Indoor Environmental Quality Daydreams and Nightmares

July 1, 2011 - PRLog -- Mesa, AZ – Kirsten Shaw’s, CEO of AE3Q, article Indoor Environmental Quality Daydreams and Nightmares, was published in Home Energy Magazine’s May/June 2011 issue. A sneak peak of the article:  

“Building performance renovation contractors and Weatherization Assistance program workers daydream of making homes healthy, comfortable, energy efficient, and durable. But sometimes when they are in the middle of a project, they find their dreams have become indoor environmental quality (IEQ) nightmares.

Most contractors are well prepared to deal with some potential IEQ nightmares, such as CO poisoning and building materials that have lead-based coatings. However, there are numerous other sources of IEQ nightmares. These include asbestos; radon; volatile organic compounds; sulfur-containing drywall—typically from China—and even everyday construction dust, which many building performance contractors take no notice of.”  

To continue to read the article: http://homeenergy.org/article_full.php?id=801

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