Episode 671| August 12, 2022 | 12:00 PM EST William Bahnfleth, PhD, PE Dustin Poppendieck, PhD Alison Savage, MPH Why Indoor Chemistry Matters! Part 2 Partitioning, Transformations and Management of Chemicals in Indoor Environments This week we welcomed Dr. Bill Bahnfleth, Dr. Dustin Poppendieck and...

Great audience involvement today! THANKS TO ALL OF YOU FOR LISTENING & PARTICIPATING Nuggets mined from today’s episode: • Ozone, because it can be easily measured, has been studied by scientists since the 1860’s. • Study of OH is new because OHs weren’t on researcher’s radar. Measuring OH requi...

Nuggets mined from today’s episode: Link to 4 page report summary: https://nap.nationalacademies.org/resource/26228/Indoor_Chemistry_Report_Highlights.pdf Overview of the document. The National Academy of Sciences can be traced back to Abraham Lincoln. The Academy advises the government on scientif...

Episode 667| June 17, 2022 | 12:00 PM EST Bill Sothern, DrPH, CIH, LEED AP Chris Mikrut Michael Berg, PhD Misalignment between Clinical Mold Antigen Extracts and Airborne Molds Found in Water-damaged Homes The study received NO financial support. Did the study receive financial support? No financial...

Another very informative IAQradio broadcast. Congrats to Paula Schenck for being first to answer the IAQradio trivia question. Brad Prezant is an advocate of the use of “Risk Calculator” occupant modeling used to predict risks of infection. The volume of space determines the quantity of infection in...

My takeaways from today's show: Unlike Don Quixote who fought windmills to no avail, Dr. David Jacobs has seen the benefits of his labor. In looking for a suitable trivia question about I learned that geophysicist Clair Patterson and pediatrician Herb Needleman both sounded the alarm over lead toxic...

Joe Spurgeon is an out of the box thinker. Joe offers alternatives to methodologies he disagrees with. My takeaways from Joe's presentation. ERMI scores are being widely misused by IEPs. Misuse results in misinterpretation which is a huge disservice to our clients. Characteristics of ERMI Scores ERM...

We've discussed green cleaning on prior IAQradio broadcasts. Many of the early green cleaning products were safer BUT THEY DIDN'T WORK! You can't argue about making the world a safer place by reducing or eliminating toxic chemicals. We've discussed green cleaning on prior IAQradio broadcasts. When I...

I opine that its the little stuff (aka ultrafine particulate, PM 2.5 and gases) that bothers Dr. Elliott Gall. I like the creative homemade aircleaning device that Elliott and his students came up with. A similar concept is used to remove blown insulation from attics and other areas. My biggest take...

Z-Man's Takeaways from Today's Interview: Dr. Andrew Persily, PhD has a calm demeanor and a knack for explaining complex concepts in an understandable way. The roots of NIST can be traced back to founding of our country. The power to coin money, to regulate the alloy and value of coin, and to fix th...