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Overview:
Between December 2011 and February 2012, the Maine Indoor Air Quality Council will be presenting two complete series of its popular Residential Construction Trainings. These programs are designed to educate residential building professionals on construction practices that minimize the risk of indoor air quality problems in new homes. The programs have been updated for 2011 to include references to the recent changes to the Maine Uniform Building and Energy Code, so that Maine building professionals can understand how the concepts presented in each of these trainings is, or is not, addressed by the Codes. Plus, thanks to a grant from the Efficiency Maine Trust, the 2011 series includes complete coverage of the energy provisions contained in both the building and energy codes.
Continuing Education Credits: These programs have been pre-approved for: AIA Members, Codes Officials, BPI certified professionals, Engineers, and Registered Radon Professionals.
Dates & Location:
January 12, 26 and February 9
Ramada Inn, Saco
Local Host: Deering Lumber Company, Biddeford, Maine
Registration fee for each session: $10.00
Building an IAQ Healthy Home: Foundations
Saco Presentation
Thursday, January 12, 2012
Ramada Inn, Saco
Registration Opens at 7:30 a.m.
Program from 8:00 - 11:30 a.m.
Register for the 1/12/2012 Foundations Seminar by calling or e-mailing Donna Mottola at Deering Lumber at 207-283-3621;
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Registration fee: $10
About the Program: Proper site work and foundation construction are as critical to the overall quality and healthfulness of a home as the building shell that is constructed above grade. As a result, a builder’s job begins before the very first shovel of dirt comes out of the ground, not after the foundation is completed. This program highlights the physical processes at work below grade--processes related to temperature, water, moisture, and air--and how they can cause a variety of problems that not only affect occupant health, but may also compromise the building structure. The session offers practical how-to guidance on ways to avoid mistakes in site drainage and foundation construction: mistakes that are costly and difficult to fix.
Building an IAQ Healthy Home: The Building Shell
Thursday, January 26, 2012
Ramada Inn, Saco
Registration Opens at 7:30 a.m.
Program from 8;00 a.m. to 3:00 p.m.
Register for the 1/26/2012 Building Shell Seminar by calling Donna Mottola at Deering Lumber at 207-283-3621;
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Registration fee: $10
About the Program: Simply put, a new home’s building shell is comprised of the structural elements that separate the inside from the outside: walls, roofs, windows, doors. The shell’s function, however, is anything but simple. It has to protect its occupants from rain, wind and snow. It has to control the flow of energy and heat between indoors and outdoors. It has to control the flow of air and moisture. It has to provide light and a mechanism to enter and exit. It has to provide a means for pollutants and contaminants to flow out of the building. It has to create an environment that is comfortable indoors, when conditions outdoors are not. And, it significantly determines the affordability and energy consumption of a home. This program presents practical techniques building professionals can use to achieve all of these goals and still provide healthy IAQ.
Building an IAQ Healthy Home: Ventilation
Thursday, February 9, 2011
Ramada Inn, Saco
Registration opens at 7:30 a.m.
Program runs from 8:00 a.m. to 12:15 p.m.
Register for the 2/9/2012 Ventilation Seminar by calling Donna Mottola at Deering Lumber at 207-283-3621;
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Registration fee: $10
About the Program: Building and renovating homes in Maine’s climate is a challenge. While most customers demand that their homes be constructed and renovated to minimize heat loss - most customers don’t make similar demands for adequate ventilation. Yet ventilation of a Maine home, particularly an energy effi cient home, is one of the most critical construction issues Maine builders need to address. Properly ventilated homes minimize the risk of exposure to indoor environmental pollutants (radon, carbon monoxide, carbon dioxide, combustion pollutants, chemicals) and minimize the risk of moisture damage in the building envelope and subsequent biological contamination. This program stresses why controlling ventilation in a home is necessary to protect occupant health. It will discuss the most common sources of indoor air pollution in homes and how they get there, and what physical processes are present (air flow, pressure, moisture) that affect indoor air quality. The program provides practical strategies to achieve core ventilation goals.
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About the trainers:
Bill Turner is the president of Turner Building Science, LLC, and has 25 years’ experience in the development and implementation of indoor air quality standards, diagnostic testing and remediation, industrial hygiene instruments, survey administration, air monitoring data collection, quality assurance, data validation, and technical report preparation. Turner Building Science has assembled a training development team for this program that includes engineers, architects, energy consultants and home builders - all who have been working and building in Maine for over
25 years.
David Johnston is president of David Johnston & Co., and has been building healthy, energy efficient homes in Maine for more than 26 years. David has served as an adjunct instructor in Residential Design and Drafting and Graphic Design at the USM Department of Industrial Technology, and is currently on the Advisory Committee for a new Construction Management major at USM.
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Program Sponsors
Efficiency Maine
The Maine Radiation Control Program
Renewaire
EFI (Energy Federation Incorporated)
David Johnston & Co.
Remember! The Maine Center for Disease Control & Prevention encourages you to test your home for radon, and if high radon is found, to reduce those levels. For more information visit the Radon Section website:
www.maineradiationcontrol.org
1-800-232-0842
radon.dhhs@maine.gov
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