Online Survey

Revised 22/8/08.

This is a Subjective Evaluation of Environmental Factors Known to have Important Medical Consequences from common insults while occupying the typical home, school, or office building. Size, age, location, and construction materials are irrelevant. This survey is formulated from well over 35 years environmental experience in Chemical, Physical, and Biological monitoring, a B.S. in Chemistry, and five years as a Chemist with the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency conducting research for the Clean Water Act, and 'Clean Soils Act' that was killed, in 1985, by a movie actor in the White House.

The survey purpose is to establish how much an environment is detracting from good health and longevity, and narrow down changes will make efficient improvements. It also reveals what Architects, HVAC Engineers, building materials manufacturers, real estate brokers, and financiers are really up to, don't want you to know, and provide some corrective action tools.

The goal is to get as far above 100 points as possible. Fear not when scores are low. Properties scoring low usually show more gain per dollar spent!

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Evaluation Questions to Estimate Risk - Higher is better

For Homes:

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Build Your Score
Was your home designed by an Architect?	Yes No	If yes, start with 5 points. If no, start with 4 points.
If yes, was the Architect a green builder?	Yes No	If yes add 5 points.
Did  the  Architect have Industrial Hygiene monitoring and make recommended modifications prior to move in?	Yes No	If yes, add 30 points.
Was the philosophy of the designer something like: "The design must implement all known methods of optimizing IEQ currently available, starting with selection of non toxic  building  materials throughout to protect users and occupants as much as possible from known insults. It will employ common, active ventilating hardware & techniques as well as properly selected air purification media"?	Yes No	If Yes, add 15 points.
Was  this  home purchased recently with full and complete disclosure of former users'  health  complaints that were subsequently used by an IH to  optimize the structure?	Yes No	If Yes, add 15 points.
Was the home tested twice (with & without frozen ground) for radon and  results showed levels below 4 pCi/L?	Yes No	If Yes, add 4 points.
Did test results reveal higher levels and remediation, with follow up monitoring, was implemented to control all other things that proper radon remediation will reduce?	Yes No	If Yes, add 20 points.
Does the remediation design and modifications implement solar heating and  cooling  of  make up air (which comes from outside) with as few moving  parts  & maintenance as possible minimizing energy consumption with an R.O.I. of less than 7  years? (This will make resources available for  other  improvements as well as demonstrate solar viability. )	Yes No	If Yes, add 7 points.
Were previously wetted area(s) fully remediated with an established flood or disaster remediation firm?	Yes No	If Yes, add 4points.
Was the wetted area fully remediated under IH oversight with follow up monitoring?	Yes No	If Yes, add 24 points.
Was all lead remediation based on results of final air analyses?	Yes No	If Yes, add 35 points.
Was all asbestos remediation based on results of final air analyses?	Yes No	If Yes, add 35 points.
Are all windows operable?	Yes No	If Yes, add 14 points.
Does one have a large, frequently used window fan with an opposite window that is always open during use?	Yes No	If Yes, add 5 points.
Has the home had a comprehensive IEQ assessment; load analysis by a professional engineer;  all recommended, necessary modifications, including a purifying make up air supply system, with no tool access, proper lighting; and follow up I.H. monitoring to verify performance and ascertain if any other insults remain?	Yes No	If Yes, add 35 points.

Deduct from Your Score:
Was the home priced over $500,000? (Such a home will have the `best' windows, doors and caulking making it air tight most of the time. Such a structure will worsen with time.	Yes No	If yes, subtract 18 points.
Was the home built without environmental site audits, level I & II?	Yes No	If yes, subtract 15 points.
Is the potable water supply a well that serves fewer than 25 families?	Yes No	If yes, subtract 15 points.
Does the home or yard have green, pressure treated lumber?	Yes No	If yes, subtract 8 points.
Is the home built over an unvented dirt crawl space, with or without access? This includes newer homes built on expansive soils with the bottom floor built above an excavated, unvented pit to prevent heaving.	Yes No	If yes, subtract 24 points.
Was  the home built between 1910 and 1980, and has no asbestos (ACM)  inspection?	Yes No	If yes, subtract 20 points.
Was ACM found but not remediated?	Yes No	If yes, subtract 22 points.
Was the home built before 1987 and has not had a lead inspection or was  loose lead paint found but not remediated?	Yes No	If yes, subtract 25 points.
Was the remediation done improperly?	Yes No	If yes, subtract 35 points.
Is this home built with the best windows, doors and sealants, and is air tight by a leak test?	Yes No	If yes, subtract 25 points.
Does the home's furnace have a combustion air supply duct from the outside?	Yes No	If yes, subtract 12 points.
Is the home located within 30 kms of a nuclear, military, government facility or a government contractor's facility?	Yes No	If yes, subtract 15 points.
Has  this  facility been in the news for environmental problems or  violations?	Yes No	If yes, subtract 15 points.
Has  this place or parts of it ever been wet for more than 72 hours?	Yes No	If yes, subtract 24 points.
Was the home pretreated with pesticides during construction, subtract 15 points; well after construction?	Yes No	If yes, subtract 13 points.
Was  a  realtor used?	Yes No	If yes, subtract 6 points.
Are they a friend? (No laws force realtors  to  sell homes that are in fact free of life shortening, preventable insults. Realtors are in the business for only one reason.)	Yes No	If yes, subtract 2 points.

Total: ____________________________

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(Note the differences as one spends much more time  at home than work.)