Bernard Bloom

E-mail:  bbloom@bsea.net

• EDUCATION

• PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
• PROFESSIONAL ACCOMPLISHMENTS
• HONORS
• PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS

• PROFESSIONAL CERTIFICATES

EDUCATION

American Industrial Hygiene Association, Washington, DC

Graduate Studies in Industrial Hygiene and Indoor Air Quality, 1994-1997

Catholic University, Washington, DC

Graduate Environmental Studies in Hazardous Waste Management, 1993-1994

University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA

Graduate School of Public Health, Graduate Studies in Industrial Hygiene/Air Quality, 1970-1971

Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA

Master of Science, Materials Science and Engineering, 1967

Washington University, St. Louis, MO

Bachelor of Science, Material Engineering, 1964

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MPH University of Pittsburgh Public Health, Industrial Hygiene/Air Quality, 1970-71

Catholic University, Hazardous Waste Management, 1993-94

IAQ Training, American Industrial Hygiene Association, 1996

IAQ Training, Mid-Atlantic Environmental Hygiene Resource Center, 1994-97

40-Hour OSHA HAZWOPER, at Brentwood Remediation Site, 2001

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Principal, Program Manager, Senior Investigator. Building Sciences and Engineering Associates, Bethesda, MD
Manage and implement studies of moisture, mold growth, insulation fiber dispersion, lead-in-drinking water, soil-vapor intrusion, odor complaints, and other building related environmental problems.  Studies include investigations, technical analyses, and remedial designs.  Review includes considering design aspects, building envelope issues, mechanical equipment, occupancy related factors and other issues influencing the quality of the environment and the function of the building.

Senior Scientist. Versar, Inc.,

Springfield, VA

Performed indoor environmental investigations concerning complete range of indoor air/IH problems, including noise, ventilation, ionizing radiation, indoor contamination (microbial, particulate, and chemical), and moisture control in residential, commercial, schools and governmental buildings.  Principal projects included WMATA office building mold remediation consultation and planning, Prince William County Bull Run Regional Library Odor/VOC control, U.S. Dep’t of State mail screening for bio-rad-chem detection, mercury spill clean ups, and residential and commercial mold assessments.

Emergency Preparedness Team, Manager of AHERA. District of Columbia Department of Health, Washington, DC 

Member, Emergency Preparedness Team; responsible for Ventilation Preparedness, bioterrorism technical support, analysis, measurement and detection of bio-chemical threats, hardening of critical facilities, development of mobile rapid response monitoring vehicle, decontamination support. Active in anthrax remediation efforts for District of Columbia Department of Health at Brentwood Postal Facility. Responsible for planning and implementation of indoor air quality programs for District of Columbia Government, with emphasis on microbiological contamination in residential, commercial, and institutional spaces. 

Manager of AHERA Lead State Agency program for asbestos in District’s public and private schools. Responsible for program planning, instrumentation, training, complaint response, risk evaluation, HVAC testing, emergency response for indoor air quality problems in District of Columbia. 

Outdoor Air Quality: Lead investigator for ambient sampling and environmental impact study of diesel bus and bus garage emissions, concentrations, and control program.  Special projects scientist regarding numerous VOC, PM, and ozone/ozone precursor emissions and ambient impact problems in DC.

Principal, IAQ Investigations. Self-Employed, Silver Spring, MD

Performed indoor environmental investigations concerning complete range of indoor air/IH problems, including noise, ventilation, ionizing radiation, contamination, microbial contamination, building related illness.  Clients include City of Alexandria Public Schools, Montgomery County Public Schools, Ryan Homes, Department of Energy, Wilkes Technologies.

Air Quality Program Manager. Montgomery County Department of Environmental Protection, Rockville, MD

Responsible for planning and implementation of IAQ program.  Substantial technical and engineering work with mitigation of IAQ problems in commercial  buildings, schools, and residential spaces.  Member of Montgomery County Indoor Air Quality Process Action Team; principal author of its report. Conducted many independent public and private school indoor air quality investigations.

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Air Quality and Contamination Control Accomplishments

Indoor Air Quality (1994 – Present)

• Initiated District-wide ventilation protection plan; hardening of new unified command center.

• Developed Hart Senate Office Building decontamination community protection safety plan.

• Led bio-decontamination of MM Washington H.S. following Bloomingdale flood.

• Designed and managed neighborhood indoor VOC sampling program following UST petroleum release.

• Completed first-ever diesel exhaust field study of effects of bus garage on microenvironment.

• Developed proactive indoor air quality program within DC Health Department that earned broad support within DC government.

• Solved major contamination problem for largest elementary school in City of Alexandria.

• Developed model local government IAQ program recognized by U.S. EPA and local governmental associations for innovation and practicality. Developed IAQ Mediation Service for Mont. Co, MD that resolves commercial and multifamily residential indoor air quality problems.

• Established indoor air sampling capability (VOC, CO2, CO, microbial, radon, airflow, RH, acoustic) for assessment of local commercial and residential IAQ problems.

• Performed evaluations and investigations of numerous commercial and residential IAQ complaints in Montgomery County.

• Consultant to Montgomery County Public Schools on indoor air quality problems in schools. Provided technical analysis of HVAC, VOC, microbial and related issues at specific schools.

• Served on county expert group that addressed status, causation, and resolution of poor indoor air quality conditions in local public school system.  Principal author of commissioned 1997 evaluation of MCPS IAQ problem.

• Wrote and published outreach brochures on carbon monoxide, toxic vapors in homes, ground-level ozone, radon, and related environmental health topics.

• Developed a local radon program aimed at residential outreach, assuring a "level playing field" for testers and mitigators, and raising the level of radon risk awareness by developing and publicizing a locally pertinent radon attributable mortality assessment.

Ambient Air Quality (1971 - 1982 and 1994 - Present)

• Developed evaluation and control program relative to diesel particulate emissions from District’s major bus fleet and garages.  Innovated use of “aethalometers” for this purpose.

• Provided analytical support for Metropolitan Washington Council of Governments relative to assessment and visualization of air quality trends and real time data.

• Restructured and currently administer air quality program for Montgomery County, MD. Work includes ambient and indoor air quality, serving on regional air quality councils, and providing technical assistance to executive and legislative branches of local government.

• Created and implemented a local government response to episodic ground level ozone events consisting of a government-wide curtailment of precursor emissions, communication to sensitive publics and media of episode's presence and mitigation choices.

• Major engineering participant in multi-year U.S. EPA - State National Steel Strategy to reduce emissions from coke plants and steel mills throughout the U.S.  Work included analysis of ambient impacts, discovery and application of emissions control technologies, and substantial support for compliance activities in many jurisdictions.

• Led or co-led EPA groups that were awarded Gold Medal for Exceptional Service (US Steel Monongahela Valley Consent Decree, 1979) and EPA Bronze medal for Significant Achievement (Burns Harbor and Great Lakes Carbon studies, 1976).

• Led US EPA team in writing and sustaining Reasonably Available Control Technology (RACT) standard for all major steel industry processes to support rule- making following revision of CAA. (Work sustained after challenge in 6th Circuit Court of Appeals.)

• Wrote US EPA Lowest Achievable Emission Rate (LAER) standard and Technical Support Document for desulfurization of coke oven gas.

• Led EPA HQ-Region group that developed a comprehensive point and fugitive source emissions inventory for all the major emitting processes throughout the U.S. steelmaking industry.  Program interactively tied to specific emissions control measures underway. Inventory used for policy and technical purposes.

• Led innovative testing and analysis program which was first to determine air emission factors for by-product coke quench towers.  Tests tied emission rates to water quality levels, which permitted EPA management to support water quality compliance program once untreated water quenching practice was prohibited.

Aerospace Materials and Environmental Engineering and Industrial Hygiene/Contamination Control (1982-1993)

• Led design effort for NASA to protect Space Station against catastrophic impact from orbital debris - included development of probabilistic risk model, improved outer debris shielding, and fundamental change in structural design of human modules.

•  Performed first line Industrial Hygiene work in a manufacturing environment: Supervised the restructuring of industrial processes to eliminate toxic emissions and discharges; implemented MSDS training for personnel; measured industrial hood capabilities of major manufacturing areas in company.

• Created first contamination control laboratory at high technology manufacturing company and invented non-destructive method for measuring in situ non-volatile organic residues.

• Developed clean process for preventing contamination of printed wiring boards leading to substantial increases in plant-wide production efficiency.  Developed techniques to reduce need for solvent cleaning of electronic assemblies.

• Established a state-of-art ionizing radiation transport modeling capability.  Recognized by major customers for innovative solutions to radiation shielding and coating problems and awarded company's Outstanding Achievement Award.

• Designed and carried out a radiation testing and development program to obtain suitable thermal coatings for high radiation environments. 

• Developed new electroless/electrolytic process for providing high temperature protection to thin structures using an organometallic/ceramic coating.

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HONORS
 

Invited luncheon speaker, MARAMA Air monitoring Conference, October 2001

Invited participant in EPA/HHS Mid-Atlantic Asthma Conference at Johns Hopkins University, 2000

Honorary Lifetime Member of National PTA for Indoor Air Work in Montgomery County Public Schools, 1999

Recognized by U.S. EPA for development of Model Local Indoor Air Quality Program, 1998

Technical Excellence Award from Metropolitan Washington Air Quality Committee, 1998

Selected participant in “EPA Indoor Environments Visionaries” Conference, 1997

National Association of Counties Award for Ozone Action Days Program, 1996

Jet Propulsion Laboratory TOPEX Certificate of Appreciation, 1993

Grumman Technical Achievement Award, 1991

Invited speaker at international conference on “Preservation of Near Earth Space for Future Generations”, June 199 (100^th Anniversary of University of Chicago), 1992

NASA/Goddard Achievement Award, 1993

Fairchild Space Co. Outstanding Achievement Award, 1989

Fairchild President's Award, 1989

EPA Certificate of Achievement, 1980

EPA Gold Medal, for Outstanding Achievement, 1979

EPA Associate Administrator's Award, 1977

EPA Bronze Medal for Significant Achievement, 1976

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PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS

American Indoor Air Quality Council

American Industrial Hygiene Association

American Society of Heating, Refrigeration, and Air Conditioning Engineers

Air and Waste Management Association

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PROFESSIONAL CERTIFICATES

Certification, CIAQP (Certified Indoor Air Quality Professional/Association of Energy Engineers)

Certification, CIAQC (Certified Indoor Air Quality Consultant/American Indoor Air Quality Council)

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Last modified: November 2006