As President and Chief Acquisitions Officer for ATI, Jeff Moore drives the company’s growth and spearheads key initiatives that focus on the future of the organization. His current role involves overseeing mergers and acquisitions and ensuring ATI’s continued expansion. In his current role, Jeff leverages his industry expertise to identify growth opportunities, forge strategic partnerships, and expand ATI’s footprint across the United States. By focusing on acquisitions and fostering a culture o...
Jun 20, 2025•1 hr 7 min•Ep. 4075
Derrick A. Denis, a Senior Vice President with Clark Seif Clark, Inc. (CSC) and is an internationally recognized environmental health and safety (EH&S) expert. CSC is a full-service industrial hygiene (IH) and environmental testing/consulting company with locations in Arizona and multiple locations in California. CCS has extensive expertise working across the country in anticipation, recognition, evaluation, and control of hazards in indoor and outdoor environments. They are also specialists...
Jun 06, 2025•1 hr 13 min•Ep. 4074
Carl Zimmer is the author of fifteen books about science. His latest book is Air-Borne: The Hidden History of the Life We Breathe . Zimmer writes the “Origins” column for the New York Times. His writing has earned a number of awards, including the Stephen Jay Gould Prize , awarded by the Society for the Study of Evolution. During the Covid-19 pandemic, he contributed to the coverage that won the New York Times the public service Pulitzer Prize in 2021. Three of his books have been named Notable ...
May 30, 2025•1 hr 8 min•Ep. 4073
A graduate of the Institute of Technology at the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities, Wane A. Baker is a licensed Professional Engineer (P.E.) and Certified Industrial Hygienist (CIH retired) with four decades of experience in the operation, maintenance and evaluation of various building types. This includes more than 30 years at a professional level in environmental consulting, construction and energy conservation. Wane offers his clients a powerful combination of education, experience and ent...
May 16, 2025•1 hr 6 min•Ep. 4072
Barry Costa's distinguished career in carpet installation, cleaning, and restoration spans over 50 years, including 39 years as an instructor. He has served on and chaired numerous national committees, contributed to national water damage standards, been a key speaker at conventions and special events, and authored many articles in industry publications. Since becoming an IICRC-approved instructor in 1986, Barry has taught thousands of cleaning and restoration contractors worldwide, helping them...
Apr 11, 2025•1 hr 17 min•Ep. 4071
Good Day and welcome to IAQ Radio+ episode 753. This week we welcome Tom McGuire of Large Loss Mastery for an interview on major disaster restoration projects. Large losses can make or break companies, today we learn from one of the best how to handle these business making or breaking events. LEARN MORE this week on IAQ Radio+. Tom McGuire is the founder and owner of At Large Loss Mastery. He is a Trainer, Teacher, mentor, and Learner. Tom is a 39-year Large Loss and Disaster Recovery veteran sp...
Apr 04, 2025•1 hr 13 min•Ep. 4070
This week we welcome Chris White “The Worlds Most Interesting Engineer”. Chris is a third-generation Professional Engineer and a LEED Accredited Professional experienced in solving mold and indoor air quality problems, conducting asbestos and lead inspections and designing environmental cleanup/remediation after disasters. This week we learn where he picked up the moniker “The Worlds Most Interesting Engineer”.
Mar 21, 2025•1 hr 8 min•Ep. 4069
Kenneth Mendez became CEO and President of the Asthma and Allergy Foundation of America (AAFA) in 2018. Mendez’s career has bridged the corporate and non-profit sectors. Since joining AAFA, he has led the organization in establishing a new multi-year strategic plan that emphasizes dramatically reducing the impact of asthma and allergies on the underserved and tripling the size of AAFA’s online asthma community. The new strategic plan’s vision is for AAFA to be recognized as the most trusted ally...
Mar 14, 2025•1 hr 2 min•Ep. 4068
John T. Hull, RRO has 25+ years in the roofing, waterproofing, and coatings industries. He is a recognized authority on building envelope inspections and assessments, roof restoration, quality assurance, roof asset management; reroof assessments, and roof restoration scope of work and specification development. Specialties include moisture detection within the roof and building envelope as well as roof condition assessments. Mr. Hull has provided technical support, training, and consulting in ov...
Feb 28, 2025•1 hr 38 min•Ep. 4067
Delphine Farmer, PhD is a Professor in the Department of Chemistry at Colorado State University. Her research focuses on understanding the air we breathe both indoors and out, and how the chemistry of air impacts human health, ecosystems, and even climate. Her recent work has focused on wildfire smoke, starting with aircraft projects flying in large wildfire plumes, and more recently looking at how smoke interacts with building surfaces. Dr. Farmer grew up in Canada, and received her BSc in Chem...
Feb 14, 2025•1 hr 8 min•Ep. 4066
Implement4's Chief Revenue Officer, Jenny Andrawis has over 16 years in the restoration industry and 20 years as a Marketing Executive. Prior to leading Revenue generation initiatives at Implement4, Jenny has held Chief Revenue Officer, Marketing Leadership, Customer Success, and Sales Enablement roles with restoration companies ranging from $20M to over $800M. Her strengths include driving integration and alignment between all revenue-related functions, including marketing, sales, customer supp...
Feb 07, 2025•1 hr 8 min•Ep. 4065
Jim Akey is Senior Sales Manager for Particles Plus. He has over 25 years of industry experience working with his customers sharing his application experience and providing solutions for their controlled environment particle counting. Before joining Particles Plus, Jim spent 5 years as Inside Sales Manager for ART Instruments, a particle counter manufacturer that revolutionized the way that particle counters were assembled. Jim also spent 9 years working as Inside Sales Manager for Lighthouse Wo...
Jan 31, 2025•1 hr 5 min•Ep. 4064
Good Day and welcome to IAQ Radio+ episode 746. This week we welcome S700 Consensus Body (CB) Chair Bran Lynch, Vice Chair John Pletcher, Restoration Renaisance Man Mark Springer and CB member Cliff Zlotnik. We also welcome special guest Co-host Rusty Amarante for a look behind the scenes at the development of the ANSI/IICRC S700 Standard for Fire and Smoke Damage Restoration. LEARN MORE this week on IAQ Radio+. John Pletcher has 40 years in the disaster restoration industry. He is the Owner / o...
Jan 17, 2025•1 hr 16 min•Ep. 4063
This week we welcome Elliott Horner, PhD & Nicholas Nassikas, MD for a discussion about Indoor air: Guidelines, policies, and regulation from their Paradigms and perspectives article in the Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology (JACI). Nicholas Nassikas, MD is an attending physician in the Division of Pulmonary, Critical Care, and Sleep Medicine at BIDMC and an Assistant Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School. His research focuses on how weather and air quality affect the respi...
Jan 10, 2025•1 hr 1 min•Ep. 4062
Good Day and welcome to IAQ Radio+ episode 744. This week this week we welcome back Dr. Joe Spurgeon to give his perspective on the AIHA White Paper, Mold and Dampness in the Built Environment. We could not think of a better way to end the year than doing a wrap up show with Dr. Spurgeon. He is one of our most popular guests. Joe Spurgeon, PHD, has a multidisciplinary doctorate degree in Analytical Chemistry and Environmental Health from the University of Pittsburgh; and was a Certified Industri...
Dec 13, 2024•1 hr 9 min•Ep. 4061
This week we welcome Chris Laszcz-Davis - OHTA, Chelsea Earhart – BGC, Larry Sloan – AIHA and Dr. Albert Tien -WHWB-US to talk about global worker health and the new Global Pathway for CIH Accreditation. This week we focus on organizations involved in global worker safety and their new collaboration for educating and mentoring global EH&S professionals. We discuss how someone with no specific education, such as a degree in engineering, can become a CIH through the program. It starts with the...
Dec 06, 2024•1 hr 1 min•Ep. 4060
This week we welcome back Robert "Concrete Bob" Higgins to discuss new and conclusive research that confirms his theories on surface influences with concrete. Bob’s presentation blows up the old paradigm about how and why many concrete surfaces have moisture issues and why it can be so difficult for restoration contractors to dry concrete surfaces. Bob has dealt with a lot of resistance to his ideas and now he claims the final pieces to the puzzle have been located. Robert Higgins has been invol...
Nov 22, 2024•1 hr 13 min•Ep. 4059
Good Day and welcome to IAQ Radio+ episode 741 this week we welcome Dr. William Chapman to talk about chemical monitoring for IAQ and odors. Air by CC² Inc (AbC) was founded by William Chapman, PhD in response to his experiences working in the air testing industry to provide proven solutions to problems in indoor air. He has PhD in Chemistry from Penn State and completed postdoctoral studies at Columbia University. AbC is built on his education and years of industrial experience, mainly developi...
Nov 15, 2024•1 hr 2 min•Ep. 4058
Anthony Cox is the Building Science Manager and Lead Trainer at Community Housing Partners, Energy Solutions Division, with over 30 years of experience in Weatherization. Since 1999, he has played a vital role in developing and delivering training programs internationally for the home performance industry Anthony is the creator of widely recognized training tools like House of Pressure® and H.A.M. House®, designed to illustrate building science principles effectively. Holding a business manageme...
Nov 01, 2024•1 hr 14 min•Ep. 4057
Good Day and welcome to IAQ Radio+ episode 738 this week we welcome Darren Hudema, Puroclean Joseph Morphis, Rainbow, Ken Siders, ETA, Paul Clark, Storm Consultants and Tim Fagan, Belfor with a boots on the ground report on the restoration industry’s response to hurricane’s Helene and Milton. LEARN MORE this week on IAQ Radio+. This week Radio Joe Hughes and Pete “Global Restoration Watchdog” Consigli will interview a diverse panel of restoration responders to the back to back hurricanes that af...
Oct 25, 2024•1 hr 32 min•Ep. 4056
Kevin Kennedy has over 30 years’ experience as an environmental health scientist, including 21 years’ working at Children’s Mercy Kansas City (CMKC), where he retired in 2023. At CMKC he led the establishment of the Environmental Health Program (EHP). The program has assessed thousands of homes and schools, providing patient families, childcares, and schools with resources to assist them in identifying and reducing indoor environmental exposures that may result in health problems for children. D...
Oct 04, 2024•1 hr 7 min•Ep. 4055
Good Day and welcome to IAQ Radio+ episode 737. This week we welcome Joe Spurgeon, PhD. If you ever write a mold report and it goes to court Dr. Joe Spurgeon could well be the expertonmold.com that reviews your report. Dr. Joe has retired his CIH and does not get out in the field much these days but he still reviews reports and testifies in mold related case s on a regular basis. This week he has volunteered to tell us what makes a quality report and how to write a mold assessment report and not...
Sep 13, 2024•1 hr 3 min•Ep. 4054
Dr. Tess Eidem a practitioner and researcher working with the cannabis industry. She is interested in IEQ issues from a very broad perspective such as relative humidity and ventilation to very specific topics such as Bioaerosol exposures when cultivating cannabis. This week we will explore cannabis production, the worker health issues it poses and how we can learn from this new and quickly expanding area. Her most recent paper with Tara Nordgren and Mark Hernandez is on Bioaerosol Exposures and ...
Sep 06, 2024•1 hr 14 min•Ep. 4053
Good Day and welcome to IAQ Radio+ episode 735 this week for our last show prior to our summer break we welcomed long time friend of the show and frequent guest Don Weekes. Don will be talking about his chapter in the ACGIH Bioaerosols 2nd Edition on Developing a Bioaerosols Sampling Plans plus highlights from Indoor Air 2024, the ASHRAE/AIHA MOU and the Global IEQ Alliance. LEARN MORE this week on IAQ Radio+. Mr. Weekes has over forty-eight (48) years of comprehensive consultation expertise and...
Jul 26, 2024•1 hr 2 min•Ep. 4052
Mark Whatley is an influential voice in the property restoration and insurance technology sectors. He co-founded Sureti, a company that provides third-party fund control services aimed at accelerating property claims payments, ensuring faster and more efficient resolution for restoration contractors and insurance carriers. Whatley is also the founder and board president for Actionable Insights (AI), a non-profit organization dedicated to enhancing the property restoration industry by clarifying ...
Jul 19, 2024•1 hr 6 min•Ep. 4051
This week we welcomed Dr. David Krause for a discussion on remediation of microbial contamination and Legionella. We have wanted to get Dr. Krause on the show for a long time now and the stars have lined up. Dr. David Krause is the founder of Healthcare Consulting and Contracting (HC3). He is a Certified Industrial Hygienist and Toxicologist, with 30 years of experience in public health, occupational hazard assessments, and indoor air quality. David received his Doctorate in Environmental and Oc...
Jul 12, 2024•1 hr 8 min•Ep. 4050
This week we welcomed Seth Harrison the Executive Director of Actionable Insights for a discussion on scoping and billing restoration projects. Actionable has built a product that helps ensure restoration contractors get all the money they deserve. Don’t leave money on the table! LEARN MORE on IAQ Radio+. After learning the ins and outs of claims settlement as a project manager/program estimator, Harrison joined Actionable Insights in 2017 to co-author a 3000+ page book of Xactimate invoicing te...
Jun 07, 2024•1 hr 8 min•Ep. 4049
Prof. J. David Miller has focused his research on mycotoxins and damp buildings and health for the last 40 years first at Agriculture Canada and then at Carleton University in Ottawa. Dr. Miller has published over 370 papers on fungi and fungal toxins and has co-written 10 books on the public health aspects of exposures to fungi and fungal toxins, and has several patents. Miller has served on many national and international committees on the regulation of mycotoxins as well as on mold and dampne...
May 31, 2024•1 hr 6 min•Ep. 4048
Mark Springer is a highly regarded and experienced President/CEO skilled in successfully expanding a multi-location residential and commercial services company across a broad geographical region. Mark has a demonstrated ability to drive market-leading performance, dynamic growth, and profitability. He grew his company from 1 to 7 profitable locations through several acquisitions and greenfield growth. He led the acquisition of the company by private equity in 2020, positioning it as the platform...
May 24, 2024•1 hr 12 min•Ep. 4047
Mr. Havics is an Honors graduate from Georgia Institute of Technology with a Bachelor’s Degree in Mechanical Engineering. He is a Certified Industrial Hygienist (CIH), and a registered Professional Engineer (PE) with over 35 years of experience in environmental, health and safety, building science, and materials science consulting. He is a limited lecturer at Purdue University. He was formerly adjunct faculty at for both IU School of Medicine and IUPUI... Dr. Cheri Marcham is an Associate Profes...
May 17, 2024•1 hr•Ep. 4046
