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Indoor Air Quality Associates Articles
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Common Sources of VOCs and Odors: How to Limit Your Exposure
There’s a certain allure to the smell of a new car or that clean citrus smell from a recently used cleaning product. However, despite how pleasant a scent may be, it’s important to consider the sources of any odors in the home and ...
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Indoor Air Quality - Fighting Sensor “Drift” to Ensure Accurate Measurement
In a series of pervious posts, we presented you to several of the complex challenges inherent with indoor air quality (IAQ) monitoring. These challenges are even harder to manage in the wake of recognition to air quality and are more critical ...
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Tyndall Effect
Have you ever seen #particles floating through the #air? It’s known as the “Tyndall phenomenon”. It is caused by #reflection of the incident #radiation from the #surfaces of the ...
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Indoor Air Quality Control for Homeowners, indoor occupants, and businesses
Indoor air quality equipment is a must when it comes to living in the Greater Philadelphia, PA area (we provide services outside of the Philadelphia areas as well). During the spring and summer, allergies are aggravated by pollen and other ...
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End the Spread of IAQ Myths
#1: Outside air is always better. While this is generally the case, it is not always so. In specific areas of the world where smog and wildfires are prevalent, the air quality outside can at times be just as bad, if not unhealthier than indoor ...
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What is a Healthy Home?
According to the National Center for Healthy Housing, a healthy home is housing that is designed, constructed, maintained, and rehabilitated in a manner that is conducive to good occupant health. Healthy housing is important for ...
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PM2.5 Explained
Particulate Matter (PM) is a mixture of solid and liquid particles that are suspended in the air. These are categorized into coarse, fine and ultrafine. PM2.5 are fine particles that have a diameter less than 2.5 micrometers (more than 100 ...
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Mold and VOC’s
VOC stands for Volatile Organic Compound. Volatile means that the substance vaporizes easily under normal room temperature conditions. Organic is a naturally occurring substance. Compounds are things comprised of 2 or more actions or ...
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Radon Health Risks
Radon is the #1 environmental hazard in the U.S. and the 2nd leading cause of lung cancer deaths in the country. An estimated 21,000 lung cancer deaths annually are due to radon poisoning.
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Should I buy a IAQ monitor?
If a building owner, or building manager that wants to evaluate its indoor air/environmental quality (IAQ/ IEQ), there are three main techniques commonly available. In this article, we will highlight a method that is underperformed, yet is one of ...
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What is LEED?
Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) is a rating system devised by the United States Green Building Council (USGBC) to evaluate the environmental performance of a building and encourage market transformation towards sustainable ...
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WELL, LEED, Green or Healthy Building?
Indoor air quality measurement and monitoring in Green Buildings is driven by two, sometimes competing issues; 1) minimizing energy costs and 2) maximizing the health and productivity of the building occupants. Indoor Air Quality ...
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Radon Facts
The Environmental Protection Agency and the Surgeon General’s Office estimate that as many as 20,000 lung cancer deaths are caused each year by radon.
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What are VOC’s?
VOC’s (volatile organic compounds) are typically derived from solvents, dry cleaning fluids, fuels, and by-products of chlorination, and may include chemicals such as carbon tetrachloride, tetrachloroethene (PCE), trichlroroethene (TCE), ...
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What are VOCs and How to Remove them
Ensuring that your home or business has safe, clean air can improve health and wellbeing, while also protecting from dangerous gases and particulates. Volatile Organic Compounds (or VOCs) represent some of the most prolific air quality hazards. ...
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Air Quality Testing
Here at Indoor Air Quality Associates, IAQ is our specialty. It was the foundation of the company and is still our specialty. Indoor air quality is comprised of a conglomeration of factors such as temperature, relative humidity, and ventilation, ...
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Vapor Intrusion
What is Vapor Intrusion? Vapor intrusion occurs when vapor-forming chemicals migrate from a subsurface source into an overlying building - similar to radon gas seeping into homes. Vapor intrusion occurs when there is a migration of vapor-forming ...
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Radon Facts
What exactly is Radon? Radon is a colorless, odorless, radioactive gas, undetectable by human senses. It forms naturally from the decay of radioactive elements, like uranium, found in soil and rock throughout the world. As a gas Radon can naturally ...
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Volatile Organic Compounds
TVOCs What are they? Volatile Organic Compounds (VOCs) are compounds that can become gases or vapours: common examples in our daily lives are acetone, benzene and formaldehyde. TVOCs is a collective term which defines a group of common VOCs ...
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Workplace Indoor Air Quality
Employees should be safe while on the job; that includes healthy air quality. Although laws and policies exist to protect workers, problems with air quality on the job are often overlooked. Breathing unhealthy air at work can be dangerous, but ...
