The quality of indoor air will influence the human healthy because of spending most of time (>90%) per day staying in the indoor environment. Therefore, improvement the indoor air quality would enhance the environmental management and protect human health. Team works are based on article 6 of Indoor Air Quality (IAQ) Act announce of the public and private premises, refer to different kinds of premises to list 9 kinds including 490 of public premises. Different counseling premises should have specific management scale and area to reduce the impact of pre-announced premises. Team work listed characteristic pollutants on the basis of kinds of premises, usage and pollutants properties for the first pre-announced premises. Characteristic pollutants are divided into ventilation index and pollution index for further estimating premises and characteristic. The first pre-announced premises are suggested to announced carbon dioxide (CO2), formaldehyde(HCOH) and airborne particles with a diameter of 10 micrometers or less (PM10) to characteristic pollutants. Total volatile organic compounds (TVOCs), fungi, airborne particles with a diameter of 2.5 micrometers or less (PM2.5) and ozone (O3) temporarily not list characteristic pollutants. As to carbon monoxide (CO) and bacteria depend on which and what premises and characteristic are. In addition, those not listing as characteristic pollutants at the present stage are processing project counselling to obtain and establish database during IAQ regulation announced.
For the first pre-announced public premises, EPA examined randomly 40 premises to view and estimate the air conditioner exchange system with portable equipments or announced method examination. Counselling premises are including social welfare institutions, mass transportation, universities and colleges, medical institutions, libraries, exhibition rooms, markets and shopping malls. Most of counselling premises can make demand of the IAQ regulations including CO2, CO, HCOH, TVOCs, fungi, bacteria, PM10, PM2.5, O3. Team work also counselled a few premises which did not make the demand of air conditioner exchange. According to the results from field tests, team work selected 7 premises to detect long term CO2 concentration, air humidity, and temperature for assessing computer modeling and improving the indoor air environment. It could provide specific environmental improvement project as the reference materials according to the establishment of database and standard operation procedure in the future.
IAQ checklists are including maintaining documents and diagnostic documents. Maintenance and management plan documents are on the basis Article 6 of IAQ Act including 10 documents and checklists. Writing guidelines of maintenance and management plan documents also offer information for premises inspecting ventilation, potential pollutants, controlling pollutant source through self-management by themselves. In addition, propose the draft Act of “Outstanding Indoor Air Quality Mark”, which as representative outstanding IAQ public premises for rewarding self-management certification and conforming IAQ regulations, provide people to recognize good indoor air quality premises.
Team work suggest not to list kindergarten as a counseling premise, publicity education instead of regulation in order to make sure the health of children. This year focus on design IAQ brochure (folder pages) taking the EPA of Less Carbon Two Bears, the draft brochure is including standard execution steps and the slogan of maintaining the IAQ. Folder pages are design to the Chinese alphabet for children to read and learn. Alphabet slogans are correspond to “Improved ventilation”, “Control pollution”, “Maintenance Cleaning” and “Clean air”, respectively. Kindergarten teachers educate children to maintain IAQ for further self-management for children themselves health.
