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Indoor Air Testing
Hygieneering, Inc. provided post construction (IAQ) Indoor Air Quality testing for an international construction management company prior to the new owner occupancy. This (IAQ) Indoor Air Quality testing will assist this new property with LEED Green Building certification. Hygieneering provides safety consulting, environmental consulting, testing and training, asbestos project management, ...
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Air Testing Completed at Three Texas Schools
The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced monitoring data from three schools in Texas indicate specific air toxics are below levels of concern. The EPA partnered with the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality (TCEQ) to monitor and evaluate air samples at San Jacinto Elementary and Deer Park Junior High in Deer Park, Texas, as well as Temple Elementary in Diboll, Texas. These schools ...
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Prism Analytical Technologies, Developer of Home Air Check™, Offers Air Test to Determine Presence of Tobacco Smoke in Indoor Environments
Prism Analytical Technologies, Inc., a leading U.S. consultative air testing laboratory devoted to the chemical identification and analysis of air contaminants, announced today that it has developed an air test to predict the usage of tobacco smoke in indoor environments. Prism’s Tobacco Smoke Check™ test looks for specific chemical compounds known to be present in secondhand smoke, sometimes ...
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New 2010 building regulations part L
Part L Regulations 2006 is being superceeded and the proposed key revisions are: Acceptable Air Tightness target remains at 10m3/h.m2 at 50 Pascals; 25% Carbon Emissions improvement required over 2006 Part L Regulations – assessed on a flat approach for dwellings and aggregate approach for non-dwellings; CO2 Emission calculations (BER and TER) to be submitted to the Local Authority ...
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Part 75 Update from Golden`s team
Part 75 Conformance for Source Owners - What are EPA's expectations for AETBs? We have reviewed 2012 EPA Part 75 test reports and discussed EPA's electronic reporting and source tester requirements with Part 75 source owners. We conclude that many owners and environmental specialists who enter test data into EPA databases are not familiar with the range of EPA's expectations for source tester ...
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Third round of sampling reveals no indoor air health concerns at buildings 50 and 52 at the Bannister Federal Complex
Results of a third round of air monitoring in and around a child care facility and an adjacent building at the Bannister Federal Complex in Kansas City, Mo., do not reveal health concerns with indoor air at the facilities related to volatile organic compounds (VOCs) and polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs), EPA Region 7 officials announced today. EPA Region 7 and its contractors performed a series ...
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Second round of sampling reveals Nn indoor air health concerns at buildings 50 and 52 at the Bannister Federal Complex (KS, MO)
Results of a second round of air monitoring in and around a child care facility and an adjacent building at the Bannister Federal Complex in Kansas City, Mo., do not reveal health concerns with indoor air at the facilities related to volatile organic compounds (VOCs), EPA Region 7 officials announced today. EPA Region 7 and its contractors performed a series of sampling activities March 26-28 at ...
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Fourth round of sampling reveals no indoor air health concerns at buildings 50 and 52 at the bannister federal complex
Results of a fourth round of air monitoring in and around a child care facility and an adjacent building at the Bannister Federal Complex in Kansas City, Mo., do not reveal health concerns with indoor air at the facilities related to volatile organic compounds (VOCs) and polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs), EPA Region 7 officials announced today. The monitoring was the last of four rounds of air ...
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New Report on `Green` Recycling Industry Exposes Unregulated Toxic Air Pollution Threat - California Agency to be First in the Nation to Regulate Toxic Air Pollution from Industry
EL CERRITO, Calif. - A new report by a leading California Environmental Justice group, Global Community Monitor (GCM), has uncovered a potentially massive problem from the nation's billion dollar metal recycling industry. The report finds that metal recycling, generally considered a green industry, both releases toxic air contaminants during processing operations and is currently unregulated. In ...
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Professional Credentials in Air Emissions Testing
From the LinkedIn Environmental Consulting Professionals Group: http://air-quality-testing.blogspot.com/2011/04/professional-credentials-in-air.html To take root, professional environmental credentials seem to need a combination of 1) narrow purpose, 2) at least conceptual buy-in across the discipline, and 3) a regulatory driver. As an air emissions testing professional, I had been a ...
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EMSL Analytical Launches MysteryOdor.com
This month, a new online resource for the people dealing with mystery and nuisance odors became available. EMSL Analytical, Inc., one the North America’s largest air quality testing laboratories, is pleased to announce the launch of MysteryOdor.com. Mystery odors in an indoor environment can cause everything from a nuisance to health concerns for building occupants. These same odors can ...
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Volatile Organic Compounds in Homes can Increase Health Risks
Earlier this month, the phillyBurbs.com published a report about a recent chemical fire at a manufacturing facility near Philadelphia. According to the report, the fire consumed a large amount of the 1 million pounds of ethyl acrylate and butyl acrylate stored at the facility. The owners of the plant performed air testing for volatile organic compound exposure outside of the plant both during ...
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Indoor Air Quality is a Key Green Building Feature
The presentation included Hygieneering, Inc.’s Green Building Services that include: (IAQ) Indoor Air Quality inspection, testing and building material assessments, inspections to identify (IAQ) Indoor Air Quality risk factors in the HVAC systems and air quality testing to meet health and comfort parameters established by ASHRAE and OSHA. Hygieneering provides safety consulting, ...
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Hinchey Urges Governor Cuomo and Speaker Silver to Act on Requiring Mandatory Air Quality Testing For Home Inspections
In the wake of Hurricane Sandy that left 305,000 New York housing units damaged or destroyed, Kevin J. Hinchey, CEO of H&H Environmental Construction and Consulting and cousin of former Congressman Maurice D. Hinchey, has presented a letter to New York legislative leaders urging them to pass a requirement for mandatory air quality testing for pre-purchase home inspections. According to the ...
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Texas Environmental Professionals Help to Prevent Occupational Asthma with Air Testing and Monitoring
More than 2 million Texans have been diagnosed with asthma. A significant number of these people are in the workforce and suffer from occupational asthma. Also referred to as work-related asthma, occupational asthma is the most common occupational lung disease in the United States. Nationwide, OSHA estimates that 11 million workers in a wide range of industries and occupations are exposed to ...
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The Golden Gazette #1 - Air Emissions Testing Newsletter
The first quarter of 2011 has been a busy one for the air quality world, and is appropriately the time that we are launching our Testing Services newsletter. In this charter edition, we focus on the imminent Petroleum Refinery 114 program mandated by the U.S. EPA. In it, we desire to provide valuable insight to our clients in their efforts to carry out the complex testing efforts that this ...
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ASTM D865 - 11 standard test method for rubber - deterioration by heating in air (Test Tube Enclosure)
Rubber and rubber products must resist the deterioration of physical properties with time caused by oxidative and thermal ageing. This test method determines these characteristics in a way that is free of some of the complications inherent in community-type ageing devices, that is where numerous compounds (specimens) are aged in the same enclosure. The isolation of compounds ...
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Aerostrip Manifolds
Excellent diffusers are undoubtedly the most essential part of a good aeration system. But a system is only as good as the sum of its individual parts. Therefore Aquaconsult has optimized the air supply to the diffusers. Thanks to prefabrication and testing in the factory, AEROSTRIP air distributors are extremely reliable and easy and quick to ...
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Hygieneering, Inc. Attends USGBC North/North Suburban Illinois Chapter Meeting.
Advocate Healthcare’s Vice President of Facilities and Construction discussed the process of developing a corporate strategy for sustainable building in the Healthcare industry. Hygieneering, Inc. delivers (IAQ) Indoor Air Quality testing and documentation services that provide USGBC/LEED Green Building credits for Healthcare facilities. Hygieneering provides safety consulting, ...
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Specialist Air Meter Repair and Calibration Services
Full service, repair and calibration for test bed air intake meters from the likes of Cussons VFAMs, Meriam Laminar Flowmeters and Furness Controls LFE. Modification of meters to improve linearity, span tube adjustment and flow damping snubbers to avoid engine pulsation effects. Update : Modification of Meriam and Furness laminar flowmeters to improve linearity now available. Large stock of ...
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