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STANDARD FORM 330 (REV. 8/2016) PAGE 24 RESPONSE TO REQUEST FOR QUALIFICATIONS FOR Continuing Professional Consulting Engineering Services-Environmental Engineering #BID 20-07-01 Baseline Indoor Air Quality Investigations- Proactive building system maintenance and management programs are the key to resolving potential IAQ problems prior to manifestation of occupant health complaints. Management programs, which include annual baseline IAQ investigations, have proven to reduce building management costs by identifying improperly operating building systems before indoor air quality problems result in occupant health complaints and costly remediation. A typical GBTS baseline annual IAQ survey may include:  Complete Inspection of Heating, Ventilation and Air Conditioning (HVAC) systems.  Walk through inspection for potential sources and pathways of poor air quality.  Review of current in-house HVAC maintenance programs.  Collection of thermal comfort parameters (temperature and relative humidity).  Evaluation of fresh air entering the building.  Screening for chemical agents (e.g. Formaldehyde, TVOCs) as appropriate.  Monitoring for other common agents associated with IAQ complaints including airborne mold and bacteria, particulates, carbon dioxide, and carbon monoxide. COVID-19 Technical Services- As a matter of risk, we believe that you need to have certain things in place in order to initiate and maintain daily operations in this environment. Employees will probably be apprehensive enough coming back into buildings, but without seeing safeguards in place apprehension may turn to fear or resistance. Our goal is to avoid this and to help present the workplace as safe for employees, guests, and customers. As consultants and industrial hygienists, we feel that business owners, building operators, and schools, for example, should have unified and comprehensive Re- Occupancy Infection Control and Prevention Program in place to address risk reduction in the workplace. This involves risk evaluations and the application of engineering and administrative controls, along with use of personal protective equipment, which can be a monumental challenge to find these days. The controls should reshape the work environment in subtle, yet effective ways, as not to be shocking or overly burdensome. This program should also include written disinfection protocols in place ready to use. These may be tailored to specific sites to guide remediation or disinfection crews and custodial staff in performing either reactive cleaning events in response to known COVID cases, and proactive, routine cleaning in order to keep risk of infection and transmission down. These activities should have industrial hygiene oversight and documentation in order to ensure that the work was performed correctly and comprehensively. If cleaning or custodial staff is used to perform proactive cleaning, they should be trained in the proper methods and personal protection. Since early March we have been involved in customer response to the corona virus pandemic. We have addressed these concerns in operating and shuttered facilities including heavy and electronics manufacturing, retail, commercial office, schools, data centers, food processing facilities, multifamily residential housing properties, and construction sites. We have created site-specific disinfection protocols for preventive and routine cleaning in advance of (and after) a positive tested individual. All of this work is coordinated by a team of Certified Industrial Hygienists (CH) and Certified Safety Professionals (CSP) positioned in Chicago, New York, New Jersey and Florida, and a national network of over 50 CIH and CSP professionals operating under a consistently applied program, designed for the client’s facility type(s) and operations. Our goal is not to capitalize on these already hard times, but to get things back to normal. If you have any questions or require additional information, please do not hesitate to contact me. • COVID-19 Operations and Management Program – a written program with onsite risk assessments designed to guide owners, building managers, and employers on transitioning their workforce back into the workplace while minimizing the risk of new spread or transmission of the virus.