IAQ Radio

EPISODE325- Stephany Mason, Ph.D - VOC Material Testing

Dr. Mason is Vice President of VOC Materials Testing and is responsible for promotion and demonstration of expertise in chamber testing, product emissions, product organic content testing, and indoor air quality (IAQ), providing scientific leadership in these areas. Dr. Mason has 10 plus years of directly related experience with product emissions testing and product content testing for both US and international regulations, certifications, and testing schemes. She is well-versed on existing IAQ and product chemical safety regulations and methodologies. She is highly knowledgeable regarding the manufacturing processes of building materials (e.g. furniture, insulation, laminate, paint, wallboard, etc.), their uses, and potential chemical emissions and impact on the indoor environment, as well as potential chemical content health and environmental hazards. Dr. Mason has a B.S. in Geology from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, an M.S.E. in Materials Science and Engineering from the University of Pennsylvania, and a Ph.D. in Earth and Environmental Sciences from Columbia University.

EPISODE324 - "Radio Joe" Hughes & Dietrich Weyel, Sc.D

This week on IAQ Radio we are going to discuss Indoor environmental quality inspections/investigations/assessments whatever they are called this week and the 2014 Healthy Building Professional Summit at Seven Springs, PA August 20-22. This yearâ??s event builds on the past four events sponsored by IAQ Training Institute, LLC and the Tri-State Restorerâ??s and Specialty Cleaners Association (TRSCA). Each year for the past 6 years IAQ Training has had a meeting and training with all our sub contract instructors and friends in the Laurel Highlands of southwestern PA. We teach all three levels of the Indoor Environmentalist course Foundations, Intermediate and Advanced along with other programs designed to bring together the contractors, consultants, building owners and others. This year the event has grown to the point where we can graduate to the big leagues of facilities at Seven Springs Resort in Champion, PA.

EPISODE323-Bob Pakrul, Spotless Restoration - Disaster Restoration Veteran

EPISODE322 - Flashback Friday with Don Weekes and David Miller

The publication of the AIHA Green Book "Recognition, Evaluation and Control of Indoor Mold" ensured that mold investigation and remediation was recognized as worthy of special recognition in the industrial hygiene community. Our guests for this show were both editors of this important reference.
J. David Miller, PhD was educated at the University of New Brunswick (Canada) and the University of Portsmouth (England) where he was also a NATO Science Postdoctoral Fellow. He joined Agriculture Canada in 1982 and was head of the Fusarium mycotoxin program at the Plant Research Centre from 1988-1997. In 1997, he joined the Department of Chemistry at Carleton University where he is Natural Sciences & Engineering Research Council Research Chair on fungal toxins and allergens. He is widely recognized as one of the most influential and respected fungal researchers in the world.
Donald Weekes, CIH, CSP of InAir Environmental is well known to IAQ Radio fans and has been a frequent guest on the show. Mr. Weekes is the Immediate Past President of the Indoor Air Quality Association and has served or is serving on boards and committees with ASHRAE, ISIAQ and AIHA. He also still finds time to manage asbestos, lead, mould, indoor air quality and industrial hygiene projects through InAir Environmental. Mr. Weekes also joined us in September of 2008 for for Part One of our discussion of the AIHA Green Book "Recognition, Evaluation and Control of Indoor Mold". For this show we went into more detail to LEARN MORE with Don Weekes and Dr. Miller on IAQ Radio.

EPISODE321 - Dr. Charlene Bayer, Part 2 IAQA Hall of Famer

Dr. Charlene Bayer is the Chairman and Chief Science Officer at Hygieia Sciences, founded to commercialize her technology for detecting human diseases from breath and her indoor air quality research. She is a Senior Research Fellow for Materials and Healthy Buildings at USGBC, a member of the USGBC EQ TAG and IAQP pilot credit workgroup, as well as the past Vice Chair of the USGBC Research Committee. Additionally she is a Principal Research Scientist at the Georgia Tech Research Institute. Over the last 30+ years, her research has spanned the gamut of the indoor environment. Her group was one of the early leaders in sick building and product emissions research. She has spent much of her career developing methodologies to detect indoor air contaminants at increasingly low levels of detection. One of her long-term research areas is investigating the relationship between asthma and airborne exposures and developing real-time, wearable exposure monitoring systems for children. She is currently researching breath analysis for the detection of health states, exposures, and diseases. She was inducted into the IAQA Hall of Fame in March 2014. She holds multiple patents and is author and presenter of over 150 papers. She holds a Ph.D. and M.S. from Emory University in and a B.S. from Baylor University in Chemistry.

EPISODE320 - Dr. Charlene Bayer, Part 1 IAQA Hall of Famer

Dr. Charlene Bayer is the Chairman and Chief Science Officer at Hygieia Sciences, founded to commercialize her technology for detecting human diseases from breath and her indoor air quality research. She is a Senior Research Fellow for Materials and Healthy Buildings at USGBC, a member of the USGBC EQ TAG and IAQP pilot credit workgroup, as well as the past Vice Chair of the USGBC Research Committee. Additionally she is a Principal Research Scientist at the Georgia Tech Research Institute. Over the last 30+ years, her research has spanned the gamut of the indoor environment. Her group was one of the early leaders in sick building and product emissions research. She has spent much of her career developing methodologies to detect indoor air contaminants at increasingly low levels of detection. One of her long-term research areas is investigating the relationship between asthma and airborne exposures and developing real-time, wearable exposure monitoring systems for children. She is currently researching breath analysis for the detection of health states, exposures, and diseases. She was inducted into the IAQA Hall of Fame in March 2014. She holds multiple patents and is author and presenter of over 150 papers. She holds a Ph.D. and M.S. from Emory University in and a B.S. from Baylor University in Chemistry.

EPISODE319 - Howard Wolf & M. Washington IICRC S500

This week on IAQ Radio we welcome Howard Wolf and Mili Washington for a discussion about the two most popular Institute for Inspection Cleaning and Restoration Certification (IICRC) Standards the S500 and S520. We learned during our recent interview with Mili that both the ANSI/IICRC S500 Standard and Reference Guide for Professional Water Damage Restoration and the IICRC S520 Standard and Reference Guide for Professional Mold Remediation are coming out for another round of public review. This week we LEARN MORE from the IICRC Standards Chair Mr. Howard Wolf and Mili Washington about why another round is necessary, what changes we can anticipate and more.
Howard Wolf has been involved with the cleaning and restoration industries since 1984. He has extensive disaster and large project experience, with particular expertise in institutional, industrial and hospitality facilities. In 2001, Mr. Wolf started HW3 Group, LLC, a firm committed to serving the restoration industry in the areas of investigation, research, marketing, operations, field management and project management. Between 2002 and 2004, Mr. Wolf sold all contracting businesses, keeping his consulting business and started an education and technical support institution, which was merged to become the Commercial Drying and Restoration Institute in 2009. Currently, he is the Chairman of the IICRC Standards Committee and Chairman of the S500 4th edition committee.
Mili Washington has been The Institute of Inspection, Cleaning and Restoration Certification (IICRC) Standards Director since June 2011. Her focus has been to streamline the standards development process and strategy at the IICRC, work toward American National Standards Institute (ANSI) approval for new and revised ANSI/IICRC standards, and use more digital tools to make virtual collaboration really come to life. For the past eight years, Washington has focused her work in the area of standards development and management. In her previous role as manager of standards and guidelines for the American Industrial Hygiene Association (AIHA), she oversaw three ANSI accredited standards committees that developed 20 ANSI standards for the occupational health and safety profession.

EPISODE318 - Jerry Blaylock & John Downey -IICRC Tech Journal Drying Wood

This week on IAQ Radio we take an in depth look at the new IICRC Journal of Cleaning, Restoration and Inspection and discuss the cover article "The Role of Vapor Pressure and Enthalpy in Wood Drying" with the author Mr. Jerry Blaylock. Joining us along with Mr. Blaylock is the Journal's current Managing Editor John Downey. Mr. Blaylock has been teaching water damage restoration and advanced drying concepts for the past ten years and during the same time frame has been working on his theory and algorithm that is designed to explain how wood dries on water damage projects. His theories are derived from understanding lumber industry drying concepts and the physics of drying. Listeners are encouraged to check out the new journal and the cover article prior to the show at the following link:
http://digitaladmin.bnpmedia.com/publication/?i=198021. LEARN MORE about drying water damaged buildings and the technical side of cleaning, restoration and inspection this week on IAQ Radio!

EPISODE317 - Claudia Lezell, Floor Covering Inspections & Moisture Issues

Joining us this week on IAQ Radio is Claudia Lezell President of Inspections Too, Inc., an inspection company that specializes in aiding in the diagnosis of floor covering and moisture related failures. Ms Lezell is the crème of the crop when it comes to floor covering inspection and one of the most common issues she and her team of experts deal with is moisture. Claudia leads a team of highly qualified scientists, experienced engineers and trained certified inspectors whose mission is to provide the highest quality diagnostic services in the industry. The need for this type of service is ever increasing due to the vast majority of factors that play into each flooring and moisture related failure. Flooring and moisture related failures can be avoided if proper testing procedures are followed before installation of a project; however this is not usually the case. Billions of dollars in related damages occur each year from flooring failures related to factors that could have been avoided if proper pre-installation testing had been performed.
Every Floor has its own unique situations... sub-floor preparation, installation, specification, and maintenance. Determining the failure of a specific floor requires a thorough analysis and understanding of that floor. Flooring changes are occurring faster than ever driving the need for expert inspection when the inevitable failures occur. Knowledge of substrates, industry trends and new products, studies about each floor type is vital when assessing the possible causes of the floor failure in today's every changing market. LEARN MORE about the ever changing floor covering industry this week on IAQ Radio!

EPISODE316 - Derrick Denis, IEQ Prophecies & IAQA Convention Preview

This week on IAQ Radio we welcome Derik Denis, VP of Indoor Environmental Quality at Clark Seif Clark (CSC) and the 1st Vice President of the Indoor Air Quality Association A twenty year veteran of the Indoor Environmental Quality industry who in 2002 opened CSC's Southwestern office located in Tempe, Arizona. Mr. Denis has marketed, managed, and conducted a variety of assessment, project design, training, and project management roles for environmental issues. . He is also the Chapter Director for the Indoor Air Quality Association (IAQA) Phoenix Chapter, and is on the Board of Directors of the Arizona Chapter of the Environmental Information Association (ElA). Derrick has managed an extremely wide variety of IEQ and disaster restoration projects including some very unusual projects we will discuss. We will also preview some of the key events and presentations at this yearâ??s IAQA conference in Nashville, TN March 17-19. LEARN MORE about flesh eating bacteria, wildfires, ricin, CO2 contamination, odors, hantavirus, zinc whiskers and more this week on IAQ Radio!