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Article: Indoor air quandary.(indoor air quality issues in house construction)
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- September 1, 1999
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You build for energy efficiency and worry about trapped pollutants. So you install ventilation systems, and boom! You boost heating and cooling costs. Feeling dizzy?
Vernon McKown is building a better house, at least according to the American Lung Association (ALA). To meet the standards for a prototype "healthy house," McKown will spend $8,000 and alter the way he's assembled his portfolio of 2,000 homes. Indoor air quality (IAQ) upgrades will add an 8 percent premium to the just over $100,000 he charges on a standard, 1,900-square-foot house.
After he weeds out inefficiencies and leverages volume discounts for eco-preferred products, McKown figures ...