From Maine Indoor Air Quality Council
Practical Building Recommendations to Reduce Virus Transmission
Updated 11/23/2020
Prepared by Kristofer G. Anderson, P.E., Bath, ME
Manage Your Home to Prevent COVID-19 (Written by Executive Director Christine Crocker for Green & Healthy Maine Homes Magazine)
https://greenmainehomes.com/blog/manage-your-home-to-prevent-covid-19
The SAFEAIRSPACES COVID-19 Aerosol Relative Risk Estimator
Use your parameters for # of occupants, floor space/height, ventilation rate, filtration rate, time indoors, and use of masks to determine transmission risk.
https://safeairspaces.com/
From ASHRAE
ASHRAE Position Document on Airborne Infectious Disease
PD_-Infectious-Aerosols-2022_edited-January-2023.pdf (ashrae.org)
Guidance for Building Operations During the COVID-19 Pandemic
https://www.ashrae.org/news/ashraejournal/guidance-for-building-operations-during-the-covid-19-pandemic
COVID-19 Response Resources
https://www.ashrae.org/technical-resources/resources
From AIHA
Reopening Guidance from AIHA
More than 25 individual sets of guidance for specific facility types, from schools to laboratories, bars to day care facilities.
Homepage | Back to Work Safely
Reopening Guidance for Schools (K-12)
https://aiha-assets.sfo2.digitaloceanspaces.com/AIHA/resources/Reopening-Guidance-for-Schools-K-12_GuidanceDocument.pdf
From U.C. Boulder
COVID-19 Transmission Estimator
https://tinyurl.com/covid-estimator
From U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
On-Demand Webinar: Practices & Principles for Healthy IAQ & Reducing the Spread of Viruses
https://www.epa.gov/iaq-schools/forms/webinar-what-schools-need-know-practices-and-principles-healthy-iaq-and-reducing
On Demand Webinar: New Tools to Assess and Address IAQ Health & Safety
https://www.epa.gov/iaq-schools/forms/webinar-meeting-current-school-health-challenges-and-beyond-new-tools-assess-and
On Demand Webinar: Layered Risk Reduction
Webinar: Indoor Air Quality in K-12 Schools: Addressing the Concept of Layered Risk Amidst COVID-19 | Creating Healthy Indoor Air Quality in Schools | US EPA
Indoor Air and Coronavirus (COVID-19)
https://www.epa.gov/coronavirus/indoor-air-and-coronavirus-covid-19
From the Journal of Hospital Infection
Dismantling Myths of Airborne Transmission of COVID
Dismantling myths on the airborne transmission of severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus (SARS-CoV-2) – Journal of Hospital Infection
From OSHA
Guidance on Preparing Workplaces for COVID-19 https://www.osha.gov/Publications/OSHA3990.pdf
From Johns Hopkins University
Active Map for COVID-19
https://coronavirus.jhu.edu/map.html
Images/Graphics/Maps:
HealthWeather Map:
https://healthweather.us/
