IAQ 2016 Defining Indoor Air Quality: Policy, Standards and Best Practices Co-Organized by ASHRAE and AIVC

For years, the restoration, cleaning and remediation industries have moved towards reliance on improvements in equipment and chemical technology to perform their services. This has caused the focus on source removal to be blurred. The revised ANSI/IICRC standards attempt to return the focus to traditional source removal, including mechanical cleaning processes. Mr. Wolf will discuss the position of the revised S500 Water Damage Restoration and S520 Mold Remediation standards on mechanical processes and chemical technology to reduce airborne contaminant load; thereby, reducing the reliance on air filtration devices and other control measures. It has become a “lost step” in many protocols and remediation plans.