Title: Unit 1 - Gloassary
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Unit 1

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Title | Glossary of IEQ Terms and Definitions
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The Center for Disease Control defines Indoor Environmental Quality (IEQ) as "the quality of a building’s environment in relation to the health and wellbeing of those who occupy space within it."^[33] The USGBC includes the following considerations for attaining IEQ credits; indoor air quality, the level of volatile organic compounds, lighting, thermal comfort, and daylighting and views. Published studies have also included factors such as; acoustics, building cleanliness and maintenance, colors and textures, workstation size, ceiling height, window access and shading, surface finishes, and furniture adjustability and comfort in consideration of the indoor environment quality of a building.

On July 21, 1976, the American Legion opened its annual three-day convention at the Bellevue-Stratford Hotel in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. More than 2,000 Legionnaires, mostly men, attended the convention. The date and city were chosen to coincide with America’s celebration of the 200th anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence at Philadelphia in 1776.^[1]

On July 27, three days after the convention ended, Legionnaire Ray Brennan, a 61-year-old retired Air Force captain and an American Legion bookkeeper, died at his home of an apparent heart attack. Brennan had returned home from the convention on the evening of July 24 complaining of feeling tired. On July 30, another Legionnaire, Frank Aveni, aged 60, also died of an apparent heart attack, as did three other Legionnaires. All of them had been convention attendees. Twenty-four hours later, on August 1, six more Legionnaires died. They ranged in age from 39 to 82, and, like Ray Brennan, Frank Aveni, and the three other Legionnaires, all had complained of tiredness, chest pains, lung congestion, and fever.^[1]

Three of the Legionnaires had been patients of Dr. Ernest Campbell, a physician in Bloomsburg, Pennsylvania, who noticed that all three men had been at the Legionnaires convention in Philadelphia. He contacted the Pennsylvania Department of Health. Officials at the American Legion also began getting notices of the sudden deaths of several members, all at the same time. Within a week, more than 130 people, mostly men, had been hospitalized, and 25 had died.[1]
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Legionnaire’s Disease – Wikipedia – The Free Internet Encyclopedia   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Legionnaires_disease

Glossary of Environmental Science – Wikipedia  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glossary_of_environmental_science#I

Green Building’s Indoor Environmental Quality Enhancement – Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Green_building#Indoor_environmental_quality_enhancement

Glossary of Terms and Acronyms - US Environmental Protection Agency http://ofmpub.epa.gov/sor_internet/registry/termreg/searchandretrieve/termsandacronyms/search.do

Glossary of IAQ Terms and Acronyms - US Environmental Protection Agency’s                       http://www.epa.gov/iaq/glossary.html

Glossary – National Institute of Occupational Safety and Health http://www.cdc.gov/niosh/az/a.html

Glossary of Terminology – ASHRAE http://wiki.ashrae.org/index.php/Category:Term
Attributions | Image courtesy of Sustainable Facilities Tool – U.S. General Services Administration. Content courtesy of Wikipedia – The Free Internet Encyclopedia