Indoor Air Quality Concepts, Technologies and Solutions for a Sustainable Built Environment

Course Overview

Building designers, contractors, owners and managers have long been challenged with providing quality indoor environments at a reasonable energy cost. Current efforts to improve building energy efficiency, including goals of sustainability and net-zero energy use, are bringing more focus on how to simultaneously achieve energy efficiency and good indoor air quality (IAQ). While energy efficiency and IAQ are sometimes viewed as incompatible, there are many strategies that support both ends.


This training delves into many elements of healthy, productive, energy-efficient, and sustainable buildings. Multiple strategies, specially formulated for the tropics, will be discussed. These strategies bring benefits of good indoor environmental conditions, energy savings, water savings and protection of buildings occupants from pandemic threats.


The launch of the Singapore Green Plan 2030 by the Singapore government highlights the importance of galvanising a whole-of-nation movement to advance Singapore's national agenda on sustainable development. This compact training programme shares fundamental concepts and principles on holistic building design – a cornerstone for creating infrastructure that supports occupant well-being.



Course Duration

7


Total Training Duration (Hour)

7


Course Outline

IAQ: Basic Concepts and Relevance to Building Functionality and Economics


  • Economic value of good IAQ
  • Collaborative integrated building design approach
  • Indoor air pollutants and health effects
  • Environmental contaminants: Organic Compounds, Inorganic Compounds, Particulate Matter and Biological Contaminants
  • Sick Building Syndrome/Building Related Illnesses/Environmental Sensitivity


Effective HVAC System Design for Healthy Indoor Air


  • Strategies to reduce "environmental footprint"
  • Techniques to control indoor humidity and moisture and mould growth
  • Establishing proper pressure relationships with outdoor and between spaces
  • Design of outdoor intakes and exhaust outlets
  • IAQ Code of Practice SS 554:2016+A1:2021
  • Workplace Safety and Health Act: Your responsibilities and liabilities
  • Strategies for effective ventilation, air filtration and air cleaning
  • Strategies to counter infectious pandemics and bioterrorism
  • Demand-Controlled Ventilation
  • Special HVAC design concepts: Displacement Ventilation, Radiant Cooling, Chilled Beams, AHU with Face & Bypass Damper, Dedicated Outdoor Air Systems (DOAS)
  • Energy Recovery Ventilation: Run-Around Systems, Heat Pipes, Fixed-Plate Air-to-Air Devices and Rotary Air-to-Air Energy Exchangers


Air Cleaning Technologies


  • Particulate Filtration and Gas-Phase Air Cleaning
  • Adsorption and Chemisorption technologies
  • Air filtration efficiency testing standards: ASHRAE Standard 52.1 and 52.2, IEST-RP CC001.4
  • Minimum Efficiency Reporting Value (MERV) parameters
  • Energetic Filtration Technologies: Active Electric Fields, Ionization, Surface Irradiation, Catalytic Activation and other Electron Manipulation



Certification Obtained and Conferred by

All participants will receive a Certificate of Attendance from SEAS upon completion.


SCEM: 6.5 PDU Points

GMAP: TBA

PE PDU: TBA


Course Objectives

The participants of this course will acquire the following skills:

  • Understanding of various factors which impact IAQ.
  • Fundamental knowledge of building related illnesses, their causes and effects.
  • Adoption of a holistic integrated approach in designing of building systems to improve occupant health and well-being.
  • Development of creative HVAC system design skills to maximize IAQ and energy performance.
  • Understanding COVID-19 pathology and transmission pathways and deployment of cost-effective mitigation strategies.



Medium of Instruction & Trainer

Mr Lui Wing Sin is a Senior Consultant in PrimusTech Pte Ltd, a company specialising in smart building and green IAQ technologies. Mr Lui holds a BE in Electrical Engineering from Monash University (Australia) and has worked for more than 40 years in the controls and building automation industry. He has acted in the capacity as Energy and ESD Consultant for many buildings in Singapore and has been instrumental in helping many building owners win energy and environmental awards.


Mr Lui is a practitioner in the application of germicidal ultraviolet irradiation, electrostatic precipitation, photocatalytic oxidation, PICT as well as the use of natural non-chemical plant-based disinfection solutions to resolve indoor air quality problems.


Price
Course Fee Payable
Original Fee Before GST With GST (9%)
Course Fee $500.00 $545.00

Standard Rate: $500 (Before GST)

SEAS Member: $450 (Before GST) [Apply SEASMEMBER10 promo code upon check out]

SCEM: $475 (Before GST) [Apply SCEM5 promo code upon check out]


Please apply respective promo codes upon check out if you are eligible for the above discount for SEAS Member or SCEM.

For verification purposes, please provide your SCEM or SEAS Member registration number in the application form.

Please note that prices are subject to change.
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