Indoor Air Quality (IAQ)
Specialty Certifications
Expert Indoor Air Quality Assessments
Our indoor air quality assessments are thorough and precise, designed to detect a wide range of airborne contaminants. Our certified professionals perform detailed inspections and testing, including air sampling and analysis, to identify pollutants such as volatile organic compounds (VOCs), mold spores, allergens, carbon monoxide, and particulate matter. Criterion provides comprehensive reports that detail the presence and concentration of these pollutants for comparison with current professional guidelines and standards, along with recommendations for improving IAQ.
Advanced Laboratory Testing
Criterion Labs is equipped with a state-of-the-art laboratory to support our IAQ services. Our lab uses the latest technology to analyze air samples accurately, ensuring reliable results. This data is critical for understanding the specific pollutants affecting your indoor environment and for developing effective remediation strategies.
Customized Solutions for Optimal Air Quality
We understand that every indoor environment is unique, so we offer tailored solutions to address your specific IAQ issues. Our team works closely with you to develop customized plans that effectively reduce or eliminate indoor air pollutants. Whether it’s a residential, commercial, or industrial setting, our solutions are designed to meet your needs and comply with all relevant health and safety standards.
Many factors affect indoor air quality. These factors include poor ventilation (unbalanced distribution – lack of outside air), problems controlling temperature, high or low humidity, recent remodeling, contaminated airborne water mist, and other activities in or near a building that can affect the fresh air coming into the building. Sometimes, specific contaminants like dust from construction or renovation, mold, cleaning supplies, pesticides, or other airborne chemicals (including small amounts of chemicals released as a gas over time) may cause poor indoor air quality.
The right ventilation and building care can prevent and fix indoor air quality problems. Although OSHA does not have indoor air quality standards per se, it does have standards about ventilation and standards on some of the air contaminants that may be involved in indoor air quality problems.
Indoor air quality is a concern in many schools due, in part, to the age of students and poor condition of a number of school buildings. School Indoor Air Quality is particularly important as it may affect the health, performance and comfort of children.
Criterion’s Field Services can provide expert advice and monitoring for indoor air quality pollutants that are often found in indoor environments.
Whether you’re a homeowner or building facility manager or occupant concerned about unseen dangers that may be lurking in the air you breathe, Criterion’s indoor air quality investigations can assist you in solving your indoor air quality problems.
Criterion’s Field Services professionals can test for many of the substances known to cause indoor air quality problems. These include:
- Mold
- Asbestos
- Carbon Monoxide
- Radon
- Lead
- Carbon Dioxide
- Formaldehyde
- Bacteria
- Environmental Tobacco Smoke
- Combustion Products
- PCBs
- Sewage Contamination
- Vapor Intrusion
- Allergens
- Pesticides
- VOCs
- Legionella
- Endotoxins
- Particulates (PM2.5 & PM10)
Laboratory Testing for Indoor Air Quality
Criterion’s Laboratory is accredited to perform a wide range of testing for airborne contaminants, including:
- Asbestos and Synthetic Vitreous Fibers
- Lead and other Metals including Welding Fumes
- Total, Inhalable, Respirable and Thoracic airborne dust
- Solvent Vapors and Oil Mist
- Crystalline Silica (α Quartz, tridymite and cristobalite) NIOSH Method 7602
- Hexavalent Chromium (HexChrome)
- Waste Anesthetic Gases including Nitrous Oxide, halothane, enflurane, isoflurane, desflurane, sevoflurane and others
- Aldehyde sterilants such as formaldehyde, glutaraldehyde and acetaldehyde.
- Ethylene Oxide
- Occupation Exposure Limits derivation by the Reciprocal Calculation Procedure for Hydrocarbon Mixtures
Ensure a healthy and comfortable indoor environment with Criterion Labs’ Industrial Hygiene services for indoor air quality. Contact us today to schedule an assessment or consultation with our expert team. Together, we can create a safer, cleaner, and healthier indoor environment for you and your occupants.
