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Todd A McAlary1, John Gallinatti2, Gordon Thrupp2
1Geosyntec Consultants, Inc. , Toronto , Ontario M8X 2X9 , Canada.
Abstract:
A new method is presented for calculating a building-specific subslab to indoor air attenuation factor for use in assessing subsurface vapor intrusion to indoor air. The technique includes (1) subslab gas extraction with flow and vacuum measurements and mathematical modeling to characterize the bulk average vertical gas conductivity of the floor slab, (2) monitoring of the ambient pressure gradient across the floor slab with a micromanometer, (3) calculating the volumetric flow of soil gas into the building ( Qsoil), and (4) dividing Qsoil by the building ventilation rate ( Qbuilding) to calculate a building-specific attenuation factor. Sample calculations using order statistics from 121 individual tests are comparable to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency empirical attenuation factors for residential buildings and the U.S. Navy empirical attenuation factors for commercial/industrial buildings. A case study of a commercial building shows encouraging agreement between the attenuation factors calculated via this method and via conventional subslab and indoor air sampling.
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