Register for This Webinar: Connecting Energy Efficiency With Preventive Maintenance

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Making the Connection: Linking IAQ,
Energy Efficiency and Preventive Maintenance
Together for Healthy Schools

There are many factors to consider in creating healthy learning environments when conducting school renovation or energy efficiency upgrade projects in schools, including indoor air quality (IAQ). Join this webinar to learn how to optimize the critical connection between IAQ, energy efficiency and preventive maintenance. Hear from technical experts and a school district about key actions you can take to integrate IAQ and energy efficiency for optimal occupant health and building performance, and the importance of incorporating preventive maintenance into your project.

This webinar will introduce you to one of EPA’s flagship resources—Energy Savings Plus Health: Indoor Air Quality Guidelines for School Building Upgrades and the accompanying Interactive Air Quality Planner for Schools—that helps you create a custom verification checklist for each step of the upgrade process. Learn how you can join school districts across the nation that use Energy Savings Plus Health (ES+H) to protect occupant health and safety and implement preventive maintenance practices.

To explore the tools prior to the webinar, download the Guidelines and the Interactive Air Quality Planner.

Webinar participants will learn how to—

• Explain the critical connection between IAQ, energy efficiency and preventive maintenance, and the importance of properly integrating them for optimal occupant health and building performance during a renovation project.
• Use resources to help with energy efficiency and preventive maintenance efforts, including the ES+H guide and the accompanying Interactive Air Quality Planner for Schools that helps you create a custom verification checklist for both your building upgrades and concurrent IAQ assessment protocols for each step of the upgrade process.
• Use a case study from a school district on getting started using these resources to create healthy indoor learning environments.
• Start or improve a preventive maintenance program to include IAQ and energy efficiency components as part of a comprehensive building management approach.

Featured IAQ Experts

• Kudret Ütebay, The Cadmus Group, Inc., Arlington, Virginia
• Ellen Tohn, Tohn Environmental Strategies, Wayland, Massachusetts
• Jeff Mims, Schools of Guntersville, Guntersville, Alabama

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Questions?
EPA offers free IAQ Tools for Schools resources—including the School IAQ Assessment Mobile App—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.