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HPBBP 7: Indoor Environmental Quality
One of the highest priorities for many buyers of new homes is a healthier indoor environment so knowledgeable builders, remodelers, and designers can often reap extra profits or establish a market niche by producing homes with improved indoor environmental quality. Building Industry Professionals who do not follow sound indoor environmental quality practices run the potential risk of costly callbacks and, in worst case scenarios, possible legal action. This module covers indoor environmental quality strategies such as the reduction or elimination of potential sources of pollutants, control of pollutants, filtration of pollutants, and mitigation of radon.
By completing this module, you will be able to:
•Describe ways to reduce or eliminate pollutant sources to improve the indoor environmental quality of a home.
• Describe ways to control pollutants to achieve indoor environmental quality.
•Explain the optimal means to filtrate pollutants from indoor environments.
•Explain radon testing options and the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) recommended foundation design and construction methods that facilitate post-construction radon removal or entry reduction.
•List mandatory and innovative indoor environmental quality practices acknowledged in the ICC/ASHRAE 700-2015 National Green Building Standard™.
The National Association of Home Builders is a Registered Provider with The American Institute of Architects Continuing Education Systems. Credit earned on completion of this event will be reported to CES Records for AIA members by the Provider. Certificates of Completion for non-AIA members are available upon request.
For more information about this item, please contact NAHB Professional Designation Help Line at 800-368-5242 x8154 or via email at designations@nahb.org.
The National Association of Home Builders is a Registered Provider with The American Institute of Architects Continuing Education Systems. Credit earned on completion of this event will be reported to CES Records for AIA members by the Provider. Certificates of Completion for non-AIA members are available upon request.
