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Indoor Air Quality
Program Introduction
The
maintenance of acceptable Indoor Air quality (IAQ) is dynamic and complex
requiring the efforts of a cross-section of the University community.
Facilities Maintenance skilled trades, Custodial and Pest Control
Services, Environmental Health & Safety, Facilities Planning and
Construction, the occupants of a specific building and their Safety
committee representatives all play major roles in maintaining IAQ. As a
matter of fact, IAQ is just one component of a broader concept of the
total indoor environment.
A healthy
indoor environment contributes to occupants' productivity, comfort and a
sense of well-being. The indoor air is free of significant levels of dust
and contaminants and circulates to prevent stuffiness without creating
drafts. Temperature and humidity are appropriate to the season and the use
of the facility. Other indoor environmental factors such as noise,
lighting, ergonomic stressors (i.e. work station and task design) and job
psychosocial stressors combined with IAQ contribute to the overall indoor
environment. With over 7 million square feet of occupied space at the
University of Delaware, maintaining IAQ is a challenge and problems will
arise.
Sometimes
these problems are easily identified and corrected, such as a delivery
truck running next to an air intake to the building, and sometimes IAQ
problems are complex as in the case of inadequate control of temperature,
humidity and airflow which can require a detailed investigation and an
engineering solution. Regardless of the problem, we need to know about
it.
For
questions regarding the IAQ program contact Joe Miller or call x6566 or Frank Bramante or call
x0631.
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