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Proceedings from Indoor Air 2002 Norwegian Indoor Environment Organization
Proceedings from Indoor Air 2002 The Proceedings from Indoor Air 2002 are now available at a reduced price for ISIAQ members. Please contact the ISIAQ Secretariat to order your copy. (Order form: www.isiaq.org). Indoor Air 2002 was held in Monterey, California. The conference was judged a great success by those who attended. A frequent comment is that the quality of the papers was higher than at previous conferences. The Conference Proceedings are now available at a reduced price of USD 50 for the CD and USD 75 for each 5 volume print version. The CD is fully searchable and compatible with both PCs and Macs. The Proceedings contains 726 Conference papers and covers the major indoor environmental issues. We are certain you will find this a useful resource in your work.
Norwegian Indoor Environment Organization becomes part of the family The ISIAQ BOD officially accepted the Norwegian Indoor Environment Organization as a National Chapter on Jan. 30th 2003. An assembly of enthusiastic practitioners, researchers, physicians, lawyers and consultants established The Norwegian Indoor Environment Organization on the 28th of May 2001. Today the number of members is 90, and the first sponsors are in place. The main activities are open meetings on subjects related to IAQ and operation of the website, now accessible on www.isiaq.no. The board members also participate actively in current debates. Topics covered in our gatherings so far have been remediation of moisture damage, design of office buildings for better indoor air quality, and indoor air quality in schools. We have successfully participated in turning down a proposed revision of a recommended increase of standard CO2-levels from 1000 to 2000 ppm. We feel that we have had two reasonably successful first years, but naturally we hope to increase our impact on indoor environments and regulations in the future. Sverre B. Holøs, M.S.
Swedish Chapter of ISIAQ - SWESIAQ The Swedish chapter of ISIAQ (SWESIAQ) was established in 2000 and accepted by ISIAQ in 2002. During the first two years there have been member meetings and some small conferences concerning indoor air issues. A web page was established (www.swesiaq.se) and two working groups have been established. One is concerning medical diagnoses for SBS-symptoms and one for training and certification of practical work in problem buildings. During the first two years we collected about 50 members. One of the main questions during this first period was how to get more members and more activity in the society. The SWESIAQ board finally decided to arrange a conference with the overall goal to get more people interested in the society. Scandinavian experts in different areas were contacted to participate and a program was established. Information about the conference was distributed by different organizations to their networks, mainly by e-mail but also a printed program was distributed by post mail. For this initial work the chapter got funding from several Swedish authorities. In February 2003 SWESIAQ arranged a two-day Scandinavian conference concerning dampness in buildings and health. More than 20 Scandinavian experts in engineering, medicine and legislation participated. New data concerning different areas were presented and there was much time for discussions. Four large epidemiological studies from Denmark, Norway, Finland and Sweden were presented during the two days. Furthermore, there were presentations on medical diagnoses and reports from the latest literature reviews on dampness and ventilation and its association with health effects (NORDDAMP, EUROEXPO and EUROVEN). Another presentation dealt with building physical aspects and generated a lot of discussions concerning how practical work in problem buildings were carried out. The conference gathered more than 250 persons from Scandinavia, most of them from Sweden. The registration fee was 250 dollar for members and 350 dollar for non-members (in SWESIAQ or ISIAQ). The registration fee for non-members included a one-year membership in SWESIAQ. This means that today we have about 250 members in the chapter. Our experience is that arranging a conference is a good way to focus attention to important issues and to get publicity about ISIAQ and the national chapter. It is also an effective way to get more members. However, after such an event it is important to focus on several issues such as:
Carl-Gustaf Bornehag, President SWESIAQ
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