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Controlling Indoor Air Quality: Ventilation Engineering Guide

Date published: 1992

The publication Managing Indoor Air Quality helps property managers identify indoor air quality problems. Controlling Indoor Air Quality will help ventilation engineers correct serious problems.

This publication discusses investigation strategies, issues, contaminants, and approaches to controlling indoor air quality (IAQ). It then addresses common causes of indoor air quality problems in buildings that have not been recently renovated or retrofitted and describes how property managers can use one of two procedures to meet IAQ standards. Controlling Indoor Air Quality also comes with VENT, a software package that calculates building ventilation requirements.

The next section deals with ventilating buildings that have recently been renovated or retrofitted. It describes the types of contaminants created in these situations and explains how to ventilate them. The publication also discusses ventilation demand controllers-devices that adjust the position of outdoor air dampers to offset the carbon dioxide that building occupants generate.

The best way to achieve acceptable air quality is to control contaminants at the source and to ventilate properly. Controlling Indoor Air Quality provides ventilation engineers and property managers with a practical guide to both approaches.

63 pages

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