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Overview
The Guidelines and Best Practices Committee of the Healthy Indoors Partnership (HIP) seeks to improve indoor environments throughout Canada by providing guidance in the form of Guideline and Best Practice documents for the design, construction, commissioning, operation, management and maintenance of buildings that enclose living and work spaces. The types of buildings and spaces that the guidance documents pertain to include commercial office and retail, residential single and multi-family, institutional, educational, health care, recreational, hospitality and special use.
The Guidelines and Best practices Committee brings together members from various levels of government, the private sector and non government organizations as well as other outside contributors with expertise on healthy buildings. The purpose of the committee is to identify important and timely issues for which guidance is required and to develop voluntary guidelines and best practices to be implement throughout Canada that are intended to improve the health and well-being of Canadians. These strategic guidance documents will be based on the best available research and technical information that can be assembled by a multi disciplinary group which will include but not be limited to building and system designers, research scientists, health experts, building service and product providers, building owners and operators and building users. It is intended that all documents produced will be consensus based. The guidance documents will reference existing consensus standards where possible. If such Standards do not yet exist the committee may chose to identify the need for such Standards and either work with cognizant authorities responsible for their development or establish a working group within HIP to develop the necessary Standards.
The Committee will interact with the Board through the development of an annual Work Plan which will include objectives, budget and membership requirements. The Committee will interact with the Research and Development Committee through a formal liaison and communicate research gaps where identified for that Committee to act on.
The Committee will have the authority to form task groups, working groups and subcommittees as may be required from time to time.
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Membership
The Committee will include 5-10 members, and will identify another pool of technical experts that may be called upon to contribute to develop documents related to their expertise. The Committee may work with these technical experts outside the Committee or in working/task groups to accomplish specific tasks within a definite timeframe.
Selection of members is based on the expertise required to address the overall mandate of the Committee, and also the activities addressed within the work plan.
The Chair of the HIP will invite selected experts as Committee members for a period of time (3 years), after recommendation of the Committee through its Chair.
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Current Members
- Elia Sterling - Theodor D. Sterling and Associates Ltd. (Chair) elia@sterlingiaq.com 604-681-2701 x 103
- Bob Magee (NRC)
- Tedd Nathanson (PWCGS)
- David Miller Ph.D. (Health Canada?)
- Rob Robinson (Stantec)
- Karen Bodirsky (FAAC)
- Jiri Skopec (Green Globes)
- Daniel Forest (Venmar)
- Craig Patterson P. Eng.(Vel Engineering)
- Mark Von Schelwitz (NRFA)
- Erin Wolski (AFN)
- Eduardo Jovel Ph.D. (UBC)
- Ross Johnson (City of Saskatoon)
- Tang Lee (U of Calgary)
- Sylvain Blais (NRCan)
- Bhawani Pathak (CCOH)
- James Robar Ph.D. (CMHC)
- Troy Anderson (Fosters)
- David Vokey (Detec)
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Current
Activities
Conduct a review and inventory of relevant codes, standards,
guidelines and best practices documents and identify gaps
requiring the development of Best Practices and Guidelines.
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