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Table of Contents
- Indoor Air Quality Assessments of New Energy-Efficient Housing
- Modeling Emissions of VOCs from Indoor Sources
- Criteria for Defining, Measuring and Selecting Low-VOC Impact Indoor Materials
- VOC Source Control Measures for Relocatable Classrooms
- Measurement and Characterization of Semi-Volatile and Particulate Organics and their Dynamic Behavior
- Miniaturized Systems for Particle Exposure Assessment
- Air Monitoring for the East Bay Children's Respiratory Health Study
- Dynamics of Gas-Phase Organics in Environmental Tobacco Smoke
Indoor Air Quality Assessments of New Energy-Efficient Housing
Summary: This project is identifying sources of toxic and odorous VOCs in new houses and developing and demonstrating techniques for reducing the impacts of these sources to further the goals of achieving energy efficiency while improving the quality of new houses.
Primary Sponsor: U.S. Dept. of Energy, Building America Program
Contact: Al Hodgson
Modeling Emissions of VOCs from Indoor Sources
Summary: This project is developing and validating mechanistic models to predict the diffusion-controlled emissions of VOCs from materials used in building construction.
Primary Sponsor: US Dept. of Energy Office of Building Technology, State
and Community Programs
Contact: Al Hodgson
Criteria for Defining, Measuring and Selecting Low-VOC Impact Indoor Materials
Summary: The objective of this project is to establish criteria for defining, measuring and selecting indoor materials with low emissions of VOCs.
Primary Sponsor: US Dept. of Energy Office of Building Technology, State and Community Programs
Contact: Al Hodgson
VOC Source Control Measures for Relocatable Classrooms
Summary: This project tested standard and alternate materials used to finish interiors of relocatable classrooms for emissions of VOCs and monitored VOC concentrations in paired source-modified and control classrooms over a school year to determine the effectiveness of several implemented source control measures.
Primary Sponsor: California Energy Commission Public Interest Energy Research Program
Contacts: Al Hodgson, Mike Apte
Measurement and Characterization of Semi-Volatile and Particulate Organics and their Dynamic Behavior
Summary: This project is developing, validating and applying new measurement methods for semivolatile organic pollutants in ambient air and combustion sources.
Primary Sponsor: US EPA
Contact: Lara Gundel
Miniaturized Systems for Particle Exposure Assessment
Summary: This project is developing a miniaturized system for particle exposure assessment that will measure aerosol mass, size and composition simultaneously.
Primary Sponsor: LBNL Laboratory Directed Research and Development Program
Contacts: Lara Gundel, Tony Hansen, Mike Apte
Air Monitoring for the East Bay Children's Respiratory Health Study
Summary: This ambient air monitoring study of traffic-related pollutants was conducted over two semesters at ten East Bay elementary schools in support of a respiratory health study of 3rd and 4th grade school children.
Primary Sponsor: Cal EPA, Office of Environmental Health Hazard Assessment
Contacts: Al Hodgson, Brett Singer
Dynamics of Gas-Phase Organics in Environmental Tobacco Smoke
Summary: This project is investigating the dynamics of indoor exposures to gas-phase organic compounds in ETS to improve estimates of exposure under realistic home conditions, taking into account the effects of sorption processes.
Primary Sponsor: University of California Tobacco Related Disease Research Program
Contacts: Al Hodgson, Brett Singer