IAQ Radio

EPISODE212 - Gil L'Hommedieu -Founder & CEO Net Claims Now

Gil L'Hommedieu is the Founder and CEO of Net Claims Now. Net Claims Now is the first company to provide insurance billing services for the water damage restoration industry. Although Net Claims Now is the first to bring insurance billing services to the restoration industry, insurance billing services have become standard practice in the medical industry and many others. Like the medical industry, the water damage industry generates billions of dollars a year.
Mr. L'Hommedieu has thirty years experience operating his own water damage restoration business. Gil has personally handled, negotiated, and settled thousands of water loss claims throughout his career in the restoration industry. Now he has founded a unique company that provides those same services for disaster restoration companies across the country. LEARN MORE this week on IAQ Radio!

EPISODE211 - Radio Joe & Carl Grimes with an Indoor Air 2011 Review

Episode Notes: This week "Radio Joe" Hughes will be coming straight back to the studio from Indoor Air 2011 (12th International Conference on Indoor Air Quality and Climate) and joining us by phone will be IAQA President Carl Grimes. We want to provide an overview of the Indoor Air 2011 conference and discuss why the conference is important to all of us. We will focus on two simple questions, first what did we learn this week and then how do we put it into practice? An important component of what we will discuss is how IAQ Radio and others can help ensure the wealth of information presented at this conference and available from previous conferences can be accessed and used to help improve IAQ practice. Maybe more importantly we need to start the discussion about how we as practitioners can help to ensure future research focuses more on topics that will help us do a better job of improving indoor air.
This was an eye opening experience for the practitioners that attended and we will pass along some of what we learned. The bottom line is that what we do is important and will only become more important over time. LEARN MORE this week on IAQ Radio!

EPISODE210 -David E. Dick, Ex. Dir. -VA Board for Asbestos, Lead, Mold

EPISODE209- Fred Rock -FOCUS -Strategic and Operations Planning Issues

Fred Rock, a FOCUS Managing Director in Pennsylvania, has more than thirty years experience in investment banking. He has advised clients on matters relating to strategic and operations planning, including evaluating, financing and structuring new or growing business ventures, as well as executing acquisitions and sales of businesses. Mr. Rock has experience in many different industries, with a significant number of clients in the manufacturing, energy, franchising and distribution sectors. Join IAQ Radio this week and LEARN MORE about how to build, position and if you plan well sell your small business.

EPISODE208 -Richard Corsi, Ph.D., PE -Indoor Air 2011 Preview

Dr. Corsi is the President of Indoor Air 2011 and Director, NSF IGERT program in Indoor Environmental Science and Engineering at the University of Texas at Austin. We will discuss the upcoming IA 2011 conference with an emphasis on how to get researchers and practitioners working together toward assisting people with the design and maintenance of better indoor environments.

EPISODE 207 -Dr. Michal Krzyzanowski -Head, Bonn Office World Health Org.

This week IAQ Radio welcomes Dr. Michal Krzyzanowski to the show. Dr. Krzyzanowski is a Head of the Bonn Office of the World Health Organization (WHO) European Centre for Environment and Health, belonging to the WHO Regional Office for Europe. He is also a Program Manager, Living and Working Environments. His technical work focuses on the preparation of scientific evidence on health impact of environmental hazards, in particular of air pollution. The global update the WHO Air Quality Guidelines is one of the products of his team. Currently, he is coordinating the development of WHO guidelines on indoor air quality.
LEARN MORE this week when we discuss the WHO indoor air quality program and two recent publications "Dampness and Mold" and "WHO Guidelines for Indoor Air Quality: Selected Pollutants". Don't miss this opportunity to gain an international perspective on IAQ issues from a world renowned leader Dr. Michal Krzyzanowski!

EPISODE 206- Rick Stonier -GrayWolf Sensing Solution, Instrument Technology

This week we will LEARN MORE about the technology behind the instruments we use with Rick Stonier Managing Partner at Graywolf Sensing Solutions. Mr. Stonier has over 25 years of experience in design, production, sales and marketing of IAQ instrumentation. He is the Managing Partner at GrayWolf Sensing Solutions, a Connecticut based company with manufacturing in Ireland and worldwide sales of mobile PC based IAQ instrumentation. Mr. Stonier has a BS in Mechanical Engineering and has had an active involvement with ASHRAE's TC 1.2 Instruments & Measurements committee for many years.
We will discuss the nuts and bolts behind the measurement of Temperature, Relative Humidity, particulate, VOC's, Carbon Monoxide, Carbon Dioxide, pressure differentials and more. Don't miss this opportunity to hear from one of the most innovative and informed instrument manufacturers in the world and LEARN MORE about IAQ instruments and measurements.

EPISODE205 - W. Elliot Horner, PhD, FAAAI, LEED AP -USGBC Lawsuit Update

This week Dr. Elliot Horner returns to IAQ Radio to help us as we update listeners and continue our discussion of lawsuit filed at the end of 2010 against the USGBC and their LEED program. We had the driving force behind the lawsuit Mr. Henry Gifford on in November to present his reasons for filing the lawsuit and Dr. Horner has agreed to come on and continue the discussion. Dr. Horner is the laboratory director and a principle consultant for Air Quality Sciences. He has a Ph.D. in plant pathology from Virginia Polytechnic Institute, an M.S. in mycology from the SUNY College of Environmental Science and Forestry in Syracuse also a Fellow of the American Academy of Asthma Allergy and Immunology and a LEED AP.
Join us Friday at noon and LEARN MORE about this issue and more on IAQ Radio.

EPISODE204 - Samuel J Bergman, -CEO Rolyn Companies, Inc.

IAQ Radio welcomes a disaster restoration and industry association veteran Mr. Sam Bergman to the show. Mr. Bergman is CEO of Rolyn Companies, Inc. of Rockville, MD and 1st Vice President of the Restoration Industry Association (RIA). Ronald Bergman founded Rolyn in 1979, since then Rolyn's scope of services and capabilities have expanded to include a wide range of emergency and specialty construction services. Rolyn added infection control services for healthcare construction and renovation projects in the early 2000's as regulations for infection control became more stringent. Since 2005 Rolyn has doubled in size and now has six offices and 125 employees in numerous states, offering nationwide coverage to clients.
Join us this week and LEARN MORE about a disaster restoration success story through the eyes of their CEO and an industry mover and shaker Sam Bergman.

EPISODE203 - Chuck Violand -Managing Your Business

Are you managing your business or is your business managing you? We explore how to answer this question and much more with Chuck Violand of Violand Management Associates. Chuck Violand understands the unique challenges of small businesses, having owned a commercial cleaning and water damage mitigation company for 26 years. He founded Violand Management Associates (VMA) in 1988 as a consulting, teaching, and training resource for owners of small businesses. Chuck is also known to many for the no-nonsense business building advice that he regularly presents in trade publications, speaking engagements, and his weekly management e-zine "Monday Morning Notes".
This week we plan to ask Chuck for advice and tips that any entrepreneur can use to achieve long-term business and personal success. We plan on discussing the peak performance, business planning, project management , management development, estimating, sales and marketing and more. Join us this week and LEARN MORE about how to take your control of your business with Chuck Violand and IAQ Radio.