Travis West - IEQ Consulting for a Living & Texas Electric Nightmare: The Indoor Environmental Aftermath

This week we welcome Travis West of Houston, TX to talk about how things are going since the recent electric grid mess and how to make a living doing IEQ work. Travis has been doing IEQ work and making a living at it for over 30 years. He is also very active with IAQA and is a Summer Camp veteran. We are looking forward to his first person report from TX and his perspective on how to run a successful IEQ consulting company.

 

Travis West is the President of Building Air Quality, a Houston, Texas consulting firm. As an indoor air quality consultant, Mr. West has worked for 31 years on many kinds of indoor air quality issues and concerns. His primary business involves environmental investigations in commercial buildings. He has worked for the owners of multi-tenant office buildings, educational facilities, and medical buildings. For the past 15 years, he has also worked across the Southern United States on environmental health and safety issues for the regional office of the Federal Occupational Health, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services – investigating building failures in government leased buildings. Thanks to Ice Storm Uri, Travis has kept busy chasing water damage from some of the most unusual sources he’s seen in his many years of investigations.