AmIAQC and IAQA part ways!!!!

Big news in the mold industry. The American Indoor Air Quality Council (AmIAQC) and the Indoor Air Quality Association (IAQA) have terminated their unification agreement. The 2006 unification agreedment basically seperated the roles of the two organizations; The IAQA would become the training and membership organization, and the AmIAQC would become the certification organization. This put an end to the days when people would take a 3 or 4 day class where the exam was given on the last day. Anyone who attended the course and passed the test would walk away with a certification in hand, regardless of education or experience. With the unification, people would attend a course offered by the IAQA, then go home and study and prepare for an exam that was offered by the AmIAQC... a proctored exam given at a CompUSA or other neutral facility. After passing the exam, the application went before the certification board, where the applicants education, training ang experience is reviewed (they actually called all of my references to verify my experience). Once approved by the board, the certification is awarded. This board-certification, as well as some hard work on the part of Charlie Wiles and others, brought all of the certification programs into compliance with ISO and ANSI standards and helped to achieve 3rd party accreditation by the Council for Engineering and Scientific Specialty Boards (CESB). Now with the termination of the unification agreement, I assume that the new organization, the American Council for Accredited Certification (ACAC), will accept training from other organizations besides the IAQA. This makes the ACAC truely independent and able to offer certifications in new disciplines (i.e. the new Environmental Infection Control Consultant and Remediator (CEICC, CEICI, CEICS & CEICR))