About this Event
Indoor environmental conditions can have wide-ranging and costly impacts on human health, well-being and productivity. The economic benefits of the work performance improvements will often far outweigh the costs of providing better indoor environmental quality. However, the idea of a healthy building has been made too complicated due to diversity of pollutants, pollutant sources, and the resulting challenge in the comparison of the impacts of different control strategies on energy consumption and indoor air quality. This course summarizes the foundations for a healthy building through practical actionable checklist from ASHRAE IAQ guide and present stretch goals to optimize health and productivity. The course will go over calculations from a case study of class A office tower buildings that achieved superior air quality through a series of performance-based approaches without a negative impact on energy.
Speakers:
Marwa Zaatari, PhD
Dr. Zaatari is an ASHRAE Distinguished Lecturer, a member of the ASHRAE Epidemic Task Force Commercial team and will serve on the USGBC board of directors starting January 2021. She is a member of several ASHRAE Committees, voting member of Standard 62.1, Chair for TRG4 Indoor Air Quality Procedure, Vice Chair of MTG.HWBE Health and Wellness in the built environment, Vice Chair of TC2.3 gaseous removal contaminants, Voting Member Standard 145.2 laboratory test method for gas-phase air cleaning systems, IAQ2020 Conference organizer, LEED Committee member, and ex-Chair of LEED IAQP Working Group.
Dr. Marwa Zaatari is Partner at D ZINE Partners. She leads the research of “Air as a Service” around indoor air quality, filtration and air cleaning systems, and IAQ measurements to design and operate buildings for optimal energy and people efficiency.
Dr. Zaatari has extensive experience in identifying and quantifying the sources, fate, and transport of indoor air pollutants, building energy and environmental management, assessing performance-based procedures of HVAC ventilation and air cleaning, and developing and applying models for energy efficiency, indoor air quality, exposure assessment, and economic impacts of indoor air pollution.
Prior to founding D ZINE Partners, Dr. Zaatari was Vice President of Building Solutions at enVerid Systems since 2015, and currently serves on the Board of Advisors. She leads the design of ventilation and filtration/sorption systems in buildings, integration into HVAC systems, and was responsible for managing customer-site installation and ongoing operations and field service.
Dr. Zaatari earned a PhD in Architectural and Environmental Engineering from the University of Texas at Austin with a focus on the built environment and a master’s degree in engineering management from The American University of Beirut, Lebanon with a focus on energy management.
Vasanth Shetty
Event Venue & Nearby Stays
Park Rotana Abu Dhabi, الطريق الدائري الشرقي, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates
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