The ‘Indoor Environmental Management’ course offers you the opportunity to enter a booming sector, where the demand for qualified professionals is constantly growing. In a context where indoor air quality and asbestos management are of paramount importance, this course will provide you with the tools you need to make a difference. You will learn how to to identify and prevent sick building syndrome, you’ll discover the effects of electromagnetic fields and you will master the environmental monitoring procedures. Taking this course will enable you to acquire key skills for improving health and wellbeing in indoor environments, making you an expert in a field that is crucial to sustainable development and public health. Furthermore, as it is an online course, you will be able to study from anywhere, tailoring your learning to your own pace and needs.
Management of the indoor environment in buildings
Introduction
Objectives
- Understand the importance of the quality from the air internal influence on people’s health and wellbeing.
- Identify y apply procedures for environmental monitoring to improve indoor air quality.
- Analyse the causes y consequences of sick building syndrome in different contexts
- Carry out research for identify problems associated with sick building syndrome.
- Implement strategies from effective prevention measures against building-related illnesses.
- Assess the effects of the electromagnetic fields in the indoor environment of buildings.
- Manage properly the presence from asbestos within the buildings’ premises.
Table of Contents
TEACHING UNIT 1. ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT MANAGEMENT IN BUILDINGS AND ENVIRONMENTAL ASPECTS AFFECTING USERS
The importance of indoor air quality
Environmental control parameters and procedures – indoor air quality
Overview of environmental monitoring methods and procedures
Definition and causes of sick building syndrome
How to carry out investigations into a ‘sick building’
Factors in the prevention of SEE
Building-related illnesses
The effects of electromagnetic fields
Asbestos management in buildings