Indoor Air Quality - Standard 62.1

Hours: 35 / Access Length: 12 Months

Retail Price: $645.00

Course Overview:

A practical guide to applying the industry standard for the design and operation of ventilation systems to provide acceptable indoor air quality.  Properly designed ventilation systems are essential for the well-being of building occupants, to minimize adverse health effects and improve productivity of workers and students. Standard 62.1, Ventilation and Acceptable Indoor Air Quality, is the industry standard for the design and operation of ventilation systems to provide acceptable indoor air quality.   This course is a practical guide to applying the standard’s ventilation rates and demonstrates the regulatory application to new buildings, and additions and changes to existing buildings.

Course Outline:

  • Purpose – Why We Ventilate Buildings
  • Scope, Definitions, Appendix G, and Example Buildings
  • Outdoor Air Intakes and Exhaust – How to get ‘good' air inside and ‘bad' air outside
  • Outdoor Air Quality – What is in the air outside?
  • Natural Ventilation and Exhaust – The historical approach to ventilation
  • Indoor Air Quality Procedure (IAQ) – the scientific approach to ventilation
  • Ventilation and Indoor Air Quality
  • Ventilation Rate Procedure (VRP) – The current engineering approach to ventilation
  • Ventilation Rate Procedure for Multiple-Zones – Ventilation for multi-purpose and large buildings
  • VRP Multiple Zones General Case – Complex Ventilation Systems
  • VRP Multiple Zones VAV - An approach to saving fan energy
  • Varying Operating Conditions - Do we need all this air all the time?
  • Moisture and Mold Control – What's growing in there?
  • Construction, Startup, and Maintenance – Now that we have a plan, what do we do next?
  • Recirculating and Treating Indoor Air - Good air separation makes good neighbors
  • Documentation – What we did and why
  • Occupant Comfort and Health
  • AEDSMRB: Building Envelope -> ALL

System Requirements:

Internet Connectivity Requirements:

  • Cable, Fiber, DSL, or LEO Satellite (i.e. Starlink) internet with speeds of at least 10mb/sec download and 5mb/sec upload are recommended for the best experience.

NOTE: While cellular hotspots may allow access to our courses, users may experience connectivity issues by trying to access our learning management system.  This is due to the potential high download and upload latency of cellular connections.   Therefore, it is not recommended that students use a cellular hotspot as their primary way of accessing their courses.

Hardware Requirements:

  • CPU: 1 GHz or higher
  • RAM: 4 GB or higher
  • Resolution: 1280 x 720 or higher.  1920x1080 resolution is recommended for the best experience.
  • Speakers / Headphones
  • Microphone for Webinar or Live Online sessions.

Operating System Requirements:

  • Windows 7 or higher.
  • Mac OSX 10 or higher.
  • Latest Chrome OS
  • Latest Linux Distributions

NOTE: While we understand that our courses can be viewed on Android and iPhone devices, we do not recommend the use of these devices for our courses. The size of these devices do not provide a good learning environment for students taking online or live online based courses.

Web Browser Requirements:

  • Latest Google Chrome is recommended for the best experience.
  • Latest Mozilla FireFox
  • Latest Microsoft Edge
  • Latest Apple Safari

Basic Software Requirements (These are recommendations of software to use):

  • Office suite software (Microsoft Office, OpenOffice, or LibreOffice)
  • PDF reader program (Adobe Reader, FoxIt)
  • Courses may require other software that is described in the above course outline.


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