Webinar: Solutions and Resources to Address COVID-19 in Schools: Establishing Lasting Improvements to Ventilation and IAQ

Recorded February 10, 2022

After you view the webinar, please complete the webinar evaluation to help us understand your indoor air quality (IAQ) knowledge and steps you want to take to assist your district with managing IAQ comprehensively. Once you submit the evaluation, you can download a certificate of completion for this webinar.

To receive your certificate:

1. You will receive the evaluation link for this webinar via email (from iaqschools@epa.gov).
2. Once you have completed and submitted your evaluation, you will have access to your completion certificate.
3. If you have technical difficulties, please send an email to iaqschools@epa.gov.

Register to view the webinar.

Moderator:

• Tracy Enger, Facilitator,  Indoor Environments Division, U.S. EPA, Washington, DC

Speakers:

• Anisa Heming, Director, Centers for Green Schools at U.S. Green Building Council 
• Mary Filardo, Executive Director, 21st Century School Fund
• Dr. Wanyu Rengie Chan, Research Scientist and Deputy Indoor Environment Group Leader in Energy Analysis and Environmental Impact Division, Lawrence Berkely National Laboratory
• Sonya Pouncy, Program Subcommittee Chair for the Technical Committee on Operations, Maintenance and Cost Management, ASHRAE’s Detroit Chapter

Participants will learn to:

1. Make the case to implement building upgrades to improve IAQ, reduce the risk of COVID-19 transmission, and optimize school building energy performance;
2. Determine your building system type and implement ventilation best practices and building design guidelines, such as mechanical ventilation, natural ventilation, filtration, in-room air cleaners, and germicidal UV (UVGI);
3. Use federal stimulus funding to make lasting improvements to school buildings and ventilation systems; and
4. Replicate best practices to improve building health and energy efficiency used in school district case studies.