teaching others about indoor environmental quality. Steve started out in Technical School and has worked his way up the ranks to become facilities coordinator. The ups and downs of managing this many buildings, the war stories and the hard knocks have given Steve a depth of experience and knowledge our listeners will appreciate. LEARN MORE on IAQ Radio!
This week we are excited to welcome Dr. Brett C. Singer to IAQ Radio. Dr. Singer is the Staff Scientist and Group Leader of Indoor Environment in the Energy Analysis and Environmental Impacts Division of Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL). He is also a Principal Investigator in the Whole Building Systems Group in the Building Technologies and Urban Systems Division. Dr. Singer conceives and leads research projects related to air pollutant emissions and physical-chemical processes, and pollutant exposures in both outdoor and indoor environments, aiming to understand real world processes and systems that affect air pollutant exposures. The recent focus of Dr. Singer's work has been indoor environmental quality and risk reduction in high performance homes, with the goal of accelerating adoption of IAQ, comfort, durability and sustainability measures into new homes and retrofits of existing homes. Key focus areas of this work are low-energy systems for filtration, smart ventilation and mitigation approaches to indoor pollutant sources including cooking. Dr. Singer co-developed the Population Impact Assessment Modeling Framework (PIAMF). He holds a PhD in Civil & Environmental Engineering from the University of California, Berkeley.
This week on IAQ Radio we are going to play Part Two of our interview from the Maine IAQ Council 2015 Northeast IAQ and Energy Conference. Bob Krell of Healthy Indoors Magazine and I interviewed some of the speakers at the event and we have both audio and video recordings to play back for our listeners and readers. The conference was a great success and every year they draw some of the top speakers in the industry. For part two this week we will be replaying our interviews with Sam Rashkin, Paula Schenck, MPH, David Shea, P.E. and Jack Springston, CIH, CSP, FAIHA. We will talk some building science, sampling vs. non sampling, mold and health, vapor intrusion and more! For those of you expecting our Brett Singer, PhD interview we had to push that back a week to accommodate a last minute change in Dr. Singer's plans. Sam Rashkin Chief Architect, Building Technologies Office in the Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy, U.S. Department of Energy - Washington, D.C. As Chief Architect Mr. Rashkin's work includes leading DOE's world-class research program, Building America, and overseeing the DOE Zero Energy Ready Home voluntary labeling program for leading edge builders. In his prior position, he managed Energy Star for Homes since its start in 1996. He received his Bachelor of Architecture from Syracuse University; completed Masters of Urban Planning studies at New University; York and is a registered architect in California and New York. Paula Schenck, MPH Director of Indoor Environment & Health Programs, UConn Health - Farmington, CT Paula was part of a group that established the Center for Indoor Environments and Health at to UCONN on this objective. She developed multiple initiatives directed at improving indoor environments in schools and offices. At the UCONN Occupational Medicine clinic, Paula is called upon to provide guidance on environmental and/or workplace interventions as part of patient treatment. She also teaches environmental health at UCONN, instructs in the masters in public health program, is a seminar leader on asthma and environment and coordinates segments on occupational health in the medical school. David Shea, P.E. Sanborn Head & Associates - Concord, NH As a Principal Engineer with Sanborn, Head & Associates in Concord, New Hampshire, he is responsible for leading vapor intrusion and environmental remediation projects throughout the US and abroad. He has conducted vapor intrusion and mitigation assessments at sites involving more than hundreds of structures and millions of square feet. He holds a B.S. in Civil Engineering from Princeton University and a M.S. in Civil Engineering from M.I.T. He is a licensed professional engineer in 13 states. Jack Springston, CIH, CSP, FAIHA TRC Environmental Corporation - New York, NY Jack Springston has over 27 years of experience in industrial hygiene and occupational health. He has been a Certified Industrial Hygienist (CIH) since 1993, and is one of only approximately 50 active CIHs who also hold a sub-specialty certificate in Indoor Environmental Quality (IEQ). Jack received a BS Degree in Environmental Science and Biology from LIU/Southampton College and a MS Degree in Environmental and Occupational Health Sciences from CUNY/Hunter College. He is a past-Chair of both the American Industrial Hygiene Association's (AIHA) Indoor Environmental Quality committee and the Bio-safety and Environmental Microbiology committee and is an AIHA Distinguished Fellow.
This week on IAQ Radio The Zman and Radio Joe will be discussing and playing back the first half of our interviews from the Maine IAQ Council 2015 Northeast IAQ and Energy Conference. Bob Krell of Healthy Indoors Magazine and Radio Joe interviewed some of the speakers at the event and we have both audio and video recordings to play back for our listeners and readers. The conference was a great success and every year they draw some of the top speakers in the industry. This week we have Steve Caulfield, P.E., CIH President, Turner Building Science & Design - Harrison, ME | Robert Herrick, PhD, CIH Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health - Boston, MA | Ed Light, CIH President, Building Dynamics, LLC - Ashton, MD | Guy Sylvester Absolute Resource Associates - Portsmouth, NH.
This week we are going to talk mold assessment and remediation with Bill Vaughan, PhD. Over the years Dr. Vaughan has perfected a method for assessing Condition 2 areas in buildings and a method (air polishing) for cleaning the air prior to post remediation verification. He has had great success using and teaching these methods. We look forward to talking in detail today at noon. Dr. William (Bill) Vaughan is President & Principal Scientist for Nauset Environmental Services, Inc. on Cape Cod Massachusetts. He has worked in the area of air quality investigations since the late '60s with a focus on IAQ issues for the last 15-20 years. He and his staff have carried out investigations at more than 3,000 locations in New England. Dr. Vaughan became interested in the IICRC's concept of Condition 2, settled spore, contamination just after S 520 was initially released in 2003. He asked the question, "If you can't see settled spores and colony fragments, how do you know if they are there much less if they have been cleaned up adequately? His group developed the concept of paired air sampling - quiet and fan-disturbed - to address this question and have been utilizing it productively since 2004. Dr. Vaughan's PhD is in Biophysics from the University of Illinois, Department of Physiology and Biophysics. Join us live at noon or download the show later, either way LEARN MORE this week on IAQ Radio!
When it comes to homeowner insurance issues Florida is often in the spotlight. Paul Handerhan serves as Vice President of Public Policy for the Florida Association for Insurance Reform. FAIR is a nonprofit association that works with policy makers to bring balanced solutions to the difficult Florida property insurance market. As the association's founder, FAIR has grown from a start-up consumer group with a few dozen members to a powerful force for balanced insurance reforms. FAIR works to reduce property insurance rates by reducing risk, while ensuring that the interests of insurance consumers are protected. The FAIR policy model is to consult with all stakeholders to find balanced solutions with support across the political spectrum. In addition to its expansive legislative reform agenda, FAIR is the driving force behind bringing PACE (Property Assessed Clean Energy) programs to Florida, which has a PACE statute that allows for wind mitigation property improvements in addition to renewable and sustainable energy improvements.
David Johnston is president of David Johnston & Co. He has been building custom energy efficient, healthy homes in Maine for more than 35 years. He was building energy efficient homes with a focus on indoor air quality long before it was a mainstream thing to do. In addition to being a builder he teaches building construction trade classes at Central Maine Community College and has served as an adjunct instructor in Residential Design and Drafting and Graphic Design at the University of Southern Maine (USM). David is also currently on Advisory Committees for Southern Maine Community College, Central Maine Community College, and Westbrook Region Technology Center. We want to discuss how a successful builder balances the sometimes competing demands of good IAQ and energy efficiency. We also want to talk about Mr. Johnston's presentation on the Basics of Building Science at the 2016 Northeast IAQ and Energy Conference April 11-12 in Portland Maine. Radio Joe and Bob Krell from Healthy Indoors Magazine will be there doing interviews and taping a special IAQ Radio broadcast. LEARN MORE this week on IAQ Radio!
This week on IAQ Radio we welcome back Ken Larsen along with The The Restoration Industries Global Watchdog, Pete Consigli. This week was the Restoration Industry Associations (RIA) 70th Anniversary and Convention in Orlando, Florida. We will recap some key learning points from the event and opine on the state of the industry. Things are very unsettled in the disaster restoration world at the moment. Unrest at the IICRC has many concerned but RIA had an outstanding conference with strong attendance. What does the future hold for the disaster restoration industry? Ken Larson is driven to learn everything there is to know about the restorative drying sciences. He teaches courses for people interested in RIA, IICRC and ACAC certifications. He has some strong opinions and does on not mind sharing them. Ken is the author of the leading industry reference guide on "state of the art" structural restorative drying practices, "Leadership in Restorative Drying". Pete Consigli has been a member of the Restoration Industry Association (formerly ASCR, International) since 1977. In his current dual role of RIA Education Director and Industry Adviser, Pete reports to RIA's Executive Committee of the association's Board of Directors (BOD). He directs all aspects of RIA's education program, continuing the long standing tradition of providing RIA members industry-leading comprehensive technical and managerial training. Pete also advises the RIA BOD on matters impacting the restoration industry and the RIA mission.
This week on IAQ Radio we welcome back Greg Long who last joined us way back in 2007. Also joining us is Graeme Marsh the President of Clean and Green HVAC. We are going to discuss HVAC maintenance and cleaning in the 21st century and how it can impact indoor air quality. Greg Long has been helping building owners with IAQ problems and cleaning mechanical systems for over 30 years. He is a Past President of NADCA and current member of the IAQA Board of Directors. Graeme is the President of Clean and Green HVAC a market leader in HVAC optimization through their national network of highly experienced, qualified HVAC contractors. This week we will discuss how HVAC cleaning has changed over the years including how probiotic cleaners have impacted the work Greg and Graeme are doing. They claim proper HVAC cleaning can restore performance, reduce energy costs, extend equipment life cycles and positively impacting IAQ, comfort and wellness. Let's LEARN MORE about what they have to say this week on IAQ Radio!
This week on IAQ Radio we explore a cutting edge technology for evaluating microbial conditions of indoor environments. Joining us are two experts on aerosol physics and microbial assessment/identification along with the COO of DetectionTek Technology. We will discuss methods for measuring microbial conditions of indoor environments and the DetectionTek technology. Dr. Mark Hernandez received all his degrees, and did a post-doctoral tenure in the Civil and Environmental Engineering Department at the University of Colorado at Berkeley. After several years of civil engineering practice, he joined the University of Colorado faculty in 1996, where he is now a full professor. Dr. Hernandez is a registered professional engineer, and an expert on the quantitation and remediation of bioaerosols; a generation of his research lies in characterizing the biological aspects of air pollution - both indoors and out. Dr. Joe Boatman is Principle of Indoor and Outdoor Air Quality Consulting. He is an expert in Atmospheric Aerosols, Atmospheric Physics and Meteorology. His PhD is from the Univ. of Wyoming in Atmospheric Science. He has extensive experience in Atmospheric Aerosols, Atmospheric Physics and Meteorology Matthew Coghill currently serves as the Vice President and Chief Operating Officer of DetectionTek Holdings LLC. Matthew led the development of the InstaScope real-time bioaerosol detection technology from its inception in 2012. His focus is translating the complex science and technology experience of his team into a product that is accessible and compelling to the non-technical consumer. Join us today at noon and LEARN MORE about microbial assessment technology and investigation of indoor environments on IAQ Radio!
This week we welcome Kurt Johnson Owner of Fresh Air Ventilation and President of the Maine Indoor Air Quality Council (MIAQC). The story on how Kurt got into designing and installing ventilation systems is fascinating and educational. As an Owner/Operator who designs and installs ventilation systems he has seen the good, bad and ugly of home ventilation up close. He is also very involved with industry associations, has a passion for the subject and a desire to see people get this important topic right. Kurt will give us a real world perspective and the straight scoop about ventilation from the trenches. How real world? Kurt has designed and installed over 500 systems in the past ten years. Join us today at noon live or download later to LEARN MORE about ventilation and indoor air quality from the trenches this week on IAQ Radio. We encourage those that can make it to attend this years Northeast Indoor Air Quality and Energy Conference April 11-12, 2016 in Portland, Maine. The conference is sponsored by MIAQC please stop Radio Joe and Kurt to say hello if you attend. LEARN MORE!
Jim Newman is one of the country's most experienced IAQ, energy efficiency and green building experts. He is Owner and Managing Partner of Newman Consulting Group and is active in many professional organizations. He's a trainer for ASHRAE Energy Standard 90.1, and was one of sixteen energy auditors chosen to beta test ASHRAE's Building Energy Quotient, which measures and categorizes energy use in buildings. He is also Chair of Detroit BOMA's Committee on Sustainability and is a trainer for BOMA's certification on High Performing Buildings. His 1st seminar on Indoor Air Quality was at the International Facility Management Convention in Baltimore in 1990, before most people knew what IAQ stood for. As an ASHRAE Distinguished Lecturer, Jim gives seminars internationally on many topics related to the construction industry, including energy conservation, indoor air quality, sustainability, green buildings, and proper operation and maintenance techniques. We asked him to join us this week and go into more detail on his Keynote presentation at this years Indoor Air Quality Association (IAQA) Annual Meeting. LEARN MORE about IAQ, Green Buildings, Energy Conservation and Legal Liabilities this week on IAQ Radio!
This week on IAQ Radio we focus on growing your business using the example of a very successful truck mount salesman Mason Tomaino. Mr. Tomaino is currently the truck mount sales representative at the JonDon Dallas, TX location. Prior to his current position he held several positions and started two companies in the carpet cleaning and transportation sectors. Early in his career he worked at Crystal Cathedral as a House Keeping Manager where he was in charge of all maintenance and carpet cleaning, from there he moved on to start Alexander's Carpet Care which grew to have 7 truck mounted units and 17 employees. He also started A Party On Wheels Limos, having a total of 10 limos. Most recently he worked for Interlink of Austin as a Store Manager and Sales and now he is working for JonDon as a Truck Mount Sales Representative. Mason is an IICRC Master Textile Cleaner,Journey Man Fire and Smoke Restorer, and a Journey Man Water Restorer. He has put the JonDon mantra of making friends with your customers on steroids. LEARN MORE this week on IAQ Radio.
Radio Joe attended the 1.5 day Workshop on the Health Risks of Indoor Exposure to Particulate Matter at the The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine. The workshop was a who's who of indoor air quality researchers, regulators, stakeholders, industry leaders and others. It was held at the National Academies building in DC and was sponsored by EPA. Over 400 people watched the webinar live and learned more than they ever thought was possible about particulate matter, indoor air quality and health effets. Radio Joe will summarize the key points from 1.5 day program in a one hour program today. LEARN MORE on what we know and what we still need to learn about how particulate matter affects health this week on IAQ Radio.
Join us this week on IAQradio when we welcome Jeff May to discuss two presentations he gave at the Indoor Air Quality Associations 19th Annual Meeting; Mold in the Mechanical Leading Cause of Sick-building Symptoms and Under Recognized Sources of Indoor Bio-Aerosols. Some of the bio-aerosols he will discuss are obscure and others are surprising. We will also do a short preview of the EPA sponsored Institute of Medicine of the National Academy of Science, Engineering and Medicine conference on The Health Risks of Indoor Exposure to Particulate Matter. The conference is next week in DC and Radio Joe will be covering it for IAQ Radio. Jeff May is Principal Scientist of May Indoor Air Investigations, LLC in Tyngsborough, MA. Author of four books on IAQ (published by The Johns Hopkins University Press), including My House is Killing Me and The Mold Survival Guide, Jeff has been investigating building problems in homes, schools and office for over 25 years, and has examined by microscopy over 35,000 air and dust samples. A nationally recognized speaker on IAQ topics, Jeff is a member of IAQA, the Pan American Aerobiology Association, American Chemical Society, and the New England Chapter of the American Industrial Hygiene Association, among others. He is a Certified Indoor Air Quality Professional (CIAQP, Association of Energy Engineers), and is a licensed Mold Assessor in the state of Florida. He holds a B.A. from Columbia College (chemistry) and an M.A. from Harvard University (organic chemistry), and has served as an Adjunct Professor in the Department of Work Environment at the University of Massachusetts Lowell. LEARN MORE with Jeff May this week on IAQradio!
The ASHRAE and IAQA Conferences and the AHR Expo were this week in Orlando, FL. Due to technical issues and weather related travel problems the live show from the IAQA Conference had to be cancelled, BUT that gives us the opportunity to welcome ASHRAE President David Underwood, IAQA President Kent Rawhouser and IAQA Executive Director Stephanie Sears to discuss the conference, the consolidation and the future of the organizations today on IAQ Radio. We never could have gotten all three of these leaders on one show at the conference, so maybe we got lucky with the weather! Join us live on today at noon or download the show later but LEARN MORE on IAQ Radio!
Two of the most important disaster restoration industry standards are the IICRC S520 Professional Mold Remediation Standard and Reference Guide and the S500 Professional Water Damage Restoration Standard and Reference Guide. Both documents were recently revised and this week we are going to discuss the revisions with the S520 Consensus Body Chairman Jim Pearson. Mr. Pearson is a Certified Mechanical Hygienist and the President and C.E.O. of Mold Inspection Services, Inc. He is also the co-owner of Americlean Corporation, a full-service disaster restoration business operating in Billings, Montana for the past 35 years. Jim is the Chairman of the Consensus Body responsible for publishing the IICRC S520 Standard & Reference Guide for Professional Mold Remediation. A published author, industry speaker and Past Shareholder Representative to the IICRC, Jim is the Chairman of the Board of the IICRCA and a past officer and Director of the Restoration Industry Association. Jim is also a decorated Viet Nam veteran who has been blessed with seven grandchildren. Mr. Pearson has also continues to perform in a 4-piece country and rock and roll band as he has for the past 30 years. Stream IAQ Radio live at noon or download the show later to LEARN MORE!
This week we have an interview that has been anticipated for some time. We called it Building Physics and IAQ and look forward to talking with Dr. Sherman. Max Sherman is a Senior Scientist at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory with over 30 years of experience in building physics. He has a Ph.D. in Physics from Berkeley and is an international expert in air leakage, HVAC, indoor air quality, infiltration, moisture, energy efficiency, and related topics. He is a well-regarded member of ASHRAE having served on the Board of Directors and many technical positions and is currently a Distinguished Lecturer; he is a recipient of ASHRAE's Exceptional Service Award and ASHRAE's highest technical award as a Holladay Distinguished Fellow. He has also been elected a Fellow of the International Society of Indoor Air Quality and Climate (ISIAQ). He represents the United States on International Energy Agency tasks such as the Air Infiltration and Ventilation Center. He serves on national and international committees and editorial boards and does outside consulting. Tune in at noon or download the show later to LEARN MORE on IAQ Radio!
During our last show of 2015 we started going back and discussing what we learned from the excellent shows we had in 2015. It became evident early on that we had learned so much it would take two parts to cover it all. This week Radio Joe and the Z-man will take a look back at the second half of 2015 and discuss what we learned from the fantastic shows and guests we had. We want to thank all our loyal listeners and our esteemed guests for another year of education and communication with IAQ Radio. Every week we are honored to interview and learn from leaders in the industry. Our knowledge about the built environment and how we interact with it is growing exponentially. We love being able to spread that knowledge. Our focus on research to practice was just one of the highlights last year. Tune in, check out part two and LEARN MORE this week on IAQ Radio!
Radio Joe and the Z-man will take a look back at 2015 and comment on the fantastic shows and guests we had this year. We want to thank all our loyal listeners and our wonderful guests for another year of education and communication with IAQ Radio. Every week we are honored to interview and learn from leaders in the industry. Knowledge about our built environment and how we interact with it continues to grow faster every year and we love being able to spread that knowledge. Our focus on research to practice has been just one of the highlights this year. We will talk about that and a lot more this week so tune in and LEARN MORE this week on IAQ Radio!
Joining us this week is Author and ASHRAE Past International President H. E. Barney Burroughs (CIAQP, PM-FASHRAE). Barney Burroughs is a technical consultant in the field of Indoor Environmental Quality and is a recognized expert in Indoor Air Quality and Air Cleaning. He is the primary author of the Burroughs/Hansen â??Managing Indoor Air Qualityâ??, now in fifth edition. Barney is the President and CEO of Building Wellness Consultancy, Inc., a consulting firm specializing in IAQ diagnostics and training, filtration, and related IAQ and Building Health, Safety, and Security issues. He is a prolific author of numerous papers/articles and is a lecturer on IAQ and frequently leads seminars on that and related subjects.Mr. Burroughs is a Past International President (1987/88) and Fellow of ASHRAE (The American Society of Heating, Refrigerating, and Air Conditioning Engineers, Inc.). He has attained the ASHRAE Distinguished Service and Exceptional Service Awards, and was designated as a Distinguished Lecturer with ASHRAEâ??s Education Program. He is the current recipient of the ASHRAE Environmental Health Award.
A hot topic in the research community is the microbiome of the built environment. This week on IAQ Radio we welcome one of the leading researchers in this area Dr. Jordan Peccia. Dr. Peccia is an Associate Professor of environmental engineering at Yale University, the director of Yale environmental engineering's undergraduate studies, and the faculty advisor for Yale Engineers Without Borders. He is an associate editor for the journal Indoor Air, and is the 2014-15 chair of the Indoor Aerosols and Aerosol Exposure working group for the American Association for Aerosol Research. Research in the Peccia lab integrates microbiology with engineering to address important contemporary environmental problems. The principle areas of research include: (i) human exposure to bacterial and viral pathogens emitted during the land application of sewage sludge, (ii) the sources of and human exposure to bacteria and fungi in the indoor environment, and (iii) genome-wide gene expression investigations for improving biofuel feedstock production rates in photosynthetic microorganisms. He holds degrees in mechanical engineering (BS) and environmental engineering (MS) from Montana State University, and received his PhD in Environmental Engineering from the University of Colorado in the year 2000. LEARN MORE about the microbiome of the built environment and how new research can inform your practice this week on IAQ Radio!
This week on IAQ Radio we talk to a restoration industry entrepreneur, inventor, and trainer Kurt Bolden. Mr. Bolden is the founder and president of the Hydro Lab Training & Equipment Rental, LLC. Backed by more than 30+ years of hands-on cleaning and restoration experience, Kurt has earned a respected reputation for his groundbreaking work and contributions to the industry. Kurt started Bolden's Cleaning & Restoration, In Noblesville, IN, from the back of his truck in 1979 and grew his business at an unprecedented rate and to a level only rarely reached as an independent operations, He sold to his employees in 2004 in order to focus educating restorers at the Hydro Lab. This state-of-the-art training and research center was one of the first of its kind in the industry and emphasizes Kurt's philosophy of "Hands-On" training. Kurt's inventiveness and passion for doing the best has given the restoration industry the HYDRO-X and VAC-PAC, two extraction tools that has redefined the approach to water damage work. His vision brought about the creation of the Hydro Lab in 2000. Today, Kurt is a leader in the industry and his rental division is one of the largest suppliers of rental drying equipment in the United States. LEARN MORE about the restoration industry past, present and most importantly future this week on IAQ Radio!
This week on IAQ Radio we talk to some of the staff and students at the Carnegie Mellon Universities CREATE Lab. The CREATE Lab came to our attention when a friend asked if we would like to try out the Speck IAQ Monitor. Radio Joe has had the monitor on his desk for a month now and it's time to discuss the invention with some members of the team that helped pull together the venture. M. Beatrice Dias (Bea) was born and raised in Sri Lanka and went on to earn her undergraduate degree from Hamilton College in Clinton New York. Following college, she worked in the private sector for two years before moving to Pittsburgh to complete her Ph.D. in Engineering and Public Policy at Carnegie Mellon University (CMU). Her postdoctoral field research focused on evaluating the impact of technology in under-served communities across the globe. Bea currently serves as a Project Director for the CREATE Lab at CMU. In this capacity she works with a variety of communities to explore how technology can serve as a tool for empowerment. Sara Longo, a native Pittsburgher, earned a Biology degree and French minor from Allegheny College. She then spent two years in clinical smoking cessation research at the University of Pittsburgh while working as a TSS for the Watson Institute. After leaving her clinical work, she took her career in a new direction by co-founding the social sharing app, Share Closet, and igniting her passion for empowerment through technology. She now carries that passion through to her volunteer work at ACEing Autism and to her career as the Operations Manager for Speck, where she works to empower people to breathe easier. Mike Taylor is a PhD Candidate at the CREATE Lab, part of Carnegie Mellon University's Robotics Institute. His research interests include methods and calibration for low-cost sensors, machine learning, and air quality.LEARN MORE this week on IAQ Radio!
The theme of this week's show is: "Making friends out of the people you do business with", a "coffee table" conservation with Nick &John Paolella Co-founders of Jon Don, Inc. Please note this week's show has a special start time, 2:00pm Eastern Time! The Z-man has been in Chicago all week as part of the Restoration Industry Association's (RIA) Certified Restorer (CR) instructional team. Jon Don's corporate headquarters in Roselle, IL is serving as the host facility for this year's CR prep week. Radio Joe is flying into Chicago to join the Z-man for an intimate interview with the founders of IAQ Radio's Marquis sponsor. Global Watchdog Pete Consigli also in town with the CR instructional team in his role as RIA's Director of Education and will join the group around the "coffee table" for this most unique show. Jon Don is known for its legendary customer service and unparalleled support of the industry associations, trade shows and educational & certification programs. This is evident in its pioneering flagship program called, "Strategies for Success® Intensive Training Seminar (SFS)". Nick and John will share their thoughts with the IAQ Radio's audience on how making friends out of the people you do business with can dramatically help your company be more successful. Success in business and life is about developing mutually beneficial relationships. Give as much or more than one takes. Teddy Roosevelt has a well known quote that says, "Every man has an obligation to give back to the industry from which he derives his livelihood. Jon Don and its people serves as a model for the spirit of that sentiment. Join us this week and get insights on how to succeed by giving others what they want first and then getting what you want. Take care of your people who will take care of your customers and build a business that will take care of the owners!
This week on IAQ Radio we are calling an audible and interviewing Jocelyn Dornfeld of A&J Specialty Services, Inc. DKI. Our interview with David Underwood, President ASHRAE had to be postponed but we were fortunate to find that Jocelyn can join us on short notice to discuss her "Big Idea". Jocelyn Dornfeld works at A&J Specialty Services, a disaster restoration and specialty cleaning firm in DeForest, Wisconsin. Jocelyn has come up with an idea that we think has the potential of going global. Her big idea is simple, "doing something kind for a stranger and expecting nothing in return." Jocelyn's idea is on its way. Join us on IAQradio at noon eastern time when we learn more about her campaign for Restoring Kindness.
Mr. Fugler is a Senior Researcher and Project Manager for the Canada Mortgage Housing Corporation (CMHC). Don has been a fixture at CMHC for going on 30 years and has been responsible for some of the most important energy, IAQ and building science research in the world. Join us to LEARN MORE about the gold mine of resources and research at your fingertips because of people like this weeks guest.
This week on IAQ Radio we have a show on a subject we have rarely discussed. We talk a lot about doing construction when there are existing IAQ or disaster related damage but we have not discussed in detail what type of control should occur on every day remodeling projects. We were contacted by Build Clean Dust Control System and after looking it over the Z-man and I decided we would like to hear more about what at least one manufacturer/distributor is calling livable remodeling. Brian Paich is the Business Development Manager for BuildClean Dust Control System, A Division of Illinois Tool Works. He has extensive experience in the home remodeling market through working alongside his grandfather, a carpenter in Chicago, and through his work at ITW, a Fortune 200 company, and other businesses. At ITW, he leads the team that developed the new BuildClean Dust Control System, an invention they claim has transformed the way contractors manage remodeling dust in residential projects. Brian has worked directly with contractors and homeowners across the country for several years, learning what is most important to both audiences. He has an MBA in Finance from University of Chicago. Brian is very active in the remodeling industry and its many associations. LEARN MORE this week on IAQ Radio!
Last week was the IAQ Training Institute, IAQ Radio and the The Restoration and Specialty Cleaners Association (TRSCA) got together to sponsor the Healthy Building Summit 2015. "The Summit" is a week long event that includes courses on mold, indoor environmental quality, water damage restoration plus this years main event the IEQ, Mold and Disaster Restoration Conference. The conference featured speakers such as Dr. Jeff Siegel, Dr. Joe Spurgeon, Kevin Kennedy, Carl Grimes, Dr. Patricia Cafaro, Eric Shapiro, Luke Gard, Richard Rue, Nate Adams, Dr. Eva King, Dr. Ralph Moon, Cliff Zlotnik, Pete Consigli, Ed Ranieri, Jim Pemberton, Marc Selvitelli and Dave Drinnard who arranged for a hands on demo of the Echo blaster. We also continued our tradition of doing research projects. This years projects were on how containments affect IEQ parameters and measurement of allergen load before and after specific response actions. This week on IAQ Radio Radio Joe, Pete Consigli, Ed Ranieri and Nate Adams will discuss what was learned and what practitioners, researchers and building owners need to know to keep buildings healthy and sustainable. Some of the information will surprise you. The Summit was a great success this year and the "Practice to Research" theme was a big hit. LEARN MORE this week on IAQ Radio!
Creator of the "Risk = Hazard + Outrage" formula for risk communication, Peter M. Sandman is one of the preeminent risk communication speakers and consultants in the United States today, and has also worked extensively in Europe, Australia, and elsewhere. His unique and effective approach to managing risk controversies has made him much in demand for other sorts of reputation management as well. Dr. Sandman has helped his clients through a wide range of public controversies that threatened corporate or government reputation -from oil spills to labor-management battles; from vaccine autism scares to the siting of hazardous waste facilities. In the terms first popularized by Dr. Sandman, these are usually situations where the "hazard" is low, the "outrage" is high, and the core task is outrage management.
This week on IAQ Radio we will discuss a topic every IAQ and Disaster Restoration pro has had to deal with at some point. Odors are funny things and they can be very hard to deal with, this weeks guest is no stranger to odors and neither is the Z-man. My conversation with the two of them will be a learning experience for all. Kyle Knappenberger is the Director of Applications at Timilon Technology Acquisitions LLC, Fort Myers, FL. Kyle holds a Bachelors of Sciences degree in microbiology from Kansas State University. He earned his degree while researching and testing water purification techniques. For over a decade Kyle has been working on using safe metal oxide technology for odor control and toxic chemical neutralization applications. Kyle joined Timilon in 2013 when they acquired the technology behind FAST-ACT® and OdorKlenz® from the company where he previously held a variety of leadership positions. He has been involved in several key product development programs related to indoor air quality, including those for disaster restoration and individuals dealing with multi chemical sensitivity. Kyle co-holds six patents related to the mitigation of chemical and biological contamination. LEARN MORE this week on IAQ Radio!
This week on IAQ Radio we start a new feature plus interview a cleaning and restoration industry veteran. Radio Joe will give listeners a rundown of current events in the IAQ, building science and disaster restoration industry and for the second half of our show cleaning and restoration industry veteran John Downey joins us to discuss his role as Editor of The IICRC Journal. In addition to being editor of The Journal Mr. Downey continues to run a multi generational carpet cleaning company Downeys Carpet Care of Granville, Ohio and was the founder of Cleanfax Magazine. LEARN MORE on IAQ Radio!
This week on IAQ Radio we welcome Kevin Kennedy, Luke Gard and Eric Shapiro. Listeners know Kevin from his prior interviews with us but this time he has one of his top lieutenants joining him along with a friend and colleague of all of ours Mr. Eric Shapiro. We are going to discuss how research should be informing practice and what we can do to help. For the past few years Luke and Eric have been running the live research we have been performing at our annual conference for IAQ Training Institute, LLC. We set up very similar hotel rooms for a simulated remediation. We set up the rooms in ways that are common in the IEQ world one was negatively pressurized, one was set up just scrubbing the air with a HEPA filtered AFD and one was set up doing both negative pressure and scrubbing. Our class participants measured various parameters before, during and after the set up of different types of containments. We will discuss the results and we will go into other research done by and being done by Kevin's group at Childrens Mercy Hospital in Kansas City. LEARN MORE this week on IAQ Radio!
Philip R. Morey received his Ph.D. degree in Biology from Yale University and is certified in the comprehensive practice of industrial hygiene by the American Board of Industrial Hygiene. Dr. Morey has held various teaching positions including Lecturer of Biology at Harvard University and Professor of Biological Sciences at Texas Tech University. He has also held a research position (Research Microbiologist; Research Industrial Hygienist) while at The National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health in the 1980s and was subsequently Director of Indoor Air Quality (IAQ)/Microbiology at several consulting companies. Currently, Dr. Morey is Principal Consultant Microbiology at ENVIRON International Corporation. Dr. Morey was one of the panelists for the first consensus mold remediation guideline published by the New York Department of Health in 1993. He was Assistant Editor of the 1999 American Conference of Governmental Industrial Hygienists Bioaerosols: Assessment and Control book. He has written two books: How Trees Grow and Biological Contaminants in Indoor Environments.
This week IAQ Radio welcomes Ralph E. Moon, PhD, CHMM, CIAQP for a wide ranging discussion on water damage, duration of loss studies and building science issues. Dr. Moon is Building Science Discipline Manager, Principle Scientist and a shareholder with HSA Engineers and Scientists of Tampa Florida. HSA is an industry-leading, engineering consulting and forensics investigation firm with 13 offices in the SE US with over 300 employees. Dr. Moon has over 30 years of experience in the areas of duration of loss studies, risk assessment, project management, industrial hygiene and indoor air quality assessments. Dr. Moon has a unique background that combines extensive field experience, seminar development and presentation, research, and legal services in IAQ, building science and disaster restoration. He is an expert on duration of loss and assessment of water damaged buildings. He has also done research on cleaning and restoration of contents and building materials that our listeners will find particularly fascinating.
This week we welcome back the Restoration Industry Global Watchdog Pete Consigli for Part Three of his stroll down restoration lane with the Z-man Cliff Zlotnik. Two weeks back Pete was in Pittsburgh to sit down with The Z-man and for a retrospective conversation about their longtime relationship that has spanned almost 4 decades.The show could be characterized as "Restoration Confidential". It was personal, insightful, controversial at times but most of all it came from the heart with a spirit of setting the record straight on many of the industry's misnomers and folklore!Two of the industry's most well known and colorful personalities sat down to reflect on their professional life together as they come to the realization that in their twilight years there is still much to be done and their "work" is still in progress! IAQ Radio listeners know Pete as a friend of the show and the Global Watchdog who helps recruit guests and support their interviews that address issues facing the restoration industry. The recent passing of industry icon Marty King who founded the original restoration industry trade group in 1971 leaves Pete and Cliff as the only remaining honorary members of RIA. Next year Pete and Cliff will celebrate 2 milestones with RIA's 70th Anniversary Convention in March and the 20th anniversary of Summer Camp in August. As IAQ Radio listeners may know, this past March in Dallas IAQA inducted Pete into its Hall of Fame for his work with Joe Lsiburek's legendary Building Science Symposium known as Summer Camp. What most listeners don't know is that Cliff was there with Pete for the first Summer Camp in 1996 as the 2 invited representatives from the restoration industry! All three of us are now back from this year's Summer Camp and we hope you will tune in this week as Pete and Cliff cap off their show about the milestone events that helped shape the industry that you know today. The will continue to give IAQ Radio listeners an insiders view on how, why and when things happened! This week Radio Joe will press Pete and Cliff to finish their retrospective and share their vision for the future of the industry with IAQ Radio listeners. LEARN MORE this week on IAQ Radio!
Greg Pattison is a Vice President, Director of Safety and Senior Trainer in OSHA CFR 29 1910 and 1926 construction for G.P. Systems Inc. (GPS). He has designed/conducted/facilitated over 30 technical trainings including; General Safety training OSHA 10 and 30 Hour, HAZWOPER, GHS Hazardous Chemicals, Property Restoration, Confined Space, Scaffolding, Emergency Operations and Egress, PPE Protocols, Demolition Subpart T, Flagger in a work zone, Lock out/tag out, First Aid, Caught between, Roll over/back over, Job Hazard Analysis, Fall Protection, Worksite safety, Accident Investigation, and Site Safety/Security Plans. His entertaining and informative style offer audiences knowledge that attendees can take back and use to make the workplace safer. He has taught 1,000â??s of workers within such organizations as Belfor Property Restoration and Environmental, Association of General Contractors, Department of Energy, Tennessee Valley Authority, Exxon, Hess Petroleum, Hayward Baker, Army Corp of Engineers, State of Ohio, AMEC, FBI, State of Illinois, Southern Site Development and Tetra Tech to name just a few. Learning is by doing and he offers on point stories and scenarios to reinforce the information so that upon completion the attendee can use the information right away to hone skills and gain confidence. He is available by phone or email so that when workplace situations come up you have a resource to call on. He acts as a Safety consultant with the Restoration Industry Association, National Demolition Association, and the Association of General Contractors. In addition, he acts as a Subject Matter Expert to Pro-tread, National Minority Truckers Association, Georgia Black Constructors Association and Applied Simulations Technology. His early career was in the field of Corrections where he rose to the rank of Warden and acted as the Life Safety person for the Department of Corrections in a large Midwestern state. After 14 years in Corrections he went to work for Fred Pryor Seminars and taught several technical trainings for them including OSHA, Facilities Management, and Emergency Planning. Additional soft skills that Mr. Pattison taught and facilitated for Fred Pryor included; 1st Time Supervisor, Mid-Level Supervisor, Managing Multiple Priorities, Dealing with Difficult People, Motivating & Disciplining Employees, Handling emotions under pressure, Customer Service, Essential Leadership Skills, Workplace Bullying and Conflict Resolution. In addition, he has worked as a contractor for the U.S. Department of Energy on the Global Threat Reduction Initiative, Transportation Security, CBRNE programs, first respondersâ?? use of the ERG Guidebook, and the Incident Command System (ICS). He acted as a contract consultant in the Middle East for Deloitte Consulting in the areas of police, detention, disaster management, fire service, civil defense, SAR, and Border enforcement. He developed and led many trainings during his work in the Middle East. Mr. Pattison holds B.S. and M.S. degrees from Illinois State University and acquired a Certified in Homeland Security III designation. He is a Radiation Safety Officer (RSO) and has acted as a Site Safety and Health Officer (SSHO). He has attended many trainings to improve his craft as Hazardous Materials Trainer, OSHA 10 and 30 hour, Petroleum Institute, Fred Pryor Boot camp, TapRoot Cause Analysis, Bearing Point Change Management, Modular Emergency Radiological Response Transportation Training, National Demolition Association TTT, Department of Transportation Research Council, Southern States Energy Board (SSEB) and the Georgia and Tennessee Safety conferences. He frequently speaks at safety conferences throughout the U.S. He lives in Atlanta, Georgia with his attorney wife, Marilyn.
This week on IAQ Radio we have finally synced schedules and welcome Dr. Glenn Morrison. Dr. Morrison is a professor of Civil, Architectural and Environmental Engineering at the Missouri University of Science and Technology. Dr. Morrison graduated with his PhD from the University of California, Berkeley in 1999 after working for 6 years as a chemical engineer in research and development of catalysts. Has over 25 years of chemical and environmental engineering experience, most of that focusing on chemistry and transport phenomena in indoor environments. An NSF Career award winner and the current President of the International Society of Indoor Air Quality and Climate, his research has included ozone surface chemistry, building forensics, sensor development, pollutant movement in buildings, aerosol transport of SVOCs, exposure implications of smog reactions with human surfaces and hair, methamphetamine contamination of residences, design of indoor surfaces for improved air quality and related projects. He has been responsible for over $2.8 M in research funding from NSF, EPA, NIST, NIOSH, the California Air Resources Board, Missouri Research Board and the Green Building Council. He and his students have published over 100 peer-reviewed journal articles, conference papers and reports. We will ask to discuss the major themes and some specific presentations he attended at Healthy Buildings America 2015 and we want to discuss the current emphasis on SVOC's plus much more with one of the most prolific IEQ researchers in the country. LEARN MORE this week on IAQ Radio!
This week Pete Consigli was in Pittsburgh and sat down with the Z-man and Radio Joe in Studio C for a retrospective conversation about the almost 4 decade relationship between these two restoration industry icons. This show could be characterized as �¢??Restoration Confidential�¢??, it was personal, insightful, controversial at times but most of all came from the heart with a spirit of setting the record straight on many of the industry�¢??s misnomers and folklore! Listen in as two of the industry�¢??s most well known and colorful personalities sit down to reflect on their professional life together as they come to the realization that in their twilight years there is still much to be done and their �¢??work�¢?? is still in progress! This was a tremendous show that gave us a peak into Consigli and Zlotnik�¢??s Restoration Journey with a destination yet to be realized. We will finish the story with another special show following Summer Camp on August 7th at noon eastern. IAQ Radio listeners know Pete as a friend of the show and the Global Watchdog who helps recruit guests and support their interviews that address issues facing the restoration industry. The recent passing of industry icon Marty King who founded the original restoration industry trade group in 1971 leaves Pete and Cliff as the only remaining honorary members of RIA. Next year Pete and Cliff will celebrate 2 milestones with RIA�¢??s 70th Anniversary Convention in March and the 20th anniversary of Summer Camp in August. As IAQ Radio listeners may know, this past March in Dallas IAQA inducted Pete into its Hall of Fame for his work with Joe Lsiburek�¢??s legendary Building Science Symposium known as Summer Camp. What most listeners don�¢??t know is that Cliff was there with Pete for the first Summer Camp in 1996 as the 2 invited representatives from the restoration industry! Pete and Cliff talk about the milestone events that helped shape the industry that you know today and give IAQ Radio listeners an insiders view on how, why and when things happened! During Parts 1 & 2 Pete, Cliff and Radio Joe sat down at the �¢??kitchen table�¢?? and had a retrospective conversation providing the background on the most pressing issues the industry faces today. During Part 3 August 7th Radio Joe will press Pete and Cliff to finish the story and share their vision for the future of the industry with IAQ Radio listeners. LEARN MORE and listen to this show then join us live August 7th when we finish the most unique IAQ Radio interview ever! Pete Consigli is a Restoration Industry Association (RIA) Certified Restorer (CR) and Water Loss Specialist (WLS) and has been a member of the Restoration Industry Association (formerly ASCR, International) since 1977. Over the years he has been anactive volunteer and filled various association leadership roles. In 2008, Pete received RIA�¢??s most prestigious honor for excellence in restoration, the Martin L. King award. In 2012 RIA made Pete an honorary member to its association, only the second such honor in RIA�¢??s 60+ years. The first was to Marty King, CR, ASA, a member of the industry�¢??s founding generation and longtime mentor to Pete. In 2015 IAQA President Kent Rawhouser inducted Pete into the IAQA Hall of Fame for his involvement in the legendary Westford Building Science Symposium, aka �¢??Summer Camp�¢?? (SC) Joe Lstiburek, PhD; PE is the brainchild of Summer Camp Pete represents RIA in support of Purdue University�¢??s Disaster Restoration and Reconstruction Management (DRRM) program. Pete provides guest lectures to the DRRM students on the unique challenges of restoration project management. He also networks with faculty, students, and prospective employers at the program�¢??s bi-annual career fairs. In his current dual role of RIA Education Director and Industry Advisor, Pete reports to RIA�¢??s Executive Committee of the association�¢??s Board of Directors (BOD). He directs all aspects of RIA�¢??s education program, continuing the long standing tradition of providing RIA members industry-leading comprehensive technical and managerial training. Pete also advises the RIA BOD on matters impacting the restoration industry and the RIA mission to: �¢??Provide Industry Leadership, Support Science, and Promote Best Practices in Cleaning and Restoration�¢??. Pete supports RIA members to fulfill their motto, �¢??We Make it Better, We Promise.
This week Pete Consigli was in Pittsburgh and sat down with the Z-man and Radio Joe in Studio C for a retrospective conversation about the almost 4 decade relationship between these two restoration industry icons. This show could be characterized as â??Restoration Confidentialâ??, it was personal, insightful, controversial at times but most of all came from the heart with a spirit of setting the record straight on many of the industryâ??s misnomers and folklore! Listen in as two of the industryâ??s most well known and colorful personalities sit down to reflect on their professional life together as they come to the realization that in their twilight years there is still much to be done and their â??workâ?? is still in progress! This was a tremendous show that gave us a peak into Consigli and Zlotnikâ??s Restoration Journey with a destination yet to be realized. We will finish the story with another special show following Summer Camp on August 7th at noon eastern. IAQ Radio listeners know Pete as a friend of the show and the Global Watchdog who helps recruit guests and support their interviews that address issues facing the restoration industry. The recent passing of industry icon Marty King who founded the original restoration industry trade group in 1971 leaves Pete and Cliff as the only remaining honorary members of RIA. Next year Pete and Cliff will celebrate 2 milestones with RIAâ??s 70th Anniversary Convention in March and the 20th anniversary of Summer Camp in August. As IAQ Radio listeners may know, this past March in Dallas IAQA inducted Pete into its Hall of Fame for his work with Joe Lsiburekâ??s legendary Building Science Symposium known as Summer Camp. What most listeners donâ??t know is that Cliff was there with Pete for the first Summer Camp in 1996 as the 2 invited representatives from the restoration industry! Pete and Cliff talk about the milestone events that helped shape the industry that you know today and give IAQ Radio listeners an insiders view on how, why and when things happened! During Parts 1 & 2 Pete, Cliff and Radio Joe sat down at the â??kitchen tableâ?? and had a retrospective conversation providing the background on the most pressing issues the industry faces today. During Part 3 August 7th Radio Joe will press Pete and Cliff to finish the story and share their vision for the future of the industry with IAQ Radio listeners. LEARN MORE and listen to this show then join us live August 7th when we finish the most unique IAQ Radio interview ever! Pete Consigli is a Restoration Industry Association (RIA) Certified Restorer (CR) and Water Loss Specialist (WLS) and has been a member of the Restoration Industry Association (formerly ASCR, International) since 1977. Over the years he has been anactive volunteer and filled various association leadership roles. In 2008, Pete received RIAâ??s most prestigious honor for excellence in restoration, the Martin L. King award. In 2012 RIA made Pete an honorary member to its association, only the second such honor in RIAâ??s 60+ years. The first was to Marty King, CR, ASA, a member of the industryâ??s founding generation and longtime mentor to Pete. In 2015 IAQA President Kent Rawhouser inducted Pete into the IAQA Hall of Fame for his involvement in the legendary Westford Building Science Symposium, aka â??Summer Campâ?? (SC) Joe Lstiburek, PhD; PE is the brainchild of Summer Camp Pete represents RIA in support of Purdue Universityâ??s Disaster Restoration and Reconstruction Management (DRRM) program. Pete provides guest lectures to the DRRM students on the unique challenges of restoration project management. He also networks with faculty, students, and prospective employers at the programâ??s bi-annual career fairs. In his current dual role of RIA Education Director and Industry Advisor, Pete reports to RIAâ??s Executive Committee of the associationâ??s Board of Directors (BOD). He directs all aspects of RIAâ??s education program, continuing the long standing tradition of providing RIA members industry-leading comprehensive technical and managerial training. Pete also advises the RIA BOD on matters impacting the restoration industry and the RIA mission to: â??Provide Industry Leadership, Support Science, and Promote Best Practices in Cleaning and Restorationâ??. Pete supports RIA members to fulfill their motto, â??We Make it Better, We Promise
This week IAQ Radio welcomes author, consultant, industrial hygienist and accomplished industry professional Joe Spurgeon, Ph.D. We are going to discuss Dr. Spurgeon's new book "The Collection and Interpretation of Indoor Mold Samples - A comparison of methods" and other topics related to mold inspection, sampling, and interpretation of data. In his new book Dr. Spurgeon discusses his concern that "none of the sampling methods, or data interpretation methods, we use in the mold industry have ever been validated". The book goes into detail on the importance of sampling to answer specific questions and gives you examples of what questions to ask. Dr. Spurgeon states that "the selection of the sampling method and data interpretation method affects the ability of the IEP to correctly interpret the sample results and assess condition. One objective of this manual is to improve the investigator's ability to compare the utility of sampling and data-interpretation methods based on objective criteria." Dr. Spurgeon has a multidisciplinary doctorate degree in Analytical Chemistry and Environmental Health from the University of Pittsburgh; and was a Certified Industrial Hygienist from 1993 - 2013. His career has included working as a research chemist on the NBS Lead-Paint Poisoning Program, directing the FAA's Combustion Toxicology Laboratory, performing Health Assessments for CDC/ATSDR, implementing US EPA's Laboratory Exposure Assessment Project, and working as a consultant specializing in microbial indoor air quality for US PHS. He has performed over 4,000 residential and commercial investigations involving water intrusions and microbial contaminants; has taught courses on mold investigations, sampling, and data interpretation methods; and has served as an expert witness in numerous mold cases. Additional articles from Dr. Spurgeon aree available at www.bi-air.com. LEARN MORE this week with Joe Spurgeon, PhD on IAQ Radio!
This week IAQ Radio welcomes back Lew Harriman of Mason-Grant Consulting in Portsmouth, NH. Lew will be presenting at Healthy Buildings 2015 on Investigating and Avoiding Moisture-related Problems in Existing Buildings. He was a contributor to the new EPA Moisture Control Guidance for Building Design, Construction and Maintenance and his presentation will include information from this important industry document. Lew Harriman began his career as an architecture student at Dartmouth, but after five years as an Air Force officer, he went to work for a manufacturer of dehumidification systems, and got permanently diverted into HVAC engineering, where he has spent the last 38 years. In 1990, Lew was the lead author and project manager for the landmark second edition of Munters' Dehumidification Handbook. Lew is also an ASHRAE Fellow and International Distinguished Lecturer. For ASHRAE, he wrote, designed, illustrated and managed the projects to create the ASHRAE Humidity Control Design Guide, and also the ASHRAE Guide for Buildings in Hot & Humid Climates. He currently serves as Vice Chair of ASHRAE Technical Committee 1.12 (Moisture Management in Buildings), and also as Chair of the Document Revision Committee for the 2013 ASHRAE Position Document titled: Limiting Indoor Mold and Dampness in Buildings. Most recently Lew co-authored Measured Home Performance -Guide to Best Practices for Home Energy Retrofits in California with Rick Chitwood. Measured Home Performance is all about what's working when you measure, a topic we have featured recently on IAQ Radio. LEARN MORE this week with Lew Harriman on IAQ Radio!
This week IAQ Radio welcomes back Integrity in Health Marketing Advocate Sharon Kramer. Sharon has joined us several times during her lonely journey fighting what she has claimed for years is bad science marketed as truth. She has been shaking up the indoor environmental and medical community for years exposing how conflicts of interest and marketing ploys have been used to deny mold and damp buildings cause health problems. Her hard work lead to a Wall Street Journal article exposing some of these conflicts. The original paper she authored that caught The Journal's attention was "ACOEM Exposed, A Case Study in Sham Peer Review and Conflicts of Interest". The American College of Occupational and Environmental Medicine (ACOEM) has been in her sites for years. It took 11 years of her life to fight against any notion that water damaged buildings are safe. Recently ACOEM quietly revised their paper on mold, dampness and health. Sharon has organized presentations to the US Congress and anyone else that would listen; she created a mandate for the US Senate HELP committee to hear testimony; she caused several media outlets to write of conflicts of interest in science and medicine in United States public health policies and courts; she helped people in New Orleans to provide opinion separate from the CDC analysis of the effect of flooding from Hurricanes Katrina and Rita on the Gulf; finally she was even jailed in California for two nights for telling the truth of how false science became policy and remained that way for many years. Not many people are willing to spend all their family financial resources to fight for the Truth. Not many people would refuse to retract five words in order to avoid jail time. Join IAQ Radio today at noon eastern and LEARN MORE about the political history of the toxic mold issue.
This week on IAQ Radio we take the show on the road. Our spotlight is on the 11th VMA Executive Summit as we broadcast live from the Stark Campus of Kent State University. Radio Joe and The Z-man are attending for the third year and we have a great show lined up with several key presenters at this years event. The business topics discussed at the Violand Summit are focused on cleaning and restoration companies but the principles can be applied to any business. Our focus will be on how to take the type of information being presented at this leadership conference and apply it to your business or project management. We want to express our thanks to Chuck Violand and his staff for inviting us to join them and do a live show from the summit. We know our listeners will pick up great free tips that will help them become better business people and leaders in the industry. The Violand Executive Summit is a very popular annual event with over 150 attendees. The instructors are excellent and the facilities are truly first class. We hope listeners will consider checking it out in the future. Being the best technical person in the industry does not do much good if you don't know how to manage and operate your business. Join the Z-Man and Radio Joe as we pick the brains of some of the key presenters from the conference and get our listeners a free dose of learning from a premier conference. LEARN MORE this week on IAQ Radio!
This week on IAQ Radio one of the modern day pioneers of the Home Performance industry Mr. Nate Adams joins us for the hour. Nate started out in outside sales for a fiberglass insulation manufacturer. He then started a retrofit insulation contracting business in 2009, Energy Smart Insulation, earning the Department of Energy's Century Club award in 2012, one of only 97 contractors nationwide. Nate grew frustrated with the fact that all too often he was not truly solving the problems he was called to solve and the unsustainable treadmill of small, unfulfilling jobs that is typically the life of an insulation contractor. Searching for a better way, Nate has spent the last two years developing and honing a sales process to sell the large, complicated Home Performance jobs typically required to solve homeowner problems at their root. These jobs typically involve air sealing, insulation, and new HVAC equipment and often result in large IAQ improvements. Average job size has risen from $2500 to over $15,000 with much higher client satisfaction and personal job fulfillment. Nate blogged throughout this painful transition on the Energy Smart Blog and his work was picked up by the Journal of Light Construction where he frequently writes the Energy column, GreenTech Media, Green Building Advisor, Energy Vanguard, and more. He has spoken at industry conferences, most recently about using energy modeling to sell larger jobs. The focus on results has also lead Nate to focus on measurement, and he has found that energy savings are predictable in these projects. These energy savings are a good proxy for a successful job and a happy client. It could also lead to a larger market and unlocking large scale financing. This discovery has lead Nate to advocate for measured results in the Home Performance industry via the One Knob blog. Nate would like to see the Home Performance industry finally fulfill its promise to make the nation's homes healthier, more comfortable, longer lasting, and less expensive to operate while providing fulfilling, high paying jobs and leaving a better world for our children. LEARN MORE this week on IAQ Radio!
This week on IAQ Radio we welcome Richard Rue the Founder of EnergyWise Structures, a company dedicated to the study, integration and application of cutting edge technology for reducing energy consumption. The EnergyWise Analysis predicts remarkable savings (usually over 70%) of heating and cooling costs when building ultra-energy-efficient structures compared to conventional construction. The development of this program began in 1979 as the brain child of ex-NASA engineers who designed the heating and cooling systems for the original Mercury, Gemini and Apollo space capsules. Richard became involved early on with these engineers and participated in a house that was written up in the 1981 NASA periodical called "Spin-Off". Over thirty years of direct work with these engineers is the foundation of Mr. Rue's education in ultra-energy-efficient construction. With considerable research and testing, the original program for EnergyWise became a functional reality. The program evolved to keep pace with HVAC and building systems advances. The EnergyWise computer program is proprietary and was co-authored by Richard L. Rue P.E., and William B. Poucher, PhD. Richard is a past member of ASHRAE & ASTM. He served on various ASTM committees to establish testing standards in the insulation industry. Richard has been interviewed for recent articles published in RSI, Energy Design Update, Permanent Buildings and Foundations, Automated Builder and ConcreteHomes periodicals. He is a mechanical and thermal consultant, and an active public speaker for such groups as the various Home Builders Associations, the Portland Cement Association, Insulating Concrete Form Association, S.I.P. Panel manufacturers and various GEO-Thermal/HVAC manufacturers. Join us and guest Richard Rue to LEARN MORE this week on IAQ Radio!
What could possibly be interesting about mold and mildew, you ask? Itâ??s all in the content and the presentation style of the person discussing the subject. IAQ Radio is delighted to have internationally known and acclaimed expert on the subject McGregor Pearce of St. Paul, Minnesota, for a 3rd appearance on our program. Mac is an environmental health consultant specializing in indoor air quality problems. He has investigated mold in homes, commercial buildings, hospitals, clinics and skyscrapers. Mold and mildew are at the root of a number of health problems and contribute to building degradation. Mac makes mycology marvelously interesting.
This week in IAQ Radio we welcome the The Green & Healthy Homes Initiative (GHHI) President/CEO Ruth Ann Norton and The GHHI Director of Maryland Program Services Mark Kravatz. In addition during the second half of our show we welcome Building Performance Institute (BPI) CEO Larry Zarker. The Green & Healthy Homes Initiative (GHHI) is dedicated to breaking the link between unhealthy housing and unhealthy children. GHHI replaces stand-alone housing intervention programs with an integrated, whole-house approach that produces sustainable green, healthy and safe homes. As a result, they are improving health, economic and social outcomes for families across the country. BPI is an important partner in this effort, this year GHII was selected by EPA to receive the prestigious Environmental Leadership Award in Asthma Management. Ruth Ann Norton serves as President & CEO of GHHI, a national nonprofit founded in 1986. A dedicated advocate for healthy housing, she broadened the mission of the organization, formerly the Coalition to End Childhood Lead Poisoning, by designing a groundbreaking national program built on a framework of cross-sector collaboration to efficiently deliver green, healthy and safe homes in communities throughout the United States. Mark Kravatz is the Director of Maryland Program Services for Green & Healthy Homes Initiative (GHHI). In this role, he collaborates with public and private sector partners to optimize and expand resources for GHHI and is responsible for program planning and supervision, contracts and grants management and partner relationship management. He also oversees production of bid proposals, grant applications and reports and integration of data capture throughout program implementation. Larry Zarker is CEO of the Building Performance Institute (BPI) a partner organization to GHHI. With over 30 years of experience in the residential buildings sector, Larry has managed the national expansion of BPI's standards, credentialing and quality assurance programs. Mr. Zarker has been BPI's CEO since 2006 and under his leadership active certifications have increased from 1,000 to more than 25,000 nationwide. He has also led the expansion of BPI's network of independent testing organizations that deliver BPI exams from 40 organizations in 2008 to more than 200 organizations today. LEARN MORE about the award winning program and the partnership between the Green and Healthy Homes Initiative and the Building Performance Institute this week on IAQ Radio!
This week on IAQ Radio we will be coming to you live from the Rio in Las Vegas where for the first time ever the Restoration Industry Association (RIA) and the International Inspection, Cleaning, Restoration Council of Associations (IICRCA) co-located their conferences. Radio Joe and the Z-man will be joined by RIA President Scott Stamper and/or RIA 1st Vice President Chuck Violand and IICRCA Chairman Bryan O'Haleck. All of these fine gentlemen have been guests on IAQ Radio in the past and we look forward to bringing them back to get their views and perspective on this weeks events. We want to know what they learned and can pass on to listeners? What new announcements were made? Are there any new trends in the exhibit halls? How was attendee response? Why were there so many Aussies here this week and what we can expect in the future? We will also be joined by the restoration industry global watchdog Pete Consigli with his unique perspective on this weeks activities and events. This show will immediately follow a widely anticipated debate/discussion on changes to the IICRC S500 Professional Water Damage Restoration Standard. We will add a few words on how the debate went from the perspective of the moderators and our guests. LEARN MORE about news and events from this weeks RIA and IICRCA Conferences and get insights from industry leaders this week on IAQ Radio!
This week on IAQ Radio we continue our focus on the theme "research to practice" with Shelly Miller, PhD. Dr. Miller is an Associate Professor at the University of Colorado Boulder in the Mechanical Engineering Department and faculty in the interdisciplinary undergraduate Environmental Engineering Program. She is also the Conference Chair for the Healthy Buildings 2015 America Conference that will be held in Boulder, Colorado July 19-22, 2015. Healthy Buildings is a unique forum for built environment researchers and professionals to engage with innovative projects, products and services and to meet and collaborate with colleagues working on the pressing global challenge of making buildings healthy, energy efficient, and sustainable. At the University of Colorado Boulder Dr. Miller investigates indoor air quality, assesses exposures to air pollutants, and develops and evaluates air pollution control measures. Her current research projects include weatherization of homes and indoor air quality, understanding the role of ventilation systems in the transmission of infectious agents in buildings and intermodal transportation, engineering controls for reducing exposures to infectious diseases, studying ultraviolet germicidal coil cleaning technology, source apportionment of particulate matter and associated health effects, characterization of indoor air quality and the microbial communities in homes, and investigating urban air quality issues including industrial odor episodes. Dr. Miller has received funding for her research program from the US EPA, CDC, NIOSH, NSF, NIH, ASHRAE, HUD, Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, and various private foundations and industry sponsors. LEARN MORE about the mircobiome of water damaged buildings, Healthy Buildings 2015 and much more this week on IAQ Radio!
This week on IAQ Radio we will be discussing Saniclean: The Ultimate Cleaning Process! David Mason is the Senior Consultant, and President of Atlantic Restoration Services, providing disaster recovery services across the United States. Atlantic offers complete building and contents de-contamination services, and repairs property damage. He is a consultant for forensic building investigations, litigation support and for property damage restoration, and is a qualified professional for arbitration, subrogation, appraisals and court proceedings. He holds the RIA CR, WLS and CMP certifications along with the ACAC CIEC certification. Mason has spoken internationally on restoration and microbial remediation topics regarding the use of engineering controls and containment for remediation projects. Atlantic Restoration has Command Centers with warehouse facilities, along with contents processing plants, in Atlanta and West Palm Beach. Mr. Mason has grown what was a tree cutting service into a full service restoration company with offices in Atlanta and West Palm Beach. His business evolution lead to his pioneering work and the development of the Saniclean process. His work within the cleaning and restoration industry and volunteer time with industry associations such as RIA lead to engaging people that had a wide range of medically related issues and affiliations that required a detailed and meticulous cleaning process. Through Dave's interaction with allergists, Occupational Medicine MD's and Indoor Environmental Professionals he built a reputation that expanded beyond his core markets in Georgia and Florida. The Saniclean process assures a healthful, hygienic indoor environment with exceptional indoor air quality. SANICLEANING focuses on the REMOVAL of contaminants, NOT the application of chemicals. LEARN MORE more about Mr. Mason, the Saniclean process and working with the numerous people that need a healthful, hygienic indoor environment with superior indoor air quality.
This week on IAQ Radio we are facilitating a roundtable discussion about some current and future events in the inspection cleaning and restoration industry. We welcome executive leadership from the Institute of Inspection Cleaning and Restoration Certification (IICRC) and the International Inspection, Cleaning and Restoration Council of Associations (COA) to discuss current events, the COA's first co-located conference, and industry unification. The IICRCA's first convention The Event, takes place in Las Vegas May 6-8th. The Event is co-located with the RIA Convention at the RIO Hotel and Convention Center. Two weeks back we previewed the RIA Conference and talked about industry unification with RIA Exec. Director Mark Salvitelli. This week we follow up with the leaders of IICRC and IICRCA the following executive leaders will joining us for the hour: Maury Astley -IICRCA President & CEO -Maury is a Certified Association Executive (CAE) with a long history of association management in the telecommunications and health care industries. In August 2014 Maury was selected as the President and CEO of IICRCA. Bryan O'Haleck -IICRCA Chairman -Bryan is a thirty year veteran of the cleaning and restoration industry who has served on numerous industry boards and committees. He is the first elected Chairman of the Council of Associations. J. David Rozsa -IICRC Executive Director and Chief executive officer of Metacred, Inc. Metacred is an Association Management Company (AMC) that specializes exclusively in the credentialing facet of association work. Mr. Rozsa is also a Certified Association Executive (CAE) and a past member of the Board of Directors of the Institute for Credentialing Excellence (ICE, the parent organization of the NCCA). Tony Wheelwright -IICRC Chairman & IICRCA Vice Chairman -Prior to his retirement Mr. Wheelwright ran a multi-truck cleaning and inspection service for 36 years. He and IICRC Past Chair Darrell Paulson have been the architects behind the formation of the Council of Associations and many of the other progressive changes at IICRC. We look forward to updating listeners on the changes occurring at IICRC, the first Council of Associations "Event" and the future of the inspection, cleaning and restoration industry. LEARN MORE this week on IAQ Radio!
Dr Jack A Gilbert earned his Ph.D. from Unilever and Nottingham University, UK in 2002, and received his postdoctoral training at Queens University, Canada. He subsequently returned to the UK in 2005 to Plymouth Marine Laboratory at a senior scientist until his move to Argonne National Laboratory and the University of Chicago in 2010. Dr Gilbert is Group Leader for Microbial Ecology at Argonne National Laboratory, Associate Professor in the Department of Ecology and Evolution and the Department of Surgery at University of Chicago, Associate Director of the Institute of Genomic and Systems Biology, and Senior Scientist at the Marine Biological Laboratory. Dr. Gilbert uses molecular analysis and sequencing tools to test fundamental hypotheses in microbial ecology. He has authored more than 160 peer reviewed publications and book chapters on metagenomics and approaches to ecosystem ecology (www.gilbertlab.com). He is currently working on generating observational and mechanistic models of microbial communities in natural, urban, built and human ecosystems. He is on the board of the Genomic Standards Consortium is a section editor for PLoS ONE and senior editor for the ISME Journal and Environmental Microbiology. Among other projects, he leads the Earth Microbiome Project Home Microbiome Project Hospital Microbiome Project and co-founded American Gut. In 2014 he was recognized on Crain's Buisness Chicago's 40 Under 40 List. Dr. Gilbert was mentioned in a few interviews recently when we got into discussions on the microbiome of the built environment. He is a prolific researcher and speaker we are thrilled to have been able to schedule him this week. LEARN MORE about what's really happening in our indoor environments this week on IAQ Radio!
The Restoration Industries annual convention is coming up in May and this year they are co-locating with the Insitute of Inspection, Cleaning and Restoration Council of Associations (IICRCA) inaugral event. RIA has also been active with recent initiatives including the new Certified Restorer (CR) Curriculum, revised 2016 educational offerings, fire standards, Accounting and Financial Management Guidelines, Standardized Contracts, Asbestos Fact Sheet, Ebola Guidelines and more. Joining us the week to discuss all this and industry unification efforts is Marc Selvitelli, CAE, Executive Director of the RIA. Mr. Selvitelli has worked directly with RIA leaders and volunteers to help guide and execute on the organization's strategic initiatives, programs, and policies. He comes to RIA from NAIOP: The Commercial Real Estate Association, where he has spent the last eight years as Vice President of Membership and Chapter Relations. He also previously served as Executive Director of the National Association of Community Credit Unions and Senior Director of Strategic Planning for the National Society of Professional Engineers. Selvitelli also served as Director of Industry Relations and Regional Field Operations for the National Association of Home Builders (NAHB). His expertise includes membership recruitment, financial management, conference and event production, and advocacy and policy development. Mr. Selivtelli holds a Bachelor of Arts in political science from The Pennsylvania State University in State College, Pa. He also holds the Certified Association Executive (CAE) credential from the American Society of Association Executives. LEARN MORE about what's planned for the annual convention, industry unification and RIA initiatives this week on IAQ Radio.
Earlier this week the 18th Annual Indoor Air Quality Association (IAQA) Conference and Expo was held in Grapevine, Texas. This was the last show with the Air Conditioning Contractors of America (ACCA) and the last show prior to joining forces with ASHRAE and the AHR Expo in January 2016. Radio Joe was in attendance and has lined up some great guests to join us for this weeks show, we are looking forward to getting their thoughts on the conference. Joining us will be Restoration Industry Association (RIA) Industry Adviser Pete Consigli, Healthy Indoor Magazine Editor Bob Krell and IAQA President Kent Rawhouser. The group will recap key moments, discuss new information learned and fill listeners in on key developments announced during this years event. Dr. Eva King went above and beyond in bringing in a respected and knowledgeable group of speakers this year including keynote speakers, Joe Lstiburek, Ph.D. and Bill Banfleth, Ph.D. We will also discuss thoughts of members, review highlights from the IAQA Annual meeting and news from the vendors on the Expo floor. LEARN MORE this week on IAQ Radio with an all star lineup reviewing a fantastic show.
This week on IAQ Radio we welcome Dr. Brent Stephens to discuss how building science is used to ensure energy efficiency and IAQ can co-exist. Dr. Stephens is an assistant professor in the Department of Civil, Architectural and Environmental Engineering at Illinois Institute of Technology (IIT) where he teaches courses in Building Science, Building Enclosure Design, and Indoor Air Pollution. He has a Ph.D. in Civil Engineering and an M.S.E. in Environmental and Water Resources Engineering, both from the University of Texas at Austin. Dr. Stephens and members of his Built Environment Research Group (BERG) at IIT conduct research on energy and air quality in the built environment, primarily with field measurements in and around buildings. Their work continues to advance methods for assessing energy efficiency, indoor air quality, and environmental exposures within buildings. They are on the leading edge of the segment of academia intent on ensuring energy efficiency and good indoor environmental quality can co-exist. LEARN MORE about the Built Environment Research Group (BERG) here http://built-envi.com/ and on IAQ Radio today!
This week on IAQ Radio we welcome a respected industry veteran Mr. Alan Veeck, CAFS, NCTII. Al is Executive Director of the National Air Filtration Association (NAFA) which is headquartered in Virginia Beach, Virginia. He is a 1969 graduate of Butler University in Indianapolis, IN, with a degree in Business Adm. He began his 3rd career in the air filtration business in 1985 with Tidewater Air Filter as Vice President of Sales. While with Tidewater, Al was elected President of the National Air Filtration Association (NAFA) in 1999. He also served and worked on the committee that wrote the first book on air filtration, NAFA Guide to Air Filtration, and was part of the first group of NAFA members to pass the national accreditation exam to become a NAFA Certified Air Filter Specialist (CAFS). Mr. Veeck also worked on the committee to write the second text for NAFA entitled, Installation, Operation and Maintenance of Air Filtration Systems. When he retired from the filter industry in 2002, NAFA was searching for someone to manage the national trade association and asked Al to take the position. With prior experience in association work, Al accepted and has been NAFA's Executive Director ever since. He is a member of the American Society of Heating, Refrigerating and Air Conditioning Engineers (ASHRAE) since 1985 and headed ASHRAE TC2.4 of which he is still a voting member, and a member of International Facility Management Association (IFMA) since 1998. He is the recipient of both the NAFA Distinguished Service Award and the ASHRAE Distinguished Lecturer and Distinguished Service Award. LEARN MORE about IEQ and filtration including a review of the recent NAFA document titled "HVAC filtration and the Wells-Riley approach to assessing risks of infectious airborne diseases" this week on IAQ Radio!
Dr. Siegel is an Associate Professor in the Department of Civil Engineering and the Dalla Lana School of Public Health at The University of Toronto. Prior to accepting his current position he was an Associate Professor at the University of Texas, Austin. His interests and research have focused on healthy and sustainable buildings, ventilation and indoor air quality in residential and commercial buildings, control of indoor particulate matter, secondary impacts of control technologies and strategies, aerosol dynamics in indoor environments and HVAC systems. He is also keenly interested in ensuring that good research works its way into practice and this week we want to focus on that theme. Dr. Siegel's Ph.D. is in Mechanical Engineering (2002) from the University of California, Berkeley, he also has an M.S. in Mechanical Engineering (1999) from the same institution and a B.S. in Engineering (1995) from Swarthmore College. He is a prolific researcher and speaker and a very active member of professionals societies and associations including ISIAQ and ASHRAE. We look forward to LEARNING MORE with him this week on IAQ Radio!
Dirty Jobs, Pawn Stars, American Pickers, Bar Rescue and other reality shows make good television entertainment and most of us watch them. This week's guest on IAQradio is Ed Ranieri, 32 year restoration industry veteran and star of the TV show Catastrophe Inc. which aired on HGTV, DIY network, DIY network Canada and now is running on HGTV Switzerland. Service Master by AmeriSteam is owned by Ed Ranieri and Enzo Maddalena and is located in Brook Park, Ohio. Ed and Enzo are the Cleveland "Masters of Disaster." Ever wonder what goes into making a reality TV show? Then be sure to tune into IAQradio, Friday at noon eastern time and LEARN MORE when Radio Joe and the Z-Man interview Ed Ranieri.
This week we welcome Tom Robertson who directs the North America operations of The International Emergency Management Society (TIEMS), where he founded the TIEMS USA local chapter. He is Technical Manager for TIEMS in the European Union ASSET Program, which is developing improved, participatory approaches to pandemic response. He is also leading the TIEMS initiative, Disaster Resilience Establishment in Vulnerable Societies (DREVS). Tom is Founder and Principal at Thinking Teams, an international consultancy to leaders and organizations seeking high performance teams dealing with complexity, uncertainty, and risk. His clients include BAE Systems, The European Commission Directorate-General for Research and Innovation, and The Oregon Built Environment and Sustainable Technologies. He is active in the Oregon Organizational Development Network's Community Consulting Program, which specializes in making not-for-profit organizations more effective. Tom earned a Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from Purdue University, where he did research in bioengineering, communications, and artificial intelligence. At Bell Laboratories he developed new techniques for monitoring and trouble-shooting system failures. He performed and led advanced research and development in simulation, image processing, advanced computing, artificial intelligence, and systems engineering in roles including Associate Technical Group Director, BAE Systems; Director, Advanced Information Sciences Division at The Analytic Sciences Corporation; Director of Engineering and Chief Scientist at Lockheed Martin Advanced Simulation Centre; and Vice President/General Manager at Atlantic Aerospace. The Z-Man and I met Tom at the TIEMS Conference held at Purdue last year. We were impressed with the speaker lineup and the collaboration with the disaster restoration and demolition industries at what has primarily been an academic conference. LEARN MORE about TIEMS and large scale emergency response this week on IAQ Radio!
This week we go back into the archives for one of our favorite episodes. It does not feel like almost seven years since we had Dr. Lstiburek on and the information within is still as relevant today as it was then. The key to solving IAQ issues is understanding how building science is the foundation under all we do. The four P's are People, Pollutant, Pathway and Pressurization, building science is the key to understanding two of those four components. Joseph Lstiburek is a principal of Building Science Corporation. Dr. Lstiburek has been a licensed Professional Engineer in the Province of Ontario since 1982 and is an ASHRAE Fellow. He is also an Adjunct Professor of Building Science at the University of Toronto. He has over thirty years of experience in design, construction, investigation, and building science research. Through the Department of Energy's Building America program, Dr. Lstiburek has forged partnerships with designers, builders, developers, materials suppliers and equipment manufacturers to build higher performance buildings across the U.S. LEARN MORE this week on on IAQ Radio!
This week we welcome Lan Chi Nguyen Weekes, M.A.Sc, P Eng. and Don Weekes, CIH of In Air Environmental. InAir and their dynamic duo leaders are widely recognized as being a step ahead when it comes to providing state of the art consulting services related to IAQ, Green Buildings and industrial hygiene. We look forward to hearing what they see as the current and future trends in the industry along with a review of the ASHRAE conference where ASHRAE and IAQA finalized the merger of the two organizations. Lan Chi Nguyen Weekes is a co-founder and partner of InAIR Environmental Ltd., an indoor environmental quality consulting firm. Lan Chi's profile includes over 26 years of engineering experience with 23 years in the indoor environment field. She holds a Bachelor degree in Mechanical Engineering from the �?cole Polytechnique of Montr�©al and a Masters in Applied Science in Building Environment from Concordia University in Montr�©al, Qu�©bec. Lan Chi has served as President of the Ottawa Valley Chapter of ASHRAE and of the Ottawa Chapter of the Canada Green Building Council. She is currently serving on the Environmental Health Committee and TC1.12 for ASHRAE and on the technical committee for Healthy Building 2015, Boulder, Colorado. Donald Weekes, CIH is InAIR Environmental's Certified Industrial Hygienist and has been providing environmental and occupational health and safety assistance for more than 35 years. He is affiliated with the American Industrial of Hygiene Association (AIHA) as past Chair of the Indoor Environmental Quality Committee and as a Fellow of the Association. He is a four-time recipient of the AIHAâ??s Best Seller award for the "Report of the Microbial Task Force" in 2001 and 2002, the "Assessment, Remediation and Post-Remediation Verification of Mold in Buildings" publication in 2004, and the Green Book, aka "Recognition, Evaluation and Control of Indoor Mold", book in 2008.
This week we welcome Brent Kynoch the Managing Director of the Environmental Information Association (EIA) and principle of Kynoch Environmental Management Inc. EIA had its beginnings as the National Asbestos Council and is headquartered just outside of Washington, DC in Chevy Chase, MD. Mr. Kynoch has been the Managing Director of the Association since 1996, but previously had served EIA in other volunteer roles on the Board of Directors as an officer, and ultimately as the President of EIA in 1988 and 1989. EIA has spent 30 years at the forefront in providing its members with the information needed to remain knowledgeable, responsible and competitive in the environmental health and safety industry. When Mr. Kynoch changes his hat to his "paying job," he is the President of Kynoch Environmental Management, Inc., (KEM) an environmental engineering and industrial hygiene firm also headquarted in Chevy Chase, MD. KEM provides innovative environmental solutions to general contractors, owners, property managers and the commercial real estate community to address concerns associated with asbestos, lead, indoor air quality, mold, PCBs, mercury, LEED compliance and environmental management systems. LEARN MORE about the EIA and Mr. Kynoch this week on IAQ Radio!
This week we return to our series with Dr. Richard Corsi and his Doctoral Candidate students at the University of Texas at Austin. Joining us for Part three of our series is Josh Alred. Josh is currently stationed in Austin as part of his active duty service in the US Air Force. The Air Force is sponsoring his attendance at U of T while he completes his work on his PhD. From 20010 until 2012 Mr. Aldred was an instructor and Assistant Professor at the US Air Force Academy. His dissertation is titled "The Nexus of Energy and Health: A systems Analysis of the Costs and Benefits of Ozone Control by Activated Carbon Filtration in Buildings. We will discuss the practical applications of his various research projects and papers including an interesting paper on investigating the effects of ambient air pollution on military personnel serving in the Middle East. Richard Corsi, PhD is the Chair & ECH Bantel Professor for Professional Practice Civil, Architectural & Environmental Engineering at The University of Texas at Austin. He earned his Ph.D. in civil engineering from the University of California at Davis in 1989. He joined the faculty of The University of Texas at Austin in 1994. Dr. Corsi researches indoor air quality, including sources and control of indoor air pollution and human exposure to indoor toxins. LEARN MORE and help us continue on our quest helping to bring research to practice today at noon eastern on IAQ Radio!
Ritchie C Shoemaker MD has been involved in the field of medical evaluation and treatment of patients sickened by exposure to the interior environment of water-damaged buildings for 16 years. He has diagnosed and treated over 7000 patients; written and published multiple academic papers in peer reviewed literature; as well as three books, with the last published in 2014, State of the Art Answers to 500 Mold Questions. He lectures widely in the US and internationally. Since his medical retirement in January 2013 he has continued research into the basic genomics and brain inflammation effects of exposure. Through his website, www.survivingmold.com, he has trained physicians to certify in his treatment protocols. During our last show with Dr. Shoemaker Episode 235 on 2-10-12 we discussed the latest research on what he and some colleagues have labeled Chronic Inflammatory Response Syndrome (CIRS) from Water Damaged Buildings (WDB). Since then Dr. Shoemaker and his colleagues have been using brain imaging combined with an FDA cleared software that correlates with symptoms and physiology. The program is called NeuroQuant�??�?�® and we will LEARN MORE today about how Dr. Shoemaker is using the Union of Genomics and NeuroQuant�??�?�® in his research on CIRS-WDB.
This week IAQ Radio we look forward to an ASHRAE IAQA update along with a discussion of high performance buildings and education of industry professionals. Joining us are ASHRAE Secretary Tim Wentz, PE of the University of Nebraska - Lincoln and IAQA BOD member Don Herrmann of DC Herrmann & Associates. Timothy G. Wentz, P.E., Fellow ASHRAE, ASHRAE-Certified High Performance Building Design Professional and associate professor, University of Nebraska - Lincoln is currently serving as ASHRAE Secrerary and has previously served the society in numerous leadership positions. Mr. Wentz was awarded a Bachelor of Science in Mechanical Engineering and a Master's in Business Administration from the University of Nebraska. Upon graduation from the University, Prof. Wentz went to work for his family's mechanical contracting firm. As the fourth generation to join the firm, he had the opportunity to develop an expertise in mechanical design, estimating, and construction management. Since entering academia Prof. Wentz has received numerous awards and honors for his teaching and service to the HVAC industry. He is the recipient of the E.K. Campbell Award of Merit, a Region IX Regional Award of Merit, a Region IX Chapter President of the Year and a Regional Energy Award. The Mechanical Contractors Association of America (MCAA) has named Tim their national "Educator of the Year" award on three occasions and in 2009 awarded Mr. Wentz its highest honor, the Distinguished Service Award. Donald Herrmann is a LEED® Accredited Professional (BD+C and EB+O&M), Green Globes Professional, High Performance Building Design Professional, New and Existing Certified Building Commissioning Professional, Florida Certified Mechanical Contractor, Certified Indoor Air Quality Professional, Council-certified Indoor Environmental Consultant, and Building Scientist with over 30 years experience in mechanical system design, indoor environmental design and energy conservation in the public, industrial, institutional, and residential sectors. He has expertise in the design, construction, operation and maintenance of today's high performance buildings including; HVAC, energy and load analysis, indoor environmental quality, codes & standards and the integration of building systems. LEARN MORE on IAQ Radio Friday's at noon eastern!
This week IAQ Radio welcomes back Mr. Ed Light, CIH to discuss alternatives and limitations to IAQ Testing. Is the industry too reliant on testing? What is the science behind clearance testing for mold? What is the science behind the LEED VOC testing requirements? What is the engineering approach to clearance? Times change, the science changes, people change but we still see many of the same clearance methods that were used 15 years ago. What are the limitations of these methods and what are the alternatives? Mr. Light has specialized in the indoor environmental sciences since 1982, when he directed a pioneering IAQ Program for the West Virginia Department of Health. A Senior Fellow of the American Industrial Hygiene Association, he has published extensively. As a consultant with Building Dynamics, he has conducted over 1000 IAQ investigations, including assessments of the White House, South Pole Station and Sing Sing Prison. In his other life, Ed is lead singer and first chair banjoist with the All New Genetically Altered Jug Band and author of There's A Fungus Among Us! LEARN MORE on IAQ Radio Friday's at noon eastern!
This week we are happy to announce the return of Alan Zelicoff, MD to discuss the current Ebola Scare in the US. We will discuss the hype and the reality surrounding this issue. Has the 24-7 cable news environment over-hyped this issue or are the CDC and others downplaying what could be a huge problem for this country and the world? Dr. Zelicoff last joined us over five years ago on episode #143 when when Avian Flu was in the news. People were concerned about the potential for a pandemic but that crisis never materialized. The current Ebola coverage has been similar to what we saw during the 2009 scare or has it? Alan Zelicoff is a physician (board certified in internal medicine 1992, clinical fellowship in rheumatology, 1983) and physicist (A.B., Princeton, 1975), who has had a varied career including clinical practice, teaching, and operations research. In the latter roles, he was Senior Scientist in the Center for National Security and Arms Control at Sandia National Laboratories from 1989 to 2003. Dr. Zelicoff's interests include risk and hazard analysis in hospital systems and office-based practice, and in technologies for improving the responsiveness of public health offices and countering biological weapons terrorism. Dr. Zelicoff has traveled extensively in countries of the former Soviet Union and has led joint research projects in epidemiology of infectious disease, while establishing Internet access at Russian and Kazak biological laboratories. He is the author of numerous text book chapters and articles in these subjects, and is a frequent contributor to Op-Ed pages in the Washington Post and other newspapers. Dr. Zelicoff's latest book is: Microbe: Are we Ready for the Next Plague? published by AMAZON Books. LEARN MORE on IAQ Radio Friday's at noon eastern!
This week Radio Joe and the Z-man are going to have an open discussion about industry and current events. Last week they attended the IICRC (Joe) and IICRCA (Cliff) Board of Directors meetings. IAQ Radio has also been reporting on the IAQA/ASHRAE merger and other industry related issues and events. Where does it all go from here? We also have a big show next week with Alan Zelicoff, MD coming back to discuss the current Ebola situation in the world. The last time Dr. Zelicoff joined us we dicussed the H1N1 flu and related issues. We will lay some groundwork this week so we can get right into the tough questions with Dr. Zelicoff next week. IAQ Radio has a new engineer for the show and since its only his second week we do not want to put to much pressure on him too soon. Frank "Zappa" Amato is now handling the engineering for IAQ Radio, Frank is an audio/video student at Allegany College of Maryland. He has been working with IAQ Training and IAQ Radio helping with our audio, video and internet presence. Please help us welcome Frank!
On this episode of IAQ Radio Tony Havics, PE, CIH, CHMM, Wane Baker, PE, CIH and Tom Yacobellis joined us to discuss the reason particles behave the way they do, the challenges in determining how well we are capturing these particles, and the limitations of our instruments and equipment when it comes to particle capture and measurement. The committee working on the standard for in-field testing of Air Filtration Devices has been somewhat snake bitten and stalled but I spoke to the committee chair (Tom Yacobellis) and he is going to put a final push on to try and complete this much needed standard. In spite of not having a completed standard the information discussed on this show gives great guidance for how to handle the issue until the final standard comes out and it's definitely worthy of re-broadcast. Andrew Anthony "Tony" Havics, P.E., CIH, CHMM -Mr. Havics is an Honors graduate from Georgia Institute of Technology with a Bachelor's Degree in Mechanical Engineering. He is a Certified Hazardous Materials Manager (CHMM), a Certified Industrial Hygienist (CIH), and a registered Professional Environmental Engineer (PE) with nearly 25 years of experience in environmental, health and safety consulting. He is the Past Chair of the American Industrial Hygiene Association (AIHA) Workplace Environmental Exposure Limit (WEEL) Committee that has set over 100 exposure limits for hazardous agents. Wane A. Baker, P.E., CIH -Mr. Baker is currently the Training Manager at Trane Graduate Training Program. He is a graduate of the Institute of Technology at the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities and is a licensed Professional Engineer (P.E.) and Certified Industrial Hygienist (CIH) with 35 years of experience in the operation, maintenance and evaluation of various building types. This includes more than 30 years at a professional level in environmental consulting, construction and energy conservation. He has worked as an IEQ / EH&S professional on a full-time basis for the past 20 years. Tom Yacobellis -Tom has 25 years experience in the design, installation, and restoration of HVAC systems and 20 years specifically in the HVAC remediation industry. Prior to becoming President of DUCTZ National Service Team, Tom was Founder and President of DUCTBUSTERS�®. He was responsible for developing the largest independent network of licensed HVAC contractors dedicated to total system cleaning and restoration. He has served as President of the Indoor Air Quality Association (IAQA) and also served on numerous other industry boards and executive committees. LEARN MORE about the limitations of our equipment and what to do about it this week on IAQ Radio!
This week on IAQ Radio we welcome back Richard Corsi, PhD and Brandon Boor for a discussion about bringing research to practitioners. We will focus on some of Mr. Boorâ??s research projects and discuss how they can assist IAQ practitioners in the real world. Dr. Corsi is the Chair & ECH Bantel Professor for Professional Practice Civil, Architectural & Environmental Engineering at The University of Texas at Austin. He earned his Ph.D. in civil engineering from the University of California at Davis in 1989. He joined the faculty of The University of Texas at Austin in 1994. Dr. Corsi researches indoor air quality, including sources and control of indoor air pollution and human exposure to indoor toxins. He has also studied how architectural materials can remove chemicals from building air, offering protection for occupants following terrorist attacks. Brandon Boor completed his undergraduate studies at York College of PA where he had the opportunity to do an engineering co-op with Andy Persily's IAQ group at NIST. Dr. Persily was a guest on IAQ Radio May 21, 2010. This experience sparked his interest in IAQ research. Brandon began graduate studies at UT Austin in 2009, and has worked with Dr. Corsi and others on various research projects related to human exposure and particle resuspension. He is currently living in Helsinki, Finland, where he has spent over a year and a half working with groups at the University of Helsinki and VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland. We are also looking forward to an update on the IAQA/ASHRAE unification with Dr. Eva King. This will also be the first in a monthly series of interviews with IAQA reps on how things are going with the two groups now working together. LEARN MORE this week on IAQ Radio!
This week on IAQ Radio Rebecca Morley and Kevin Kennedy join us to discuss the New National Center for Healthy Housing (NCHH) National Healthy Housing Standard. The NCHH and the American Public Health Association (APHA) have created the evidence-based "National Healthy Housing Standard" as a tool to reconnect the housing and public health sectors and as an evidence-based standard of care for those in the position of improving housing conditions. The document draws from the latest and best thinking in the fields of environmental public health, safety, building science, engineering, and indoor environmental quality. Rebecca Morley is the Executive Director of the National Center for Healthy Housing (NCHH), a national nonprofit organization dedicated to creating healthy and safe housing for children. She led the development of the National Healthy Homes Training Center, spearheaded NCHH's recovery work in the Gulf Coast region following hurricanes Katrina and Rita, and more recently launched the National Safe and Healthy Housing Coalition. She has authored and edited numerous publications, including the book, Healthy and Safe Homes: Research, Practice, and Policy. Kevin Kennedy is an Environmental Hygienist and is the Managing Director for the Center for Environmental Health at Children's Mercy Hospitals and Clinics in Kansas City, MO. The center provides patient-based services, training, and education, and performs research in indoor environmental health. Mr. Kennedy has been involved in housing and school environmental health assessments for over 10 years and environmental science and industrial hygiene chemistry consulting for over 20 years. Both have joined us before and we look forward to having them help us to LEARN MORE this week on IAQ Radio!
This week on IAQ Radio Dr. Richard Corsi joins us to discuss his closing plenary presentation at Indoor Air 2014 in Hong Kong. Richard Corsi, PhD is the Chair & ECH Bantel Professor for Professional Practice Civil, Architectural & Environmental Engineering at The University of Texas at Austin. He earned his Ph.D. in civil engineering from the University of California at Davis in 1989. He joined the faculty of The University of Texas at Austin in 1994. Dr. Corsi researches indoor air quality, including sources and control of indoor air pollution and human exposure to indoor toxins. He has also studied how architectural materials can remove chemicals from building air, offering protection for occupants following terrorist attacks. Over the next few months IAQ Radio will be doing interviews with Dr. Corsi's post grad students at the University of Texas Austins Indoor Environments program. We will be discussing the research work the group has been doing with a focus on how to take research and to the field. LEARN MORE this week on IAQ Radio!
This week on IAQ Radio Bud Offermann returns to discuss new research on E-Cigarettes, ventilation and more. Mr. Offermann has over 25 years experience as an IAQ researcher, sick building investigator, mitigation planner, healthy building design consultant, expert witness, technical author, and workshop instructor. He is president of Indoor Environmental Engineering, a San Francisco based IAQ consulting firm. Under Mr. Offermann's supervision IEE has developed both pro-active and reactive IAQ measurement methods and diagnostic protocols. He has been a recipient of State and Federal research grants regarding building air quality and ventilation field studies (e.g. EPA BASE study of IAQ in office buildings and schools), tracer gas techniques, in situ contaminant emission rate measurements, and the development of indoor air quality measurement instrumentation. Prior to starting up Indoor Environmental Engineering, Mr. Offermann was a Staff Scientist with the Building Ventilation and Indoor Air Quality Program, Energy and Environment Division, Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory, Berkeley, CA.
At the Healthy Building Professional Summit the Z-man did a great presentation titled An Indoor Environmental Professionals Guide to Fire Damage Restoration. It opened a lot of peopleâ??s eyes and reminded us that Cliff was a pioneer in the fire restoration world. After reviewing our archives we realized he had never been interviewed on this issue and here we are. Mr. Zlotnik is a 40 year veteran of the cleaning and restoration industry and President Emeritus of Microban Systems. Cliff is often times referred to as the Godfather of the disaster restoration industry and was a pioneer in development of cleaning products equipment and techniques for the industry. He has been awarded numerous industry awards and served as an officer and member of the Board of Directors for many industry associations. He is also Co-host of IAQ Radio and a partner in IAQ Training Institute, LLC. He is known for thinking outside of the box and not being afraid to shake things up and challenge the status quo. . Cliff also founded the Unsmoke line of fire restoration cleaning products and pioneered many of the fire restoration techniques used to this day. He has always had a passion for fire related issues and feels that fire restoration doesnâ??t get enough respect. LEARN MORE about fire damage restoration this week on IAQ Radio with the Z-man Cliff Zlotnik.
At the Healthy Building Professional Summit the Z-man provided a superb presentation titled "An Indoor Environmental Professionals Guide to Fire Damage Restoration". He opened a lot of people's eyes and reminded us that he was a pioneer in the fire restoration world. After reviewing our archives we realized he had never been interviewed on this issue and so here we are. Mr. Zlotnik is a 40 year veteran of the cleaning and restoration industry and President Emeritus of Microban Systems. Cliff is often times referred to as the Godfather of the disaster restoration industry and was a pioneer in development of cleaning products, equipment and techniques for the industry. He has been awarded numerous industry awards and served as an officer and member of the Board of Directors for many industry associations. He is also Co-host of IAQ Radio and a partner in IAQ Training Institute, LLC. He is known for thinking outside of the box and not being afraid to shake things up and challenge the status quo. Cliff also founded the Unsmoke line of fire restoration products and pioneered many of the fire restoration techniques used to this day. He has always had a passion for fire related issues and feels that fire restoration doesn't get enough respect. LEARN MORE about fire damage restoration this week on IAQ Radio with the Z-man Cliff Zlotnik.
This week on IAQ Radio we welcome ASHRAE President Thomas H. Phoenix, P.E. and IAQA President Kent Rawhouser to discuss the recent blockbuster merger of the two organizations. Early in August we had ASHRAE Immediate Past President Bill Bahnfleth, PhD and talked briefly about how the merger came about this week we get into much more detail about the merger and how it will affect members of both organizations. Thomas H. Phoenix, P.E., Fellow ASHRAE, ASHRAE-Certified Building Energy Assessment and Building Energy Modeling Professional, is principal and vice president, Moser Mayer Phoenix Associates, Greensboro, N.C. As ASHRAEâ??s president, Phoenix chairs the Societyâ??s Board of Directors and Executive Committee. His presidential theme is â??People, Passion and Performance.â?? Mr. Phoenix started his career in HVAC over 30 years ago as an engineer with the Division of Plant Operation of the North Carolina State Board of Education. After a few years he had an opportunity to enter the design and consulting field of the HVAC business and has been working in that discipline since then. In 1989 Phoenix established the engineering department, and became a partner, in the architectural/engineering firm of Moser Mayer Phoenix Associates, PA. Phoenixâ??s design portfolio includes schools, research and testing laboratories, industrial manufacturing facilities and numerous classroom, residence hall and food service projects for colleges and universities. Kent Rawhouser is a veteran disaster restoration professional with a thriving business in Wisconsin. Kent has been active in the disaster restoration community for decades and could have stayed within his comfort zone for the rest of his career. Instead over the past 7 years Mr. Rawhouser has spent a significant amount of time volunteering and keeping on top of the intersection of disaster restoration and indoor air quality. As part of this effort he became much more involved with the Indoor Air Quality Association becoming a member of the Board of Directors and most recently being elected President of the association.
This week on IAQ Radio we welcome Penn State Professor and ASHRAE Immediate Past President William P. Bahnfleth, Ph.D., P.E., Dr. Bahnfleth is a professor and director of the Indoor Environment Center in the Department of Architectural Engineering at The Pennsylvania State University-University Park. He holds a doctorate in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and is a Registered Professional Engineer. He has more than 30 years of experience as a consulting engineer, researcher and educator. Dr. Bahnfleth has been a member of ASHRAE since 1981 and in addition to being Immediate Past President he is an ASHRAE Fellow and Distinguished Lecturer. Dr. Bahnfleth's Presidential theme was Shaping the Next, focusing on creating positive change for our world, ourselves, and our work by setting goals, making realistic plans to achieve them, and having the commitment to follow them. He put a strong emphasis on indoor air quality during his tenure and when introducing a collection of expert comments in the ASHRAE Journal he wrote "The first collection addresses indoor air quality (IAQ) the most important aspect of what I consider to be our fundamental obligation to strive to provide indoor environments that are safe, healthy, productive, and comfortable while conserving resources and the environment." LEARN MORE this week on IAQ Radio!
This week on IAQ Radio we will be discussing Baubiology & Electromagnetic Fields (EMF's) with Nichole Bijlsma. Nicole is the founder of the Australian College of Environmental Studies in Melbourne, Australia. She is an accomplished naturopath, building biologist, writer and author who conducts lectures to doctors, natural therapists and builders about the health hazards in the home. Apart from an Honours degree in Acupuncture, she completed further training in Guangzhou TCM hospital (China) in the early 1990s and has extensive experience lecturing in Traditional Chinese Medicine and Naturopathic philosophy at various universities and institutions. Nicole is the author of the best seller - Healthy Home Healthy Family - which attracted numerous radio and television interviews in addition to numerous articles in print and online media. Her book is available through the school at www.aces.edu.au. Nicole is a woman of passion, and her passion lies in environmental medicine. She first became involved in healthy homes as a result of two events in her life; firstly experiencing ten miscarriages after moving into her first home from what she now believes to be exposure to a high level magnetic field (from the meter box) and secondly, when she began to notice the extent to which the environment was causing illness in many of her patients particularly children. LEARN MORE on IAQ Radio with author, naturopath and building biologist Nicole Bijlsma!
This week on IAQ Radio we are going to talk about one of the best if not the best document EPA has developed in 20 years. Terry Brennan and Lew Harriman join us to discuss the EPA document "Moisture Control Guidance for Building Design, Construction and Maintenance". If you do not have this document in your library, get it! Terry Brennan was the lead author for the EPA's new Guidance for Moisture Control in Buildings. He is a founder and managing partner of Camroden Associates, a building science consulting firm located in Westmoreland, New York. He began his career as a physics major at Northeastern University, but some how, some way got diverted into building science, working on the earliest research into radon problems and radon behavior in buildings, and moving on to energy and moisture issues. For the last 40 years, he's spent more time crawling around damp basements and hot attics than most normal people would find pleasant. But in return for those decades of investigation, Terry knows a LOT about what makes buildings tick... how they go wrong... and how to make sure they don't. Lew Harriman was a contributor to the new EPA guidance for Moisture Control in Buildings on the HVAC aspects of moisture control. He began his career as an architecture student at Dartmouth, but after five years as an Air Force officer, he went to work for a manufacturer of dehumidification systems, and got permanently diverted into HVAC engineering, where he's spent the last 38 years. He is the founder of Mason-Grant Consulting, a building science consulting firm located in Portsmouth, NH. He is active in ASHRAE as the vice-chair of technical committee 1.12 (Moisture Management in Buildings), and is an ASHRAE Fellow and Distinguished Lecturer. LEARN MORE about moisture and moisture control on IAQ Radio today at noon eastern with Terry Brennan and Lew Harriman!
David Lark is Principal Mycologist at MouldLab, a Division of NSJ EnviroSciences Pty Ltd, one of Australiaâ??s few laboratories specialising in environmental mycology as it relates to indoor environments and the health of occupants. As a professional microbiologist and mycologist with over 30 years experience, David is a member of a number of relevant professional bodies including the Indoor Air Quality SIG, part of the Clean Air Society of Australia and New Zealand (CASANZ) he maintains current professional contact with advances in the industry and relevant science. In 2009 he udertook a course in the Mycology of Food & Airborne Fungi, at Centraalbureau Voor Schimmelcultures (CBS) Fungal Biodiversity Centre, The Netherlands, to continue his professional mycology training and has presented and published research papers and posters internationally. Locally, he has appeared on â??A Current Affairâ?? and radio interviews, particularly in reference to the aftermath of the Queensland floods. David is a scientific advisor and consultant mycologist to many mould remediators and has mould focused research projects in several states of Australia. He undertakes local and interstate assessments and assist clients with solutions to their mould problems, advising on microbial sampling, HVAC assessments, indoor fungal ecology & new methods of mould remediation. In addition to this consulting involvement and provision of expert witness support for clients, David supervises MouldLabâ??s Newcastle laboratory which provides a full range of mycological services to its clients.
This week on IAQ Radio Radio Joe and The Zman will be broadcasting live from the Violand Executive Summit in Canton, OH. We have an all star lineup of disaster restoration guests joining us in a conference room at the summit. We have put together two questions for each of our 13 guests. Following is the list of guests on this weeks show: Chuck Violand - President of Violand Management Bryan O'Haleck - President IICRCA Andy Robinson - Jon-Don Bill Yeadon - Jon-Don's Strategies for Success Tony Wheelwright - President IICRC Pedro Perez - Owner Perez Restoration Contractors Tammy Stokes - Owner Oklahoma Disaster Restoration Ross Driscoll Sr. - Owner Driscoll and Driscoll Insurance Mark Welstead - President Rainbow International Scott Stamper - RIA President Mickey Lee - Violand Business Development Adviser Jeff Cross - Editor Cleanfax Magazine Kent Rawhouser - President of IAQA LEARN MORE on IAQ Radio this week with a Bakers Dozen of leading restoration industry figures.
This week on IAQ Radio we welcome Chuck Violand. Chuck founded Violand Management Associates in 1988 with the objective of helping owners of restoration and cleaning companies build profitable businesses for their long-term business and personal success. Having owned his own restoration and cleaning company for 27 years, Chuck brings firsthand knowledge and experience of the inner workings of the industry. In addition, he has over 25 years experience consulting to small business owners and their management teams. As a history major at the University of Akron, Chuck learned that a leader's actions today produce consequences people will live with for years to come, whether it involves nations or businesses. Chuck is a regular contributor of articles to several newsletters and trade publications on the subject of growing and managing small businesses. Chuck is a popular keynote speaker at conventions and trade shows who is recognized as an authority on entrepreneurial small businesses and is a member of the board of directors of the Restoration Industry Association (RIA). Learn More on running a profitable business this week on IAQ Radio!
This week on IAQ Radio we are Hung K. Cheung, MD, MPH, FACOEM, President of Dr. Cheung/ OEM Advisor, LLC. in Baltimore, Maryland. Dr. Cheung was formerly with Building Health Sciences and was also the Maryland State Medical Director. He is a graduate of Loyola College in Baltimore and received his Medical degree from University of Maryland Medical School. His first residency and board certification was in Primary Care/ Internal Medicine from University of Maryland Hospital. He later received his Masterâ??s in Public Health degree from Johns Hopkins University in Environmental Science. He returned for further Postgraduate training (and received his second board certification) in Preventive Medicine specializing in Occupational Medicine from Thomas Jefferson University in Philadelphia. For the last sixteen years Dr. Cheung has been working full time in Occupational and Environmental Medicine, and Public Health consultation. In June 2000, he was designated as the State Medical Director for the State of Maryland agencies and State employees and in that capacity has worked closely with the State of Maryland (and local municipalities and many large corporations) in building a safe, healthful and productive workplace. Dr Cheungâ??s subspecialties are Respiratory Environmental Medicine, Indoor Environmental Quality investigations, Risk communication and Medical Advisory services. Dr. Cheung will also be the keynote speaker at the IAQ Training Institute/IAQ Radio Healthy Building Professional Summit August 21st at Seven Springs, PA. His presentation title is Learning to resolve rather than to merely inspect or sample. LEARN MORE about problem resolution, good science, junk science and the stretch of scientific evidence/techniques this week on IAQ Radio!
Natural disasters occur globally and with real time cell phone and media coverage seem to occur with greater and greater frequency. Structural resiliency, disaster preparation and response are studied and researched at institutes of higher learning around the world. This week Purdue University in Lafayette, Indiana hosted I3R2 the 10th International Conference of the International Institute for Infrastructure Resilience and Reconstruction where conference delegates from North America, Europe, Asia and Australasia met to collaborate on better practices to prepare and execute effective disaster response. Technical presentations were made by the CDC, Society of American Military Engineers, Army Corps of Engineers; and 31 technical presentations were reviewed. A first ever panel discussion between emergency responders and academia was also part of the program. Pete Consigli organized the panel and the Z-man was one of the panelists. This week on IAQ Radio we traveled to Purdue to LEARN MORE and to broadcast our own round-table panel discussion about the Purdue Building Construction Management program and the 10th I3R2.
This week on IAQ Radio Alison Johnson, Chair of the Multiple Chemical Sensitivity Foundation, will be our guest. We recently did a show with Steve Temes on this issue and he has since joined the board of the Multiple Chemical Sensitivity Foundation. He suggested we get Alison on to further discuss the issue and we got it done. Multiple chemical sensitivities are touchy subject for IAQ, disaster restoration and building science professionals. What is MCS? Is it a one size fits all issue? How do we work with the chemically sensitive? How do we avoid making things worse for the chemically sensitive? Mrs. Johnson graduated from Carleton College at the head of her class. She studied mathematics at the Sorbonne on a National Science Foundation Fellowship and received her Masterâ??s degree in mathematics from the University of Wisconsin, studying on a Woodrow Wilson Fellowship. In 2010, she received a Distinguished Achievement Award from Carleton College for her work in the field of chemical sensitivity. Ms. Johnson has published three biographies: : Wallace Stevens: A Dual Life as Poet and Insurance Executive; Henry James: His Life Revealed Through His Letters; and Louis XVI and the French Revolution. She has also presented her book Gulf War Syndrome: Legacy of a Perfect War and 9/11 documentaries on Capitol Hill, in New York, Washington, San Francisco, Seattle, London, Wiesbaden, Halifax, Ottawa and Montreal. We are privileged to have her join us this week as we continue to seek to LEARN MORE on IAQ Radio!
This week on IAQ Radio Alison Johnson, Chair of the Multiple Chemical Sensitivity Foundation, will be our guest. We recently did a show with Steve Temes on this issue and he has since joined the board of the Multiple Chemical Sensitivity Foundation. He suggested we get Alison on to further discuss the issue and we got it done. Multiple chemical sensitivities are touchy subject for IAQ, disaster restoration and building science professionals. What is MCS? Is it a one size fits all issue? How do we work with the chemically sensitive? How do we avoid making things worse for the chemically sensitive? Mrs. Johnson graduated from Carleton College at the head of her class. She studied mathematics at the Sorbonne on a National Science Foundation Fellowship and received her Masterâ??s degree in mathematics from the University of Wisconsin, studying on a Woodrow Wilson Fellowship. In 2010, she received a Distinguished Achievement Award from Carleton College for her work in the field of chemical sensitivity. Ms. Johnson has published three biographies: : Wallace Stevens: A Dual Life as Poet and Insurance Executive; Henry James: His Life Revealed Through His Letters; and Louis XVI and the French Revolution. She has also presented her book Gulf War Syndrome: Legacy of a Perfect War and 9/11 documentaries on Capitol Hill, in New York, Washington, San Francisco, Seattle, London, Wiesbaden, Halifax, Ottawa and Montreal. We are privileged to have her join us this week as we continue to seek to LEARN MORE on IAQ Radio!
Dr. Mason is Vice President of VOC Materials Testing and is responsible for promotion and demonstration of expertise in chamber testing, product emissions, product organic content testing, and indoor air quality (IAQ), providing scientific leadership in these areas. Dr. Mason has 10 plus years of directly related experience with product emissions testing and product content testing for both US and international regulations, certifications, and testing schemes. She is well-versed on existing IAQ and product chemical safety regulations and methodologies. She is highly knowledgeable regarding the manufacturing processes of building materials (e.g. furniture, insulation, laminate, paint, wallboard, etc.), their uses, and potential chemical emissions and impact on the indoor environment, as well as potential chemical content health and environmental hazards. Dr. Mason has a B.S. in Geology from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, an M.S.E. in Materials Science and Engineering from the University of Pennsylvania, and a Ph.D. in Earth and Environmental Sciences from Columbia University.
This week on IAQ Radio we are going to discuss Indoor environmental quality inspections/investigations/assessments whatever they are called this week and the 2014 Healthy Building Professional Summit at Seven Springs, PA August 20-22. This yearâ??s event builds on the past four events sponsored by IAQ Training Institute, LLC and the Tri-State Restorerâ??s and Specialty Cleaners Association (TRSCA). Each year for the past 6 years IAQ Training has had a meeting and training with all our sub contract instructors and friends in the Laurel Highlands of southwestern PA. We teach all three levels of the Indoor Environmentalist course Foundations, Intermediate and Advanced along with other programs designed to bring together the contractors, consultants, building owners and others. This year the event has grown to the point where we can graduate to the big leagues of facilities at Seven Springs Resort in Champion, PA.
The publication of the AIHA Green Book "Recognition, Evaluation and Control of Indoor Mold" ensured that mold investigation and remediation was recognized as worthy of special recognition in the industrial hygiene community. Our guests for this show were both editors of this important reference. J. David Miller, PhD was educated at the University of New Brunswick (Canada) and the University of Portsmouth (England) where he was also a NATO Science Postdoctoral Fellow. He joined Agriculture Canada in 1982 and was head of the Fusarium mycotoxin program at the Plant Research Centre from 1988-1997. In 1997, he joined the Department of Chemistry at Carleton University where he is Natural Sciences & Engineering Research Council Research Chair on fungal toxins and allergens. He is widely recognized as one of the most influential and respected fungal researchers in the world. Donald Weekes, CIH, CSP of InAir Environmental is well known to IAQ Radio fans and has been a frequent guest on the show. Mr. Weekes is the Immediate Past President of the Indoor Air Quality Association and has served or is serving on boards and committees with ASHRAE, ISIAQ and AIHA. He also still finds time to manage asbestos, lead, mould, indoor air quality and industrial hygiene projects through InAir Environmental. Mr. Weekes also joined us in September of 2008 for for Part One of our discussion of the AIHA Green Book "Recognition, Evaluation and Control of Indoor Mold". For this show we went into more detail to LEARN MORE with Don Weekes and Dr. Miller on IAQ Radio.
Dr. Charlene Bayer is the Chairman and Chief Science Officer at Hygieia Sciences, founded to commercialize her technology for detecting human diseases from breath and her indoor air quality research. She is a Senior Research Fellow for Materials and Healthy Buildings at USGBC, a member of the USGBC EQ TAG and IAQP pilot credit workgroup, as well as the past Vice Chair of the USGBC Research Committee. Additionally she is a Principal Research Scientist at the Georgia Tech Research Institute. Over the last 30+ years, her research has spanned the gamut of the indoor environment. Her group was one of the early leaders in sick building and product emissions research. She has spent much of her career developing methodologies to detect indoor air contaminants at increasingly low levels of detection. One of her long-term research areas is investigating the relationship between asthma and airborne exposures and developing real-time, wearable exposure monitoring systems for children. She is currently researching breath analysis for the detection of health states, exposures, and diseases. She was inducted into the IAQA Hall of Fame in March 2014. She holds multiple patents and is author and presenter of over 150 papers. She holds a Ph.D. and M.S. from Emory University in and a B.S. from Baylor University in Chemistry.
Dr. Charlene Bayer is the Chairman and Chief Science Officer at Hygieia Sciences, founded to commercialize her technology for detecting human diseases from breath and her indoor air quality research. She is a Senior Research Fellow for Materials and Healthy Buildings at USGBC, a member of the USGBC EQ TAG and IAQP pilot credit workgroup, as well as the past Vice Chair of the USGBC Research Committee. Additionally she is a Principal Research Scientist at the Georgia Tech Research Institute. Over the last 30+ years, her research has spanned the gamut of the indoor environment. Her group was one of the early leaders in sick building and product emissions research. She has spent much of her career developing methodologies to detect indoor air contaminants at increasingly low levels of detection. One of her long-term research areas is investigating the relationship between asthma and airborne exposures and developing real-time, wearable exposure monitoring systems for children. She is currently researching breath analysis for the detection of health states, exposures, and diseases. She was inducted into the IAQA Hall of Fame in March 2014. She holds multiple patents and is author and presenter of over 150 papers. She holds a Ph.D. and M.S. from Emory University in and a B.S. from Baylor University in Chemistry.
This week on IAQ Radio we welcome Howard Wolf and Mili Washington for a discussion about the two most popular Institute for Inspection Cleaning and Restoration Certification (IICRC) Standards the S500 and S520. We learned during our recent interview with Mili that both the ANSI/IICRC S500 Standard and Reference Guide for Professional Water Damage Restoration and the IICRC S520 Standard and Reference Guide for Professional Mold Remediation are coming out for another round of public review. This week we LEARN MORE from the IICRC Standards Chair Mr. Howard Wolf and Mili Washington about why another round is necessary, what changes we can anticipate and more. Howard Wolf has been involved with the cleaning and restoration industries since 1984. He has extensive disaster and large project experience, with particular expertise in institutional, industrial and hospitality facilities. In 2001, Mr. Wolf started HW3 Group, LLC, a firm committed to serving the restoration industry in the areas of investigation, research, marketing, operations, field management and project management. Between 2002 and 2004, Mr. Wolf sold all contracting businesses, keeping his consulting business and started an education and technical support institution, which was merged to become the Commercial Drying and Restoration Institute in 2009. Currently, he is the Chairman of the IICRC Standards Committee and Chairman of the S500 4th edition committee. Mili Washington has been The Institute of Inspection, Cleaning and Restoration Certification (IICRC) Standards Director since June 2011. Her focus has been to streamline the standards development process and strategy at the IICRC, work toward American National Standards Institute (ANSI) approval for new and revised ANSI/IICRC standards, and use more digital tools to make virtual collaboration really come to life. For the past eight years, Washington has focused her work in the area of standards development and management. In her previous role as manager of standards and guidelines for the American Industrial Hygiene Association (AIHA), she oversaw three ANSI accredited standards committees that developed 20 ANSI standards for the occupational health and safety profession.
This week on IAQ Radio we take an in depth look at the new IICRC Journal of Cleaning, Restoration and Inspection and discuss the cover article "The Role of Vapor Pressure and Enthalpy in Wood Drying" with the author Mr. Jerry Blaylock. Joining us along with Mr. Blaylock is the Journal's current Managing Editor John Downey. Mr. Blaylock has been teaching water damage restoration and advanced drying concepts for the past ten years and during the same time frame has been working on his theory and algorithm that is designed to explain how wood dries on water damage projects. His theories are derived from understanding lumber industry drying concepts and the physics of drying. Listeners are encouraged to check out the new journal and the cover article prior to the show at the following link: http://digitaladmin.bnpmedia.com/publication/?i=198021. LEARN MORE about drying water damaged buildings and the technical side of cleaning, restoration and inspection this week on IAQ Radio!
Joining us this week on IAQ Radio is Claudia Lezell President of Inspections Too, Inc., an inspection company that specializes in aiding in the diagnosis of floor covering and moisture related failures. Ms Lezell is the crème of the crop when it comes to floor covering inspection and one of the most common issues she and her team of experts deal with is moisture. Claudia leads a team of highly qualified scientists, experienced engineers and trained certified inspectors whose mission is to provide the highest quality diagnostic services in the industry. The need for this type of service is ever increasing due to the vast majority of factors that play into each flooring and moisture related failure. Flooring and moisture related failures can be avoided if proper testing procedures are followed before installation of a project; however this is not usually the case. Billions of dollars in related damages occur each year from flooring failures related to factors that could have been avoided if proper pre-installation testing had been performed. Every Floor has its own unique situations... sub-floor preparation, installation, specification, and maintenance. Determining the failure of a specific floor requires a thorough analysis and understanding of that floor. Flooring changes are occurring faster than ever driving the need for expert inspection when the inevitable failures occur. Knowledge of substrates, industry trends and new products, studies about each floor type is vital when assessing the possible causes of the floor failure in today's every changing market. LEARN MORE about the ever changing floor covering industry this week on IAQ Radio!
This week on IAQ Radio we welcome Derik Denis, VP of Indoor Environmental Quality at Clark Seif Clark (CSC) and the 1st Vice President of the Indoor Air Quality Association A twenty year veteran of the Indoor Environmental Quality industry who in 2002 opened CSC's Southwestern office located in Tempe, Arizona. Mr. Denis has marketed, managed, and conducted a variety of assessment, project design, training, and project management roles for environmental issues. . He is also the Chapter Director for the Indoor Air Quality Association (IAQA) Phoenix Chapter, and is on the Board of Directors of the Arizona Chapter of the Environmental Information Association (ElA). Derrick has managed an extremely wide variety of IEQ and disaster restoration projects including some very unusual projects we will discuss. We will also preview some of the key events and presentations at this yearâ??s IAQA conference in Nashville, TN March 17-19. LEARN MORE about flesh eating bacteria, wildfires, ricin, CO2 contamination, odors, hantavirus, zinc whiskers and more this week on IAQ Radio!
Just about every disaster restoration company needs temporary help from time to time. Most don't think much about it until the need arises and that can lead to problems. Pam Weigand has been in the staffing industry since 1989 when she was responsible for staffing contract security for various sites throughout the Greater Pittsburgh area. In 1993, Pam was provided a great opportunity to open a branch operation in Pittsburgh for Crown Services, Inc. a Midwest Regional Staffing Service. Over the next 20 years, Pam built a multimillion dollar regional operation to include staffing for the restoration industry, the mortgage, hospitality industry, warehouse and manufacturing for administrative, industrial, technical and management personnel. While Pam predominantly was responsible for staffing in the Pittsburgh Region, the branch also partnered with companies in North Carolina, New Jersey and Virginia. In January 2013, Pam founded Krown Employment Services, LLC, a full services staffing company. Located in the Deutschtown section of the North Side of Pittsburgh, Krown Employment Services, LLC provides clerical, industrial, technical and management personnel to business partners throughout the Greater Pittsburgh area. It is not by mistake that the Krown office is deeply rooted in the historic, ethnically enriched Deutschtown community as Pam has deep roots on the staffing industry in the Greater Pittsburgh area where she has amassed more than 1000 clients and recruited more than 50000 applicants. Pam also has deep roots in the restoration world and is the wife of former IAQ Radio guest, IICRC board member and veteran IICRC instructor Bill Weigand. LEARN MORE about the ins and outs of temporary staffing with Pam Weigand this week on IAQ Radio!
IICRC Standards Update & ANSI/IICRC S800-2014 Standard & Reference Guide for Professional Inspection of Textile Floorcovering This week we welcome Mili Washington who has been The Institute of Inspection, Cleaning and Restoration Certification (IICRC) Standards Director since June 2011. Mile stepped into a tough job and has worked hard to streamline the standards development process and strategy at the IICRC, work toward American National Standards Institute (ANSI) approval for new and revised ANSI/IICRC standards, and use more digital tools to make virtual collaboration really come to life. Prior to joining IICRC Mili was manager of standards and guidelines for the American Industrial Hygiene Association (AIHA). Bill Doan is the ANSI/IICRC S800 Consensus Body chair, he retired in 2007 after a 43-year career in textile fibers (Dupont) and carpet care (Steamway, Shaw). He served as Dupontâ??s point man in its outreach efforts to the carpet care industry during the time of the launch of Stainmaster® carpet in the mid 1980s, and was recognized as the first Cleanfax magazine â??Person of the Yearâ?? in 1989. Lewis G. â??Lewâ?? Migliore, ANSI/IICRC S800 Consensus Body vice-chair, is president of LGM & Associates Technical Flooring Services in Dalton, GA. He has been associated with the floor covering industry for more than 43 years. Lew is the author and columnist of â??Flooring Forensicsâ?? for Floor Focus Magazine a regular on Floor Radio as â??The Industry Troubleshooterâ?? and is the publisher of The Commercial Flooring Report distributed to over 100,000 readers worldwide. LEARN MORE about the most widely used floor covering in America with our guests this week on IAQ Radio!
Cleaning Verification Research & Standards - Dr. Haverinen-Shaughnessy is a Senior Researcher at the Institute for Health and Wellbeing Environmental Health Department (THL), Kuopio, Finland, a Docent of Engineering, Healthy Buildings, Tampere University of Technology and a Visiting Professor at the University of Tulsa, Oklahoma. She has done extensive research on IAQ, health, dampness, remediation effectiveness and testing post cleaning.. This week we intend to focus on her recent research on ATP as a Marker for Surface Contamination in Schools and a Potential Approach to the Measurement of Cleaning Effectiveness. This approach was adopted in the new ISSA Clean Standard for K-12 Schools. ATP continues to be more accepted in the cleaning and restoration industry, LEARN MORE this week on IAQ Radio!
Brian Baker is owner of Custom Vac Limited of Winnipeg, Manitoba. Mr. Baker has been in the HVAC and IAQ industry for almost 40 years and is a huge education advocate. His list of training and certifications is extensive as is his hands on experience in this industry. We got to know Brian through his passion for IAQ Radio and realized he has something special to offer our listeners. Knowledge of HVAC is vital to evaluating IAQ issues and very few have Mr. Baker's combination of experience and education. We want to know what his real world experience has taught him about the state of IAQ in Canada, how it compares to the US, what works and what doesn't and much more. Brian taught HVACR related courses for the Refrigeration Service Engineers Society (RSES) Winnipeg Chapter. In 2009 he opened Westech Energy Training Center where he currently teaches 5th Class Power Engineering, Preparation for Residential HVACR, Refrigerant Handling Certification, and manages the education/training for RSES Winnipeg Chapter via an on-line Internet delivery platform. Join us this week on IAQ Radio and LEARN MORE about how IAQ and HVAC come together in the real world.
As Vice President of Technical Services at Rainbow International Jack White is is responsible for training, technical services and research & development. Mr. White is a 35 year veteran of the cleaning and restoration industry who has worked his way up through the ranks. He holds numerous industry certifications and is an IICRC accredited instructor in Water Damage Restoration, Carpet Cleaning and Odor Control. He is also a Member - National Panel of Consumer Arbitrators, handling disputes for Better Business Bureau. Mr. White is a current member of the Restoration Industry Association (RIA) Board of Directors and has served on numerous technical committees at RIA and other industry associations. Join us this week to LEARN MORE from a cleaning and restoration industry veteran Jack White!
This week on IAQ Radio The Zman and Radio Joe are going to review the year 2013 with highlights from shows, review of key news articles and a discussion of where we see opportunities for 2014. IAQ Radio produced another 41 shows in 2013 and we had some valuable information for our listeners. We started the new year with Eckardt Johanning, M.D. and finished with Tony Wheelright the new IICRC Chairman. In between we had tremendous interviews with people like Ralph Moon, Ph.D., Sam Rashkin, Chief Architect for USDOE, Janet Stout, Ph.D world renowned expert on Legionnella, Irene Grant, M.D. on fungal infections, Barney Burroughs, CIAQP and filtration guru, our own Dr. Dietrich Weyel on Advanced IEQ and particle physics, Attorneys Paul Zeniewicz & Dennis Beaver, Dina Dwyer Owens, Franchiser, Entrepreneur and Undercover Boss, Wei Tang, PhD, Richard Shaughnessy, PhD and Bill Sothern, CIH on the ABC News The Lookout premier, CIH and many, many more that we want to thank publicly. A full list of shows and guests for 2013 is available at the end of this newsletter. LEARN MORE this week on IAQ Radio when the Z-man, Radio Joe and Dr. Weyel review 2013.
This week on IAQ Radio Tony Wheelwright the new IICRC Chairman joins us to discuss the past present and future at IICRC. Mr. Wheelwright joined the board of directors in 2009. Prior to his retirement, he ran a multi-truck cleaning and inspection service for 36 years. Mr. Wheelwright has been hard at work for several years helping Past Chair Darrell Paulson engineer many of the big changes that have occurred. Some have been very successful, some have not been so successful and some are yet to be determined. We look forward to being one of the first to interview Tony in his new role. Its great to see him come out from behind the scenes and take some credit for the recent changes. Lest see what else he has in mind. LEARN MORE this week on IAQ Radio!
This week we are going to discuss IEQ testing equipment focusing on particle counters and some new odor detection equipment with Tom Grillo of Kanomax USA. Tom Grillo started his career in the IAQ test and measurement industry as National Sales, Marketing, and Technical Service Manager at Airflow Technical Products, Inc. in 1991. He was instrumental in commercializing aspects of ASHRAE110 testing related devices that are still sold to this day by Kanomax USA. Tom was with the environmental engineering group at Hatch Mott McDonald, working with large remediation projects where he was directly involved with outdoor air quality projects and emissions monitoring. He was also a project manager with BT Western Corp, in the automotive industry managing the validation processes and vendor audits for new product development for various car makers. Tom is currently working with various test service organizations, universities and commercial partners to help improve IAQ related testing equipment and provide more access to information for the consultants, contractors, and end users of these types of testing instrumentation. LEARN MORE this week on IAQ Radio!
Dr. Weyel will summarize the science and knowledge of carbon monoxide over the past one hundred years. The detrimental effects of carbon monoxide are well known but it appears even today there is a great deal of confusion about the effects of carbon monoxide exposure. This week on IAQ Radio we are going to ensure some important information that very few possess and fewer understand is recorded and memorialized forever. Dr. Dietrich Weyel is our Technical Director and more importantly one of only a handful of people remaining from the heyday of the University of Pittsburgh, Graduate School of Public Healthâ??s industrial hygiene program. Too often people say that someone has forgotten more than others know about a subject but in this case it is absolutely true and may even understate the issue. Dr. Weyel will discuss the literature from the masters of physiology and noxious gas exposures. LEARN MORE about the supervision of indoor environmental contracting this week on IAQ Radio.
This week on IAQ Radio we are joined by Danny Hunt. Mr. Hunt is the IAQ Training Institute �¢??hands on�¢?? guru for our mold remediation courses. Danny has a very long history of contracting, consulting and training with respect to environmental safety and health issues. He started his career as an asbestos consultant and contractor in the mid 80s and has been in management or ownership of several companies since then. He is best known as the owner of Hunt and Associates and as a long time instructor for Professional Training Associates and IAQ Training Institute, LLC. At Hunt and Associates Danny completed environmental contracting projects of every size and in just about every type of facility. He is the containment king. Danny has held numerous certifications and licenses over his 30 year career and is an EPA approved instructor for Asbestos Hazard Emergency Response Act training courses. He has also attended mold remediation courses and/or held certifications through the Mid-Atlantic Environmental Hygiene Resources Center (MEHRC), IAQA, IAQ Council and ACAC. His extensive hands on experience combined with his experience in training and bachelor�¢??s degree in education from the University of Pittsburgh brings a real world perspective to a pedagogically sound background.
This week on IAQ Radio we are joined by New Jersey resident and founder of QLab, Dr. Wei Tang. Dr. Tang graduated from Cornell University with his Master and Ph.D. degrees in Soil Microbiology. He has conducted numerous research projects in Cornell University Soil Microbiology Laboratory using microorganisms for bio-remediation of environmental organic pollutants. He has also spent over 20 years at premier laboratories focused on microbiological sampling and analysis methods for indoor environmental quality assessment. He has taught professional development courses and presented frequently at national conferences on analysis of indoor microorganisms and also on various topics including investigation and remediation of microbial growth in indoor environments. In addition to founding QLab Dr. Tang is the inventor of several advanced microbial sampling devices including AccuScience Triple Gel-Tape, Sweep-Swab and Sponge-Swab. He also developed several advanced analytical methods such as AccuScience High Performance Spore Count and AccuScience Triplicate Analysis. Dr. Tang currently serves on IAQA and IESO Board of Directors. He is also the IESO President and IAQA Trenton Chapter Director. LEARN MORE about microbiology, sampling methods, sample analysis and progress in recovery from Super Storm Sandy this week on IAQ Radio.
This week while on IAQ Radio, we flashback to Dr. Charles E. Gilbert, an epidemiologist and toxicologist and a Principal of the Epidemiology and Toxicology Institute, LLC. Dr. Gilbert's area of expertise is in occupational and environmental health especially in sensitive subgroups such as children. Dr. Gilbert was a founding member of the Environmental Biology and Public Health Section in the American Association of Bioanalysts. He was also a Research Assistant Professor Department of Biostatistics and Epidemiology, School of Public Health, University of Massachusetts at Amherst, MA. Dr. Gilbert developed and was Director of the Northeast Regional Lead Training Center, University of Massachusetts from 1992 to 1997, one of six centers established by the U.S. EPA. Dr. Gilbert was a Subject Matter Expert for EPA National Lead Certification Examination System and has been on technical, scientific, and medical advisory committees for the Department of Housing and Urban Development, Environmental Protection Agency, Centers for Disease Control, U.S. Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry, Alliance to End Childhood Lead Poisoning, and National Center for Lead Safe Housing. Now Dr. Gilbert is applying his unique background by providing forensic investigations and legal support on disaster restoration and IAQ projects. Join us to learn more!
This week on IAQ Radio we welcome Steve Temes, founder of Airways Environmental Services located in Red Bank, NJ. Mr. Temes is an indoor environmental health professional that specializes in working with chemically sensitive individuals in New Jersey and New York City. Mr. Temes' undergraduate education was at Rutgers University and his Masters is from Monmouth University he started his career doing organic synthesis research and development for International Flavors and Fragrances, Inc. Little did he know this experience would be a tremendous foundation for his current career. Following his research work he was hired by a local environmental consulting company to start an Indoor Air Quality Division as the Indoor Air Quality Manager and has continued providing these services ever since. Mr. Temes specializes in working with clients that have significant chemical sensitivities and his approach to this issue is both interesting and uncommon. His theories on why people develop chemical sensitivities are thought provoking and he has had tremendous success working with this population. LEARN MORE about how to understand, work with and help those with chemical sensitivities this week on IAQ Radio.
Chris Watson is a Certified Indoor Environmental Consultant with over 23 years in the restoration and remediation industry. He currently serves as the Principle for Environmental Assessment Group which specializes in Construction defect, moisture management and litigation support with an emphasis on crawl spaces and the indoor environment for chemically sensitive clients. He also serves as the Principle for Signature Building Concepts which focuses on re-construction of faulty building envelopes. Chris is the inventor of the DrySPACE crawl space systems, FAWS (Filtered Air Wash Systems), HUFFERS (Hepa Filtered Downdraft Air Wash Tables) and the CSAR (Crawl Space Assessment Report). Chris has been a speaker at the National IAQA Convention regarding "Special Needs For Special Clients" and has served on the advisory board for the Colorado Chapter of IAQA. He recognized as an Expert witness and has provided support for such notable projects as Denver International Airport, the State of Colorado and numerous high profile Celebrities. He is currently working with clients recovering from the recent Colorado flooding and will give us an update on activities in the area. This area has some unusual building science and disaster recovery challenges LEARN MORE this week on IAQ Radio!
Tim Cordle, MBA - President and CEO of ARISTON, LLC. Ariston, LLC provides consulting services to Insurance Carriers and Counsel in conjunction with large property loss insurance claims, provides litigation support and expert witness testimony for counsel in support of construction defect claims, provides project management and owner's representation over sight during restoration, reconstruction and renovation. ARISTON services includes forensic accounting, document review, site information and documentation of insurance claims, cost evaluation and cost to repair preparation, scheduling, statistical and probability theory determination and claim mitigation. Previously Mr. Cordle worked for Munters MCS-Disaster Recovery as the Florida District Manager and as a National Large Loss Project Manager for Belfor Property Restoration. His extensive experience on the front lines of disasters and behind the lines working with insurance companies gives him a unique perspective on how the system works and what contractors need to do to ensure they don't become a pawn in the disaster restoration chess match. LEARN MORE this week on IAQ Radio.
Following last weeks interview with Ed Sobek, PhD we started thinking again about emerging issues with respect to bioaerosols inspection and assessment. James A. Scott, PhD CEO and Chief Scientific Officer of Sporometrics in Toronto CA. Dr. Scott shook up the 2012 IAQA Conference with his keynote presentation in Las Vegas titled, "The Past, Present and Future of Indoor Microbiology". The past and present aren't all that controversial but Dr. James predictions for the near future of indoor microbiology had the attendees and later the internet buzzing. How far off is the future? What new tools will indoor environmental professionals have at their disposal? What does this mean to laboratories and IEQ investigators? LEARN MORE on this weeks Flashback Friday with James Scott, PhD.
Dr. Sobek is the Director and President of Assured Bio Labs, an AIHA accredited and CDC ELITE Environmental Microbiology laboratory in Oak Ridge TN. He is a PhD microbiologist with 20 years of laboratory and field experience. He specializes in microbial contamination of the built environment. He is experienced in commercial and residential buildings, health care facilities and manufacturing settings, and serves as an expert witness for the industry. His approach is defined by his clients needs and he has developed an arsenal of molecular based tools to solve complex microbial issues. His most recent invention is the M-TRAP, which is an advanced 3-D biocapture cassette for mold, bacteria and virus. He is also active in research, and is currently collaborating with the CDC on several studies, including the Atlanta mold project.
Steven LaVelle is a consultant and marketer for restoration companies. He co-authored "Insider Secrets for a Successful Restoration Business" and wrote the books, "197 Ways to Persuade Adjusters (and Others) to Give you the Job," and "The Restoration Book" which has strategies and tactics to get more restoration jobs." His new book, "Get Paid!" has 30 of the leading names in restoration -- including Cliff Zlotnik (the Z-man himself) writing the foreword -- telling how to get paid even when the insurance companies, mortgage companies and homeowners are holding your money back." When Steven was writing "Get Paid!" he gathered some of the superstars of restoration and the three top magazines in the restoration field -- from the RIA, Cleanfax and R & R, pulled stories from their vaults for the book. But then Steven reached outside the traditional restoration field and found authors like Diane Dennis. Diane has several websites where she gives away massive amounts of free information to help contractors and sub-contractors get paid. She has had over 100,000 orders for her contractors forms!
Dina Dwyer-Owens is the chairwoman and chief executive officer of The Dwyer Group. America also knows her for participating in CBS's Emmy-winning hit reality show "Undercover Boss" and the first-ever special episode "Undercover Boss: Epic Bosses." A winner of the 2012 Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year Award for the Southwest Area North, Dina leads by example and credits a growing team for the franchise family she presides over today. Dina is a certified franchise executive with more than 30 years of industry experience, having grown up in The Dwyer Group. That business now includes seven franchise brands and more than 1,600 locations around the world through direct franchising and master license agreements operating as Air Serv, Glass Doctor, Mr. Appliance, Mr.Electric, Mr. Rooter, Rainbow International and The Grounds Guys. Collectively, those service brands make more than 2 million customer calls a year and account for more than $800 million in system-wide sales. In addition to being a franchisor in 2010, Dina served as the chair of the International Franchise Association (IFA) in Washington D.C., the world's largest advocacy group for franchising as a business format. Today we will be talking with Dina about entrepreneurship, franchise ownership as well as her experience on Undercover Boss. LEARN MORE about being a successful entrepreneur and franchising this week on IAQ Radio.
This week on IAQ Radio we talk about a subject that can be as tough to pin down as water itself. What is "water activity" and why is it important? We learn the answer today with Brady Carter, Lead Research Scientist for Decagon Devices. Mr. Carter is Lead Research Scientist at Decagon Devices, Inc. He provides scientific, application, and technical support to customers. In addition, he overseas product/technology development and testing in the area of complete moisture analysis. Prior to his work at Decagon, he was an Assistant Professor/Scientist at Washington State University in Wheat Quality Research. Mr. Carter graduated Suma Cum Laude from Weber State University in 1997 with a Bachelor's degree in Botany and Chemistry and received his Master's degree in Cereal Chemistry from Washington State University in 1999. Mr. Carter has written numerous journal articles, trade journals, and application notes about water activity and its importance in determining product quality and stability. He has pioneered work on determining glass transitions using dynamic isotherms. He has given numerous presentations about water activity, moisture sorption isotherms, and complete moisture analysis at professional meetings and venues around the world.
Dr. Allison Bailes has figured out how to put his PhD in Physics from the University of Florida to its best use. His is the founder of Energy Vanguard and his companies mission is to turn houses into high performance homes. They do this by teaching building science to professionals and homeowners, helping energy raters succeed, designing high-performance heating and air conditioning systems and helping manufacturers, government agencies, and other businesses with building science research projects. He also writes the popular Energy Vanguard Blog. Prior to starting Energy Vanguard Dr. Bailes started off on the traditional academic path but found that wasn't enough for him. When he decided to build his own home in 2001 it was the start of a career that has taken him from performing energy rating and working on high performance homes to one of the premier energy efficiency and green building organizations in the country Southface Energy Institute. After working with Southface and sharpening his skills he went back to being an entrepreneur and started Energy Vanguard. Join us Friday at noon and LEARN MORE about the interface of energy efficiency and indoor air quality with Dr. Allison Bailes III.
This week we discuss in further detail Advanced Indoor Environmental Quality (IEQ) with our Technical Director; Dr. Dietrich Weyel. Last week we laid the foundation with a discussion of toxicology, particle size, aerodynamic equivalent diameter, and where particles deposit in the respiratory track. This week we will get into more detail on the importance of aerodynamic equivalent diameter, how gasses behave in air and how this all ties into investigation and remediation of indoor environments. Dr. Weyel "Dieter" is the IAQ Radio Technical Director; his Sc.D. is in Environmental and Occupational Health from the University of Pittsburgh. He taught at the University of Pittsburgh and Duquesne University, and he also has worked in the private sector at Bayer Corporation prior to starting his private consulting practice. This week he helps us LEARN MORE about Advanced IEQ, particles, gasses and more on IAQ Radio.
This week we discuss Advanced Indoor Environmental Quality (IEQ) with our Technical Director, Dr. Dietrich Weyel. We will start with a general discussion of the Advanced IEQ topics that will be included in the upcoming IAQTI/IAQA Advanced Indoor Environmentalist course and then get into some detail on particle physics and gasses. A good understanding of how particles and gasses behave in indoor environments is vital to successful IEQ consulting and contracting. Dr. Weyel "Dieter" holds an Sc.D. in Environmental and Occupational Health from the University of Pittsburgh. He taught at the University of Pittsburgh and Duquesne University, and he also has worked in the private sector at Bayer Corporation prior to starting his private consulting practice. This week he helps us LEARN MORE about Advanced IEQ, particles, gasses and more on IAQ Radio.
Brian Mcfarland has more than 17 years' experience in sales and business management. Currently Brian is VP of Sales for Legends Environmental Insurance Services. He previously has served as Director of Business Development for Environmental Support Solutions. His current primary responsibilities are the management of insurance programs for EH&S associations, and sales management.
This week on IAQ Radio we welcome Richard J. Shaughnessy, PhD, and Bill Sothern,CIH, to discuss the recent ABC news primetime show "The Lookout" segment called Protect Yourself During a Mold Inspection. AIHA's press release here - http://www.aiha.org/about-aiha/Press/PR2013/SPR-13-0530-01_AIHA%20Members%20on%20ABC%20News%20Segment.pdf The show aired on Wednesday May 29th and reported on 7 mold inspectors called to look at a home that was first inspected by our guests. Four of the seven inspectors came up with the same diagnosis as Shaughnessy and Sothern but the other three were way off the mark. ABC Consumer Report trailer here - http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/business/2013/05/4-tips-to-protect-yourself-from-mold-inspection/ Join us and LEARN MORE as we discuss the ABC show with the two mold experts.
This week on IAQ Radio we're going to discuss an issue that keeps popping up relating to IAQ - How to evaluate spray foam applications, and remediation issues and answers with Mr. Bernard Bloom. Bernard Bloom has four decades of environmental experience with a balanced government/private sector work history. He is currently president of BSEA, an indoor air quality consulting firm in Silver Spring, MD. He has conducted many investigations into conventional and unusual indoor air quality problems in commercial, residential, and institutional buildings in the metropolitan Washington area, including problems related to improper ventilation, out-of-control indoor sources, and to unusual contaminants and pathways. He has worked with problems due to VOCs, moisture and mold, combustion, odors, SPF vapors, and the aftereffects of floods, fires, fiber releases, and vapor intrusion. For fifteen years Mr. Bloom (BS, MS) has worked as an indoor environmental consultant and is certified as an Indoor Air Quality Professional and an Indoor Environmental Consultant. His services include diagnosis of problem spaces, development of sampling and remediation plans, and integrated technical and strategic support for occupants of such spaces. He is an engineering graduate of Washington University in St. Louis and Carnegie Mellon University. Professionally he is a member of ASHRAE, the IAQA, the AIHA, among other organizations. He also is active in his community as a member of the Montgomery County Energy and Air Quality Advisory Committee. In 2009 Bernie Bloom was named as one of 40 "Environmental Heroes" by the Pittsburgh-based Group and Smog and Pollution. Join us & LEARN MORE on IAQ Radio!
Author and ASHRAE Past International Pres. Barney Burroughs, CIAQP on IAQ Radio this week. H. E. Barney Burroughs, CIAQQP is a technical consultant in the field of Indoor Environmental Quality and is a recognized expert in Indoor Air Quality and Air Cleaning. He is the primary author of the Burroughs/Hansen "Managing Indoor Air Quality", now in fifth edition and is also co-author of the AEE course Fundamentals and Core Skills of Indoor Air Quality. Mr. Burroughs is the President and CEO of Building Wellness Consultancy, Inc., a consulting firm specializing in IAQ diagnostics and training, filtration, and related IAQ and Building Health, Safety, and Security issues. He is a prolific author of numerous papers/articles and is a lecturer on IAQ and frequently leads seminars on that and related subjects. Mr. Burroughs is a Past International President (1987/88) and Fellow of ASHRAE (The American Society of Heating, Refrigerating, and Air Conditioning Engineers, Inc.). As a Presidential Member, Barney remains active in the activities of ASHRAE: a former Chairman of the Environmental Health Committee; active membership on Technical Committees 2.3 and 2.4 (Technical committees on gaseous and particulate filters); Past-chairman and member of SPPC 52.2 on Fractional Efficiency of Particulate Filters; member of Advanced IAQ Design Guide Project Committee; Trustee of the ASHRAE Foundation; and Past-member of the ASHRAE Presidential Ad Hoc Committee on Homeland Security Building Related Issues. Barney has attained the ASHRAE Distinguished Service and Exceptional Service Awards, and was designated as a Distinguished Lecturer with ASHRAE's Education Program. He is the current recipient of the ASHRAE Environmental Health Award. Join us this week and LEARN MORE about IEQ and filtration issues with one of the leading experts in the industry Barney Burroughs!
William B. Rose is Research Architect at the Building Research Council-School of Architecture at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. His major field of university research involves water and its effects on buildings. He is the author of "Water in Buildings: an architect's guide to moisture and mold" published in 2005 by Wiley & Sons. This book won the Association for Preservation Technology Lee Nelson Award. His current university research has included sky radiation effects with solar reflective roof surfaces, combustion product concentrations in houses with un-vented combustion appliances and much more. He is the handbook chair of ASHRAE TC4.4, responsible for four ASHRAE Handbook chapters on building envelope performance, and he is a founding member of ASHRAE Standard Committee 160P Design Criteria for Moisture Control in Buildings. Through William B. Rose & Associates, he consults to museums and historic properties on moisture issues. Some well known buildings/project he has consulted on include the United Nations Building, Sagamore Hill (Home of T. Roosevelt), and the Guggenheim Museum in New York.
Mr. Otero has been in the Cleaning and Restoration industry for twenty-three years, 13 years in the restoration side and 10 years in the distribution of cleaning and restoration equipment by being employed with Bridgepoint / Interlink Supply. Eleven of those years was with COIT services, one of the most successful worldwide cleaning and restoration franchises. His passion for the restoration industry is now being shared through the new technology of Direct Heat Drying & the Remote Field Commander. Mr. Otero is certified with the Dri-Zone ASD class, Vortex Drying, IICRC certified in CPT, UPH & WRT and is also certified with the Reets Drying Academy. In the last 24 months Mr. Otero has taught over 150 educational seminars & CEC events to approximately 3000 restorers, insurance agents and adjusters in the United States and Canada. He has also had the privilege of speaking at Connections Convention, RIA, FIRARS conference and DRC Convention & The Experience.
This week while Radio Joe and the Z-man are on the road, we flashback to a show with a true IAQ legend- Dr. Philip Morey. Philip R. Morey received his Ph.D. degree in Biology from Yale University and is certified in the comprehensive practice of industrial hygiene by the American Board of Industrial Hygiene. Dr. Morey has held various teaching positions including Lecturer of Biology at Harvard University and Professor of Biological Sciences at Texas Tech University. He has also held a research position (Research Microbiologist; Research Industrial Hygienist) while at The National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health in the 1980s and was subsequently Director of Indoor Air Quality (IAQ)/Microbiology at several consulting companies. Dr. Morey was/is Principal Consultant Microbiology at ENVIRON International Corporation. Dr. Morey was one of the panelists for the first consensus mold remediation guideline published by the New York Department of Health in 1993. He was Assistant Editor of the 1999 American Conference of Governmental Industrial Hygienists Bioaerosols: Assessment and Control book. He has written two books: How Trees Grow and Biological Contaminants in Indoor Environments. Join us and reminisce with this IAQ legend and LEARN MORE this week on IAQ Radio!
Let's hear from the patients. What do they recommend for people having trouble finding MD's to treat their dampness/mold related illness? What do they suggest when it comes to inspections and remediations? What has helped them and how can they help others? We plan to ask Cyndi Sullivan a patient of Irene Grant, MD these questions and more. Cyndi called us after our show with Dr. Grant and asked about doing a show for people and patients that have issues with dampness and mold. We talked and we agreed that everyone can learn something from each other and that professionals can certainly learn from those we are trying to help. So this week we look forward to getting the patient's perspective and will LEARN MORE on IAQ Radio!
What's wrong with the U.S. Housing Industry and How do We Fix it? DOE Chief Architect Sam Rashkin joins IAQ Radio this week to discuss this topic and his book "Retooling the U.S. Housing Industry- How it Got Here, Why it's Broken and How to Fix it?. For Sam housing is personal, it has been his focus for all of his career starting as an architect designing energy smart homes up to his present position as Chief Architect for the US Department of Energy. As Chief Architect for the Department of Energy's Building Technologies Office, Sam's primary role is leading deployment of successful research for new and existing high-performance homes. This includes developing and helping lead DOE's world-class research program, Building America, developing a new resource tool that will make latest innovations and best practices fully accessible to residential new construction and retrofit stakeholders, and overseeing a completely revamped DOE Challenge Home voluntary labeling program for leading edge home builders. In his prior position, he managed ENERGY STAR for Homes since its start in 1996. Under his leadership, ENERGY STAR for Homes grew exponentially to more than 8,500 builder partners, over one million labeled homes, and over 25 percent market penetration nationwide. "Retooling the U.S. Housing Industry: How It Got Here, Why It's Broken, and How to Fix It" that presents a comprehensive strategy for reinventing housing industry at a time of crisis.
Irene Grant, MD, CAC is an Internist and Infectious Disease Specialist, which equips her to recognize and manage challenging medical conditions, especially in those with different types and degrees of weakened immunity. As an Infectious Disease Specialist, Dr. Grant has treated a wide range of pediatric and adult patients with different immune deficiencies, medical conditions and infectious complications. Her premedical work experience and research in bacterial microbiology has equipped her to understand the processing of specimens in the microbiology laboratory, interpret results and reports and communicate effectively with microbiologists and industrial hygienists. As an Infectious Disease Specialist she has encountered and treated countless patients with fungal complications. She has extensive experience with diagnosing and managing fungal infections in patients with documented heavy exposure to environmental molds and persistent mold-related illness. A significant portion of Dr. Grant's current practice is dedicated to monitoring and treating patients with environmental mold exposure and persistent mold-related illness, including allergic, toxic and invasive infectious complications requiring treatment with anti-fungal medications. Through collaboration with industrial hygienists and mold-remediation specialists, she has helped patients identify sources of their illnesses and eliminate continued external mold exposure. Her antifungal treatments for the persistently ill mold-exposed have been strikingly successful. Please join us in welcoming Dr. Grant as we LEARN MORE this week on IAQ Radio.
Paul Gross is President and CEO of Insurance Claim Management (ICM), the parent company to CodeBlue. Paul has emerged as an industry thought-leader and a regular presenter at insurance and contractor industry events due to his ability to challenge conventional wisdom and engineer better approaches to claims management.
This week we are live from the New Jersey shore at a conference organized to help explore issues and find answers following Super Storm Sandy. The conference is presented by the Fungal Research Group Foundation-the same group responsible for the Bioaerosols, Fungi, Bacteria, Mycotoxins in Indoor Environments and Human Health conferences since the early 90s. Joining us this week will be three people attending the conference and more importantly working directly with those affected by Sandy. Tom Peter, CIH is VP of Insurance Restoration Specialists of Monroe, NJ. Since October he has been working in many of the Jersey Shore schools, commercial buildings, municipal buildings, residences and schools in the NY-NJ area. Mike McGuinnis, CIH, CIAQP is founder of RK Environmental of Phillipsburg, NJ. Mike is also busy helping business owners, contractors and residents of the NY-NJ Shore area consulting on mold and other indoor environmental contamination issues. Pete Consigli is a friend of the show, frequent contributor and restoration industry watchdog. We will be discussing the presentations at the conference and updating listeners on the issues locals are facing almost six months after Sandy pounded this area. LEARN MORE this week on IAQ Radio.
Radio Joe is joined by Bob Baker, Darrell Paulson, Davidge Warfield, Eric Shapiro & Mike McGuinniss for a review of the IAQA 16th Annual Conference and Exhibit. Also includes an announcement from Darrell Paulson, Chairman of the IICRC on the ANSI S520 announcement.
This week on IAQ Radio we welcome Sam Rashkin, Chief Architect for the Department of Energy's Building Technologies Office, Sam's primary role is leading deployment of successful research for new and existing high-performance homes. This includes helping to lead DOE's world-class research program, Building America, in developing a new resource tool that will make latest innovations and best practices fully accessible to residential new construction and retrofit stakeholders. He is also overseeing a completely revamped DOE Challenge Home voluntary labeling program for leading edge home builders. In his prior position, he managed ENERGY STAR for Homes since its start in 1996. Under his leadership, ENERGY STAR for Homes grew exponentially to more than 8,500 builder partners, over one million labeled homes, and over 25 percent market penetration nationwide. Mr. Rashkin is widely recognized as an expert on how energy efficiency and indoor air quality must work in tandem. LEARN MORE about the present and future of the US housing stock this week on IAQ Radio!
This week we will have a discussion of Post-Remediation Verification (PRV) on Mold Remediation Projects with Larry Robertson, the Indoor Air Quality Association's 1st President and founding board member. Mr. Robertson has been a leader in IAQ research and services for over 2 decades. He is known for establishing Mycotech Biological, Inc. (MBI), one of the first environmental laboratories that specialized in the identification of fungi and their association with HVAC systems. He is currently preparing for a presentation on PRV at the IAQA Conference March 27- Feb. 1, 2013 in Orlando, Florida. We look forward to discussing his experience with PRV in the early days of the mold rush, standards and guidelines that have influenced PRV over the years and current thoughts on PRV. Join us and LEARN MORE about mold post-remediation verification this week on IAQ Radio!
From Maui to Budapest, Dan Coughlin has worked with senior-level executives and business owners to improve their impact as business leaders on branding, innovation, and execution. His clients include RE/MAX, Shell, Anheuser-Busch InBev, Marriott, McDonald's, Coca-Cola, GE, Toyota, Abbott, St. Louis Cardinals, and more than 200 other organizations. As an executive coach, he has invested more than 3,000 hours on-site in over 30 industries working with more than 170 executives to improve their key business outcomes. He is the author of the books: BEAT YESTERDAY, The Management 500, & Find a Way to Win. He has been quoted in USA Today, Investor's Business Daily, and The Journal of the American Management Association, and his articles have been published in more than 100 trade association publications. Dan lives in St. Louis, Missouri with his wife, Barb, and their children, Sarah and Ben. Join us as we discuss business tips for tough financial times on IAQ Radio!
Dr. Janet E. Stout is director of Special Pathogens Laboratory, and a research associate professor at the University of Pittsburgh Swanson School of Engineering in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering. A clinical and environmental microbiologist, Dr. Stout is internationally recognized for more than 30 years of pioneering research in Legionella. Credited as the first to demonstrate the link between Legionnaires' disease and the presence of Legionella in hospital water systems, her seminal discovery in 1982, shifted the focus from cooling towers to water distributions systems as the primary source for Legionnaires' disease. This changed the direction of research and expanded the water treatment industry's approach to controlling Legionella. Since then, Dr. Stout has evaluated every major Legionella disinfection technology used today. An advocate for prevention, Dr. Stout was instrumental in developing the first U.S. prevention strategy for hospital-acquired Legionnaires' disease in 1993. Later adopted by the Veteran's Health Administration and others, the guideline continues to serve as a national model for Legionella prevention. In addition to Dr. Stout's numerous research articles published in major medical and scientific peer-reviewed publications, she co-authors the Legionella chapter in Hospital Epidemiology and Infection Control , Harrison's Principles of Internal Medicine, and the Manual of Clinical Microbiology. Active in scientific and professional associations, Dr. Stout serves on the Legionella standard committee for the Cooling Technology Institute and on the American Society of Heating, Refrigerating and Air Conditioning Engineers' committees for Legionella Guideline 12 and the proposed ASHRAE Legionella standard.
This week IAQ Radio welcomes Ralph E. Moon, PhD, CHMM, CIAQP for a wide ranging discussion on indoor air quality, duration of loss studies and building science issues. Dr. Moon is Building Science Discipline Manager, Principle Scientist and a shareholder with HSA Engineers and Scientists of Tampa Florida. HSA is an industry-leading, engineering consulting and forensics investigation firm with 13 offices in the SE US with over 300 employees. Dr. Moon has over 30 years of experience in the areas of duration of loss studies, risk assessment, project management, industrial hygiene and indoor air quality assessments. Dr. Moon has a unique background that combines extensive field experience, seminar development and presentation, research, and legal services in IAQ, building science and disaster restoration. He is an expert on duration of loss and assessment of water damaged buildings. He has also done research on cleaning and restoration of contents and building materials that our listeners will find particularly fascinating. Please join us in welcoming Dr. Moon and LEARN MORE about IAQ, disaster restoration and building science this week on IAQ Radio.
Dr. Janet E. Stout is director of Special Pathogens Laboratory, and a research associate professor at the University of Pittsburgh Swanson School of Engineering in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering. A clinical and environmental microbiologist, Dr. Stout is internationally recognized for more than 30 years of pioneering research in Legionella. Credited as the first to demonstrate the link between Legionnaires' disease and the presence of Legionella in hospital water systems, her seminal discovery in 1982, shifted the focus from cooling towers to water distributions systems as the primary source for Legionnaires' disease. This changed the direction of research and expanded the water treatment industry's approach to controlling Legionella. Since then, Dr. Stout has evaluated every major Legionella disinfection technology used today. An advocate for prevention, Dr. Stout was instrumental in developing the first U.S. prevention strategy for hospital-acquired Legionnaires' disease in 1993. Later adopted by the Veteran's Health Administration and others, the guideline continues to serve as a national model for Legionella prevention. In addition to Dr. Stout's numerous research articles published in major medical and scientific peer-reviewed publications, she co-authors the Legionella chapter in Hospital Epidemiology and Infection Control , Harrison's Principles of Internal Medicine, and the Manual of Clinical Microbiology. Active in scientific and professional associations, Dr. Stout serves on the Legionella standard committee for the Cooling Technology Institute and on the American Society of Heating, Refrigerating and Air Conditioning Engineers' committees for Legionella Guideline 12 and the proposed ASHRAE Legionella standard.
The Los Angeles native and graduate of Loyola University School of Law at Los Angeles, began his legal career as a Deputy District Attorney in Bakersfield, where he founded a Consumer Protection Division, and, as he puts it, "When I had hair," became an on-air, legal affairs reporter for local television stations. This led to gigs in talk radio, all the while he was in private practice. For over 26 years, he has written a weekly syndicated newspaper column called You and the Law, which provides consumer and legal advice to his readers. (Google Dennis Beaver You and the Law) He practice has a strong business concentration, and as listeners will note, Dennis tells it like it is. "I never won Mr. Popularity in high school," Beaver will tell you with a chuckle! "There is a moral obligation of getting paid for the work you do, and it drivers me crazy to see good people in the Restoration Industry shoot themselves in the foot, losing a small fortune due to their own mistakes, oversights, and crooked customers, not to mention the wimp factor, where the owner is afraid of his own shadow, not realizing the power of the human voice, or, the value of getting a gutsy lawyer involved at the first sigh of trouble." "So much can be done beforehand--and later--to reduce the chance of becoming a victim of someone who will take your time, your materials, what you pay your employees, and your check!"
This week on IAQ Radio Eckardt Johanning, M.D., M.Sc., PhD joins us to discuss the aftermath of Hurricane Sandy and the recently announced conference Safe and Effective Flood and Mold Remediation -After the Super Storm Sandy and other Natural Disasters. Eckardt Johanning, M.D., M.Sc., PhD. is the Medical Director of Occupational and Environmental Life Science, and the Fungal Research Group Foundation, Inc. (a nonprofit organization) in Albany, New York, USA. He is involved in direct patient care, research and teaching. He is on the faculty of Columbia University, Department of Family Medicine, New York. He is also the founder and principle organizer of the International Conferences on Bioaerosols, Fungi, Bacteria, and Mycotoxins (Saratoga Springs, New York 1994, 1996, 1998, and 2000 in Helsinki, Finland (together with Healthy Buildings 2000), 2003 and 2011 which brought together a wide range of leading international researchers and health specialists devoted to public health and prevention. LEARN MORE about how to provide safe and effective flood and mold remediation and why it's so important this week on IAQ Radio.
This week on IAQ Radio we explore marketing, branding and website development with our guest Dan Droz. Mr. Droz is president of Droz and Associates (drozmarketing.com), a strategic marketing firm with extensive experience in the cleaning, chemical and restoration/maintenance services market, and for 17 years, served as adjunct professor of Design Management at Carnegie Mellon University (CMU) where he founded the nation's first Interdisciplinary Product Development Program, directed the Design For Business Program and taught innovation strategy, business practice, and marketing accountability. Dan is the recipient of numerous regional and national awards for marketing, design and product development, including recognition by the American Marketing Association last week, as "Marketer of the Year" in 7 out of 10 industry categories as well as "Grand Marketer of the Year". His innovative ideas on branding, marketing and design have been featured in over 100 articles and books including the New York Times, Wall Street Journal and Tom Peter's books and tapes. In 1996, he was recognized as one of seven outstanding alumni of Harvard University at the 25th anniversary of Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts for his contribution to Design Education and leadership. Join us Friday, December 21st at noon eastern to LEARN MORE about marketing, branding and website development, then come out of the gates strong in 2013!
Ever wondered how and why some firms get chosen to handle the large insurance claims? Do you think you're ready to handle large commercial and industrial insurance projects? Jim Thompson & Company has handled large commercial and industrial fire and water losses all over the US and Puerto Rico. If you think you're ready to up the ante and compete against the big guns on large insurance claims; Jim offers to teach you how. Tune in to IAQradio Friday, December 14, 2012 at noon eastern time, when large loss veteran Jim Thompson shares some of his large loss secrets of success with Z-Man Cliff Zlotnik and the IAQradio listening audience.
What is the Pittsburgh Protocol? Could it be helpful in cleaning up after Super Storm Sandy? Is it a one size fits all solution? Find the answers this week on IAQ Radio with the creator "The Z-Man" Cliff Zlotnik. This week on IAQ Radio the Creator of the Pittsburgh Protocol (who just happens to be our co-host on IAQ Radio) The Z-Man, Cliff Zlotnik will join us to discuss the Pittsburgh Protocol. The Pittsburgh protocol was developed following extensive flooding in the Pittsburgh area following Hurricane Ivan in 2004. A local client needed help cleaning up a large, badly contaminated basement. Previous efforts had been unsuccessful and may have even made things worse. It was time for some out-of-the-box thinking; someone had to come up with a cost effective, yet thorough alternative. Thus the Pittsburgh Protocol was born, LEARN MORE this week on IAQ Radio!
This week on IAQ Radio we have a Super Storm Sandy update with a NYC area industrial hygienist assisting with projects that resulted from this natural disaster. Bernard Fontaine, CIH, CSP. Mr. Fontaine has over 35 years professional and business experience in regulatory compliance, insurance, national defense, environmental services, and consulting. He specializes in cross-functional and cross-regional teams and he has developed and supported complex, multi-year consulting engagements. His leadership skills has driven cost-effective solutions for public and private sectors in areas of industrial hygiene, risk management, loss control and worker compensation claim, safety system management, occupational and public health, process and product safety throughout the supply chain, ergonomics, indoor air quality, emergency response and training for workers and their supervisors. LEARN MORE this week on IAQ Radio!
This week on IAQ Radio we will interview Mr. Pertti (Bert) Hakkinen, Ph.D & Stephanie Publicker from the National Library of Medicine, National Institute of Health (NIH). Our discussion will focus on one of the most important and underutilized resources for environmental health professionals the National Library of Medicine, Specialized Information Services. We will also be discussing emergency services with Dr. Hakkinen especially as they relate to the current response to super storm Sandy. Pertti (Bert) Hakkinen, Ph.D., is the Acting Head of the Office of Clinical Toxicology, and the Senior Toxicologist and Toxicology and Environmental Health Science Advisor in the Division of Specialized Information Services, National Library of Medicine (NLM), National Institutes of Health (NIH). Dr. Hakkinen is the former project leader for the Wireless Information System for Emergency Responders (WISER) and the current project leader for the Chemical Hazards Emergency Medical Management (CHEMM) tools, represents NLM on various committees, and provides leadership for NLM's participation in national and international efforts in toxicology-, exposure-, and risk assessment-related information. Dr. Hakkinen received the 2011 "Risk Communication Excellence Award" from the Alliance for Chemical Safety for his work on the CHEMM project, and received one of the annual "NIH Director's Awards" (August, 2011), with this award recognizing a role in efforts led by NIEHS related to the Deepwater Horizon Gulf Oil Spill. Dr. Hakkinen has been an invited expert or reviewer for several U.S. EPA-, Health Canada-, and European Commission-sponsored efforts to develop or revise human exposure assessment guidance and resource documents and software, and was selected as a member of the core panel of experts in 2005-2007 for the Voluntary Children's Chemical Evaluation Program (VCCEP, a part of the Chemical Right-to-Know Initiative of the U.S. EPA). He is a co-editor and co-author of the latest edition of the Encyclopedia of Toxicology, and of the last two editions of the Information Resources in Toxicology book. Stephanie Publicker has an Associate Degree in Nursing, a BA in Italian and a Masters in Library Science. Since receiving her MLS from the University of Pittsburgh in 1991, she has been involved in end user training, getting her start when users were thrilled to have a 2400 Baud modem. She currently works in the National Library of Medicine's Specialized Information Services Division where she is involved in end user training, database development, and web content management. Join us this week and LEARN MORE about current happenings at the National Institutes of Health and more!
Wystan Ackerman is a partner of the law firm of Robinson & Cole LLP in Hartford, Connecticut, where he chairs the firm's Class Action Team. Mr. Ackerman has a national practice focusing on defending insurers and other companies in class actions and litigating insurance coverage issues. He writes the blog "Insurance Class Actions Insider" at http://www.insuranceclassactions.com/property-insurance/. A recent blog titled "Class Action on Preferred Contractor Program Filed against Allstate" caught our attention and we invited Mr. Ackerman to join us and discuss class action lawsuits as related to the disaster restoration world. We also plan to discuss current events and Hurricane Sandy vs. post-tropical cyclone Sandy. LEARN MORE this week on IAQ Radio!
This week on IAQ Radio we delve into the connection between house dust and asthma with Dr. Donald Cook of the National Institute of Health. Dr. Cook's recent research indicates that a specific component of bacteria found in common house dust activates the immune system so people are more likely to develop allergies to real allergens. Donald N. Cook, Ph.D., is the head of the Immunogenetics Group; he earned his Ph.D. in microbiology and immunology at McGill University in Montreal, Canada. He has published 43 peer-reviewed articles in leading biomedical journals as well as several book chapters. Cook served as a principal scientist at Schering-Plough Research Institute and as an assistant professor in the Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine at Duke University before joining NIEHS in 2005. LEARN MORE this week on IAQ Radio!
Dr. Catherine Noakes, PhD, CEng is the Director of Pathogen Control Engineering Institute at the School of Civil Engineering, University of Leeds. She is also the Leader of Aerobiology and Infection Control Research Group at the University of Leeds. The Aerobiology and Infection Control Group is a multi-disciplinary research team comprising microbiologists, engineers and mathematical modelers. The group has considerable experience in evaluating bioaerosols in indoor environments and engineering measures to control infection. Their Research is driven by the continuing problem of hospital acquired infection and the worldwide health concerns about infectious diseases spread through airborne routes. Airborne transmission is known to be a primary mechanism in the transmission of TB and influenza, but has also been implicated in the transmission of nosocomial infections including MRSA, Acinetobacter spp, C. difficile and norovirus. In addition, contamination of the environment through contact with dirty hands and objects or airborne dispersal provides a potential reservoir of pathogens which could subsequently cause infection by indirect contacts. Regardless of the pathogen, successful control of infection involves breaking the chain of transmission, for which it is necessary to understand both the mode of transmission as well as the nature of the pathogen and its behavior in the environment. Understanding this complex interaction between people, pathogens and the built environment is at the heart of their research. The paper that prompted the press interest is work carried out by Marco-Felipe King, one of my PhD students, stated Dr. Noakes. His overall project is trying to determine whether single rooms in hospitals present a lower infection risk than multi-bed rooms. This is something that is quite often stated and for which there is anecdotal evidence, but isn't quantified. He is trying to quantify the difference in risk between the two types of rooms for infection spread due to environmental contamination. This paper presents the first part of this work where he was looking to quantify surface contamination due to an aerosol source and validate the techniques for modeling it. This is feeding into the next stage of the research where he is using the ability to predict contamination on a surface together with a mathematical model for a nurse moving around a ward and touching surfaces to compare the potential for contamination.
Pittsburgh couple builds GREEN dream home on former dump site. Some IAQradio listeners are old enough to remember the television comedy series Green Acres in which the protagonists (Eva Gabor and Eddie Albert) have opposing opinions on the ideal place to live. Join us on IAQ Radio when we discuss Lou and Amy Weiss and their quest to build their environmentally friendly, energy efficient, sustainable dream home in a city neighborhood. Learn about the role that prominent architect Hugh Newell Jacobson, mail order building plans, salvaged airplane fuselages and recycled metal roofing played in the project. Articles in the Wall Street Journal, House Trends Magazine and the Pittsburgh Post Gazette are testimony to the unique accomplishment of Lou & Amy Weiss, We guarantee an entertaining and educational discussion so join us and LEARN MORE this week on IAQ Radio!
This week on IAQ Radio we are going to focus on social media issues. Joining us will be long time friends of the show John Lapotaire (MicroShield Environmental Consulting) and Paul Cochrane (Cochrane and Associates). Social media is a fairly recent phenomenon that for years was primarily the domain of young people. Now social media is a key component of business plans for companies of every size. Facebook, Linked in, Twitter, YouTube, blogs, podcasts, chat rooms etc. are now all terms part of the business lexicon in the US. Social media is used to locate colleagues, share information, educate, communicate, share likes, dislikes, mobilize movements and much more. LEARN MORE about how you can be using this important tool to advance your career and/or make your company more successful on IAQ Radio!
Larry Carlson joined Therma-Stor in 1992 as product manager for ventilation and dehumidification products. In 1994 Larry introduced the Phoenix 200, the first LGR dehumidifier. Through 2003 he oversaw the expansion the Phoenix Restoration Equipment product line to include the Guardian HEPA Systems, Focus axial air mover and Phoenix 300 and 200 MAX. After 2 years at Dry Air Technology where Larry assisted in the creation of the Atlantic LGR and Force9, he returned to Therma-Stor in 2006 as marketing manager. Currently Larry is the Phoenix Restoration Industry Manager and International Sales Manager. Larry has been a member of RIA since 1994 and the IICRC since 1998. He participated in the creation of the Applied Structural Drying Technician (ASD) certification and is currently serving on the IICRC S-500 Consensus Committee which is creating the 4th edition of the S-500 Standard and Reference Guide for Professional Water Damage Restoration.
On this week's broadcast of IAQradio, we'll set aside science for the practical when we discuss with a successful sports coach how adopting successful sports philosophies can improve your business. This week's guest is Brian Barca, a truly special guy who has a knack for bringing the best out in those under his tutelage. Brian owns and operates Training KAMP a business that assists athletes in achieving their goals. Join us on IAQradio this week on Friday, September 21 at noon eastern time when we discuss: do I need a coach, becoming more confident, dealing with fear and pressure and much more.
Angel Waldron is a consumer health advocate with the Asthma and Allergy Foundation of America (AAFA), the premier non-profit patient organization serving more than 60 million people with asthma and allergies. Angel is a national spokesperson for AAFA and represents the Foundation to the media. She regularly appears in broadcasts for Wall Street Journal Radio, CNN Radio and NPR as well as for ABC, NBC, CBS and FOX television affiliates to discuss asthma and allergy issues. She is recurrently quoted in articles by USA Today, Forbes magazine, Washington Post, Chicago Tribune, and WebMD, among others. In addition to speaking on behalf of AAFA, Angel produces the Foundation's print and electronic health publications and manages its Web site, www.aafa.org. She has also written and edited articles for consumer health magazines such as Coping, ADVANCE and Health Monitor.
David Kahane is founder of Forensic Analytical, a family of laboratory and consulting companies specializing in industrial hygiene, environmental health and safety and the forensic sciences. Mr. Kahane received a B.A. in Physiology and an M.P.H. in Biological and Environmental Health Sciences from U.C. Berkeley. He has been a practicing Certified Industrial Hygienist for the past 18 years. Mr. Kahane provides technical expertise and litigation support for asbestos, heavy metals, fungal and other IH-related exposure cases. He performs and supports industrial hygiene and indoor air quality investigations for a variety of commercial, industrial, insurance, military school and residential clients. He has performed and is well versed in various analytical methods including optical microscopy, XRF and AAS/ICP. Mr. Kahane is often involved with the statistical evaluation of survey data, and the experimental design for a variety of indoor exposure assessments. Mr. Kahane is a frequent guest instructor at UC Berkeley teaching on issues related to asbestos, lead and mold classes. He has served on both technical committees and on boards of the AIHA, ASTM, EIA, California Industrial Hygiene Council, as well as for CAL-OSHA.
In addition to being sought after IAQ consultants, Carl Grimes and Don Weekes, CIH, CSP are the outgoing and incoming President of the Indoor Air Quality Association. Carl also serves on the International Society for Indoor Air Quality and Climate (ISIAQ) Board of Directors. Both gentlemen recently returned from the ISIAQ Healthy Buildings 2012 conference in Australia. Healthy Buildings is a gathering of world renowned researchers and practitioners where the most recent research and news on IAQ issues is the topic. Carl and Don have agreed to join us and fill in listeners on what they learned from attending this event. This week on IAQ Radio LEARN MORE about the present and future of indoor air quality related issues on IAQ Radio!
This week on IAQ Radio we are joined by Cole Stanton, VP Sales at Fiberlock Technologies, Inc and Tim Riley founder of Crime and Death Scene Cleaning of Ipswich, MA. We will be discussing chemistry, chemicals and standards for HVAC cleaning, water damage restoration, mold remediation and bio recovery cleaning. Mr. Stanton was part of the committee that wrote the NADCA position paper on Chemicals in HVAC Systems and is currently on the IICRC S520 Revision committee. He and Mr. Riley both serve on the IICRC S540 "Standard and Reference Guide for Trauma and Crime Scene Biological and Infectious Hazard Clean Up" development committee. The S540 is a new standard devoted to bio recovery issues. Mr. Riley is a veteran Bio Recovery company owner and American Bio Recovery Association (ABRA) instructor. Join us Friday at noon to LEARN MORE about the chemistry, chemicals, and standards for cleaning and responding to these specialty situations.
Industrial Hygiene Consulting, Inc. (previously operating as Jacobs Environmental, Inc.) was founded in 1997 by Mr. Bruce Jacobs, who continues on today as President and Principal Consultant. Mr. Jacobs has accumulated 38 years of experience in the environmental and safety & health profession. Mr. Jacobs developed gas chromatographic analytical methods, and validated some of the initial uses of diffusion-based sampling and analytical methods for air contaminants, as a Chemist for the U.S. Army. He also developed industrial hygiene policy documents and standards for the U.S. Army. Additionally, he managed the industrial hygiene program for the Chemical Agent BZ Demilitarization Facility at Pine Bluff Arsenal, AR. Finally he developed the "IAQ Index" as a health-based, easy-to-understand, air quality index that is calculated for various parameters commonly measured during IAQ surveys. (The approach is similar to the EPA's Air Quality Index that has been used historically to communicate the risks posed by common pollutants in the ambient air.) He has experience as a chemist, toxicologist, industrial hygienist, and environmental manager; and has worked with federal, state, and local governments; construction companies, large and small engineering firms, tunneling contractors, chemical companies, pharmaceutical and flavor companies, health care facilities, schools and universities, manufacturing facilities, heavy industry, land developers, home builders, commercial contractors, legal firms, and individual homeowners. Join us this week and LEARN MORE as we interview Bruce Jacobs on another exciting episode of IAQ Radio!
Since 1978, Dan Stradford has been the chief executive officer of Action Duct Cleaning Company, based in the Los Angeles area. Action Duct has serviced clients in more than 15 states across the U.S. They service city, county, state, and federal clients, Fortune 500 companies, and a large residential base. Celebrity clients, which they service regularly, have included Tom Cruise, Stephen Spielberg, Tom Hanks, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Roseanne Barr, Don Rickles, Buddy Hackett, Los Angeles Dodgers announcer Vin Scully, and many others. He is on the Board of Directors of the National Air Duct Cleaners Association (NADCA) and has been a NADCA member for 20 years. He has published more than 250 articles and was the chairman of the task force that created NADCA's Position Paper on The Use of Chemical Products in HVAC Systems. He is also the author of the recently-released book, The Men's Code of Honor: 66 Principles That Make a Man.
Come celebrate number 250 with us as we interview one of today's prominent figures in the IEQ Industry! Harriet Ammann, PhD, DABT is a legend in the IAQ world and our guest for this week. Dr. Ammann is currently Principal, Ammann Toxicology Consulting LLC; & an affiliate associate professor, School of Public Health and Community Medicine, University of Washington. Harriet M. Ammann has been a diplomat of the American Board of Toxicology since 1989. Up to 2006 Dr. Ammann was the Senior Toxicologist: Air Quality Program, Washington State Department Ecology and prior to that she served as the Senior Toxicologist: Office of Environmental Health Assessment Services, Washington State Department of Health. Before serving with the State of Washington, Dr. Ammann participated in the U.S. EPA's Hazardous Air Pollutants team that was developing guidance for non-cancer risk assessment. Dr. Ammann served as vice-chair of the Bioaerosols Committee of the American Conference of Governmental Industrial Hygienists (ACGIH) from 1997-2003. She authored the chapter on Microbial VOCs in the ACGIH book, Bioaerosols, Assessment and Control, and contributed to several other book chapters. She also served as assistant editor to the book. Dr Ammann has co-authored and been a key influence in the development of countless publications widely used today by indoor environmental professionals. Don't miss this very important show as we interview one of today's industry pioneers! The Z-man and Radio Joe are happy to deliver another awesome and unique show for their loyal listeners. Join us this week and LEARN MORE on IAQ Radio!
Dr. Alice Delia is Laboratory Director at Prism Analytical Technologies, Inc. in Mt. Pleasant, Michigan. She manages Prism's Data Analysis Group and is the technical lead on all of Prism's air testing products, as well as in the analysis and interpretation of all test data. Dr. Delia received her B.S. in Chemistry from Kalamazoo College, and her M.A. and Ph.D. degrees in Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences from the University of Colorado. She has extensive knowledge of atmospheric processes and their implications for air quality compliance and safety. In addition, she is proficient in the operation of Gas Chromatograph-Mass Spectrometer (GC-MS) instruments and performing the chemical profile interpretation of the GS-MS data. During her six-year tenure at Prism, Dr. Delia has been responsible for the development and deployment of several new methodologies for air quality testing in homes. On June 19, 2012, Dr. Delia will be delivering a technical paper she co-authored at the American Industrial Hygiene Association Conference & Expo on the topic of tobacco smoke detection using VOC markers. In a previous position as an Environmental Analyst at ASE, Inc., a subsidiary of Booz-Allen-Hamilton, Dr. Delia wrote and presented several presentations to the DOD Environmental Cleanup Office and to the U.S. Congress.
This week we will focus on fiberglass and indoor air quality issues with environmental engineer Jeff Bradley. Mr. Bradley is an environmental consultant with a MS degree in Environmental Engineering from Southern Methodist Univesity. He is the owner of Indoor Doctor and provides indoor environmental quality consulting for clients in New England. This week we will focus on an IAQ issue that gets little attention when Mr. Bradley discusses IEQ and fiberglass. LEARN MORE about fiberglass and IEQ this week on IAQ Radio!
Mickey Lee is currently a private consultant providing consulting, training, research and writing services in the fields of property damage restoration, psychrometrics, drying science, mold remediation and structural drying after water intrusions. Mr. Lee retired from the Munters Corp (US) in 2011 after serving in various roles for over 20 years. At various points Mr. Lee was Vice-President --Global Technology & Sustainability for Munters AB - MCS and Global and National Technical & Training Manager for Munters Corp (US). He was responsible for training program development, curriculum writing and course facilitation in addition to managing projects for structural drying and restoration of commercial buildings of every type. He also has extensive experience in application of air treatment technology in restorative drying projects, corrosion-control methods, mold mitigation and humidity control in commercial and industrial facilities while working with Munters Corporation -Moisture Control Services Division. Recognizing his vast experience in water damage restoration the IICRC asked him to lead the development of their Commercial Drying Specialist certification. This program completed its' full roll-out in 2009 and continues to be a popular offering. Mr. Lee continues to serve as committee chair for the Commercial Drying Specialist Certification program and also serves on the IICRC S500 Standard and Reference Guide for Professional Water Damage Restoration revision committee. Join us this week and LEARN MORE about the science of water damage restoration and structural drying with our guest Mr. Mickey Lee!
This week on IAQ Radio we have the IAQMAN Bob Krell, Bob Krell, CIEC, CIAQP, CMRS, LEED AP, BPI-Certified BA/ES/HS/AC, EPA-Certified Lead Paint Inspector, CEO of IAQ Technologies
Part 2 of our series on the Science of IEQ covered toxicology, air movement, pressure differentials. and more. You will love Dr. Weyel's fascinating down to earth overview of toxicology. Never thought toxicology could hold your interest, try this! LEARN MORE with our Technical Director, Dr. Dietrich Weyel at his best!!!
The science of indoor environmental quality is a topic that elicits a lot of discussion and disagreement. How much science does one have to know to perform IEQ contracting or consulting? Does one need to a High School diploma or Bachelor of Science to perform IEQ contracting or consulting? With the broad spectrum of science categories which areas are most applicable to IEQ investigations and contracting? What are the key science concepts that IEQ contractors and consultants need to understand? This week Dr. Dietrich Weyel will help us LEARN MORE about the most applicable areas of science for IEQ contractors and consultants on IAQ Radio.
This week on IAQ Radio we have James A. Scott, PhD CEO and Chief Scientific Officer of Sporometrics in Toronto CA. Dr. Scott shook up the IAQA Conference with his keynote presentation in LasVegas titled, "The Past, Present and Future of Indoor Microbiology. The past and present aren't all that controversial but Dr. James predictions for the near future of indoor microbiology had the attendees and later the internet buzzing. How far off is the future? What new tools will indoor environmental professionals have at their disposal? What does this mean to laboratories and IEQ investigators? LEARN MORE Friday, April 13th at 12:00 eastern when we get out the crystal ball and look into the future of indoor environments on IAQ Radio!
The IICRC is a large organization with a lot of influence in the cleaning, restoration and inspection field. They are also an enigma to many in the industry. Who is the IICRC? How have they become so powerful within the cleaning and restoration world? What is coming down the road with the IICRC? Whatâ??s up with the name change to The Clean Trust are they really going back to IICRC? We will talk this week with Darrell Paulson IICRC Chairman and CEO of Advanced Restoration Specialists, Inc. Mr. Paulson has been an integral part of the IICRC since 1983 as a member of the BOD, Shareholder and Committee Chair. He has also been an integral part of the recent changes at IICRC including the decision to return to the IICRC name. Mr. Paulson is well known as an industry veteran, speaker at conventions and association volunteer. LEARN MORE about the future of disaster restoration training, standards, certification and more this week on IAQ Radio.
Fire Restoration and Repair Issues and Answers - This week on IAQ Radio we discuss fire damage and restoration a subject that often times doesn't get enough respect. We will be interviewing Ed Light, CIH and Martin King, ASA, CR. Ed Light has specialized in the investigation and control of IAQ concerns for 30 years. His consulting group, Building Dynamics, provides industrial hygiene and HVAC engineering services throughout the U.S. with notable projects including IAQ assessments of the White House, South Pole Station and buildings impacted by 9/11. Martin King was the Restoration Industries Association Technical Advisor for 30 years, where he developed a broad range of restoration procedures and published over 300 articles in trade journals. He currently serves as CEO of Martin Churchill Associates, Inc. Damage Investigators and Appraisers and has investigated and prepared formal reports on over 2000 property damage cases. Recently Light N King have been working together to improve the knowledge and science behind fire damage restoration and repair. Unfortunately, fire damage and restoration issues often times take a back seat to more "sexy" mold. It seems that mold gets all the attention even though fire damage is an extremely important issue. Join us this week on IAQ Radio and LEARN MORE as we try and shed some light on this issue and its importance.
Creator of the "Risk = Hazard + Outrage" formula for risk communication, Peter M. Sandman is one of the preeminent risk communication speakers and consultants in the United States today, and has also worked extensively in Europe, Australia, and elsewhere. His unique and effective approach to managing risk controversies has made him much in demand for other sorts of reputation management as well. Dr. Sandman has helped his clients through a wide range of public controversies that threatened corporate or government reputation -from oil spills to labor-management battles; from vaccine autism scares to the siting of hazardous waste facilities. In the terms first popularized by Dr. Sandman, these are usually situations where the "hazard" is low, the "outrage" is high, and the core task is outrage management.
"Goings on Down Under in the World of Restoration" an International Perspective live from Australia this week two industry veterans Mickey Lee and Ashley Easterby will join us to discuss some current events in the restoration industry.
Mr. Crosa has been a licensed independent adjuster and private investigator for over 30 years handling large complex losses throughout the United States and Latin America. Since 2000 he has traveled the country conducting workshops and keynote speeches on the topic of marketing vendor services to adjusters and insurance companies. Mr. Crosa is also the author of 4 books including: 2012 Restoration Contractor's Guide to Insurance Repair, Soft Selling Hardened Claims Adjusters, Claims Marketing Tipz & An Adjuster Is What An Adjuster Does. Peter is also a frequent contributor to Cleanfax Magazine and other industry publications. Join us this week and LEARN MORE about the ins and outs of working with insurance companies and adjusters.
Cross & Associates is the nation's leading law firm advocating for the interests of the cleaning and restoration industries. Edward H. Cross has represented over 50 cleaning and restoration companies across the country. He has obtained trial court victories on behalf of cleaning and restoration companies, successfully resolving over 1,000 disputes and recovering many millions of dollars. He was a key contributor to the IICRC's published standards for professional water damage restoration and mold remediation. Known as "Restoration Lawyer," Ed has given over 75 invited presentations to RIA, CFI, Connections and other national groups. He has published over 35 articles on legal issues affecting the cleaning and restoration industries. He is the director of the Restoration Industry Defense Alliance (RIDA), the author of the "Restoration Lawyer Newsletter" and "Standardized Contract Forms for the Cleaning and Restoration Industries," and the Moderator of the Restoration Law Group on LinkedIn.
Particles & Aerosol Physics - More than Meets the Eye & Field Testing Air Filtration Devices - This week we will discuss the issues that make performing field tests of air filtration devices and HEPA vacuums such a challenge. Tony Havics, PE, CIH,CHMM Wane Baker, PE, CIH and Tom Yacobellis are coming on to discuss the reason particles behave the way they do, the challenges in determining how well we are capturing these particles and the limitations of our instruments and equipment when it comes to particle capture and measurement. The Air Filtration Device Standards Development Committee (AFD) of the Indoor Environmental Standards Organization (IESO) will be continuing its research efforts by conducting a three-day testing program of HEPA-filtered negative air type or collection machines in mid March. The purpose of this event is to gather additional data to complete the development of an ANSI/IESO Standard for the field evaluation of portable HEPA-equipped air filtration devices. The committee is seeking multi-channel laser particle counters from various manufacturers and the assistance of manufacturers' representatives who are proficient in their use. We hope to help them publicize what they are doing and help listeners LEARN MORE about particles, particulate and aerosol physics this week on IAQ Radio.
CIRS-WDB Illness Enters the Genomic Era This week we welcome back Ritchie Shoemaker, MD to discuss the latest research on what he and others call Chronic Inflammatory Response Syndrome (CIRS) from Water Damaged Buildings (WDB). This week we focus on the how the use of genomics is changing or should be changing the medical community. Dr. Shoemaker will give us a background on the issue and review some presentations from the 6th International Scientific Conference on Bioaerosols, Fungi, Bacteria, Mycotoxins in Indoor and Outdoor Environments and Human Health. Dr. Shoemaker and his colleague Jimmy Ryan, PhD have been doing some fascinating research focused on how genomics data can be used to help understand the mechanisms behind CIRS-WDB, lyme disease and other medical maladies. Join us Friday at noon to LEARN MORE this week on IAQ Radio.
Steve Caulfield is a widely known and respected building science consultant and Senior Vice President with Turner Building Science and Design, LLC. He is skilled in the design and evaluation of heating, ventilating, and air-conditioning (HVAC) systems and their relationship to complex indoor air quality problems. Mr. Caulfield has provided HVAC design and commissioning services for healthcare, educational, and commercial facilities. He has conducted indoor air quality evaluations for both new construction and existing buildings. Turner Building Science & Design, LLC is a professional team of engineers, the collective diagnostic and design experience of their staff includes the indoor air quality evaluation of over 20 million square feet of commercial, industrial, institutional, and educational space. Mr. Caulfield and Bill Turner are regular contributors to Indoor Environment Connections and other industry publications.
Brad Prezant MSPH, CIH, CPE is a research scientist at Massey University in New Zealand and an Associate Assistant Professor at the University of Washington. Previously Mr. Prezant founded and served as the President/CEO at Prezant Associates, Inc. in the Pacific Northwest. Mr. Prezant was also the Senior Industrial Hygienist at Department of Environmental & Occupational Health, School of Public Health & Community Medicine, University of Washington. Brad Prezant was also the co-editor of the publication from the AIHA, "Recognition, Evaluation, and Control of Indoor Mold" and is a widely respected authority on indoor air quality issues. He got up in the middle of the night to join us from New Zealand. Join us this week to LEARN MORE on IAQ Radio!
Why is Damp Building Advocate Sharon Noonan Kramer going to jail rather than be silenced about her cause? This week we will explore the situation of former IAQ Radio guest Sharon Noonan Kramer, who has been found to be in contempt of court and will spend at least five days in jail this February. As part of this weeks show we talk to Sharon and ask her to explain the situation for our listeners. According to Sharon her goal continues to be to remove the false concept from policy; state & federal agencies and physicians' offices that it has been scientifically proven WDB do not cause illness beyond the respiratory system in prior healthy people. LEARN MORE this week on IAQ Radio!
Why is Damp Building Advocate Sharon Noonan Kramer going to jail rather than be silenced about her cause? This week we will explore the situation of former IAQ Radio guest Sharon Noonan Kramer, who has been found to be in contempt of court and will spend at least five days in jail this February. As part of this weeks show we talk to Sharon and ask her to explain the situation for our listeners. According to Sharon her goal continues to be to remove the false concept from policy; state & federal agencies and physicians' offices that it has been scientifically proven WDB do not cause illness beyond the respiratory system in prior healthy people. We will also have Glenn Fellman and Dr. Elliot Horner on for an overview of the Indoor Air Quality Association's (IAQA) 2012 conference plus Ron Kratz and John Shulte to preview the National Air Duct Cleaners Association (NADCA) 2012 convention. LEARN MORE this week on IAQ Radio!
Mr. Bearg is the founder of Life Energy Associates of Concord MA. He specializes in providing indoor air quality diagnostic and mitigation services with a focus on maximizing the healthfulness of indoor environments at the lowest energy cost. To meet this goal Mr. Berg uses a combination of building science and industrial hygiene principles and techniques to customize a solution for clients. The primary tools he uses to perform this specialized service are CO2 and dew point monitoring, tracer gas testing, particulate monitoring, pressure mapping/airflow pattern determination and knowledge of how building enclosures and HVAC combine to affect the indoor environment. He develops solutions for building owners that improve healthfulness of indoor environments in the most energy efficient manner for the situation at hand. LEARN MORE this week and explore a fascinating perspective on the synergy between IAQ and building science on IAQ Radio!
This week on IAQ Radio we will discuss water damage, fire, odor and association news issues. What should a new employee for a disaster restoration company expect as part of their job duties? What are the opportunities and qualifications to do this work? What is the typical workday like? What education level is required? We will also discuss The Clean Trust issues with Bill Weigand and explore the role of regional trade associations that own The Clean Trust with Connections Events and TRSCA BOD member Gary Loiben. LEARN MORE this week on IAQ Radio!
AerobioLogical Solutions, Inc & AeroSolver - Greg Weatherman is an industry veteran with a unique perspective on indoor environmental consulting and contracting issues. His diverse background in various types of remediation along with his current emphasis on consulting for those with environmental sensitivities has lead to some interesting variations on the typical remediation theme. He authored the chapter on investigation and remediation of water damaged buildings in Dr. Ritchie Shoemakerâ??s latest book â??Mold Warriorsâ?? and currently works with some Dr. Shoemakerâ??s patients. LEARN MORE this week on IAQ Radio!
Jean Cox-Ganser, Ph.D. is the Research Team leader for the Field Studies Branch, Division of Respiratory Disease Studies, NIOSH. For the past 11 years she has been a principal investigator for research studies on the respiratory health effects of dampness and mold in office buildings and schools, and is author or co-author on over 20 peer-reviewed publications, book chapters and reports resulting from this research. Dr. Cox-Ganser is one of the most knowledgeable and influential researchers in the world on dampness, mold and respiratory disease. Join us and LEARN MORE about the latest research into dampness and health.
Lance Weaver was raised in a disaster restoration pioneers family and has been working in the disaster restoration industry since he was 10. He went on to get a Mechanical Engineering degree and came back to work in his father's business and started Lloyd's Systems in 2007, which specializes in manufacturing, air duct inspecting, cleaning, and sealing. -Web site: www.lloydssystems.com
This week we start the "Education Summit" on IAQ Radio. The IAQ/IEQ, disaster restoration and building science industries have a tremendous mixed bag of educational approaches and options. How can IAQ Radio and our friends help standardize the process of preparing people to move these industries forward? This week we will talk to Joy Finch, MS Department Head/Environmental, Occupational Health and Safety Corporate and Career Development Division and get her input on the education side of the industry. Tune in and LEARN MORE this week on IAQ Radio!
Will Lamb took a huge financial gamble and as a result has built one of the most successful contents cleaning and restoration firms in the country. Will walked away from his family's prospering carpet cleaning and water damage restoration business, to follow his dream by starting a business in personal property restoration, a market sector that he felt was under served. Will Lamb's business AmRestore does contents restoration and only contents cleaning and restoration. Over the course of his experience in the field, Will has moved to the head of the pack amassing the secrets of success: two of those secrets are developing technical processes and facilities second to none. LEARN MORE about contents restoration this week on IAQ Radio.
Dan Mabesoone and his wife Sally are the proprietors of MasterCare Corporation a Norwich, CT. cleaning firm which provides: carpet, upholstery, drapery and area rug cleaning, tile and grout cleaning, water damage restoration & mold remediation services. Dan, who holds multiple industry certifications and advance designations is an industry veteran with a reputation for "telling it like it is." Dan who was once a very vocal IICRC critic is now a Clean Trust board member and officer. Tune into IAQradio at noon eastern time to learn about Dan's transition from IICRC outsider to Clean Trust insider.
Jack D. Thrasher was educated in California with a B.S. in zoology/chemistry and a Ph.D. in human anatomy/cell biology from UCLA. He taught human anatomy, histology, physiology, and embryology at the University of Colorado, School of Medicine at Denver and at the UCLA School of Medicine in the 60s and early 70s. He was consulting toxicologist that did testing on the safety and efficacy of medical devices, drugs and cosmetics from the mid 70s through the mid 80s. Since 1984, he has consulted in Environmental Toxicology, Immunotoxicology and Human Health effects from toxic exposures to private citizens as well as practicing physicians. He has collaborated in many scientific peer reviewed papers on formaldehyde, mold and mycotoxins, hydrogen sulfide, and insecticides. He is an author or co-author on the adverse health effects (neurological and immunological) in humans following exposure to damp indoor spaces. His most recent manuscript published in Toxicology and Industrial Health is titled "The biocontaminants and complexity of damp indoor spaces: more than meets the eyes". This manuscript reviews molds, gram negative and positive bacteria, mycotoxins, endotoxins, 1-3-beta glucans, galactomannans, particulates and MVOCs present in damp indoor spaces. All of these biocontaminants impinge upon occupants affecting various organ systems and more likely than not have synergistic toxic actions. Dr. Thrashers areas of expertise include: Formaldehyde in trailers and Mobile Homes; organophosphate pesticides, chlorinated pesticides; herbicides, pyrethroids, organic solvents including chlorinated (TCE, PCE); Indoor air microbial (fungi and bacteria) and their by-products in water damaged homes, public buildings and schools; and hydrogen sulfide. He has testified as an expert witness in many legal cases for plaintiffs and defendants.
This week on IAQ Radio we interview one of the most active MD's in the Indoor Environmental Quality arena. Jay. M. Portnoy, M.D., FACCI. is a Past President of the American College of Asthma Allergy and Immunology (ACAAI). He is also professor of pediatrics at the University of Missouri-Kansas City School of Medicine, he initiated the ACAAI Conference Online Allergy (COLA) program and chairs the COLA Committee. He chairs the Nominating Committee and co-chairs the Joint Task Force on Practice Parameters and the Joint Task Force to Examine the Future of the Specialty. Dr. Portnoy is helping to lead the movement to ensure the environmental component of illness gets the attention it deserves. He leads one of the largest, and most active teams of IEQ consultants and allied health professionals, performing home and school health assessments, in the world. He is tirelessly working to help bridge the gap between the indoor environmental investigation/remediation industry and health professionals. Please help us in welcoming Dr. Portnoy and LEARN MORE this week on IAQ Radio.
This week on IAQ Radio we welcome Forensic Industrial Hygienist, Caoimhin P. Connell. Mr. Connell has been a practicing Industrial Hygienist for 24 years, and he currently serves as the contract Industrial Hygienist for the US National Center for Atmospheric Research. He has performed approximately 1,000 indoor air quality investigations and is a frequent speaker at conferences nationwide. Mr. Connell has some strong opinions and is not afraid to express them. We look forward to a wide ranging interview covering clandestine drug labs, IEQ and mold investigations, remediation of indoor environments, the Lead RRP Rule, lead in blood, asbestos abatement, expert witness testimony and more. LEARN MORE this week on IAQ Radio!
Gary Dietrich, co-founder and president of Citizen Voice, a new nonpartisan movement to involve citizens in the public arena and protect the vulnerable will appear on IAQ Radio this Friday, September 23rd at 12 noon EST. The Citizen Voice's SAFELY OUT project, developed with technical assistance from the Red Cross Sacramento Sierra Chapter, is designed specifically to ensure that the most vulnerable citizens in an area, including the disabled, frail seniors, young children and more are protected during a disaster. Joining him will be Paul Jacks, who served as deputy director of the Governor's Office of Emergency Services in California. LEARN MORE this week on IAQ Radio!
Time flies when you are having fun and we have had a great time doing IAQ Radio for the past 5 years. This week we celebrate our 5th anniversary by counting down the top 10 show as determined by listener downloads. Join us to hear what shows IAQ Radio listeners felt were our biggest hits and to hear what we have learned over five years of interviewing the top IAQ, disaster restoration and building science professionals in the world. LEARN MORE this week on IAQ Radio!
Daniel Greenblatt is the founder and president of Envirotech Clean Air, Inc., an HVAC Systems cleaning and restoration and indoor air quality cleaning company in Stoneham, Massachusetts. Mr. Greenblatt has been helping building owners improve indoor air quality and energy efficiency for almost 25 years. He also has a long history of volunteer service to industry associations and currently serves on the Indoor air Quality Association (IAQA) and the Indoor Environmental Standards Organization (IESO) Boards of Directors. Mr. Greenblatt's company has been involved in some fascinating projects over the years and has learned a lot of lessons along the way. This week we plan to discuss some large projects and teams Mr. Greenblatt has been part of, a new NADCA document he has been assisting with, the new IESO soot standard and more. Don't miss this opportunity to LEARN MORE from an industry veteran and IAQ contracting pioneer Danny Greenblatt.
Mold Remediation According To The Standard Of Care: Does It Work; Is It Worth It? This week on IAQ Radio our guest is Mark McLaughlin, VP of Field Operations for Restore All, Inc. of Atlanta, Georgia. Mr. McLaughlin has an extensive background in disaster restoration, mold remediation emergency management and training. He started as full time firefighter in Cherokee County Georgia and while began working part time in the disaster restoration industry. Afterwards he formed SouthEast Bio-Recovery, a company that offered crime scene cleaning. After several successful years he left public service sold his company and went full time into the disaster restoration field helping to found Restore All, Inc. Mark recently completed his Certified Mold Professional certification through RIA and as part of the certification process did extensive research while writing a paper on how effective various standards of care are while doing mold remediation. His paper is a comprehensive review of the subject and the findings will be of interest to our listeners.
Mr. Kent Rawhouser is a veteran disaster restoration professional with a thriving business in Wisconsin. Kent has been active in the disaster restoration community for decades and could have stayed within his comfort zone for the rest of his career. In the past 5 years Mr. Rawhouser has immersed himself in all things IAQ including becoming a member of the Board of Directors for the largest IAQ association in the world the Indoor Air Quality Association (IAQA). We will discuss some of Ken's thoughts on the state of disaster restoration, the intersection of disaster restoration and indoor air quality and his impressions about Indoor Air 2011 where Kent was one of the practitioners that attended what has historically been an IAQ research oriented conference. Join us this Friday at noon as we LEARN MORE about the intersection of disaster restoration and IAQ with Kent Rawhouser.
One of the most important tools in the toolbox of any IAQ, disaster restoration or building science consultant or contractor is their moisture meters. As important as they are we find that there is a great deal of confusion about how they work, what types work best under different circumstances, how values should be reported, when and how to calibrate and more. Join us with guest Paul Laurenzi, Vice President of Marketing and Sales for Delmhorst Instruments Co. to LEARN MORE about IAQ instrumentation this week on IAQ Radio.
This week Attorney Harvey V. Cohen joins the Z-man to discuss the ins and outs of insurance claims issues. According to Attorney Cohen due to the state of the economy insurance claim disputes have become more common than ever. Insurance carriers must make a profit to continue to exist but the law does not allow insurance carriers to make their profit by disputing or denying the valid insurance claims of their policy holders. Likewise, insurance claim disputes between contractors and insurance carriers have been on the increase. This show is designed to help give everyone a better understanding of the issue and to review strategies that help homeowners, business owners and contractors get compensated fairly when a claim becomes necessary. Attorney Cohen is a former state prosecutor for the 9th Judicial Circuit of Florida. He received a law degree from Stetson University College of Law. He was enlisted in the U.S. Army from 1985 through 1989. His assignments took him from upstate New York to Panama. He now provides personal injury, criminal defense and insurance claims legal services from his Orlando, Florida office. LEARN MORE this week on IAQ Radio!
Lew founded Mason-Grant in 1986 as a technical research and development consultancy. Through his writing, speaking and training, Lew specializes in explaining complex issues especially those related to moisture -- to professionals and laypersons in understandable, accessible ways. It's hard to believe Lew last joined us almost 4 years ago and we are looking forward to his return with an update on what's new in IEQ, disaster restoration and building science. We are particularly interested in Lew's thoughts about the Indoor Air 2011 conference where it seemed he was everywhere asking probing questions plus giving a well received presentation. LEARN MORE from one of the most knowledgeable true gentlemen in the business this week on IAQ Radio!
Gil L'Hommedieu is the Founder and CEO of Net Claims Now. Net Claims Now is the first company to provide insurance billing services for the water damage restoration industry. Although Net Claims Now is the first to bring insurance billing services to the restoration industry, insurance billing services have become standard practice in the medical industry and many others. Like the medical industry, the water damage industry generates billions of dollars a year. Mr. L'Hommedieu has thirty years experience operating his own water damage restoration business. Gil has personally handled, negotiated, and settled thousands of water loss claims throughout his career in the restoration industry. Now he has founded a unique company that provides those same services for disaster restoration companies across the country. LEARN MORE this week on IAQ Radio!
Episode Notes: This week "Radio Joe" Hughes will be coming straight back to the studio from Indoor Air 2011 (12th International Conference on Indoor Air Quality and Climate) and joining us by phone will be IAQA President Carl Grimes. We want to provide an overview of the Indoor Air 2011 conference and discuss why the conference is important to all of us. We will focus on two simple questions, first what did we learn this week and then how do we put it into practice? An important component of what we will discuss is how IAQ Radio and others can help ensure the wealth of information presented at this conference and available from previous conferences can be accessed and used to help improve IAQ practice. Maybe more importantly we need to start the discussion about how we as practitioners can help to ensure future research focuses more on topics that will help us do a better job of improving indoor air. This was an eye opening experience for the practitioners that attended and we will pass along some of what we learned. The bottom line is that what we do is important and will only become more important over time. LEARN MORE this week on IAQ Radio!
Fred Rock, a FOCUS Managing Director in Pennsylvania, has more than thirty years experience in investment banking. He has advised clients on matters relating to strategic and operations planning, including evaluating, financing and structuring new or growing business ventures, as well as executing acquisitions and sales of businesses. Mr. Rock has experience in many different industries, with a significant number of clients in the manufacturing, energy, franchising and distribution sectors. Join IAQ Radio this week and LEARN MORE about how to build, position and if you plan well sell your small business.
Dr. Corsi is the President of Indoor Air 2011 and Director, NSF IGERT program in Indoor Environmental Science and Engineering at the University of Texas at Austin. We will discuss the upcoming IA 2011 conference with an emphasis on how to get researchers and practitioners working together toward assisting people with the design and maintenance of better indoor environments.
This week IAQ Radio welcomes Dr. Michal Krzyzanowski to the show. Dr. Krzyzanowski is a Head of the Bonn Office of the World Health Organization (WHO) European Centre for Environment and Health, belonging to the WHO Regional Office for Europe. He is also a Program Manager, Living and Working Environments. His technical work focuses on the preparation of scientific evidence on health impact of environmental hazards, in particular of air pollution. The global update the WHO Air Quality Guidelines is one of the products of his team. Currently, he is coordinating the development of WHO guidelines on indoor air quality. LEARN MORE this week when we discuss the WHO indoor air quality program and two recent publications "Dampness and Mold" and "WHO Guidelines for Indoor Air Quality: Selected Pollutants". Don't miss this opportunity to gain an international perspective on IAQ issues from a world renowned leader Dr. Michal Krzyzanowski!
This week we will LEARN MORE about the technology behind the instruments we use with Rick Stonier Managing Partner at Graywolf Sensing Solutions. Mr. Stonier has over 25 years of experience in design, production, sales and marketing of IAQ instrumentation. He is the Managing Partner at GrayWolf Sensing Solutions, a Connecticut based company with manufacturing in Ireland and worldwide sales of mobile PC based IAQ instrumentation. Mr. Stonier has a BS in Mechanical Engineering and has had an active involvement with ASHRAE's TC 1.2 Instruments & Measurements committee for many years. We will discuss the nuts and bolts behind the measurement of Temperature, Relative Humidity, particulate, VOC's, Carbon Monoxide, Carbon Dioxide, pressure differentials and more. Don't miss this opportunity to hear from one of the most innovative and informed instrument manufacturers in the world and LEARN MORE about IAQ instruments and measurements.
This week Dr. Elliot Horner returns to IAQ Radio to help us as we update listeners and continue our discussion of lawsuit filed at the end of 2010 against the USGBC and their LEED program. We had the driving force behind the lawsuit Mr. Henry Gifford on in November to present his reasons for filing the lawsuit and Dr. Horner has agreed to come on and continue the discussion. Dr. Horner is the laboratory director and a principle consultant for Air Quality Sciences. He has a Ph.D. in plant pathology from Virginia Polytechnic Institute, an M.S. in mycology from the SUNY College of Environmental Science and Forestry in Syracuse also a Fellow of the American Academy of Asthma Allergy and Immunology and a LEED AP. Join us Friday at noon and LEARN MORE about this issue and more on IAQ Radio.
IAQ Radio welcomes a disaster restoration and industry association veteran Mr. Sam Bergman to the show. Mr. Bergman is CEO of Rolyn Companies, Inc. of Rockville, MD and 1st Vice President of the Restoration Industry Association (RIA). Ronald Bergman founded Rolyn in 1979, since then Rolyn's scope of services and capabilities have expanded to include a wide range of emergency and specialty construction services. Rolyn added infection control services for healthcare construction and renovation projects in the early 2000's as regulations for infection control became more stringent. Since 2005 Rolyn has doubled in size and now has six offices and 125 employees in numerous states, offering nationwide coverage to clients. Join us this week and LEARN MORE about a disaster restoration success story through the eyes of their CEO and an industry mover and shaker Sam Bergman.
Are you managing your business or is your business managing you? We explore how to answer this question and much more with Chuck Violand of Violand Management Associates. Chuck Violand understands the unique challenges of small businesses, having owned a commercial cleaning and water damage mitigation company for 26 years. He founded Violand Management Associates (VMA) in 1988 as a consulting, teaching, and training resource for owners of small businesses. Chuck is also known to many for the no-nonsense business building advice that he regularly presents in trade publications, speaking engagements, and his weekly management e-zine "Monday Morning Notes". This week we plan to ask Chuck for advice and tips that any entrepreneur can use to achieve long-term business and personal success. We plan on discussing the peak performance, business planning, project management , management development, estimating, sales and marketing and more. Join us this week and LEARN MORE about how to take your control of your business with Chuck Violand and IAQ Radio.
The Pioneers of IEQ Series returns this with pioneer practitioner and educator Mike McGuinness, CIH, CET, CIAQP. Mr. McGuinness began his career in industrial hygiene and occupational health with NJ Department of Labor in 1973. He also worked for six years with the US Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) before returning to the NJ DOL as their Senior Occupational Health Consultant. In 1984 he started RK Occupational & Environmental Analysis, Inc. to provide industrial hygiene, occupational health and indoor environmental quality consulting and training services for a wide range of public and private clients. Mr. McGuinness is one of only 70 CIH's worldwide with the Indoor Environmental Quality sub-specialty through the American Board of Industrial Hygiene (ABIH). Anyone that knows him is aware that he has some strong opinions and is not afraid to voice them. We are looking forward to providing him the type of platform he deserves and getting his take on current events in the IEQ and disaster restoration industries. Text in your questions, give us a call to say hello or download the show later, whatever you do don't miss this opportunity to LEARN MORE from one of the pioneers of the IEQ industry this week on IAQ Radio.
In They are Poisoning Us, Mann tells a riveting story of concealment, confusion and insidiously immoral behavior on the part of industry and governmental agencies. He also reveals exciting new scientific developments that are finally producing new treatments for the environmentally disabled. This book is a must-read for anyone concerned about their health in our increasingly "chemicalized" world. No one is immune.
Dr. Randy R. Rapp is an Associate Professor of Building Construction Management Technology at Purdue University and coordinates the Disaster Restoration and Reconstruction Management concentration. He has practical experience of the impact of both natural and man-made disasters and has worked in government and commercial contexts. While with Kellogg, Brown & Root (KBR), he served in project controls and operations for Hurricane Katrina and materiel and logistics management for Hurricane Wilma. He was also the project controls manager and deputy program general manager for the Restore Iraqi Oil program. With Edward R. Fisk, he co-authored the Introduction to Engineering Construction Inspection (2004), contributes to redevelopment of the Certified Restorer credential for the Restoration Industry Association, and chaired the Government Affairs Committee of the Institute for Inspection, Cleaning, and Restoration Certification (IICRC).
Microban antimicrobial protection is built-in to products during manufacturing to provide continuous antimicrobial protection. Microban uses a broad range of antimicrobial technologies that can be found in hundreds of consumer, industrial and medical products around the world. Join us Friday and LEARN MORE about this highly successful multinational business from Scott Rosenzweig, Senior Vice President of Business Development for Microban International, Inc.
Barry Westbrook founded DocAir in 2002 to make buildings work better. Since 80% of all the homes that will be in service 30 years from now are already constructed, DocAir provides diagnostic and remediation services to improve the performance and sustainability of residential homes and commercial buildings. For new construction DocAir also offers a one stop source for an integrated high performance building package that includes HVAC design and testing, thermal insulation, and storm water management. Mr. Westbrook has a Bachelors Degree in Mechanical Engineering Physics and has attained a number of professional credentials including Professional Engineer, Certified Industrial Hygienist, Certified Safety Professional, and Certified Healthcare Environmental Manager. His 30 year career includes stints as construction superintendent, Licensed Master Plumber, industrial process engineer, and environmental consultant. Today, Barry considers his role to be primarily that of building scientist and consumer advocate for better construction quality. He also provides expert witness services in litigation cases involving mold, toxic exposures, and building systems evaluation. Mr. Westbrook is a regular speaker at technical seminars for home builders, building codes officials, architects, engineers, and attorneys. DocAir was also an integral part of the team that achieved the first LEED "Gold" rating for an existing home in Tennessee. We look forward to having Mr. Westbrook join us this week on IAQ Radio so that we can LEARN MORE about the specialized package of services he provides.
Mr. Fugler is a Senior Researcher and Project Manager for the Canada Mortgage Housing Corporation (CMHC). Don has been a fixture at CMHC for going on 30 years and has been responsible for some of the most important energy, IAQ and building science research in the world. Join us to LEARN MORE about the gold mine of resources and research at your fingertips because of people like this weeks guest.
Larry Robertson, the Indoor Air Quality Association's 1st President and founding board member and has been a leader in IAQ research and services for over 2 decades. Robertson is known for establishing Mycotech Biological, Inc. (MBI), one of the first environmental laboratories that specialized in the identification of fungi and their association with HVAC systems. He also contributed in the initial development of the CIE and CMR certification programs and served on the Texas Mold Task Force relative to the development of mold regulations in the State of Texas. Robertson was also co-founder of Indoor Environmental Consultants, Home Diagnostics, Purysis I, Purysis II, LARO, Microfungi, Inc., and the Aeromycological Society of America. Robertson has recently divested from all of these entities and formed the Robertson Environmental Consulting (REC) Group to provide consulting and indoor environmental services through a network of consultants and remediators across the country. www.robertsonenvironmentalconsulting.com.
This week NADCA Executive Director John Shulte joins us to discuss HVAC cleaning issues and the recent Dateline NBC expose on duct cleaning scams. A recent press release from NADCA describes the segment as follows: "The National Air Duct Cleaners Association (NADCA) participated in an undercover investigation by Chris Hansen and Dateline NBC to expose companies that use bait and switch tactics to take advantage of consumers. The investigation culminated in a segment that aired January 30, 2011, featuring NADCA President Buck Sheppard as the industry expert. After witnessing one of the scam operators in action, Sheppard was taken aback. "It was amazing how unscrupulous some people can actually be," he noted." Join us Friday at noon to LEARN MORE about HVAC cleaning and how NADCA and others are trying to shine the light on bait and switch tactics in the duct cleaning and other industries.
This week we welcome Jeff Cross to IAQ Radio for a discussion of current events in cleaning and restoration plus some marketing tips from one of the best known marketing pros in the industry. Jeff is the Senior Editor of Cleanfax magazine and also has over 20 years of hands on experience in the carpet and furniture cleaning industry. His "Totally Booked University" marketing workshop is one of the most popular seminars in the industry and the marketing tips he teaches are applicable to any industry. Join us to hear Jeff discuss marketing, his views on how the economy is affecting the industry, if green cleaning is catching on, the CRI program, trade associations in today's era of instant electronic communications and much more. LEARN MORE on IAQ Radio with Jeff Cross, Radio Joe, The Z-man and Dr. Dietrich Weyle.
Mark Mendell, Ph.D., is currently a Staff Scientist/Epidemiologist in the Indoor Environment Group at EETD, and an Air Pollution Research Specialist at the California Department of Public Health. Dr. Mendell is on the editorial board of the journal Indoor Air and a member of the International Academy of Indoor Air Sciences. He was formerly at the Centers for Disease Control/National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health, where he was head of the National Occupational Research Agenda Team on Indoor Environments. Dr. Mendell holds a BA from Cornell University; a Bachelor of Landscape Architecture from the University of Oregon; and a PhD in epidemiology from the University of California at Berkeley, School of Public Health. Dr. Mendell has worked for 20 years in the field of environmental epidemiology, focused on health effects related to indoor environments in buildings. His work includes field research to help understand relationships between specific factors and conditions in buildings and health effects in occupants, and critical reviews of the literature that summarize what we know, how well we know it, and what we do not know, about specific environment/health relationships in buildings. His research interests include health risks associated with buildings, ventilation systems, moisture, and microbial growth; effects of indoor environments in schools on health and performance of students, and effects of indoor chemical exposures in residences on asthma and allergies.
Anthony (Tony) Worthan serves as President and Chief Operating Officer of Air Quality Sciences. Worthan promises to address "green" as it relates to IAQ; a critical issue for IAQ Radio listeners including maintenance supervisors, disaster relief managers and indoor environmental professionals. These individuals are faced with "green" confusion every day: why and how should green products be selected and used? Defining Green Products provides an opportunity to educate and empower these decision-makers to make better choices that impact indoor air quality (IAQ) and its effects on human health. With extensive experience in indoor air quality and pollutant emissions from furniture, construction materials and consumer products, Worthan's knowledge of sick building syndrome and indoor pollutant sources brings a scientific understanding of why a "green" product must be a "healthy" product. He holds a master's degree in Public Health in Environmental and Occupational Health and a Management Development post-graduate degree from Harvard Business School.
We start out 2011 with a look at the regulatory landscape for IAQ, disaster restoration and building science issues. What's pending? What's on hold? What's in place? What does the future look like? Join us to LEARN MORE with the foremost expert on Environmental Health regulatory activity Attorney Doug Farquher.
We wrapped up 2010 with a review of the federal, state and local regulatory landscape for IAQ. A round table discussion with the principles of IAQ Radio. LEARN MORE at www.iaqradio.com
Indoor environmental professionals typically find bad indoor air quality in buildings where there are plumbing problems. Winter is here and so are the plumbing problems associated with the season such as frozen and busted pipes. How are common plumbing problems diagnosed and repaired? Why is a properly designed and functioning plumbing system important to indoor air quality? What simple and inexpensive step should all homeowners take to possibly prevent prevent against water damage in the laundry? What are the recommended methods for maintaining proper flow through drains and sewer lines. Join us this Friday, December 10th at noon eastern time when the plumbing experts from Mr. Rooter Plumbing join RadioJoe and the Z-Man on IAQradio.
Dr. Ponessa recently retired from Rutgers Cooperative Extension after serving 25 years as the Housing, Indoor Environment and Health specialist. In that position, he worked on curriculum development and outreach education, serving both lay and professional audiences. Areas of specialization included the indoor environment and its impact on health; management of building moisture problems and building science/construction technology. We are looking forward to getting Dr. Ponessa's views on the past, present and future of IEQ and building science issues.
This week Mr. Henry Gifford of Building Energy Science joins us to discuss building science issues, energy savings techniques and the class action lawsuit he is part of against the United Stated Green Building Council (USGBC). The USGBC Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) program has become the de facto building state of the art for many architects, building owners, local, state and federal buildings. Mr. Gifford contends that just should not be the case and that the program does not help save energy and therefore is fatally flawed. We will LEARN MORE this week on IAQ Radio!
Most of us belong to some type of association whether it's the AAA or AARP or a trade association like those that many of our listeners belong to. This week we will explore the legal landscape for associations with Steven John Fellman, Esq. a specialist on association legal matters. We will also hear from Glenn Fellman the president of Association & Communications Management Group, which is the association management company serving the Indoor Air Quality Association, Indoor Environmental Standards Organization, and most recently the Restoration Industry Association. LEARN MORE about what associations can and cannot or should not be doing while representing our interests.
What's happening at the Institute for Inspection Cleaning and Restoration Certification (IICRC)? We will find out this week when we interview IICRC President Mr. Patrick Winters CAE/IOM. Mr. Winters was hired as IICRC President in August of 2009 and his goal is to lead the organization to excellence in all functional areas. Mr. Winters has over 35 years experience as a nonprofit executive specializing in foundations, institutes, professional societies and trade associations. IAQ Radio will be exploring the world of not for profit associations in the IAQ, disaster restoration and building science industries for the next few weeks and we are excited about our first interview on the subject with the President of what is probably the most influential association in the disaster restoration industry. Join us live or download the show later but don't miss the opportunity to learn more about the industry and associations that represent us.
In our continuing effort to present all sides of the issues this week we present Attorney David Governo and Dr. Howard Sandler for the defense. Mr. Governo the founding partner of the Governo Law Firm in Boston, Massachusetts and an expert in toxic tort and environmental litigation. Dr Sandler is a physician specializing in Occupational and Environmental Medicine who served as a medical officer with the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH, CDC, USPHS), a consultant to the U.S. OSHA, and U.S. EPA and an invited presenter on occupational health causation for the National Academy of Sciences. He has also testified on request before the U.S. Congress and state legislatures on occupational health issues including microbials.
This week we have Part 2, of our series titled "Is the Approach to IAQ, Green Buildings and Mold Science Based? Regular IAQ Radio contributor Don Weekes, CIH, CSP of InAir Environmental will join us to discuss if it is practical to take a purely science based approach to IAQ, Green Buildings or Mold issues.
This week on IAQ Radio we will discuss fragrances and perfumes with an expert on the subject Natalie Hinden-Kuhles of Agilex Fragrance. What are the manufacturer's doing to develop products that have less effect on indoor environments and sensitive individuals? How do fragrances and perfumes affect IAQ? Are they a cure, a band-aid, or a detriment? Get the answers this week on IAQ Radio with hosts Joe Hughes and Cliff Zlotnik.
Melinda Ballard serves as President, Policyholders of America (POA), a non-profit organization providing free claims assistance to homeowners who've filed claims covered by their homeowner's policies. More than 2 million people have joined POA since its formation in 2000. Ms. Ballard founded the group after experiencing, firsthand, how insurance carriers often deal with their policyholders after disaster strikes. Dr. Shoemaker is the Corresponding author for the POA's "Research Committee Report on the Diagnosis and Treatment of Chronic Inflammatory Response Syndrome Caused by Exposure to the Interior Environment of Water-Damaged Buildings". This report is presents the Mold Research Committees position statement on the current state of the science regarding human health effects acquired following exposure to the multiple microbes and microbial contaminants and their metabolites found in the interior environment of water-damaged buildings. This dynamic duo has joined forces to advance the understanding of health effects caused by exposure to water damaged buildings. Join us this week to learn more about the POA, The Mold Research Committee and of course Malinda Ballard and Dr. Ritchie Shoemaker on IAQ Radio.
Is the industry approach to IAQ, mold and Green Buildings science-based? This week on IAQ Radio we have the return visit of Ed Light, CIH to discuss his thoughts about the title of our show. In addition according to Mr. Light discussions of industrial hygiene and health are generally one-sided and do not consider other opinions on controversial subjects? We will discuss Mr. Lights opinion on these two subjects and time permitting will get his opening thoughts/statements on some debate topics he has proposed for a future IAQ Radio program.
Injectidry was formed to develop specialized drying equipment that dries structures quickly, using the least invasive methods. The companies goal is to develop products which help the restoration industry limit the damage to structures as well as the environment in the surrounding area. Their company vision is to minimize replacement cost whenever possible, expedite the drying process and keep our environment healthy. Join us this week for another business success story and solid objective information on disaster restoration this week on IAQ Radio.
The restoration chat rooms are lit up like a Christmas Tree over several current events in the cleaning and restoration world: Conflicts of Interest, CRI's Seal of Approval Program for cleaning equipment and chemicals, and Accuracy in Education. Listen in as Radio Joe and the Z-Man query guests Lisa Wagner and Jim Pemberton on these issues.
This week IAQ Radio has an exclusive interview with disaster restoration pioneer Claude Blackburn. Claude Blackburn has been involved in the cleaning and restoration industry since 1972. He was the founder and president of Dri-Eaz Products in Burlington, Washington. Learn from one of the great success stories in the industry how you can take it to the next level.
Our thanks go out to Lisa Rogers for a great interview about the ASTM D22.08 IAQ and mold project. We discussed the standards that are complete, in development and planned. We also learned a lot during our discussion of the Mycometer technology and got a glimpse at the new Bacti-Count system that is just about ready for prime time.
Tune into IAQ Radio this week at noon eastern time, when Radio Joe and the Z-Man interview cleaning and restoration industry pioneer Lee Pemberton.
"The Restoration Lawyer" Edward H. Cross is President of Law Offices of Edward H. Cross & Associates, PC. He has represented over 50 restoration contractors in twelve states in collections disputes, standard of care issues, mold claims, and disputes with carriers. He also drafts restoration contracts, work authorizations, waivers, disclaimers, warranties and numerous other related documents. During his career, he has successfully resolved over 500 cases involving issues of construction, property damage and/or indoor air quality. He has been handling legal matters related to water, sewage and mold for 15 years. Before that, he worked in the construction industry for more than five years. He earned certifications as a Certified Indoor Air Quality Professional (from AEE) and Water Damage Restoration Technician (from IICRC). He was a contributor to the Second Edition of IICRC's S500 Standard and Reference Guide for Professional Water Damage Restoration, and was a Legal Reviewer of IICRC's S520 Standard and Reference Guide for Professional Mold Remediation, as well as a member of its Standards Committee and Editing Committee. IAQ Radio is delighted to have Mr. Cross join us to discuss current events in the disaster restoration industry with a focus on legal issues.
This week hosts Joe Hughes and Cliff Zlotnik welcome special guest Dr. Harriet Burge, Director of Aerobiology at EMLab P&K and monthly columnist for Indoor Environment Connections newspaper. The show airs live at 12noon EDT on Friday, July 16, 2010. Listen live or download the show later at www.iaqradio.com
Ultra Violet Devices Inc. (UVDI) is one of the oldest and most respected ultraviolet disinfection companies in the world. It all began with the hard work and ingenuity of a single man. Three generations ago Luis Veloz was an engineer for Westinghouse when their R&D engineers developed and patented the first commercial ultraviolet lamps. Luis was excited by this new technology and in 1949 he purchased a Westinghouse UV lamp dealership. Early applications were difficult to develop, but Luis had a vision of how ultraviolet light might be widespread and effective. He formed Aquafine Corporation to focus on water disinfection. In 2003, UVDI launched its ALTRU-V line of air disinfection products. We have talked a good bit with past guests about the potential benefits and drawbacks for specific airstream UV disinfection with IAQ experts for three years it is time we hear from a respected manufacturer for their perspective. Let's see what they have to say and contribute we can contribute the discussion our own unique way on IAQ Radio.
This week we have the return appearance of IAQ pioneer Mr. Hal Levin of Building Ecology Research Group. During Part 1 of our interview we discussed some of the early work Mr. Levin did in the IAQ/building science arena and what types of mistakes we should avoid repeating. We also talked a little about his role as Executive Director at the International Society for Indoor Air Quality and Climate (ISIAQ). This week we will go into more detail about some of his most interesting projects and explore some current events in the IAQ and building science.
Richard L. Corsi, Ph.D., P.E. ECH Bantel Professor for Professional Practice Department of Civil, Architectural and Environmental Engineering The University of Texas at Austin
This week we will be discussing some current events in IAQ and Disaster Restoration with ASHRAE Fellow and IAQA Past President Bob Baker. Mr. Baker recently volunteered to assist in developing standard operating procedures for some unusual projects in Nashville, TN. We will also have a report on the Florida Mold Licensing Law, an update on some ASHRAE standards/activities and more. Everyone will learn something from this interview so join us live Friday at noon or download the show later but don't miss this episode.
This week we interview Andrew Persily, Ph.D. of the National Institute of Standards and Technology. Dr. Persily works on indoor air quality and ventilation in commercial and residential buildings. His work includes the development and application of measurement techniques to evaluate airflow and air quality characteristics in a variety of building types, including large, mechanically ventilated buildings and single-family dwellings. Mr. Persily was also the Steering Committee Chair of the recently published ASHRAE Design Guide "Indoor Air Quality Guide- Best Practices for Design, Construction and Commissioning". This project was a collaboration between ASHRAE, AIA, BOMA, SMACNA, EPA and the USGBC. We are thrilled to have the opportunity to interview Dr. Persily!
Next up on IAQ radio we will be joined by Claudius Carnegie, PhD, P.E., CIE, CMR of the Miami-Dade County Public Schools. Dr. Carnegie was also recently elected President of the Indoor Environmental Standards Organization (IESO). We will discuss IAQ and facilities management and progress on the various standards IESO is developing.
This week on IAQ Radio we welcome back Robert C. Bob Brandys, PhD, MPH, PE, CIH, CSP, CMR & Gail Brandys, MS, CSP, CMR of Occupational and Environmental Health Consulting Services. We will discuss numerous issues including their recently published book "International Indoor Air Quality Standards for Over 2,000 Chemical and Biological Substances". This is their fourth book in a popular series many IAQ professionals are familiar with, the other three include "Post-Remediation Testing and Verification for Mold and Bacteria- Risk Based Levels of Cleanliness", "Worldwide Exposure Standards for Mold and Bacteria with Assessment Guidelines for Air, Water, Dust, Ductwork, Carpet and Insulation" and "Global Occupational Exposure Limits for Over 6,000 Specific Chemicals". This series of books has made a tremendous contribution to the practice of IAQ and disaster restoration contracting and consulting by collecting and publishing diverse and difficult to acquire historical and current information and making it available to professionals in a convenient and inexpensive format. Most of the information comes from books that too often sit in libraries unread in today's digital world. Always entertaining and informative we are looking forward to this week's wide ranging discussion with Dr. Bob and Gail Brandys on IAQ Radio.
Hal Levin is a Research Architect with Building Ecology Research Group, Santa Cruz, California. Mr. Levin has conducted research and consulted on buildings impacts on occupant health and comfort as well as on the larger environment. Since 1978 his work has focused on the integration of knowledge about indoor and outdoor air pollution as well as other risk factors into the design, construction, and operation of residential, educational, and commercial buildings and communities. The list of his clients includes governments industry, and private individuals on five continents. He has been a leader in numerous professional and scientific societies and has received awards from several including ASHRAE's Environmental Health Award in 2008. He is the Executive Director of ISIAQ, the International Society of Indoor Air Quality and Climate, and is President of the Indoor Air Institute.
"Those who cannot learn from history are doomed to repeat it." Listen and learn when cleaning and restoration industry veteran and pioneer Greg Orndorff, Sr guests on IAQ Radio. Greg's business A-1 Floodtech is dramatically different than it was when he started it over 40 years ago. Over his tenure in business Greg has always been bold early adopter and risk taker, investing in new technology to stay on the leading edge of the business curve. Greg's pioneeringly creative and innovative marketing methods and strategies are legendary. Greg is a survivor both in business and life, join us at noon eastern time when Radio Joe Hughes and Cliff Z-Man Zlotnik interview Greg Orndorff, Sr. on IAQ Radio.
Dr. Horner is the laboratory director and a principle consultant for Air Quality Sciences. He has a Ph.D. in plant pathology from Virginia Polytechnic Institute, an M.S. in mycology from the SUNY College of Environmental Science and Forestry in Syracuse, and a B.A. in botany/comparative literature from the University of North Carolina. After receiving his Ph.D., Dr. Horner completed an NIH funded fellowship characterizing fungal allergens at Tulane University School of Medicine before joining the research faculty in the Allergy/Clinical Immunology Section, where he established a bioaerosols and indoor mold research program. He served as the chair (2002) of the Environmental Microbiology Laboratory Accreditation Committee of the American Industrial Hygiene Association Lab Quality Assurance Program, and served on the Analytical Accreditation Board through 2003. He is a member of ASTM International sub-committee D22.08 on sampling and analysis of mold and sub-committee G03.04 on biological deterioration. Dr. Horner has conducted investigations and complaint resolutions in courthouses, commercial buildings, hospitals, residences, schools and defense manufacturing facilities. He is also a Fellow of the American Academy of Asthma Allergy and Immunology and a LEED AP.
The most respected name in environmental sensitivities is Dr. William J. Rea and the Environmental Health Center- Dallas. Dr. Rea wrote the books on this issue and the best environmental health physicians world and others meet annually with Dr. Rea to share and learn about the latest research and results. MD's that suffer from environmental sensitivities no who to see and it is our next guest on IAQ Radio William J. Rea, M.D.
Dr. Black is Chairman and Founder of Air Quality Sciences of Marietta, GA. AQS is one of the the most respected names in the indoor air quality industry and provides traditional and specialty IAQ services. They are world renowned for product emissions testing and Dr. Black pioneered the development of environmental chamber technology. Specialized environmental chambers are used to replicate actual indoor conditions enabling precise measurements of the pollutant emissions released from indoor products. The AQS Product Emissions laboratory is widely considered to be the most technologically advanced in the world and allows manufacturers to study and maximize the environmental safety of their products. This week Dr. Marylin Black joins us to discuss VOC's, Environmental Chamber Testing, odors, certification of IAQ products, industry trends and more only on IAQ Radio.
This week we will discuss the CMHC "About Your House" series with Jim White. This series of publications includes a treasure trove of information and tips based on real world research and application. The CMHC website has more free information on housing and building science issues than any site in the world and we will ask Jim to give us the highlights and insight into a specially selected sampling. Join us this week for Part Two of "He Who Ignores History is Doomed to Repeat the Mistakes of the Past" only on IAQ Radio.
Jim White is one of those people that we are thrilled to have join us on IAQ Radio. Mr. White was with the Canada Mortgage Housing Corporation for 20 years when CMHC was doing research and developing documents that are as valuable today as when they were developed. We need to pay attention to people like Jim to avoid repeating the mistakes of the past and some don't think we have paid enough attention. We will find out what Mr. White thinks this week on IAQ Radio!
What's new in the world of HVAC systems cleaning? Maybe more than you realize. There are a lot of interesting issues we plan to discuss this week. From the use of antimicrobials in HVAC systems to the latest on NADCA's Research about the energy benefits of cleaning HVAC systems. We will also discuss the future of NADCA's HVAC cleaning standards along with NADCA's positions on sanitizing, deodorizing and cleaning microbial contamination in HVAC systems. Our guests this week are John Shulte, NADCA Executive Director and Tim Hoysradt owner of Twins Environmental and NADCA Treasurer. All this and some other timely issues including the pending release of the RIA/IESO soot in HVAC standard this week on IAQ Radio.
Lisa Nagy, MD was recently interviewed for Nightline because her story is quite incredible, horrific and has a happy ending. She and her husband Wes lived in a home in California which caused she, the dog and Wes to become adrenally insufficient among many other problems that they developed. It was a toxic exposure that led to this, thyroid insufficiency in all of them (both dogs) and muscle weakness in Dr. Nagy and the dogs. One dog developed Myasthenia Gravis and Wes developed Pemphigus Foliaceus â?? both autoimmune diseases possibly induced by this exposure. It is from this personal experience that Dr. Nagy, who was trained in Emergency Medicine, has learned about Chemical Sensitivity and Environmental Medicine and hopes to educate the country about the condition that almost killed her and plagues, to some degree, at least 40% of the population.
Last week we discussed cleaning chemistry and science issues with Mike Kerner. This week Mike and the Z-man take it a step further to discuss the following issues: -What environmental or personal safety impact and do cleaning products have and what is being done to reduce that impact? -What is meant by green and how do we determine whether something is green? -What's the difference between materials that are naturally derived versus those that are synthetic? -What can we do to make cleaning products and processes safe? -Just how toxic are cleaning products? What is the proper use of a disinfectant? -What is meant by green washing? What would be an example of green washing? Join Mike Kerner and the Z-Man as they continue our discussion of cleaning products.
This week we begin a two part series on cleaning science issues. What is cleaning science? Is there a good body of evidence that helps us understand what works best? The Z-Man and Radio Joe intend to get down to brass tacks about cleaning science and chemistry. Join us Friday at noon for the next two weeks for fair and balanced treatment of an important topic.
This week we tackle an issue that has escaped our radar for too long. Integrated Pest Management is one of the most important methods known for helping improve indoor environmental quality. When a home or building is crawling with little creatures not much else gets your attention. Then in some cases there can be an overreaction which creates even bigger problems. This week we discuss the correct way to deal with pests and we do so with two people that have an excellent track record under difficult circumstances. Mike Dicroce and Maria Moio are in charge of the Pittsburgh Public Schools IPM program and join us to discuss the ins and outs of Integrated Pest Management.
This week Radio Joe will interview the Z-Man about handling IEQ problems that may or may not have been caused by remediation projects. This show for contractors, consultants and consumers will help everyone avoid those sticky situations when a consumer feels the remedy was worse than the problem.
This week IAQ Radio welcomes Mr. Patrick MacRoy the Executive Director for the Alliance for Health Housing. Under Mr. MacRoy's leadership the Alliance has done some remarkable work including the development of a terrific guidance document for restoration of flood damaged homes following Hurricane Katrina. We will review this document and much more during this weeks show with Mr. MacRoy.
This week IAQ Radio will focus on anwering questions for consumers of mold and/or IAQ services. What should I expect from a mold inspector? How do I find a good mold remediator? Can I do this myself or do I need a professional? What is the best certification for me to look for? Why is there so much confusing and conflicting advice available about this subject? Join us Friday at noon as we answer these questions and more on the IAQ Radio Consumer Show.
Radio Joe and the Z-man are going through the archives to pick out some of the highlights of 2009 for this special episode. We have some tough decisions to make but we are sure you will like the results.
This week we focus on children's health and indoor environments. Our guests are Rebecca Morley, Executive Director of the National Center for Healthy Housing and Jerome A. Paulson, MD Associate Research Professor in the Department of Environmental & Occupational Health at The George Washington University School of Public Health and Health Services. We are thrilled to have these two prominant children's health advocates joining us for this weeks show. Check it out live or download it later but don't miss this show!
Interested in how our federal government coordinates its research into indoor air quality, facilitates the exchange of information relating to IAQ issues among federal agencies, state and local governments, the research community, the private sector and the general public? Join IAQ radio hosts Radio Joe Hughes and Z-Man Cliff Zlotnik, Friday November 4, at noon eastern time at www.iaqradio.com when they interview Phil Jalbert, the Executive Secretary to the Federal Interagency Committee on Indoor Air Quality (CIAQ).
Have you heard any rumors that OSHA may be preparing to increase enforcement activity under the new administration? Do you have any questions about the focus of this possible new enforcement initiative? Would you like to know the facts and how to avoid the law of unintended consequences? Join IAQ Radio live on December 20th for the answers to these questions and more when our guest is a true OSHA enforcement expert with decades of experience dealing with these very issues. Paul J. Snyder, CIH, CSP is coming to IAQ Radio and you should be there to listen in!
This week the IAQ Radio will focus on education and control of IEQ issues. Our guest is Dr. Michael Findley who is teaching the new Fundamentals of Industrial Hygiene, Applications for IEQ course at the University of West Florida. We will discuss online training through universities and colleges along with this weeks module for the current course Control of IH and IEQ issues. Also joining Radio Joe and the Z- Man in the studio this week will be our Technical Director Dr. Dietrich Weyel. What are the formal IH controls recommended and how do they fit into the IEQ world? Join us to learn more Friday at noon!
ENERGY STAR is a joint program of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and the U.S. Department of Energy helping us all save money and protect the environment through energy efficient products and practices. Energy efficient homes must also maintain good indoor air quality for people and Mr. Rashkin will talk to us about how how ENERGY STAR takes IAQ into consideration. We will also be looking at future plans for the ENERGY STAR program that will most definitely be of interest to our listeners. This week on IAQ Radio EPA, ENERGY STAR Star and IAQ don't miss it!
What's up with "Heat Drying"? Does it work but more importantly how does it work and what can go wrong if you don't know what you are doing? What are the best systems on the market and why? We talk with Andy Robinson of Jon Don to explore this hot topic!
Alan Zelicoff is a physician (board certified in internal medicine 1992, clinical fellowship in rheumatology, 1983) and physicist (A.B., Princeton, 1975), who has had a varied career including clinical practice, teaching, and operations research. In the latter roles, he was Senior Scientist in the Center for National Security and Arms Control at Sandia National Laboratories from 1989 to 2003. Dr. Zelicoff's interests include risk and hazard analysis in hospital systems and office-based practice, and in technologies for improving the responsiveness of public health offices and countering biological weapons terrorism. Dr. Zelicoff has traveled extensively in countries of the former Soviet Union and has led joint research projects in epidemiology of infectious disease, while establishing Internet access at Russian and Kazak biological laboratories. He is the author of numerous text book chapters and articles in these subjects, and is a frequent contributor to Op-Ed pages in the Washington Post and other newspapers. Dr. Zelicoff's latest book is: Microbe: Are we Ready for the Next Plague? published by AMAZOM Books.
Where are the IEQ, disaster restoration and building science worlds headed? Is there an emerging synergy between government agencies, government supported associations, the medical community, the green movement and the existing IAQ, disaster restoration and building science groups? What role will government agencies and government funded associations play in this emerging industry? How will all this affect you and your business? We will explore the issues and help guide IAQ Radio listeners toward the future with one of the industry movers and shakers Carl Grimes of Healthy Habitats. Carl is on the front lines of this emerging synergy and we start this week by explaining who the players are and why our listeners should be keeping up with the changing landscape. What does the future hold for you and your competition?
When Wane Baker tells us the World Health Organization report "Dampness and Mould" is the most important document to come out on the subject to date, we listen! Then we ask questions to help others understand why one of the most respected IEQ professionals in the country feels this report is so important. Join us on October 9th. when we have Mr. Baker as our guest to discuss the research that led up to this document and the conclusions within the WHO Report. This show just may change how some people think about dampness and mould.
Dr. Eva King is the Senior Scientist and leader of the immunoassay team at Indoor Biotechnologies, Inc., a global leader in allergen detection and prevention. Mold gets most of the press when there are numerous allergy and asthma triggers that lurk in homes and buildings. This week we will discuss the other allergy and asthma triggers that investigators and remediators should be thinking about when helping people solve their IAQ problems. This is an area of IAQ that is getting a lot of attention in Washington and anyone doing IAQ investigations or remediation would be smart to pay attention to what is happening on this front in the battle against poor IAQ.
What could possibly be interesting about mold and mildew, you ask? It's all in the content and the presentation style of the person discussing the subject. IAQ Radio is delighted to have internationally known and acclaimed expert on the subject McGregor Pearce of St. Paul, Minnesota, for a 3rd appearance on our program. Mac is an environmental health consultant specializing in indoor air quality problems. He has investigated mold in homes, commercial buildings, hospitals, clinics and skyscrapers. Mold and mildew are at the root of a number of health problems and contribute to building degradation. Mac makes mycology marvelously interesting.
IAQ Radio 9-11-09 Memorial Show! This week with IAQ Radio falling on the anniversary of the 9-11 attacks on the USA we will be doing a show on Fundamentals of Industrial Hygiene: Applications to Indoor Environmental Quality that uses examples from projects that only occurred as the result of the tragic events that unfolded that day. Radio Joe Hughes will interview Jack Springston, CIH, CSP of Sandler Occupational Medicine Associates. Our Technical Director Dr. Dietrich Weyel, ScD, CIH will be in the studio answering questions and helping out Radio Joe . We will be reviewing concepts from the IAQ Chapter of Fundamentals of Industrial Hygiene, Second Edition Edited by Salvatore R. DiNardi using projects that Mr. Springston was part of following the 9-11 attacks to bring a real world perspective to this subject. Join us live or download the show later when IAQ Radio returns from our summer break on 9-11-09 at 12:00 EDT.
IAQ Radio is going to have a special show half way through our Summer Break. Join us when we talk to Dr. Ritchie Shoemaker about the latest research he is publishing on damp buildings and health effects. According to the author one of these papers has the potential to make some people vacate the toxicology aspect of an immunologic illness and this work includes the first systematic study of pediatric patients with mold illness. Find out what he means and get a preview of Dr. Shoemaker's presentation at "Healthy Buildings 2009 in Syracuse. Don't miss this special event on IAQ Radio.
When Steve Toburen last appeared on IAQ Radio his subject was "healing the loss" based on a succesful progamt that he developed and markets to restoration contractors on how to relate and communicate with people that have suffered fire and water damage losses. In this week's guest appearance we will delve into proven strategies for business success from their highly regarded "Strategies for Success" program. Andy Robinson will also join us for a short segment on "heat drying issues". Healing the Loss was vert popular with listeners and we expect "Strategies for Success to surpass it in popularity especially during these trying times for business owners. Don't miss this last show prior to our Summer Break for 2009.
Independent thinker and water damage restoration innovator to share his knowledge and opinions this week on IAQradio. Ken Larsen, CR, WLS a restoration industry veteran since 1978 joins the hosts of IAQradio. Ken's career includes 18 years as an independent restoration contractor consultant to restorative drying firms during catastrophes and large loss drying coordinator. Ken has made the journey from water restoration follower to water damage restoration industry leader. Join us as IAQradio hosts discuss Ken's recent article in Cleaning & Restoration magazine titled "Restorative Drying Quackery". Don't miss it!
Dr. Cianciarulo is an Assistant Professor at Carlow University that teaches General Biology, Microbiology, Molecular Biology, Genetics, Science Teaching for Elementary Education Majors, Anatomy and Physiology She received her Ph.D. from the University of Pennsylvania. Dr. Cianciarulo's research interests involve bioremediation, the design of microorganisms to biodegrade environmental contaminants, and fungal contamination in building. She is also interested in gene regulation and expression in cells. Join us as we bring her back for a full hour to discuss all these issue and more on IAQ Radio.
Mr. Offermann has 25 years experience as an IAQ researcher, sick building investigator, mitigation planner, healthy building design consultant, expert witness, technical author, and workshop instructor. He is president of Indoor Environmental Engineering, a San Francisco based IAQ consulting firm. Under Mr. Offermann's supervision IEE has developed both pro-active and reactive IAQ measurement methods and diagnostic protocols. He has been a recipient of State and Federal research grants regarding building air quality and ventilation field studies (e.g. EPA BASE study of IAQ in office buildings and schools), tracer gas techniques, in situ contaminant emission rate measurements, and the development of indoor air quality measurement instrumentation. Prior to starting up Indoor Environmental Engineering, Mr. Offermann was a Staff Scientist with the Building Ventilation and Indoor Air Quality Program, Energy and Environment Division, Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory, Berkeley, CA.
William B. Rose is Research Architect at the Building Research Council-School of Architecture at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. His major field of university research involves water and its effects on buildings. He is the author of Water in Buildings: an architect's guide to moisture and mold published in 2005 by Wiley & Sons. This book recently won the Association for Preservation Technology Lee Nelson Award. His current university research projects include sky radiation effects with solar reflective roof surfaces, and combustion product concentrations in houses with unvented combustion appliances. He is the handbook chair of ASHRAE TC4.4, responsible for four ASHRAE Handbook chapters on building envelope performance, and he is a founding member of ASHRAE Standard Committee 160P Design Criteria for Moisture Control in Buildings. Through William B. Rose & Associates, he consults to museums and historic properties on moisture issues, and is presently involved with the United Nations Building, Sagamore Hill (Home of T. Roosevelt), and the Guggenheim Museum in New York.
Charles E. Gilbert is an epidemiologist and toxicologist and a Principal of the Epidemiology and Toxicology Institute, LLC. Dr. Gilbert's area of expertise is in occupational and environmental health especially in sensitive subgroups such as children. Dr. Gilbert was a founding member and Charter Member of the Environmental Biology and Public Health Section in the American Association of Bioanalysts. He was a Research Assistant Professor Department of Biostatistics and Epidemiology, School of Public Health, University of Massachusetts at Amherst, MA. He developed and was Director of the Northeast Regional Lead Training Center, University of Massachusetts from 1992 to 1997, one of six centers established by the U.S. EPA. Dr. Gilbert was a Subject Matter Expert for EPA National Lead Certification Examination System and has been on technical, scientific, and medical advisory committees for the Department of Housing and Urban Development, Environmental Protection Agency, Centers for Disease Control, U.S. Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry, Alliance to End Childhood Lead Poisoning, and National Center for Lead Safe Housing.
This week we will be discussing Industrial Hygiene Applications for Indoor Environmental Quality work with Wane A. Baker, P.E., CIH. Wane is Indoor Air Quality Division Manager for Michaels Engineering a diversified environmental and engineering consulting firm headquartered in La Crosse, WI. and a long time industry player. Coming into the IAQ world Wane quickly realized his P.E. license was an excellent background for IEQ work but building owners wanted a CIH. He decided to prepare for and take the CIH exam and found out along the way what a tremendous background industrial hygiene concepts can provide for practicing IEQ professionals. Now Wane will talk to IAQ Radio listeners about why a thorough knowledge of industrial hygiene concepts is so important.
Chinese drywall, the legalities! Chinese drywall and the alleged property damage and health effects attributed to it are a big concern in Florida and other states. This week, discussion continues on IAQradio. Your invited to join us as Michael S. Greene, one of Florida's top attorneys in the areas of real estate and construction claims, discusses the legal intricacies surrounding Chinese drywall. Don't miss it, listen live or download the episode on Itunes. Remember IAQradio broadcasts are approved by IICRC and Am.IAQ Council for continuing education.
At the height of the U.S. housing boom, when drywall an essential building material was in short supply, building products suppliers bought offshore. American construction firms used millions of pounds of Chinese-made drywall because it was available and inexpensive. Now that decision haunts thousands of homeowners and apartment dwellers who are concerned that the fumes the wallboard emits can corrode copper pipes, blacken jewelry and silverware, and possibly sicken people. Join us this week on IAQradio when Florida based Indoor Environmental Professionals, Will Spates and Tim Toburen, share their first hand experiences in dealing with indoor environmental challenges posed by Chinese Drywall. Don't miss it!
Patrick Moffett, CHMM, REA talks dirty this Friday on IAQradio. Sewage intrusion and catastrophic flooding are among the most difficult challenges which face remediators, Indoor Environmental Professionals and property owners alike. Black water poses serious health risks to both building occupants and remediation workers. Join us this week when the IAQradio team discusses the impact of black water intrusion on the indoor environment with Patrick Moffett, don't miss it!
What's a PHEAF? Bob will tell us what a PHEAF is and much more during this show. Back by popular demand Bob is one of the most popular IAQ Radio guests and a friend of the show we look forward to his views on numerous current events in the IAQ industry.
This week on IAQradio, Radio Joe and the Z-Man will interview Frank McKinney who recently completed construction on Acqua Liana the world's largest and most opulent certified green home currently listed for sale at $29,000,000. Frank whom the Wall Street Journal describes as a "real estate rock czar, has also been described in the media as: a daredevil developer, brazen risk taker, and king of the mega-mansion. Frank, who wears his hair long like a rock star is legendary for using extravagant and flamboyant marketing tactics to sell his properties. Fireworks, pirate ships; for promotional purposes he once "Knievel style" jumped a motorcycle over a full size replica of the first house he ever sold. Frank has been written about in the Wall Street Journal, Fortune Magazine and USA Today. TV segments about him have been featured on Oprah and ABC's 20/20. Besides his real estate success, Frank is a successful motivational speaker, personal coach, best selling author and philanthropist. Frank McKinney, this week on IAQradio, don't miss it!
Stephen Ashkin is well known throughout the professional cleaning, education, healthcare, and building-management industries as the "father of Green cleaning." He has played a pivotal role in setting industry standards, promoting environmentally preferable products, and advocating for socially responsible practices. Ashkin is a 28-year veteran of the professional cleaning industry. He is President of The Ashkin Group, a consulting firm specializing in Greening the cleaning process, and Executive Director of the Green Cleaning Network - both based in Bloomington, Indiana. He is the coauthor of The Business of Green Cleaning and Green Cleaning for Dummies. The Ashkin Group provides Green consulting services for building owners, product manufacturers, distributors and cleaning contractors, as well as advocates, environmentalists and policy makers.
The firm of Lewis and Harrison are EPA regulatory consultants for manufacturer's of antimicrobials, pesticides, antimicrobial products and FIFRA. Mr. Harrison is an expert on EPA registration and regulatory issues. We will discuss the Federal Insecticide, Fungicide and Rodenticide Act with one of the leading industry consultants. What products need to be registered? What is the correct terminology for these products? Why do HVAC products need separate labeling? How hard is it to get new products registered? Who has to be licensed to apply these products? Join us for the straight scoop on this often confusing subject.
Mr. Light has specialized in the indoor environmental sciences since 1982, when he directed a pioneering IAQ Program for the West Virginia Department of Health. A Senior Fellow of the American Industrial Hygiene Association, he has published extensively. As a consultant with Building Dynamics, he has conducted over 1000 IAQ investigations, including assessments of the White House, South Pole Station and Sing Sing Prison. In his other life, Ed is lead singer and first chair banjoist with the All New Genetically Altered Jug Band and author of There's A Fungus Among Us!
How do you take what some people would consider to be a bad habit and turn it into a great business idea? Join us and our special guest this week Annissa Coy creator of mobile-clean to find out. Who better to be restoration contents specialist than someone that happens to be a cleaning fanatic. We will discuss how Annissa came up with the mobile-clean concept, how she turned the idea into a thriving business and how the latest contents cleaning concept works. We will talk about all of this and more on this week's episode of IAQ Radio.
This week on IAQ Radio we have Jason K. Dobranic, Ph.D. National Director of Microbiology for EMSL Analytical, Inc. and Derrick Tanner West Coast Regional Manager for the LA Testing Division of EMSL. Dr. Dobranic manages a team of microbiologist including 11 Ph.D.'s nationwide. We look forward to his unique perspective on all things IAQ. Derrick is the go to man on soot issues at EMSL and will help us understand more about the unique properties of contamination caused by fire and smoke damage. We will have a little something of interest for anyone involved in the IAQ, disaster restoration and building science this week on IAQ Radio.
We can't say it any better than the following quote from "My House is Killing Me". "Working with Jeff May has completely changed my attitude toward the impact of the indoor world on human illness. His work has allowed us to focus on the true sources of allergic disease--the microscopic organisms that the immune system must deal with every second we spend indoors. His advice profoundly benefits families with environmental sensitivity, including those with immunologic conditions beyond allergy and asthma". William J. Monafo, M.D. American Academy of Allergy, Asthma and Immunology
Mr. Williams is the Executive Producer of a movie coming out soon called "Black Mold Exposure". The movie chronicles the issues faced by people that have had their lives turned upside down by living or working in water damaged buildings. Sharon Kramer turned us on to Michael and we asked Michael to join us on IAQ Radio to talk about the movie. If the title was intended to start some discussion and get attention is seems to be working.
It's a building science week on IAQ Radio with two excellent guests from our neighbor to the North. Professor Tang Lee is a Professor of Architecture at the University of Calgary who teaches building science (building enclosure, acoustics), mechanical engineering (HVAC), civil engineering (masonry), environmental health (IAQ), construction management, energy physics (solar) and almost everything else in architecture. Robert Bean is a registered engineering technologist in the field of building construction engineering. He is an avid student of industrial design (the way things look) and indoor environmental ergonomics (the way things feel). In 2007 Robert was selected as a distinguished lecturer for the American Society of Heating, Refrigeration and Air Conditioning Engineers speaking on the Human Factor in HVAC, Radiant Based HVAC Systems and Snow Melting Systems. He is the editor for The Journal of Indoor Environmental Quality and www.healthyheating.com a not for profit web sites on anthropology, architecture and indoor environmental ergonomics. We are excited to have them joining us on the show this week, please join us Friday at noon or download the show later but don't miss this one!
The Z-Man and Jim Pearson will get into the contractors perspective on water damage restoration, mold remediation, HCAC systems cleaning and the IICRC S-520. Jim is one of the most active contractors in the country and has served on numerous committees and with several organizations. Don't miss this no BS Zone interview.
This week we have invited back Sharon Kramer to follow up with her on progress to date with respect to the ACOEM statement and more importantly the Government Accountability Office's recent report. This is an issue that we have followed closely and we look forward to hearing from the advocate that got the ball rolling and continues to try and make a difference. It doesn't matter if you agree with her cause you have to admire her conviction.
This week we will be talking about business issues. growing your business and then transitioning out of your business with Butch and Jaclyn Carpenter of Ideal 1 Restoration. Over the past 30 years Ideal 1 Restoration has grown to be one of the leading disaster restoration companies in the US. Now the business continues its success under the management of the second generation of Carpenter. Another successful businessman Cliff Zlotnik (The Z-Man) has put together an interesting program every business owner will learn from. Join us live or download the show later to learn some of the secrets to business success.
Bob Baker founded BBJ Environmental and served as its Chairman from 1993 to 2007. Before BBJ Environmental, Baker worked as an executive in both the public and private sector. Bob came to Florida from the University of Texas' prestigious M.D. Anderson Cancer Center, where he served as Vice President for Administrative Services. Prior to that, he was an executive with Gulf Oil Corporation. Mr. Baker is an enthusiastic contributor to the industry through several organizations. He is on the board of the Indoor Air Quality Association (IAQA). He sits on two ASTM Standards committees, four ASHRAE Standards and Technical Committees, and has written numerous papers and articles. He was given the ASHRAE Distinguished Service Award in June of 2007 and is a member of the ASHRAE Standards Committee as well as the Code Interaction Subcommittee and Standards Project Liaison Subcommittee. He recently has been appointed to the ASHRAE committee that will be developing criteria for awarding certifications for HVAC System Maintenance Management.
Dr. Shaughnessy received his Ph.D. in Chemical Engineering from The University of Tulsa where he currently serves as the Program Manager for indoor air research, and is the university spokesman on issues related to IAQ and radon. He is a world-renowned expert on IAQ issues. Dr. Shaughnessy has taught and conducted research abroad in locations including China, South Africa and Australia, and is recipient of the 1996 National Trainer of the Year Award. Dr. Shaughnessy served as the principal adviser to the EPA on development of the IAQ Diagnostics: Hands-On Assessment of Building Ventilation and Pollutant Transport course, and has been developing IAQ courses for the EPA since 1991. He continues to conduct research on IEQ in Schools and student performance. He was also recently a Section Editor for the AIHA Green Book "Recognition, Evaluation and Control of Indoor Molds". Dr. Shaugnessy and J. David Miller, PhD are Conference Chairs for the April 27-29 "Approaches to Managing Mold in Buildings Conference" sponsored by the University of Tulsa. The conference will be held in Orlando, Florida and will feature a who's who of speakers.
Rachel S. Herz, Ph.D. is a Visiting Professor Department of Psychiatry and Human Behavior at Brown University Medical School and the author of "The Scent of Desire: Discovering Our Enigmatic Sense of Smell".
Tom Peter, MS, CIH What is a Certified Industrial Hygienist- Remediation Project Manager? Listen in when IAQ Radio returns with our first show of 2009 Friday at noon. Tom Peter has supervised just about every type of hazardous waste, indoor environmental quality, mold remediation, water damage restoration project there is and all while in the shoes of a Certified Industrial Hygienist. This will be fun don't miss this show. Tom is a project manager for Insurance Restoration Specialists, Inc. of East Brunswick, NJ.
We are going to finish 2008 with a bang as two of the AIHA Green Book Editor's join us this week on IAQ Radio. J. David Miller, PhD and Don Weekes, CIH, CSP will go into part two of our review of the Green Book and let us know what there thoughts are about what happened in 2008 and what is coming up in 2009. Join us for our last show before the holiday break.
Philip R. Morey received his Ph.D. degree in Biology from Yale University and is certified in the comprehensive practice of industrial hygiene by the American Board of Industrial Hygiene. Dr. Morey has held various teaching positions including Lecturer of Biology at Harvard University and Professor of Biological Sciences at Texas Tech University. He has also held a research position (Research Microbiologist; Research Industrial Hygienist) while at The National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health in the 1980s and was subsequently Director of Indoor Air Quality (IAQ)/Microbiology at several consulting companies. Currently, Dr. Morey is Principal Consultant Microbiology at ENVIRON International Corporation. Dr. Morey was one of the panelists for the first consensus mold remediation guideline published by the New York Department of Health in 1993. He was Assistant Editor of the 1999 American Conference of Governmental Industrial Hygienists Bioaerosols: Assessment and Control book. He has written two books: How Trees Grow and Biological Contaminants in Indoor Environments.
Ronald E. Gots, M.D., Ph.D. is Chief Executive Officer of the International Center for Toxicology and Medicine and the Chief Science Officer of Building Health Sciences in Rockville, Maryland. He received his A.B. in chemistry and his M.D. degree from the University of Pennsylvania. He received his Ph.D. in Pharmacology from the University of Southern California School of Medicine. Since 1975, he has devoted his professional activities to solving clients problems in environmental medicine, toxicology, causation analysis, and risk communication. Dr. Gots has focused on the scientific methods for assessing causation of diseases allegedly associated with chemical and biological agents. He has assisted hundreds of clients in analysis, strategy and testimony in chemical and mold injury claims, regulatory matters, mass tort claims, environmental and workplace exposure issues, and risk communication. He has provided medical oversight for chemically-exposed and mold-exposed individuals and has overseen numerous mold remediation projects. Dr. Gots has chaired two international symposia on Multiple Chemical Sensitivities: The State of The Science. He sat on a committee convened by the International Programme on Chemical Safety (UNEP-ILO-WHO) to evaluate the chemical sensitivity issue. He is the author of six books, chapters in six books and more than 70 articles on biochemistry, toxicology, mold and mold toxins in insurance and legal literature. Recent book chapters include: Toxic Risks: Science, Regulation, and Perception; Risk Analysis and Communication in Occupational, Industrial, and Environmental Toxicology, and Applying Principles of Science to Daubert Motions in Toxic Tort Claims in 2000 Wiley Expert Witness Update. His most recent books are Chemical Sensitivity: The Truth About Environmental Illness and Keeping Buildings Healthy.
While Cliff was at the RIA Conference Radio Joe did his first live highlights show. We had clips from vintage and recent shows with commentary from Radio Joe plus two bonus segments "IE Connections "What's News" with Glenn Fellman and "Industrial Hygiene for Everyone" with Dr. Dieter. With 103 episodes to choose from and some of the top experts in IAQ, Disaster Restoration and Building Sciences as guests, it was time to go into the IAQ Radio vault and combine clips with live commentary, questions and special features. Don't miss this learning and entertainment opportunity.
The first in a series of shows called "Industrial Hygiene for Everypone" with Dr. Weyel and other special guests. Contractors, building owners and IEP's can all use some brushing up on basic and then more advanced industrial hygiene history and concepts. This series is designed to help everyone get a better foundation in IH and improve communication with the industrial hygienist's of the world.
This week we will get a free sample of a popular seminar developed by Steve Toburen, Director of Training for Jon-Don called "Strategies for Success". Steve has been teaching disaster restoration professionals and others about their role during the crisis, how to treat stressed clients and how to position your company for success. Join us at IAQ Radio as we learn about techniques and strategies that will make you a better professional.
Sam Teitelbaum is President of AllerAir Industries, a company that designs and manufactures air purifiers for industrial, residential, military and medical applications. Since 1996 when AllerAir was established, Sam has been on a mission to raise awareness about the importance of clean indoor air quality, while emphasizing the critical role of combination carbon-HEPA air filters to remove dangerous airborne chemicals, gases, odors and particles. His initiative for cleaner air and high quality, deep-bed carbon air purifiers began almost two decades ago when his wife developed sensitivity to chemicals, and they were unable to find a viable air purifying solution. Since then, Sam has had an integral role in the research and development of over 100 types of air purification systems, that are now providing worldwide IAQ solutions.
Today at 12:00 noon eastern time, Indoor Air Quality Radio best known as IAQ Radio will celebrate our 100th show with a turn the tables interview. Glenn Fellman will interview show hosts "Radio Joe" Hughes and "The Z-Man" Cliff Zlotnik. It's hard to believe it has been over two years since the show started. Two years of interviewing the top people in the IAQ, disaster restoration and building science industries has been an honor we will always cherish. Join us for the celebration!
Building Science! Why do buildings fail? What is being done to solve the problems? How do we stop IAQ problems before they start? This week on IAQ Radio we have Bob Wendt a research architect specializing in building science investigations of residential buildings. Bob retired from the Oak Ridge National Laboratory's Buildings Technology Center in January 2008. He is currently an independent consultant and an adjunct professor in the Mechanical Engineering Department of Tuskegee University. Bob's current activities include research into the impact of mold and contaminants on residential building materials that have been subjected to flooding or other water damage. This work has been in support of the Department of Homeland Security's Disaster- Resilient Homes project. Join IAQ Radio and this weeks special guest to discuss how we can build better buildings.
This week we welcome Tom Neltner, JD, CHMM Director of Training and Education for The National Center for Healthy Housing. We will continue our discussion of Home Health Assessments and talk about the new Health Homes Certification. There is a lot more to healthy homes than mold and moisture and we will get into the numerous issues investigators, remediators and others should be aware of when dealing with residential properties and occupants.
After a long struggle that IAQ Radio followed closely for our listeners the revised and ANSI approved IICRC S-520 is now completed. IICRC Standards Consultant Larry Cooper and Attorney Michael Bowdoin join us to discuss the major changes to the document, the process and much more on the next episode of IAQ Radio.
The AIHA Green Book "Recognition, Evaluation and Control of Indoor Mold" was released in May. Our guest this week Don Weekes, CIH, CSP was one of three co-editors for this long overdue book. Don was also at the recent Indoor Air 2008 in Copenhagen and will give us an update. The Green Book may well become the most important book in your library after hearing this interview!
Join us as we go back in time and discuss the early days of the disaster restoration field with industry pioneer Major Long. Major was one of the first disaster restoration practitioners. Major Long, CR is a past president of the RIA (1978-1980) and also served a term as the association's disaster restoration technical director. Don't miss this opportunity to hear from one of the early innovators in the field of disaster restoration field.
WE ARE BACK! Martin D. Chapman, PhD formerly Professor of Medicine and Microbiology at the University of Virginia and a member of the UVA Asthma and Allergic Diseases Center is our guest this week. Dr. Chapman is a Fellow of the American Academy of Allergy, Asthma and Immunology and has served as a consultant to the U.S. National Institutes of Health, the Environmental Protection Agency, and several biotechnology and environmental products companies. Dr. Chapman is President and founder of INDOOR Biotechnologies he and his company have been pioneers in the detection and quantification of allergens in indoor environments. Part Three of our Home Health Assessment series.
We are going into our summer break with a show that has been in the making for quite some time. Steven M. Spivak, PhD is a Professor Emeritus, University of Maryland, Technical Advisor to RIA and an icon in the disaster restoration industry. Don't miss this opportunity to hear from one of the top minds in the disaster restoration field. Fire, water, odor, textiles, standards and more on the next episode of IAQ Radio
This week we are going to talk about environmental insurance issues for contractors and consultants providing services on IAQ and disaster restoration projects. Brian Mcfarland is Vice-President of Program Development for Legends Environmental Insurance Services. Prior to joining Legends he served as Director of Business Development/Marketing and IAQ Department Director for Environmental Support Solutions. His current primary responsibility at Legends is management of insurance programs for environmental safety & health associations. Brian is the go-to guy for environmental insurance questions and we plan on learning as much as we can. Join us Friday at noon for Episode 92 of IAQ Radio!
Part two of our series on "Home Health Assessments" will be with Kevin Kennedy the Environmental Health Program Manager for Children's Mercy Hospital in Kansas City, Missouri. Kevin has extensive experience in the field performing home health assessments. He works closely with physicians; government officials, insurance companies and patients showing everyone how these assessments not only improve patient outcomes but save money for health insurance carriers. Join us live Friday to hear more about this emerging service within the IAQ industry.
IAQ Radio has landed another dynamite interview for this weeks show. Ron J. Papa, SPPA is President of National Fire Adjustment the largest public adjusting firm in the US and Canada. NFA has served over 40,000 customers and adjusted claims worth hundreds of millions of dollars since being formed in 1922. Ron has been instrumental in NFA's growth over the past 25 years. He has successfully adjusted several thousand insured losses working for a wide range of clients since 1971. Join us Friday at noon to learn more about the service public adjustors offer for business owners and everyday people that are confused, overwhelmed and at the mercy of the insurance companies.
Allergies and asthma is anybody trying to mitigate the cause or are we just treating the symptoms? Meet James L.Sublett, MD and find out that there are physicians trying hard to improve the way we handle this issue. How can physicians, nurses, investigators and remediator's all work together to help improve the lives of people suffering with allergies and asthma? Don't miss Part One of a four part series on how to get everyone on the same page and pulling in the same direction.
We are back with a bang this week. Chin S. Yang, Ph.D. has worked with physicians, public health officials, industrial hygienists, and environmental and occupational health scientists on various issues of fungal and bacterial exposures for over 25 years. Very few people in the IAQ industry are as well known and respected as Dr. Yang. It is a pleasure to announce he will join us this week on IAQ Radio.
Alan P. Zelicoff, MD is the author of "More Harm than Good" and "Microbes: Are We Ready for the Next Plague". What is an epidemic and how does it differ from an "outbreak"? How is the next pandemic likely to occur and why is the next epidemic almost CERTAIN to occur? Would an intentional event such as a bioterrorism event seem different than an accidental or natural occurring event? How do we mitigate the threat of BOTH pandemics and bioterrorism? We will discuss all of this and more with Dr. Zelicoff today on IAQ Radio.
We are back with Andy Robinson of Jon-Don to talk about how to prepare for hurricane season and how to respond to and recover from the current flooding in the Midwest. We had this show planned before our short break but didn't know how timely it would be. Please forward this announcement to anyone that needs solid advice from a seasoned professional on how to respond and recover when catastrophic flooding occurs. Join us live or listen to the recorded episode on IAQ Radio.
This is an interview we have been looking forward to for a long time. John Ouellette, M.D. is a rare breed in the medical profession. He is a retired internist/allergist that also has experience in assessing building science and IAQ issues. Dr. Ouellette is a Full Clinical Professor of Medicine at the University of Wisconsin, School of Medicine, Retired. His specialty was integrating building science and his understanding of IAQ issues with his medical practice to help his patient's lead better lives. Don't miss this rare opportunity to hear from a respected M.D. that is more knowledgeable about building science and IAQ issues than practitioners in the field are. Listen live or download it later but don't miss this interview!
This week we have a diverse group of guests invited to talk about the "State of the Industry" and current events on IAQ Radio. We welcome Jody Thomason of EMSL Analytical, Paul Cochrane of Cochrane and Associates and Craig Camel IAQA Philadelphia Chapter Director and owner of Advanced Mold Diagnostics. We will also have Glenn Fellman IAQA Executive Director, Dr. Dietrich Weyel and of course Radio Joe and The Z-Man. Call in and voice your opinion or just listen in to the next episode of IAQ Radio.
Jason Princenthal is a self-described non-conformist in the IAQ arena. His approach especially with respect to mold problems is based on what works and what doesn't work in the real world. His objective is to make sure his clients and community don't get caught in the quagmire of using inexperienced, unethical and profiteering "Mold diggers". A pioneer in the Indoor Air Quality field since 1986, his first focus especially with his work experience in the chemical and sanitation field was finding and implementing proven alternatives in the cleaning and restoration of internally lined HVAC systems and ductwork. Mr. Princenthal directs the AirCare corporate office and oversees all IAQ and Mold remediation projects both in Hawaii and California.
This week Mr. Brad Kuhlmann owner of Midwest Duct Cleaning Services and President of the National Air Duct Cleaners Association (NADCA) joins us. NADCA has just announced a groundbreaking new research project. Join us with Brad to discuss new developments at NADCA, HVAC systems cleaning and how to make sure the heart and lungs of a building are healthy. Plus Glenn Fellman will join us with a HUGE NEWS scoop from the world of microbial remediation regulations. Only on IAQ Radio!
We are on a roll and found the right person to keep us going. Terry Brennan is one of the most respected IAQ and building science consultants in the world. Time magazine referred to him as "one of the top building scientists in the country". Join IAQ Radio and Terry as we continue to provide education and communication opportunities for IAQ, disaster restoration, building science and general public listeners.
Don't miss the second half of our exclusive interview with Ritchie C. Shoemaker, M.D. this week on IAQ Radio. We will review key points from week one and get into more detail about Dr. Shoemakers groundbreaking research on sick building syndrome and water damaged buildings plus information on treatment options for patients and answers to questions sent in by our listeners. IAQ Radio continues to provide education and communication for IAQ, disaster restoration and building science professionals along with opportunities for the general public to join in. Be there!
This week Ritchie C. Shoemaker, M.D. joins IAQ Radio for first episode of a two part series on medical issues, biotoxins and water-damaged buildings. Stay abreast of the latest information on how patients are diagnosed and treated after developing medical problems associated with living or working in water-damaged buildings. Learn about the latest research on biotoxin illness and health effects associated with water-damaged buildings. Don't miss this rare opportunity to hear from an M.D. in the forefront of diagnosing and treating these conditions. This week we learn how Dr. Shoemaker started down this path, become familiar with the terminology and establish the framework for going into more detail in week two. Only on IAQ Radio!
IAQ Radio Boston Legalese Episode. Join IAQ Radio at noon eastern on Friday, April 18 when David Governo and CO-counsel Marianne Brown from the Governo Law Firm LLC share their expertise and experience with IAQ Radio listener's. Our guests are experts in toxic tort and environmental litigation. Call in or text your questions you don't get many chances for free legal advice from two of the top lawyers in the business. IAQ Radio "Communication and Education" for the IAQ, disaster restoration and building science communities every Friday at noon.
John Tiffany is a pioneer in the IAQ world. John has been instrumental in helping AIHA, ASHRAE, EPA MERHC and others refine some of their most important IAQ programs. He is also a founding member of the International Society of Indoor Air Quality and Climate (ISIAQ). His academic degrees include a Masters of Science Degree in Environmental /Occupational Health from Hunter College, and a B.S. in Chemistry. Please join us in welcoming John to IAQ Radio this Friday at noon eastern.
This week the Z-Man will get into wood treatment, antimicrobial additives, HVAC cleaning and restoration products and more with Tim Zech, COO of Sostram Incorporated and Lynn Burkhart, Founder and President of Controlled Release Technologies. IAQ Radio will try to separate the fact from the fiction with respect to antimicrobial treatments, wood preservation and HVAC cleaning/refurbishment products. Join us as we continue to provide a forum for education and communication about IAQ, disaster restoration and building science issues on IAQ Radio.
We are looking forward to celebrating our 75th episode this week with Mr. Martin L. King, ASA, CR and Technical Advisor to the Restoration Industry Association. Mr. King is the man disaster restoration people go to when nobody else can answer their questions. Don't miss this rare opportunity to hear the "Dean of Disaster Restoration". Also joining us will be "The Commish" Pete Consigli and our Technical Director, Dr. Dietrich Weyel to help celebrate #75. Be there!
Tom Yacobellis is the current President of the Indoor Air Quality Association and was the founder of Ductbusters one of the most successful HVAC systems cleaning franchises in history. Ductbusters merged with DUCTZ and then was acquired by Belfor International. Secrets of success, lessons learned integrating HVAC systems cleaning and disaster restoration, association news and more. Join us as we pick up tips, try to figure out what the next big issues are and hear first hand how major IAQ and disaster restoration projects are done in the real world. Only on IAQ Radio!
Have you or anyone you know ever bought or built a new home? Did you read the fine print? Did you know that people have been losing homes and going through foreclosure long before the current sub-prime debacle often times because of shoddy construction and a legal system that gives them little recourse? HADD came into existence in response to an overwhelming need for support and resolution for families who felt isolated while coping with their devastating home damage and loss. You may have a client fighting the same problem HADD was founded to help with. Find out more on IAQ Radio with Nancy Seats of Homeowners Against Deficient Dwellings.
We barely scratched the surface with Brandon Burton in his first short segment. Lets get technical and separate the fact from the fiction when it comes to understanding the science behind water damage, equipment and drying buildings. Carl Grimes will also make a cameo to preview the MIAQC conference plus IE Connections "What's News" with Glenn Fellman. Be There!
Don't miss this interview! Dr. Lstiburek is an internationally acclaimed public speaker and lecturer in building science. Hundreds of architects, engineers, builders, property managers and others attend his seminars and presentations on building durability issues in the US each year. People pay big money to hear Dr. Joe speak and only IAQ Radio gives you this opportunity for free. Thanks to our sponsors we continue to bring the best and the brightest into your home every week at no charge on IAQ Radio.
Please join us to talk about building science issues with Mr. Andy Ask, PE and Consulting Engineer. Andy has forgotten more about building science than most people know. What is HARM? Why does HVAC so commonly cause IAQ problems? What have been the biggest changes in the field of building science? This week also will include segments with Dr. Dietrich Weyel on filtration and Glenn Fellman with IE Connections "What's News". IAQ Radio is "the voice of the IAQ Industry".
Mac Pearce is one of the most talented, best known and most outspoken IEQ consultants in the business. Join us as Mac shares his insights, experiences and unique views. Are cellphone waves harmless or harmful? Vicki Warren an electrical engineer and Bau-Biologie practitioner will be telling us more about this controversial issue and other matters that will be discussed at the upcoming Bau-Biologie conference. Don't miss another interesting episode of IAQ Radio.
The Z-Man and Radio Joe want to thank our panel for making the the first IAQ Roundtable a big success. Dietrich Weyel Sc.D, CIH/ Glenn Fellman -IE Communications/ Leigh Daniel -Remediation Resources LLC/ Melanie Sutton, PhD -University of West Florida/ Melissa Helmick -EMSL Analytical/ David Pearce -Escambia County Health Department.
Dr. Thad Godish is professor of Natural Resources and Environmental Management at Ball State University. He directs the university's indoor air quality/indoor environment research, teaching and public service activities. His research studies have included: formaldehyde contamination of residences and associated health problems; mold contamination of buildings/sampling methods; building radon; indoor air quality problems in school buildings; emissions from combustion appliances/combusted materials; sick building syndrome; and lead-based paint contamination in residences. Join us and a true pioneer in the IAQ world Friday at noon on IAQ Radio.
This week we have Mr. Werner Braun, President of the Carpet and Rug Institute along with the IE Connections "What's News" segment. How have carpet manufacturers adapted and adjusted to make sure their products don't contribute to IAQ problems? What are the latest trends in carpet manufacturer, care and cleaning? Plus Glenn Fellman is just back from the AHR Expo and IAQ Radio gets the first review.
We have two outstanding guests this week on IAQ Radio. Maurice Baum is a pioneer in the IAQ industry and President of Environmental Research and Restoration. He is also Director of the South Florida Chapter of IAQA. Mr. Baum was a leading participant in drafting Florida's recently promulgated mold legislation. A Florida legistlation update and more with Mr. Baum. Louis Relle is the President of LJR Realty, Relle Construction, and Relle IAQ Solutions. His personal experiences dealing with microbial situations in buildings lead him to develop several revolutionary industry products including the Relle Filtration Table, as well as the Relle Smart Sampler & Smart Cassette. We will talk to Mr. Relle about these products and get an up close perspective on how things are going in New Orleans.
IAQ Radio is back from the holidays this week with a bang. Sharon Kramer has been shaking up the insurance and medical community for years now exposing how the "powers that be" use conflicts of interest and marketing ploys to deny mold and damp buildings cause health problems. Her hard work lead to a recent Wall Street Journal article exposing some of these conflicts. The original paper she authored that caught The Journal's attention was "ACOEM Exposed, A Case Study in Sham Peer Review and Conflicts of Interest". More recently, Sharon has been published herself in the International Journal of Occupational and Environmental Health with a paper she co-authored entitled "ACOEM, A professional association in service to industry". Don't miss this interview.
Thanks to this weeks guest Greg Long for discussing his real world experience with IEQ remediation projects and HVAC systems cleaning. From cleaning for health and energy efficiency to microbial contamination, floods and fires Greg has wide-ranging expertise and experience. We finished the year strong with Greg Long deep from the heart of Texas.
This week we put my co-host in the guest seat to talk about odor control issues. Cliff Zlotnik has been helping people deal with odor problems for over 30 years. Our Technical Director Dr. Dietrich Weyel is back and we may have a surprise guest as well.
Just as we have seen major technological advances in our personal lives, we will now see radical changes in how we clean homes, offices and other types of facilities. What we are seeing today is the beginning steps of an evolutionary process that will revolutionize every aspect of professional cleaning. Bill Griffin is on the cutting edge of these changes. Join IAQ Radio and Bill Griffin as we discuss the present and future of "cleaning for health".
As one of the world's top crisis management, travel security and risk analysis experts, Dale has been there, done and survived to teach lessons learned. He has direct experience succeeding at missions in some of the most hostile terrains and circumstances on earth. We will discuss disaster preparedness and response, risk analysis and operations security planning. How will you and your company handle situational awareness, critical thinking and decision making during a crisis? You, your family and your business will all benefit and could survive a disaster by listening to IAQ Radio and hearing what Dale has to say.
Richfords Fire and Flood are probably the only independent fire and flood company in the UK working outside of any network and still doing 95% insurance restoration work. We will discuss water damage and IAQ trends in the UK. How did the UK respond to the devastating flooding this past summer? What are the differences in water damage restoration, building science and construction techniques between the US and the UK and much more? Join us live for this unique opportunity to see how they do things across the pond.
IAQ Radio is back live today with Brant Miller, PE. Mr. Miller is the Past President of the Maine IAQ Council and Senior Mechanical Engineer for DiGiorgio Associates, Inc. Mr. Miller continues to be very involved with the Maine IAQ Council one of the oldest and most influential indoor air quality associations in the country. We will discuss the MIAQC, dealing with unique climate challenges, State regulations, mechanical systems in commercial and healthcare settings, LEED and more. Join us today at noon!
Cliff Zlotnik and Cyberjockey interview Larry Holder with BELFOR USA Group. After the Southern California wildfires consumers and professionals alike will learn from one of the most knowledable restoration professionals in the world. An IAQ Radio public service educational podcast.
The Z-man, Cliff Zlotnik and Cyber Jockey (CJ) Zack Zlotnik put together a show while attending the Restoration Industry Association (RIA) Conference in Garden Grove, CA this week.
Long time listener and convention speaker Craig Whitaker will discuss the presentations at the IAQA Conference with Radio Joe. Craig will also discuss using laser particle counters on IEQ investigations. Plus Glenn Fellman and IE Connections "What's News" and our Technical Director Dr. Dietrich Weyel is back to join in on the fun at IAQ Radio. "The Voice of the IAQ Industry".
If you are involved with IEQ, disaster restoration, building sciences and you don't know who Lew Harriman is it's time you found out. If you know of Lew we don't have to say anymore. We will discuss humidity control & ASHRAE standards/ water damage restoration/ measuring moisture content/ thermal imaging & new trends in IEQ. All from the perspective of one of the most prolific researchers, writers and a true pioneer of the IEQ, Disaster Restoration and Building Science worlds.... the one and only Lew Harriman.
Dr. Bob and Gail Brandys join us on IAQ Radio. What works on microbial remediation projects? What events will shape how microbial remediation is judged? Plus research from the real world. Don't miss this chance to keep ahead of the curve with IAQ Radio.
Time for a little change of pace this week. We are bringing in one of the young guys Paul Salvo of Tourigny Woodworks and formerly Bailey Engineering to talk about those specialty woods and projects that can catch you by surprise. Plus Glenn Fellman with IE Connections "What's News" and who knows what other surprises we may come up with as Radio Joe and CJ hold down the fort.
The "Restoration Lawyer" Ed Cross and the "Restoration Activist" Pete Consigli on one show. Radio Joe will join in from the University of West Florida with our first on site group participating. Don't miss this one.
Cliff and Joe blend current events with highlights from their first three shows. Includes clips of PhD's: Dietrich Weyel, Nicholas Money, Harriet Burge and industry notables Carl Grimes, Tom Yacobellis & Glenn Fellman. A lively and entertaining show don't miss it!
IAQ Radio is back with the "One Year Anniversary Show'". Carl Grimes joined us to talk about the state of the IEQ industry. We also had Glenn Fellman doing the IE Connections "What's News" segment then sticking around to join us for the roundup. Don't miss this one.
Thanks to our guest Certified Industrial Hygienist Don Weekes for telling us about some of his most interesting projects. We get the Canadian perspective on IAQ Radio. Plus an update on the most recent activities of AIHA's IEQ Committee.
Thanks to our guest Rebecca Flora, Executive Director of the Green Building Alliance (GBA), a non-profit organization that drives market demand for green building through education and project facilitation.
IAQ Radio thanks our guest Joe Arrigo. Joe proved one person can make a difference by spearheading Colorado legislation to allow consumers free choice in deciding who repairs their property following a disaster.
Many thanks to Michael O'Reilly for his second appearance on IAQ Radio. The first hour we did with Mike just wasn't enough. We go into more detail about the indoor environmental and disaster restorarion contracting business and get Dr. Weyel much more involved with this interview. A great show don't miss this one.
This week's show was a killer. Join us to learn about carpet monsters, killer spores and houses which are harmful to their occupants. Don't miss a new Microban trivia question and two of our best interviews ever chosen specially for this pre-recorded holiday week show.
Bob Baker discusses how he came to be such a force in the IEQ world and announces what's next in his industry shaping career. Plus we discuss IAQA, ASHRAE, IICRC, CSPA and much more on this episode of IAQ Radio.
This week we will discuss consulting and remediation equipment with the EMS sales gang and crime scene, meth lab and other specialty remediation/training issues with Kent Berg of NIDS.
This week's guests nationwide seminars on how to set up a contents cleaning facility are one of the hottest courses available today. Get some free tips by listening to our IAQ Radio special on contents cleaning, restoration and facility design issues.
IAQ Radio thanks Phil McLaughlin & Steven LaVelle for joining us to discuss their new book Insider Secrets for a Successful Restoration Business. Thanks also to Bill Yobe for his contributions to the disaster restoration industry and for joining us to discuss the p1m Loss Recovery Guide with Standards. Great show gentlemen.
Our thanks go out to Paul Cochrane of Cochran and Associates. Mr. Cochran was the marketing guru behind Aerotech's meteoric rise to the top of IAQ laboratories. During this episode Paul shares his secrets for marketing success with IAQ Radio.
Bill Yeadon will discuss marketing your business in today's competitive environment. Radio Joe comments on the IAQA News and Call to Action. Steve Sauer discusses current events.
Join us and Craig Kersemeier of K-Tech Kleening Systems. K-Tech's environmental division provides mold remediation, asbestos abatement, and lead removal services. They also pride themselves on providing green cleaning services.
Thanks to Ron Langley, William Murphy, and Craig Spiseman of Real Estate Services Team (REST). And to Scott Whip of NALCO. We discuss home inspections, building sciences issues, IEQ and mold remediation. We also discuss legionella and a new quick turn around technique for legionella testing.
Guests Larry Keller CIH, CSP and Technical Director Dietrich Weyel ScD, CIH discuss industrial hygiene, safety professionals, public health and IAQ.
Todays guests include Jeff Cross, Editor of Cleanfax Magazine and Megan Headley, Editor of Mold Magazine.
Mr. Davidge Warfield is one of the pioneers in the IEQ world. Our focus will be HVAC issues and how they interact with IEQ issues. Mr. Warfield has also worked on some complex, interesting projects that we will discuss during this weeks edition of IAQ Radio.
Join us and special guest Rich Finigan of Environmental Service Professionals, Inc. Mr Finigan recently united his highly successful home inspection and environmental services franchising operation with the publicly traded ESP. We will discuss IEQ, Building Sciences and Disaster Restoration. Mr. Finigan is also Secretary of the now ANSI accredited Indoor Environmental Standards Organization (IESO). All of this plus what the plans are for the latest major newsmaker in the industry.
Bill Begal of Begal Enterprises, Inc was recently honored at the RIA convention. He will discuss specifics about the project that won this prestigious award. Herb Layman has over 30 years of experience in clinical and microbiological sampling and investigation issues and is part owner of US- Micro-Solutions in Greensburg, PA.
Thanks to Jim Pemberton trainer, consultant and supplier to cleaning and restoration contractors throughout the US and Canada. And to David Sparks of Zimek Technologies inventor of their micro-particle sterilizing technology.
Pre-Recorded on Tuesday. My co-host Cliff and CJ Zlotnik are at the RIA conference. Thank you Marlene Linders of Philders Group International for providing an MRSA discussion & update. Plus the always entertainng, informative Ron Alford. Insured? Before, during and after the event.
Thanks to David Governo for joining us to discuss construction defect issues and IEQ litigation with one of the most respected attorneys in the IEQ world. We also greatly appreciate having Craig Suppo of Burns and Scalo Roofing on to discuss what role the building science and constrution of roofing can have on IEQ issues.
The Restoration Industry Association (RIA) is sponsoring a Donnybrook that begins in Orlando March 15th. IAQ Radio is hosting a scrimmage this week. The hot topics are "Best Applications for Drying Debate" and "Scoping/Pricing Drying Services Debate" Meet the players and listen or contribute to the opening salvoes.
Thank you to Wayne Lawrence of Grand Northern Products for his insights on media blasting and Jeff May, May Indoor Air Investigations and author of "My House is Killing Me" and several other best selling IAQ/IEQ books.
Special thanks to Don Manger the Executive Director of the Restoration Industry Association. And Lloyd Weaver a pioneer in disaster restoration techniques and equipment.
David Fetveit will discuss what used to be called the EPA Relative Moldiness Index (ERMI) and PCR analysis. Why the change to the Environmental Relative Moldiness Index? Plus Joel Berkowitz of Fireproofing Corp & President of the International Kitchen Exhaust Cleaners Association (IKECA).
Thanks to Ron Alford, "The Disaster Master" for his enlightening/entertaining discussion about Disposophobia. And Stacey Champion on IAQ/IEQ issues and Green buldings.
Many thanks to guests Ron Gospodarski of Bio-Recovery Corp for his interesting discussion on trauma scene clean up & Tim Hoysradt of Twins, LLC for his insights on NADCA and HVAC Systems cleaning.
Special thanks to Pete Consigli "The Commish" on the Donnybrook at ASCR and Michael Pinto founder of Wondermakers on the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina. Recorded or live IAQ Radio
IAQ Radio sends out heartfelt thanks to Dr. Richard Shaugnessy and Peter Sierck for a top of the line high quality show. Dr. Shaughnessy is considered to be one of the top IAQ researchers in the world and will discussed ozone and IAQ effects on school performance. Peter Sierck is another internationally recognized IAQ consultant and teaches us about BauBiology. Peter is also a subcommittee chair on the IICRC S-520 revisions committee. NOTE: THIS EPISODE HAS BEEN REMASTERED!
IAQ Radio wishes to thank Mike O'Reilly, President, CEO of Tradewinds Environmental and John Bruno, VP of Zinsser Company for joining us on this episode. Michael's numerous and diverse environmental remediation projects remind us all the IAQ isn't just mold. John's insights on paints, coatings, shellacs, etc. remind us all that we can always learn something new.
CJ and the Talkshoe gang pulled it off again. Flashback Friday's are highlights from previous shows with all the bells and whistles added.
Cyber Jockey and the Talkshoe gang pulled it off? The result is that Flashback Friday is catching fire. CJ puts in all the bells and whistles as we replay Nicholas Money, PhD and Brandon Burton of Dri-Eaz.
Thanks to our guests Craig Fillman of Moisturemappers and Greg Baumann of the National Pest Management Association. Current events/Commentary this show included EPA notification on training for antimicrobial applicators and the IICRC S-520 News Release on the IEP issue. IAQ Radio "Communication and Education in real time".
IICRC S-520 Protests, resignations, What's happening! We discuss current events with Elisa Larkin who has registered an appeal/complaint about the standard revision process. Also hear Andy Ask "Consulting Engineer" on HVAC issues and building envelope performance.
This shows guests included Christopher Capobianco of Flooring Answers on concrete flooring issues (curing, vapor emissions, measurement methods) and flooring building science issues. Dr. Albert Snow of Turtle Clan Environment Testing discusses IEQ investigations the IESO standard for residential property screens for mold. and a return appearance by Scott Brown of Housemaster to discuss his position on french drains. We hope you can join us!
After several listner requests we ask co-host Cliff Zlotnik to discuss ceaning products and antimicrobials. Dr. Weyel and Radio Joe add to the discussion with questions for the owner of Microban Systems about this important and sometimes conroversial industry issue. Bottom line these products are an another tool in the toolbox for remediaton contractors and consumers but not a miracle potion.
Join Radio Joe and co-host Cliff Zlotnik as we talk with Holly Bailey, PE. author of "Fungal Contamination: A Manual for Investigation, Remediation and Control" and IAQA Past President. NOTE: THIS EPISODE HAS BEEN REMASTERED AS OF JANUARY 2007.
Listen in as we talk to Mark DeLisle of DeLisle and Associates and Scott Brown of Housemaster. Mark was recently elected Vice President of the Indoor Air Quality Association (IAQA) and is the Chairman of the IAQA Government Affairs Committee. We discuss his vision for IAQA and get an update on State regulations that impact IAQ. Scott Brown is a home inspector and water intrusion expert with some interesting opinions you don't want to miss.
Couldn't make it to the IAQA Annual Convention? IAQ Radio broadcast from Nashville bringing the most important announcements made from the official representatives. David Fetviet, President of Aerotech P&K, & IESO President with big news from IESO! Adam Andrews, Assistant Executive Director of the American IAQ Council with exciting news about a new program for entry level employees.
Our guest from this episode focus on remediation of asbestos, lead based paint, mold and water damage. What are the differences? How are the markets? What type of equipment is best for various situations? Is all remediation basically the same? Hear the opinions of Shawn Regan of PDG Environmental and Brandon Burton of Dri-Eaz.
Listen in as we interview Larry Janesky founder of Basement Systems Inc. Basement Systems is the worlds largest network of basement waterproofing and crawl space contractors spanning the US, Canada , The UK and Ireland. David Matela is a Market Manager with Kimberly-Clark filtration products. He discusses how filtration products are used to assist with IAQ issues in residential and commercial buildings.
Bob Brandys PhD, MPH, CIH, CSP, PE, CMR and Gail Brandys MS, CSP, CMR discuss the state of IEQ and share their vast knowledge about IEQ standards and guidelines. Felicia Cianciarulo PhD shares her expertise on bacteria and related IEQ issues.
Hear about Facilities Management and IEQ with Rich Beck of Lee County, FL. Thoughts from Association activist Pete Consigli and Technology Highlight with Howard Sures of Esporta Technology
Follow along as Attorney Michael Greene discusses IEQ legal trends. Don't miss MacGregor "Mac" Pearce discuss his views on the state of the IEQ industry and more.
You don't want to miss this show as Carl Grimes discusses special needs clients and IEQ, Dr. Harriet Burge discusses the history and future of IEQ as well as the changes from academia to the business world. And Lisa Wagner, "Cleanfax Person of the Year" discusses rug cleaning techniques/facilities and her experience with association volunteerism.
Hear Nicholas Money PhD, author of "Carpet Monsters and Killer Spores, A Natural History of Toxic Mold" discuss mycology . An interesting interview of Glenn Fellman, Executive Director of the Indoor Air Quality Association (IAQA) and founder of IE Connections. And the always entertaining Tom Yacobellis founder of Ductbusters which has now merged with Ductz discusses HVAC systems cleaning.
The "germination" of IAQ Radio with your hosts Joe Hughes and Cliff Zlotnik. Includes an interview with special guest and IAQ Radio Technical Director Dietrich Weyel ScD, CIH.