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Purpose: This
symposium will focus on formulating practical approaches to mold remediation,
prevention, and control, relative to varied occupancies and building types:
health care facilities, schools Audience: This symposium is essential for those involved in any aspect regarding indoor mold contamination:
Crafting Professional Judgement: The participatory collaboration of practice with the leadership of science. Current guidelines and standards frequently defer to “professional judgment” for those difficult issues lacking consensus or numerical levels. But professional judgment is a lot like common sense, which may be the least common of the tools that we utilize these days. All too often neither incorporates the qualities of “professional” or “common.” With respect to our approaches to addressing mold and associated remedial measures, according to Dr. Aino Nevalainen, the practice has been determining the direction of research in lieu of research guiding the practice. This Symposium offers a unique, participatory forum that calls for your expertise to assist in fusing best practice with current available science. The Steering Committee (an international panel of researchers and field experts) have constructed a platform for the exchange of ideas and expertise to bridge the void that exists between these two principles of our approaches to mold assessment and remediation. Following the symposium, reports from the working groups will be edited and distributed to the participants. Approach: Technical professionals,
with recognized expertise in building science, mold investigation, exposure
assessment and health effects, and mold remediation and water damage restoration,
will present the latest data from field investigations, applied research studies
and technical reviews. Attendees will participate in working groups to help
formulate a uniform, practical approach to mold remediation, prevention, and
control practices for each building type. Following the symposium, |
