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SRC
Expands Healthy Housing Mission
Sustainable
Resources Center (SRC) is expanding our healthy housing mission
by merging our long-standing weatherization and lead hazard control
programs.
We have
reformulated our programs to provide better education about indoor
environmental hazards:
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Using
better information collection tools. We have adapted collection
information tools to allow us a better overall picture of
the home and its occupants and therefore to allow us to better
tailor information to their needs.
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Distributing
the “How Your House Works Workbook.” This workbook,
developed by the Alliance for Healthy Housing, (www.afhh.org),
is an easy-to-understand presentation of the house as a system.
It allows non-experts to get to know the dynamics of how the
house works.
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Making
expanded use of our energy usage assessment tool. We have
expanded our energy usage assessment to include questions
about comfort, changes in energy usage, and perceptions of
needs. The revised assessment tool provides better information
for the household and for the auditors, contractors, and inspectors
so that they can find better solutions to energy-related issues.
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These
more detailed education packages promote a better partnership with
the client and aid in changing resident house-related behavior that
leads to improved health and environmental outcomes. Our healthy
housing services include:
Basic
Weatherization
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Diagnostics
(diagnostic test report; ventilation worksheet) |
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Weatherization
audit (combustion safety worksheet; combustion safety test
report) |
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Energy
savings
(weatherization; energy use evaluation; family energy &
IAQ action plan) |
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Basic
educational component (lead safe work practices; house depressurization
limits; attic pressures) |
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Enhanced
ventilation (room by room pressure balance; humidity control) |
Additional
Programming
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Lead
compliance (paint inspection/risk assessment; lead hazard
control; clearance testing) |
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Education
and outreach (extended education for lead during LHC; community
events; screening with access to health network; training in
lead safe work practices) |
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Indoor
air quality (testing; environmental hazard assessment; indoor
environmental summary; homeowner humidity gauge and log) |
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Extended
education for WX (How Your House Works Workbook; health
screening prior to audit; expanded energy usage assessment) |
Contact
us for more information on SRC’s Healthy Housing diagnostics
program.
Links
of interest on healthy housing.
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