DANIEL STIH CDRS

Dan Stih is President of Healthy Living Spaces LLC, Indoor Environmental Testing & Solutions.
Mr. Stih inspects homes and commercial buildings to identify and correct sources indoor air quality complaints, including but not limited to mold and moisture, bacteria, odors, chemicals (VOCs) and formaldehyde, allergens and pesticide exposure. He is also one of the few qualified to perform surveys and assessments of electromagnetic field exposure from power lines and wiring errors inside buildings.

Mr. Stih, an aerospace engineer, retired from Motorola Inc. and worked in construction before bridging his engineering background with the building sciences to start an environmental testing and consulting company. His company has had offices in three states: Arizona, Oregon and New Mexico, which has allowed him to acquire experience working with mold and other environmental issues in different climates.

Stih is the Director of the New Mexico chapter of the Indoor Air Quality Association. He is a board member of the certification body of the American Indoor Air Council that reviews applications and votes to award the Microbial Consultant and Residential Mold Inspector certifications to individuals with the required field experience.
Stih is a member of a committee of The Indoor Environmental Standards Organization (IESO) working to create an ANSI standard for residential initial mold assessments. This standard will cover initial assessments, sampling for mold contamination, data interpretation, report production and post-remediation verification.

Dan Stih received his Bachelors of Science in Aerospace Engineering form Arizona State University in 1991. He took classes in Nursing at Gateway Community College, Phoenix, and was a certified nursing assistant (state of Arizona) from 1997-1999. From 1998 to 2000 he took classes in construction and the building sciences at Prescott Community College in Arizona. Under the directions of Tony Ghram, the chair of the construction department, PCC was on the leading edge implementing Green Building technologies while building homes. In 2000, Stih completed a one-year training program with the Institute for Bau-Biologie (Building Biology) in Clearwater, Florida. The IBE was founded in Germany, based on the discovery that building materials and construction techniques developed to rebuild Europe after WWII were causing people to become sick. A satellite branch of the IBE exists in Florida. The institute offers week long classes related to testing and mitigating sources of indoor air pollution and electromagnetic fields. Some of the instructors at IBE have included individuals highly respected in the industry including Will Spates, Peter Sierck, and John Banta. Stih has completed all of the courses they offer, including the one-year correspondence course. Stih continues to earn continuing education credits for his Indoor Environmental Consultant and Certified Microbial Consultant certifications. These are board-awarded certifications by the American Indoor Air Quality Council based on both training and a minimum number of years of verified field experience. Continuing education credit is earned by attending national and regional conferences and courses on topics related to this field of work.

• Board-Certified Microbial Consultant (CMC) by the American Indoor Air Quality Council

• Board-Certified Indoor Environmental Consultant (CIEC)

• Certified Environmental Consultant, the International Institute for Building Biology

• Certified Thermographer (Infrared, thermal imaging camera)

• EPA Asbestos Inspector

• EPA Lead Inspector

• Radon Measurement

• The State of New Mexico

• City of Albuquerque

• The Town of Taos

• The University of New Mexico

• City of Espanola

• Santa Fe County

• College of Santa Fe

• Golden Temple Natural Products, Eugene, Oregon

• Rio Arriba County Housing Authority, Ojo Caliente, New Mexico

• Embry Riddle Aeronautical University

• Tamarack Wellness Center, Eugene, Oregon

• Bank of America

• Habitat for Humanity

• The Don Zukowski show, WLPO, La Salle, IL, July 2007

• The Stu Bryer Show, Norwich, CT, July 2007

• The Journey Home, guest on Diego Mulligan’s talk show, March 2007 and July 2007

• Transitions Radio, interview, with host Alan Hutner, March 2007.

• Talk on Toxic Mold, The New Mexican, September, 2005

• Choose Roofer Carefully, The New Mexican, August, 2005

• Breaking the Mold, Santa Fe Reporter, June 22, 2005

• Alternatives for the Allergy Season, Eugene Weekly, Feb 2004

• Toxic mold infects homes, triggers allergic reactions, Daily Emerald, October, 2003.

• Hat’s Off! With Betty Snowden, FOX TV special on Mold, December 2003

• Sick Building Syndrome, Daily Courier, Arizona, February 22, 2003.

• No cure for what ails you? Maybe your house is the culprit, Arizona Business Gazette, December, 2002

• Channel 13 TV Interview, Prescott, Arizona, April, 2002

• Indoor Air Quality Association Workshop, July, 13, 2007

• Santa Fe Association of Realtors, May, 2007

• Toxic Mold & Indoor Air Quality, 2006 Facility Managers’ Training Workshop, Albuquerque, NM.

• What are the Solutions for Healthy Indoor Air?, Public forum, Santa Fe Design Week, October, 2006

• Cleaners, Disinfectants and Pesticides: Safe, Natural and Fun Alternatives to Chemicals, the Kids Expo of Learning, Albuquerque Convention Center, October, 2006

• Indoor Air Quality – September, 2006, Guest speaker at the National Home Builder’s Association Remodeler’s meeting.

• Toxic Mold- A Growing Concern. September, 2005. Approved by both the American Indoor Air Quality Council and the Indoor Air Quality Association for continuing educational credits.

• HOPES Ecological Design Conference 2004, University of Oregon

• Yavapai College Department of Construction, 2003-2004

• City of Scottsdale Green Building Lecture Series - Indoor Environmental Quality and Mold Mitigation, March, 2003

• Trained Plant Maintenance staff at, Embry Riddle Aeronautical University

• Guest speaker, Prescott College Department of Environmental Studies, 2003

• Mentorship for students at Prescott College, Project of reducing VOCS in the computer room

• Green Building Expo, Phoenix City Hall, 2002

• Sick Building Syndrome – Pollution in the Indoor Environment, Prescott, 2002

Stih is a member of the American Indoor Air Quality Council, the Indoor Air Quality Association, the Indoor Environmental Standards Organization, the Institute for Building Biology, and the director of the Santa Fe chapter of the Indoor Air Quality Association.