The analytics used in this report were developed by the analytics team: Susan Goldsworthy (Chief Operating Officer, IAQ Analytics Pty Ltd) and Dr Michael Barnathan (Chief Technology Officer, IAQ Analytics Pty Ltd). All algorithms used in generating this report are the property of IAQ Analytics Pty Ltd. No responsibility for the report applies to Scientific Investigations Pty Ltd who did not prepare the report, nor to its director/s or office holder/s.
Application and derivatization of Published Standards is done by IAQ Analytics in consultation with the decontamination industry, via US and international trade conferences. As a case in point, IAQ Levels were developed in consultation with the industry.
This not a microbiological report. It is a decontamination report or interchangeably an air quality report, if particle counts are submitted. It is a dampness report or interchangeably a fungal risk report, if moisture parameters are submitted. It is a surface cleanliness report if ATP readings are submitted. Contamination can take either biological or non-biological forms, or both. Each room is different, in respect of the particular contamination that may be present/absent, and where present at what concentration and at what time. Contamination (in an IAQ Level Report) simply means presence of airborne particles, it does not refer to the physical, chemical, radiological, viable or other nature of airborne particles. Contamination (in an ATP Surface Cleanliness Report) simply means presence of ATP which by definition is derived from living things and traces of livings things, it does not refer to the physical, radiological, viable or other chemical nature of airborne particles.
The clients of IAQ Analytics use instrumentation which does not discriminate between types of contaminant. Some key Published Standards referenced in this report also do not discriminate between types of contaminant, and since IAQ Analytics takes its terms of reference broadly from such industry guidelines, the authority of the report rests with common assumptions and methodologies that are used across the wider decontamination industry.
Analyses of moisture, dampness, and Fungal Risk (where stated) are derived according to IAQ Analytics’ proprietary state-of-the-art calculations, in accordance with intellectual property that is proprietary to the analytics team as a whole, or in accordance with intellectual property that is proprietary to any individual member of the analytics team individually, or that is proprietary to its members jointly or severally. These analyses utilize proprietary algorithms, used to generate tailored reports to suit the requirements of each individual client uniquely on each unique job/work-task.
Though the tests reported on here have been specifically developed for occupied living or working premises, the IAQ Analytics report may also be used for other stringently-controlled occupied indoor environments such as occupied manufacturing sites, and occupied hygienic environments. Some key references or guidelines used in the References section of the report were developed internationally for both the manufacturing sector and for hygienic environments.
The Company does not claim that the report as prepared may form part of a condition of ownership or occupation of a premises, even if the report is used as such by any second or third party. Regarding a reporting event generated by the Company, no liability lies with the Company for subsequent events or transactions entered into by a second and/or third party in respect of a premises and on account of the reporting event and its timing, nor on account of the report document itself.