Sunday, 26 June 2016: 8:00 AM-9:00 AM
Indoor Environment: Health, Comfort, Productivity
Chair:
Dawen Lu, P.E., Lu + Smith ENGINEERS, PLLC
Technical Committee: 09.07 Educational Facilities
A school’s indoor environment can have significant impacts on health and learning. It is important to protect IAQ during school building upgrades, including energy-efficiency upgrades. There can be a mistaken impression that energy efficiency and IAQ are at odds with each other. When energy efficiency and IAQ protection goals are integrated, schools can achieve strong results in both areas. Alternatively, if careful attention is not paid to the interaction between energy management and IAQ, occupant health can suffer. The U.S. EPA recently released Energy Savings Plus Health: IAQ Guidelines for School Building Upgrades, and this new guidance is presented.
1 Energy Savings Plus Health: IAQ Guidelines for School Building Upgrades
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Gregory Brunner, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency |
EPA developed “Energy Savings Plus Health: Indoor Air Quality Guidelines for School Building Upgrades” to help school officials protect and improve indoor air quality (IAQ) during building upgrades, including energy efficiency upgrades. This presentation will provide background on why EPA developed this Guide, how the Guide is structured, and an overview of 23 priority IAQ issues that should be addressed during school building upgrades. The Guide includes assessment protocols, and recommended actions to be followed for each priority issue during the school building upgrade process.
2 Energy Savings Plus Health: School Building Checklist Generator
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Gregory Brunner, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency |
The “Energy Saving Plus Health – School Building Upgrade Checklist Generator” is a tool for use with EPA’s new Energy Savings Plus Health Guide. The Checklist Generator can be used to create customized checklists for each individual project. Users can select from a menu of typical building upgrade activities, as applicable to their project. It helps verify that the assessments and recommended actions have been performed to protect/enhance IAQ during the building upgrade. This presentation will provide an overview of the Checklist Generator tool, and identify other resources available to users of EPA’s new guidance for school building upgrades.