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IAQ: Breathe Easier

Products, Research and Advice for Improving Indoor Air Quality

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Home sweet home. The quality of air, water and other environmental factors impacts how potential homeowners perceive new homes now being designed
and created.

involvement and participation with health issues should be the illness. Hayward’s family story is also included on Hayward SCORE’s
beginning of the design process. Helping them determine what they website (www.haywardscore.com).
want to actively support and how they can participate in regards
to the design decisions—and better understand the rami cations Measuring your environment: test kits
relative to a new healthy home—will be important for all. To determine what your environment is like, measure it. Fortunately
a number of test kits are becoming available for this purpose.
SOME HOME DESIGN RESOURCES Knowing the environmental conditions of your speci c site is
Much has been learned about how to create a Healthy Home Design an early step in addressing any home health issues. Taking crucial
in recent years. Some speci c ways to address issues related to health steps in residential design and construction could result in occupants
in homes exist now that did not exist a few years ago. Other ideas living 10-20 years longer.
have been around for years, but not everyone is familiar with them.
If you are planning a new home project or major remodel or addition, The list of issues to address grows as more is understood—water
there are things you can be taking into consideration. quality, volatile organic compounds (VOCs), humidity and mold, and
Here are two resources for both you and your clients to consider: Internet of Things (IoT) for health in the home, are just a few. We’ll
continue presenting resources to you as this eld develops.
Hayward SCORE It’s time to consider building Healthy Green Homes. A good
Hayward has created the Hayward SCORE, a helpful survey you direction for us all. GB
and your clients can use to identify the environmental issues for
consideration in your home projects. Terry Beaubois is an architect in Palo Alto, Calif. He is CEO of Building
Hayward is dedicated to helping everyone understand the home Knowledge Systems (BKS) LLC (www.bksco.com), and an adjunct
environment: He and his family lived in a house that caused much lecturer at Stanford University.

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