Welcome to our discussion forum series, The IAQ Club, modeled after the popular community tradition, the book club.
Upcoming IAQ Club Sessions:
Challenges & Opportunities for IAQ in a World of Energy Efficiency and Climate Change
Session Moderator: Jeffrey Siegel, Ph.D., University of Toronto
Wednesday, March 11, 2026
4:00 p.m. – 5:15 p.m. (Eastern)
Register for the March 11th IAQ Club Forum
Managing Indoor Air for Health: Powerful Medicine for People and Building Performance
Session Moderator: Stephanie Taylor, M.D., M.Arch., Stowe, VT
Tuesday, April 14, 2026
4:00 p.m. – 5:15 p.m. (Eastern)
Register for the April 14th IAQ Club Forum
How it works:
When you register for an IAQ Club Session, not only will you get access to a video and/or audio presentation* from a past education event, you’ll also be able to attend an informal discussion forum** with the original presenter or other knowledgeable moderator. You’ll find the forums fun, informative, and personal. Each session encourages lively discussion of the scheduled topic (and sometimes other related issues!) Participants can ask moderators and each other questions about current projects and challenges. Each session ends with a fun, interactive trivia quiz. You might win a MIAQC hoodie or t-shirt!
*Like a book club, it is recommended, but not required, that you watch the video or listen to the audio prior to the discussion forum, as it is not shown during the forum itself.
**IAQ Club forums are held via Zoom.
Cost:
Participation in the IAQ Club is free for members in good standing (dues current) of the Maine Indoor Air Quality Council, and just $25 per forum for nonmembers. All participants get advance access to the recorded education session, as well as entry into the live, discussion forum for that topic.
About this month’s session: Managing Indoor Air for Health
Our health is our number one resource, yet current federal and state initiatives to improve our built environments tend to focus on regulating energy consumption and averting catastrophic events such system failures and building fires. How can building owners and managers intelligently manage IAQ to support occupant health and productivity while complying with energy efficiency requirements?
This pre-recorded presentation will show you the research and science supporting the relationship between building design, energy efficiency, and occupant health, providing sound evidence for the importance of indoor air quality in homes, schools, and commercial buildings.
In this eye-opening presentation, Dr. Taylor communicates medical and scientific information in a clear and sometimes humorous fashion. She will guide you through steps to efficiently manage buildings for occupant health using indoor and outdoor air metrics, and you’ll take away strategies to manage your own surroundings to improve health and productivity.
You will learn:
1. The relationship between indoor air quality and occupant health, as well as understand potential interactions between airborne contaminants
2. How to effectively balance outdoor air ventilation and indoor air recirculation to safely support occupant health
3. Anticipate and prevent harmful IAQ changes during seasonal shifts and outdoor pollution events
4. Develop cost/benefit models using healthy occupant profitability according to building usage
5. Understand why humans resist change and how this resistance has slowed down managing buildings from the perspective of occupant health
About the Presenter:
Stephanie Taylor received her MD from Harvard Medical School in Boston, Massachusetts and for the next several decades practiced pediatric oncology while researching cellular growth control mechanisms. Convinced that buildings have a powerful impact on human physiology, she obtained a Master’s Degree in Architecture to understand the relationship between indoor environments and infections, inflammatory diseases, cognitive impairment, and a multitude of other conditions.
Dr. Taylor is the CEO of Building4Health, Inc. a company leading the way in using medical data manage to IAQ from a health perspective, with the goal of truly supporting occupant health. She is also an active member of ASHRAE and a Distinguished Lecturer, an USGBC Advisory Board member, a senior consultant for TSI Incorporated, a medical advisor for a large network of senior living communities across the US, and an active researcher and author of peer reviewed articles on how the environment shapes human health and microbial communities.at the University of Toronto, Dr. Siegel was an Associate Professor at The University of Texas at Austin.
Continuing Education Credits:
| BPI | Submitted - 1.0 credit - Course #22200 |
| AIHA | Self-Submit with Certificate of Attendance |
| Engineers | Self-Submit with Certificate of Attendance |
| USGBC | Self-Submit with Certificate of Attendance |
| BOC | Self-Submit with Certificate of Attendance |
| CEO | Submitted |
Register:
Click here to register for the April 14 IAQ Club on Managing IAQ for Health
