"Indoor Air Quality for Inspectors" course

Welcome to InterNACHI's free, online Indoor Air Quality for Inspectors course.

Most of us spend much of our time indoors. The air that we breathe in our homes, in schools, and in offices can put us at risk for health problems. Some pollutants can be chemicals, gases, and living organisms like mold and pests.

By attending this session, students will:

learn about the factors affecting Indoor Air Quality (IAQ);
understand the role moisture plays in IAQ;
learn about moisture movement;
learn pollutant remediation techniques; and
understand the requirements of ASHRAE 62.1989 and ASHRAE 62.2-2007.

The U.S. Department of Energy and InterNACHI, the International Association of Certified Home Inspectors, are working in cooperation to develop and offer energy inspection courses to InterNACHI members.

In keeping with InterNACHI's commitment to Continuing Education, this course is open and free to all members, and can be taken again and again, without limit.

Reminder to members: InterNACHI's Code of Ethics 1.10 requires that you comply with all government rules and licensing requirements of the jurisdiction where you conduct business. InterNACHI's courses and Standards generally exceed the Standards of Practice that you are required to abide by locally.

This course has been approved by:

Indoor Air Quality for Inspectors course includes:

30 sections;
over 25 photos and illustrations;
5 quizzes;
50-question final exam (drawn from a larger pool);
1 CE hour;
instant grading;
a downloadable, printable Certificate of Completion; and
accreditations and state approvals.

This course covers the following topics:

Student Verification & Interactivity
Learning Objectives
Acknowledgments
Definitions
Quiz #1
Supplemental Materials
Introduction to Indoor Air Quality (IAQ)
Improving Indoor Air Quality
IAQ, Moisture and Ventilation
Common Household Sources of Water Vapor
Interview with Joan Ouellette
Quiz #2
Moisture Movement
Permeance of Building Materials
Pollutant Solutions
IAQ and Relative Humidity
Quiz #3
Blower Door Basics
Outside Air and IAQ
How is Natural Ventilation Calculated?
BTL, BTLa & MVG
MVG Theory
Random Hole Type
Radom Size and Distribution
What's Left
Quiz #4
Interview with Paul Raymer
ASHRAE 62.1989
ASHRAE 62.2-2007
ASHRAE 62.2-2007 Table
ASHRAE 62.2-2007 Formula
What Are the Choices?
Installing Fans
Using ASHRAE 62.1 Installations to 62.2
Air-to-Air Heat Exchanger
Summary
Quiz #5
Student Verification

Upon completion of this course and passing of the 50-question final exam (drawn from a larger pool), the student can download and print their own Certificate of Completion which is auto-generated in their own name.

The student's (InterNACHI member's) information is recorded on InterNACHI's servers for membership compliance verification, and automatically logs completion into InterNACHI's online Continuing Education log. It counts as one InterNACHI Continuing Education hour.

Non-members may view only the first page of the course.

Members will need their username and password. If you have forgotten your password, CLICK HERE (instant response) or email fastreply@nachi.org and request it (don't forget your name).

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Some features which make InterNACHI's courses superior to existing continuing education options:

The course is free for all InterNACHI members.
The course is written in pure XHTML code for quick loading. The course loads fine on old computers and loads fast, even with dial-up.
The course is designed using a hierarchal menu coupled with a sequential page navigation. This provides the student with the option to easily repeat areas of weakness.
The course permits the student to start, stop and restart any part of the course as often as desired.
There are a variety of images within the course, including diagrams, illustrations and photos.
The illustrations can be enlarged for clearer viewing by clicking on them.
The text is integrated into InterNACHI's Inspector Glossary. Rolling over blue-colored terms provides their definition.
The final exam uses multiple-choice questions that reference the images.
The course's quizzes and final exam have numerous advantages over traditional exam systems:
1. The course, quizzes and final exam incorporate built-in intelligence which identifies and strengthens each student's unique subject weaknesses.
2. Not only is each question weighted with regard to score, but each answer is weighted, as well as the correctness of each answer being weighted.
  1. Answers to easy questions are weighted such that the student is penalized, in terms of score, for answering incorrectly, but rewarded modestly for answering correctly.
  2. Answers to difficult questions are weighted such that the student is rewarded, in terms of score, for answering correctly, but not penalized for answering incorrectly.
  3. Answers to questions regarding basic safety, or questions every inspector should know the answer to, are weighted such that the student is severely penalized, in terms of score, for answering incorrectly.
Upon passing the final exam, the student can print out a Certificate of Completion which is auto-generated in their own name.

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