Be ready to ask whether more obscure volatile chemicals, airborne asbestos or metals may also be present. Your evaluation tasks will include detective work, perhaps some confirmatory indoor air quality sampling, and experimentation to determine causes of a problem. Once the cause is identified, you can begin making corrections. Mitigating IQA problems yields surprising results. Employee absenteeism has been shown to decline where air quality is good.
Students stay awake in class.
Personal discomfort levels decrease remarkably. Health symptoms decrease. Indoor air quality defects can exist in service station booths, apartment complexes, general office spaces, buildings with renovated room layouts and more. In short, just about everywhere. In some cases, identifying IAQ problems can be complicated.