What is MCPS doing to improve IAQ in its buildings?
In 1997, MCPS convened the Indoor Air Quality Process Action Team (a group of school officials, county officials, parents, and employee labor union officials) to develop recommendations for improving Indoor Air conditions in MCPS facilities. The team generated a report (MCPS IAQ PAT Final Report) with over 50 specific recommendations for preventing and correcting IAQ-related problems. The report also provided an overall goal: To achieve, maintain, and where necessary, to restore an indoor air quality environment in which everyone in a Montgomery County Public Schools (MCPS) facility can perform the necessary tasks of learning, teaching, administering, and sustaining facilities in a safe and healthy manner. Based on the recommendations, MCPS implemented an IAQ Program consisting of two components: a proactive element, intended to prevent problems by ensuring adequate preventive maintenance of buildings and building plant equipment, and a reactive element, created to efficiently and effe
