Seminar 17 -- Multifamily Buildings: IAQ Issues and Responses PDF

This product is a zip file that contains files that consist of PowerPoint slides synchronized with the audio-recording of the speaker, PDF files of the slides, and audio only (mp3 format) as noted.

Multifamily buildings are an indoor air quality challenge for several reasons. Individual behaviors cannot be controlled as in an office, school, or other commercial/institutional settings. The construction practices are historically different compounding the issues of air transfer between different dwelling  units. This session examines the sources of IAQ issues and provides standardized and better practice solutions.

• 1. How Requirements in Codes, Standards, and Programs Are Evolving to Improve IAQ in Multifamily
  Gayathri Vijayakumar, BEMP, Steven Winter Associates, Inc, Washington, DC
• 2. IAQ in Social Housing Apartment Buildings: Sources and Solutions
  Jeffrey Siegel, Ph.D., Fellow ASHRAE, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada