Indoor Air Quality Expert Witnesses
What is an indoor air quality expert witness?
Indoor air quality expert witness candidates are typically professional engineers with backgrounds in environmental health, mold remediation, and/or chemical engineering. In a high-profile case, or litigation involving a significant financial stake, a law firm may request a qualified expert with prior expert witness testimony experience.
What types of cases require an indoor air quality expert witness?
Air pollution can be natural or man-made, and consists of airborne material (solids, liquid or gas) that can have adverse effects on humans and the ecosystem. Examples of air emissions that affect indoor air quality (IAQ) include ash from a volcano or fire, carbon monoxide from motor vehicle exhaust, toxic mold contamination, asbestos, and other indoor air pollutants. Human health effects of poor indoor air quality are extensive, and air pollution is known to cause premature deaths, respiratory infections, heart disease, COPD, stroke and lung cancer.
The Clean Air Act Amendments of 1990 established the air permitting program. Operating air permits are legally enforceable documents that permitting agencies issue to air pollution sources. Air pollution permits are required for businesses that build sources of pollution. Most permits are issued by State and local permitting authorities, however, the EPA regulatory agency can also issues air permits. Operating permits document how air pollution sources will comply and monitor emission limits and other requirements.
Indoor air quality expert witness case examples
Subject matter experts in indoor air quality have been placed by Cahn Litigation Services to provide expert testimony in matters concerning:
- hazardous materials,
- real estate groundwater,
- microbial contamination,
- HVAC systems for industrial facilities,
- industrial hygiene,
- Connecticut warehouse occupational health risk assessment,
- water intrusion and water damage,
- OSHA audits,
- New Jersey apartment complex construction defects,
- pesticides, and
- hazardous waste management in the state of Florida.
What litigation support work might an indoor air quality expert witness be expected to perform?
Expert witness services by an indoor air quality expert could include exposure assessments, research and authoring expert reports, depositions, and expert witness testimony at a trial. In addition, clients may seek an expert for pre-litigation indoor air quality consulting services.
Cahn Litigation Services has the experience required to turn a search for an indoor air quality expert witness around quickly, providing the right balance of expertise and testimony experience.
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Indoor Air Quality Expert Witness - Representative Bios
Please Note: All Cahn Litigation expert witness searches are customized to attorneys' precise specifications and preferences. Attorneys are encouraged to discuss search parameters with a Cahn search specialist.
The below expert witness bios represent a small fraction of those Indoor Air Quality experts known by Cahn Litigation Services. These bios are provided to give lawyers a sense of the Indoor Air Quality landscape.
Expert Witness #260510
This expert holds a PhD in Environmental Health, is a Certified Industrial Hygienist (CIH) and a Certified Safety Professional (CSP), and brings to the table many years of comprehensive technical experience in the environmental health and safety field in both the public and private sectors. This expert serves as Founder and technical lead for a highly respected consultancy.
Specific areas of expertise include chemical exposure evaluation, indoor air quality, heat stress, chemical hygiene, hazard communication, health and safety training and management systems, and respiratory protection. This expert's experience includes designing, directing, and conducting industrial hygiene investigations and exposure assessments (over 5000 investigations conducted/managed), designing and overseeing asbestos abatement activities, designing and managing ventilation system installations, conducting general environmental and hazardous material site assessments.
This expert has given over five hundred seminars, with topics varying from health and safety management systems and liability issues, to general indoor air quality and mold. This expert has extensive prior litigation experience having been designated a state-recognized expert in hundreds of cases in the areas of industrial hygiene and indoor air quality, been deposed dozens of times, and testified successfully in both trials and arbitrations.
Start Indoor Air Quality Expert SearchExpert Witness #256820
This expert earned a Masters of Science degree in Industrial Health and has many years of experience in environmental engineering, industrial hygiene and building materials exposure assessment. This expert directed several multimillion dollar environmental remediation projects, superfund and environmental site and public health investigations including some with high public profiles. This expert has been retained as an expert witness in class action toxic tort litigation support for industrial clients and has testified at trial in defense of an oil refinery for a matter related to air quality impact from a large oil spill. This expert has a wealth of expert witness experience, including matters involving alleged chemical and biological exposure-related personal injury claims. This expert has provided deposition and testimony at trial.
Start Indoor Air Quality Expert SearchExpert Witness #259013
This environmental and occupational health expert is an accomplished industrial hygienist, safety engineer, and environmental health scientist with extensive experience spanning multiple disciplines in occupational and environmental health. This expert holds both a Master of Science and a Bachelor of Science in Health Science, Environmental and Occupational Health from a public university, is a Certified Industrial Hygienist (CIH), is a Registered Professional Engineer (PE), and completed Hazardous Waste Operations and Emergency Response (HAZWOPER) training in accordance with 29 CFR 1910.120. Throughout this expert's career, expertise has included occupational hygiene, industrial safety, chemical hazard assessment, microbial growth and exposure evaluation, noise exposure control, indoor air quality, and emergency response coordination. This expert is skilled in the development and implementation of injury and illness prevention programs and provides comprehensive health and safety training.
This expert is an industrial hygienist with over 40 years of experience, including work on over 50 talc cases. This expert has been deposed in over 10 talc cases, appeared as an expert in a number of trials, prepared reports in many talc matters, and developed cumulative dose calculations addressing whether worst-case exposure scenarios increase cancer risk. This expert is familiar with mineralogy issues involving talc sources from domestic and international mines and with recurring positions raised by opposing experts in talc litigation.
This expert is a highly experienced and qualified expert witness and litigation consultant.
Start Indoor Air Quality Expert SearchExpert Witness #269836
This air quality expert holds a Ph.D. and is a P.E. with over 30 years of experience assessing risks of environmental chemicals. This expert has presented projects and research at numerous conferences on topics including acid rain, dense gas plume dispersion, indoor air quality and dispersion modeling, ocean disposal of carbon dioxide, multi-pathway risk assessment, methods to estimate exposure point concentrations, vapor intrusion, landfill gas, and environmental applications of decision analysis methods. This expert earned a B.Sc. in Mechanical Engineering from a well-regarded technical university and an M.Sc. and Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering from a prestigious technical institute.
This expert has experience evaluating Clean Air Act permitting issues, including Title V permits, emergency emissions provisions, and the Section 112(r)(1) General Duty Clause, which concerns regulated hazardous chemicals and safe management of those chemicals.
Start Indoor Air Quality Expert SearchExpert Witness #286788
This IAQ research and indoor environmental engineering expert has over 30 years of experience as an Indoor Air Quality (IAQ) researcher, sick building investigator, mitigation planner, healthy building design consultant, expert witness, technical author, and workshop instructor, and holds an M.S. Mechanical Engineering from a prestigious university, a B.S. in Mechanical Engineering from a well-regarded technical institute, and Graduate Studies in Air Pollution Monitoring and Control from a public university in California.
This expert serves as president of an indoor environmental engineering consultancy and directs an interdisciplinary team of environmental scientists, chemists, and mechanical engineers in indoor air quality building investigations and healthy building projects. The team has developed both pro-active and reactive IAQ measurement methods and diagnostic protocols. This expert has been a recipient of state and federal research grants regarding building air quality and ventilation field studies, tracer gas techniques, in situ contaminant emission rate measurements, and the development of indoor air quality measurement instrumentation.
Prior to starting a consulting firm, this expert was a Staff Scientist with a building ventilation and indoor air quality program within a national laboratory in California. This expert has published extensively and lectured frequently on IAQ, ventilation, air cleaning, and product emission testing, and is both a licensed professional Mechanical Engineer and a Certified Industrial Hygienist.
This expert has been qualified numerous times in court as an expert in the field of indoor air quality and ventilation for both plaintiffs and defendants, and has been deposed over 150 times in cases involving indoor air quality and ventilation issues in residential, commercial, and institutional buildings.
Start Indoor Air Quality Expert SearchExpert Witness #291628
This architectural and building materials expert holds AAA and MRAIC credentials and has substantial knowledge of the design profession, building materials, and building regulations.
This expert has evaluated building components for industry, particularly wall and roof panels, as well as other building components, and has consulted on wind-energy development in Alberta.
This expert has served on and chaired technical building-code task groups concerning airborne sound transmission, solar collectors, and sheet steel products.
This expert is a registered architect who continues to design buildings, examine and remediate building envelope issues, and consult on building regulations and standards.
This expert has been qualified in court as an expert in architecture, building science, building construction, building codes, indoor air quality, and general health.
Start Indoor Air Quality Expert SearchExpert Witness #292732
This HVAC design expert is a P.E., CEM, CAE, and LEED professional who designs, engineers, and constructs HVAC systems, plumbing systems, and utility conservation products for residential, commercial, and industrial sectors. This expert provides forensic engineering services regarding HVAC design and installation and has over 40 years of experience. This expert holds a B.Sc. in Mechanical Engineering and an M.Sc. in Engineering Management.
This expert has published and presented on air infiltration tracing at an international indoor air quality and climate conference. The presentation addressed the importance of monitoring air infiltrates during the Covid pandemic and focused on medical office buildings, hospitals, and other communal settings. This expert designed a mechanical system using CO2 as a tracer gas with model applications in viral particle concentration.
This expert is an experienced expert witness and litigation consultant.
Start Indoor Air Quality Expert SearchExpert Witness #296243
This toxicology and industrial hygiene expert holds a PhD in Environmental & Occupational Health, a Master of Science in Public Health (Toxicology), and a B.S. in Biological Sciences, and is a Certified Industrial Hygienist, Licensed Mold Assessor, and FAIHA with over 25 years of experience applying expertise in toxicology, industrial hygiene, environmental and occupational health, and indoor air quality to investigate exposures to microbes and chemicals in multiple types of buildings.
This expert is nationally recognized in occupational and environmental risk assessments, workplace exposures, workplace fatality investigations, health care facilities, flame retardants, irritant chemical exposures, indoor air quality, and mold.
Start Indoor Air Quality Expert SearchExpert Witness #2302114
This mold origination expert is a senior environmental consulting professional with extensive experience providing indoor environmental consulting services and expertise in mold inspections, indoor air quality assessments, mold testing, building science consulting, mold remediation planning, mold remediation services, thermal imaging surveys, environmental tobacco smoke assessments, and former marijuana grow-op assessments. This expert has worked on over 3000 projects involving indoor environmental assessment or remediation services.
This expert is a Certified Commercial Building Mold Inspector and Certified Commercial Building Mold Remediator through a U.S.-based certifying body, and also holds Certified Mold Assessor and Certified Mold Inspector credentials through an environmental association. This expert has provided expert witness consulting services related to mold litigation and testified in court and in tribunals as an expert witness for mold-related hearings.
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