Since the beginning of the outbreak, IEQ-GA and its member organizations, as well as the many researchers, doctors, practitioners, and contractors who are members of these member organizations, have been working diligently on all aspects of the pandemic. At that time, IEQ-GA has assembled a COVID-19 Task Force to discuss the indoor environmental quality issues involved with the pandemic and their aftermath, to provide pertinent information on COVID-19 related issues and a series of Questions & Answers (Q&A) that were intended to help anyone who had concerns about COVID-19.

After the outbreak was ended, the Task Force members asked themselves whether they could still be useful to the world community through their specific expertise, and the idea of producing a comparative glossary in the field of ventilation, infiltration and air condition was coming out. That main reason was that there are in this field a lot of internationally recognised technical standards using different definitions for the same terms. A comparative glossary that put together the available definitions of the same term with their references can help to understand the correct meaning in the specific contest avoiding misunderstanding.

This Glossary is thus a project of the IEQ-GA Covid-19 Task Force and the work has been coordinated by IEQ-GA’s Italian member AICARR.

The IEQ-GA Board would like to express its sincere gratitude to AICARR and the Covid-19 Task Force for their invaluable work.

Donald Weekes
President of IEQ-GA