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ASTM and ASHRAE Standards for the Assessment of Indoor Air Quality
Citation:
Liu, X. ASTM and ASHRAE Standards for the Assessment of Indoor Air Quality. ASTM and ASHRAE Standards for the Assessment of Handbook of Indoor Air Quality. Springer, Heidelberg, Germany, , 36, (2021). https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-5155-5_50-1#DOI
Impact/Purpose:
The consensus standards play an essential role in environmental risk assessment and management. The Public Law 104-113 National Technology Transfer and Advancement Act (NTTAA) of 1995 (NIST, 2019) directs Federal agencies and departments to use voluntary consensus standards and to participate in the development of voluntary consensus standards. This book chapter provides an overview of indoor air test standards with the focus on standards of ASTM International and guidance on ventilation from the American Society of Heating, Refrigerating and Air-Conditioning Engineers (ASHRAE) used by the indoor air research community for the control and assessment of IAQ. They are harmonized procedures and protocols to address indoor air pollutants and IAQ issues from different perspectives and widely used in combination by professionals, industry, public and governmental regulators to assure an energy efficient and healthy IAQ environmental for building occupants.
Description:
With the rapid development of high technology and green building movement in the modern world, indoor air quality (IAQ) becomes a matter of great concern to building occupants, building industry, manufacturers, national, state and local government agencies, and other relevant entities. Utilizing harmonized consensus test standards is essential to characterize indoor pollutants and investigate indoor environmental conditions for assessing and improving IAQ and reducing occupants’ risk of exposure and adverse health effects. This chapter elaborates consensus IAQ test standards that are widely used in the United States (U.S.) and highlights the standards from ASTM International and Standard 62.1 and 62.2 of the American Society of Heating, Refrigerating and Air-Conditioning Engineers (ASHRAE). ASTM methods help source control of indoor air pollutants for IAQ, whereas ASHRAE standards address the control and assessment of IAQ and ventilation of commercial and residential buildings for IAQ management. Primary focuses of this chapter are ASTM methods for indoor air sampling and analysis, emission and material testing, IAQ evaluation and exposure assessment, and the ventilation calculation methods and procedures in ASHRAE Standards 62.1 and 62.2. The IAQ acceptable limits and ventilation requirements are out of the scope of this chapter. Other standards discussed include U.S. Environmental Protection Agency methods, International Organization for Standardization standards, and others. Recommendations of future standardization efforts comprises standards for exposure test protocols, new and advanced sampling and analysis methods, emerging contaminant measurements, indoor air modeling, and updates of ASHRAE standards.
