Advanced Building Diagnostics

This four-day "hands-on" course is designed to educate professionals within the indoor air quality industry on accepted sampling methodologies and how to obtain information useful for assessing indoor environmental conditions.

  • Course objectives provide:
  • Obtaining the appropriate background information
  • Writing the proposal
  • Developing an appropriate plan of action
  • Performing the on-site evaluation and hands-on use of tools, instrumentation and testing equipment
  • Measuring and interpreting respirable particles utilizing a laser particle counter
  • Procuring surface samples. When to use swabs, tape slides, microvac and bulk samples
  • Procuring countable and culturable air samples
  • Selection of growth media
  • Interpreting the data
  • Writing the final report
  • IICRC Standards

    This course is ideal for engineers, environmental consultants, industrial hygienists, HVAC contractors, project managers and others seeking to expand their knowledge of industry accepted sampling methodologies and assessing indoor environments.

    This course is approved by the Indoor Air Quality Association (IAQA) and the Florida Association of Building Inspectors (FABI) and contributes twenty-five (25) continuing education requirements (CEU's) for professionals in the industry.


    This course is a new offering of IAQA's IAQAware program.