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EPA Indoor Environments Division sent this bulletin at 02/02/2017 02:15 PM EST

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Energy Efficiency Plus Indoor Air Quality:
Strategies for Improving Health and Reducing Energy Costs
in Your School

Once again, thank you for your interest in the webinar Energy Efficiency Plus Indoor Air Quality: Strategies for Improving Health and Reducing Energy Costs in Your School.

We would like to highlight some resources that you may find helpful in addressing IAQ and energy efficiency issues in your schools:

  • Energy Savings Plus Health: Indoor Air Quality Guidelines for School Building Upgrades
    This EPA guide is written primarily for school facility managers and energy managers to help them collaboratively administer the relationship between energy efficiency upgrades and IAQ in schools. Using the guidance and tools will help you reduce health risks during your building upgrade project. This Web page gives you access to guidelines, examples of school energy efficiency projects, an Interactive Air Quality Planner and additional resources.

    Do you have questions about Energy Savings Plus Health? Have you implemented Energy Savings Plus Health guidance and would like to provide feedback? We want to hear from you! Please contact Kudret Ütebay (Kudret.Utebay@cadmusgroup.com) for free technical assistance with using or getting started with Energy Savings Plus Health.

  • Indoor Air Quality Guide: Best Practices for Design, Construction and Commissioning
    This American Society of Heating, Refrigerating and Air-Conditioning Engineers (ASHRAE) publication provides comprehensive guidance for best practices for all aspects of IAQ building design, commissioning and construction, including designing for maintainability and strategies for achieving IAQ objectives.
  • Reversing the Cycle of Deterioration in the Nation's Public School Buildings
    The Council of the Great City Schools’ Deferred Maintenance Task Force Report describes how school districts, financially squeezed over long periods of time, made decisions that reduced the most cost-effective types of maintenance work: preventive and predictive maintenance. The report contains contemporary references that link the conditions of school buildings to student achievement and a variety of other issues. It also provides information and references to strategies that have proven successful in reversing the cycle of deterioration.
  • Energy Efficiency and Indoor Air Quality in Schools
    This joint working paper from EPA’s ENERGY STAR® and IAQ Tools for Schools offers useful information on how to create a healthier indoor environment for students, teachers and staff.
  • ENERGY STAR® Resources
    Use EPA’s ENERGY STAR® tools and resources to plan and implement cost-effective energy efficiency upgrades.
  • IAQ Tools for Schools Action Kit
    EPA developed guidance to reduce exposure to indoor environmental contaminants in schools through voluntary adoption of sound and effective IAQ management practices. The Action Kit provides best practices, industry guidelines, sample policies and a sample management plan for improving indoor air problems at little or no cost by using straightforward activities and in-house staff.
  • IAQ Tools for Schools Framework for Effective School IAQ Management
    This set of strategies, approaches and techniques can be used to put the IAQ Tools for Schools guidance into action immediately to achieve results.
  • School IAQ Assessment Mobile App
    The app is a “one-stop shop” for accessing guidance from EPA’s IAQ Tools for Schools Action Kit. Once you have conducted a school walkthrough, the mobile app allows you to submit assessment checklists to help you track and prioritize IAQ-related follow-up actions based on proven strategies for addressing critical building-related environmental health issues.
  • IAQ Master Class Professional Training Webinar Series
    The IAQ Master Class Professional Training Webinar Series comprises ten 1-hour technical, core-competency, Web-based trainings designed to build the capacity of school district staff across the country to start, improve or sustain an IAQ management program. These on-demand webinars cover such IAQ topics as HVAC management, mold and moisture, and energy efficiency. All viewers will receive certificates of completion.
  • IAQ Knowledge-to-Action Professional Training Webinar Series
    The IAQ Knowledge-to-Action Professional Training Webinar Series comprises four 1-hour technical, core-competency, Web-based trainings designed to demonstrate how to translate the knowledge gained in the IAQ Master Class Professional Training Webinar Series into actions to improve or sustain an IAQ management program within your school or school district. Learn from technical experts, industry leaders and model school districts during these on-demand webinars.

Questions?
EPA offers free IAQ Tools for Schools resources to help schools maintain a healthy indoor environment by identifying, correcting and preventing IAQ problems. Learn more about the IAQ Tools for Schools guidance and access other valuable school environmental health resources at www.epa.gov/iaq-schools.

If you have any questions about the IAQ Tools for Schools guidance, or if you have an IAQ management success story you would like to share, please contact the IAQ Tools for Schools Connector Coordinator at iaqschools@epa.gov.