November 15, 2004—The International Custodial Advisors Network, Inc. (ICAN) has announced the appointment of its Executive Director Allen Rathey to the Environmental Education Foundation’s Advisory Group on Indoor Air Quality, convened under a sole source contract by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).
The non-profit Environmental Education Foundation (EEF) is the world’s largest environmental charity focusing on environmental, health and safety issues, with 5500-members worldwide.
According to Rathey: “Because of the Environmental Education Foundation’s recognition from the insurance and lending communities for their water intrusion and mold management program, they have now been contracted by the EPA to expand this program to include additional IAQ related items.
This expanded program will include the use of the EPA’s IAQ Building Education and Assessment Model (I-BEAM) software as an anchor for a total IAQ management program. ICAN will work with the EEF and other industry partners to refine, rework and promote EPA’s IAQ Guidelines to establish best IAQ practices and facilitate implementation of those practices by stakeholders, including insurance companies, financial institutions, and facilities in general. ICAN will be assisting with the process by being a resource for cleaning-related IAQ issues, document review, two-way communication and industry/marketing outreach.”
The overall purpose of this contract is to expand on what the EEF has accomplished to date by including more of the major players in the building design/construction and property management industry, with a focus on major insurance and financial institutions, to gain a wider acceptance of the EEF program, including the EPA’s I-Beam software and certain other EPA indoor environmental quality guidance, and to use this guidance as a basis for managing indoor environmental quality risks while protecting public health and lowering the risk associated with indoor pollution underwriting, as well as for asset-protection purposes.
