Healthy Indoors Magazine
Issue link: https://hi.healthyindoors.com/i/1204626
IAQnet, LLC strives to use reliable sources and verify data, but makes no guarantee that information is complete or accurate; consequently, readers using this information do so at their own risk. Although persons and companies mentioned herein are believed to be reputable, neither IAQnet, LLC, nor its officers, employees, or contractors accept any responsibility whatsoever for the activities of any such persons or companies. © 2020 IAQnet, LLC 4 | January 2020 DEPARTMENTS 6 | Editorial 8 | News Live Wire Virtual Newsroom 10 | HI Forum 12 | Events Calendar Find out about Industry Events INDUSTRY 16 | RADON: Radon Risk? You Don't Know Until You Test by Henry Slack 18 | MAY'S WAYS: Dam Ice by Jeffrey May 22 | HEALTHY INDOORS SHOW: The HI Show Returns for 2020! Bob Krell interviews Joe Medosch of Hayward Score 24 | SUSTAINABILITY SNIPPETS: Welcome to 2020 by Tom Murray 28 | IAQ Radio — Watch the online weekly video podcast and its archived episodes. CONSUMERS 32 | Home Performance Minute: Airplanes + Old-Fashioned Builders = Problem by Corbett Lunsford 34 | ASTHMA: Understanding and Reducing the Risks 42 | HOUSE WHISPERER: Bad-Ass HVAC by Nate Adams 48 | MOMS Clean Air Force—News 16 | RADON: Radon Risk? You Don't Know Untiil You Test by Henry Slack Very few people call with concerns about radon — and yet, radioactive radon gas kills more people than any of those other things that people call about. Radon kills over 21,000 people a year in the U.S. Volume 8 No. 1 January 2020 42 | HOUSE WHISPERER: Bad-Ass HVAC by Nate Adams Done right, the HVAC in your home can make it very comfortable, and very healthy. 34 | ASTHMA: Understanding and Reducing the Risks Asthma affects people of all ages, but it most often starts during childhood. In the United States, more than 25 million people are known to have asthma. About 7 million of these people are children.