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Overview Of Indoor Air Quality Education and Assessment Model (I-Beam)
The Indoor Air Quality Building Education and Assessment Model (I-Beam) is
a guidance tool designed for use by building professionals and other interested
in indoor air quality in commercial buildings. I-Beam updates and expands EPA's
Building Air Quality guidance and is designed to be a comprehensive state-of-the-art
guidance for managing IAQ in commercial buildings. I-Beam contains text, animation/visual,
and interactive/calculation components that can be used to perform a number
of
diverse tasks. With I-Beam you will be able to:
• Improve indoor air quality
(IAQ) - within budget
• Refine your maintenance program for IAQ
• Better manage housekeeping services for IAQ
• Conduct an indoor air quality building audit
• Train management and staff in indoor air quality
• Provide documentation that the building is following IAQ building practices
• Reduce liability exposure to indoor air quality complaints
• Improve the marketability of the building and rental space
I-Beam consists of many individual modules which explain different aspects
of IAQ including how to manage, operate, and maintain your building
for IAQ, and
how to insure that your energy efficiency projects are compatible
with IAQ. I-Beam also contains modules that are interactive, allowing you
to set up maintenance
and housekeeping tasks for IAQ, and to calculate budgetary impacts
of IAQ. In
other words, I-Beam creates a way for you to learn how to manage
for
indoor air quality as an integral part of your daily building management
activities. You
can use I-Beam to train management and building personnel on
IAQ issues and tasks. You can use I-Beam as a reference tool for specific issues.
You can
use I-Beam
to assist in solving problems and responding to complaints. You
can use I-Beam to set up an IAQ management program including maintenance,
housekeeping,
and renovation, and energy efficiency functions to protect IAQ.
Or, you
can
use
the resource links in I-Beam to search the web for more information.
Access to forms, Glossary of IAQ Terms, and Related Web Sites are
on the menu bar in the I-Beam menu. Also on the I-Beam Menu Bar
are Resources,
which allow the user to access parts of I-Beam as word processing
documents or
spreadsheets.
For your convenience, you can find all of the I-Beam Text modules,
I-Beam forms and the I-Beam Visual Reference Modules without
downloading or
installing I-Beam.
However, to use all the features in I-Beam, including the
Budgets and Accounts features, you must have a copy installed (see how
to obtain a copy of I-Beam
on CD below) or download I-Beam directly onto your computer.
You can
download I-Beam directly from the web. Two download options
have been provided to
fit your individual computer or network needs.
I-Beam is also available on CD ROM (EPA 402-C-01-001). To
obtain your free CD ROM copy contact the IAQ Info Clearinghouse
at
800-438-4318 or via e-mail
at
iaqinfo@aol.com (be sure to ask for EPA 402-C-01-001).
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