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Why Choosing the Right Indoor Air Quality and Mold Expert Matters

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Who you contact for Indoor Air Quality Issues and Mold Makes a Difference 

Third-party accreditation

The ACAC operates CESB-accredited certification programs for professionals in indoor air quality and related fields. What does it mean to be accredited? 

Third Party Approval 

Accreditation is the independent testimony of a third-party observer that an organization’s program is developed and operated in compliance with nationally recognized standards. 

The Council of Engineering and Scientific Specialty Boards (CESB), founded in 1991, has established a national reputation for accrediting certification programs in engineering and science-related fields. 

ACAC offers the only programs dedicated to the field of indoor air quality to achieve CESB accreditation: 

The Council’s CIEC program was fully accredited by CESB as an engineering-related designation effective January 1, 2006.

High Standards 

In order to qualify for CESB accreditation, a certification program must meet high standards of program operation: 

  • It must be administratively independent of other organizations in matters pertaining to certification
  • Its certifying body must consist of a majority of certified individuals
  • It must provide the public and consumers with an opportunity for input into its policies and decisions
  • It must follow strict rules for public disclosure of certification-related activities
  • It must follow strict rules for test development, evaluation and administration
  • It must enforce stringent eligibility requirements for all candidates, including (in the case of CESB accreditation) eight years of education and/or field experience for engineering-related designations and two to five years of education and/or field experience for engineering-technician designations. 

ACAC offers the only CESB accredited designations dedicated to the field of indoor air quality. 

Though its board-awarded designations meet all these requirements and more, the same cannot be said of many other professional certification programs. Other organizations allow office staffers to grant certification in exchange for payment of fees and passing a simple examination based on a mandatory course with limited information. Field experience is rarely required, much less verified. As a result, “instant certifications” from such organizations are nearly worthless when challenged in court.

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