Home and Mold Inspector marks his 18th. year in business.

Santa Rosa, California (PRWEB) November 24, 2015

Steve Zivolich, the owner and senior inspector of Guaranteed Property and Mold Inspections (GPI) serving Sonoma, Marin, Napa, Orange, Los Angeles, and Riverside Counties in California, has marked his 18th year in business.

Zivolich holds the premier nationally accredited certification for home inspectors by the American Society of Home Inspectors (ASHI). He is also certified as a residential home inspector by the California Real Estate Inspectors Association (CREIA). In addition, he is nationally certified in Mold, Microbial, Asbestos, Lead Paint, Indoor Air Quality, Energy Conservation and Radon inspections/testing. 

Steve serves on the national certification board of directors for the American Council for Accredited Certification (ACAC), which reviews applications for new mold inspectors to be awarded a nationally accredited certification. These unique certifications require both knowledge verification in the science of microbial inspection, but also extensive experience in the field.

Due to his extensive training and experience, his firm is able to provide additional mold, environmental, and energy expertise with a residential home inspection at no additional cost to clients.

"We inspect every home as if we were moving in our own family," stated Zivolich.

Unlike other mold inspection companies, GPI does not try to up-sell its clients with unneeded mold testing. Currently the EPA and the California Department of Public Health discourage such mold testing. Further, since it is a conflict of interest, GPI only inspects, and does not remediate mold, this avoids a financial bias in their findings. It is also a code of ethics violation for a company to both inspect and remediate mold conditions. As a result, GPI holds the highest ratings by the BBB, Angie's List, and Yelp.

Steve has completed over 7,000 home and mold inspections for pre-listing, time of purchase, post-purchase investigations, as well as expert witness testimony.

He is currently providing Mold Inspection seminars throughout the state for real estate professionals, and code enforcement city government inspectors to assist with implementation of the new California Mold law SB 655, which is taking effect on January 1, 2016.

For more information, call toll free (888) 252-2274 or visit the Web site located at http://www.gpinspect.com.

Massachusetts, California Continue to Lead U.S. in Energy Efficiency

WASHINGTON, D.C.—Massachusetts, California and Vermont retained the first, second and third highest rankings, respectively, in the American Council for an Energy-Efficient Economy's (ACEEE) recently released ninth annual State Energy Efficiency Scorecard. Massachusetts has held the top spot for five years. 

The State Energy Efficiency Scorecard analyzes and ranks the effectiveness of state energy-efficiency policies and programs, and offers recommendations on ways to improve. 

According to ACEEE, total savings from energy-efficiency programs in 2014 totaled about 25.7 million MWh, a 5.8% increase compared to the previous year.

Study: Poor Air Quality Linked to Workers' Low Cognitive Function

CAMBRIDGE, Mass.—People working in well-ventilated buildings with below-average indoor air pollution and low carbon dioxide, levels showed better cognitive functioning than workers in "non-green" offices with typical pollutant and CO₂ levels, according to a recent study published in Environmental Health Perspectives.

"These results suggest that even modest improvements to indoor environmental quality may have a profound impact on the decision-making performance of workers," wrote lead author Joseph Allen, director of the Healthy Buildings Program at the Harvard Center for Health and the Global Environment. 

The study of 24 people exposed to different indoor environmental quality conditions over six full work days found that participants' cognitive scores were on average 61% higher on days working in buildings with low pollution levels than on days working in a conventional building. When lowered CO₂ levels were coupled with lower pollutants in buildings, cognitive scores were 101% higher than in conventional buildings.