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"Finding solutions to indoor air quality problems is often a complex, multifaceted endeavor. This practical desk reference serve as a guide and information resource - both on treating existing indoor air problems effectively - and on preventing costly IAQ problems from occurring in the first place. A single discipline approach unfortunately tends to narrow both the control and the treatments options. This book cuts across professions to offer those concerned with the total facility a broader, more comprehensive approach to managing indoor air quality and mitigating indoor air quality problems. The fifth edition is extensively updated and edited in response to the rapid pace of changes and advances in the IAQ industry. "
Air quality management. --- Indoor air pollution. --- Buildings --- Air confiné --- Air --- Constructions --- Environmental engineering. --- Pollution --- Qualité --- Gestion --- Technique de l'environnement.
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September 11 Terrorist Attacks, 2001 --- Air --- Indoor air pollution --- Victims of terrorism --- Environmental aspects --- Health aspects --- Pollution --- Services for --- United States. --- Management.
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"The indoor environment affects occupants' health and comfort. Poor environmental conditions and indoor contaminants are estimated to cost the U.S. economy tens of billions of dollars a year in exacerbation of illnesses like asthma, allergic symptoms, and subsequent lost productivity. Climate change has the potential to affect the indoor environment because conditions inside buildings are influenced by conditions outside them. Climate change, the indoor environment, and health addresses the impacts that climate change may have on the indoor environment and the resulting health effects. It finds that steps taken to mitigate climate change may cause or exacerbate harmful indoor environmental conditions. The book discusses the role the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) should take in informing the public, health professionals, and those in the building industry about potential risks and what can be done to address them. The study also recommends that building codes account for climate change projections; that federal agencies join to develop or refine protocols and testing standards for evaluating emissions from materials, furnishings, and appliances used in buildings; and that building weatherization efforts include consideration of health effects. Climate change, the indoor environment, and health is written primarily for the EPA and other federal agencies, organizations, and researchers with interests in public health; the environment; building design, construction, and operation; and climate issues."--Publisher's description.
Environmentally induced diseases --- Climatic changes --- Indoor air pollution --- Air quality management --- Changes, Climatic --- Changes in climate --- Climate change --- Climate change science --- Climate changes --- Climate variations --- Climatic change --- Climatic fluctuations --- Climatic variations --- Global climate changes --- Global climatic changes --- Climatology --- Climate change mitigation --- Teleconnections (Climatology) --- Clinical ecology --- Diseases --- Environmental illness --- Environmental health --- Medical geography --- Air --- Sick building syndrome --- Health aspects --- Environmental aspects --- Causes and theories of causation --- Pollution, Indoor --- Pollution --- United States. --- U.S. Environmental Protection Agency --- US Environmental Protection Agency --- EPA --- Agentstvo po okhrane okruzhai︠u︡shcheĭ sredy SShA --- E.P.A. --- USEPA --- United States Environmental Protection Agency --- US EPA --- Environmental Protection Agency (U.S.) --- Climat --- Indoor air pollution. --- Climatic changes. --- Sick building syndrome. --- Changements. --- Health aspects. --- Global environmental change --- Changements climatiques.
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Today, indoor mold and moisture, and their associated health effects, are a society-wide problem. The economic consequences of indoor mold and moisture are enormous. Their global dimension has been emphasized in several recent international publications, stressing that the most important means for avoiding adverse health effects is the prevention (or minimization) of persistent dampness and microbial growth on interior surfaces and in building structures. This book aims to describe the fundamentals of indoor mold growth as a prerequisite to tackle mold growth in the existing building stock as well as in future energy efficient buildings. It brings together different disciplinary points of view on indoor mold, ranging from physics and material science to microbiology and health sciences. The contents have been outlined according to three main issues: Fundamentals, particularly addressing the crucial roles of water and materials, Health, including a state-of-the-art description of the health-related effects of indoor molds, and Strategies, integrating remediation, prevention and policies.
Dampness in buildings -- Prevention. --- Fungi -- Spores. --- Indoor air pollution. --- Molds (Fungi) -- Health aspects. --- Fungi --- Spores --- Fruiting Bodies, Fungal --- Air Pollution --- Eukaryota --- Organism Forms --- Cells --- Fungal Structures --- Organisms --- Environmental Pollution --- Anatomy --- Public Health --- Environment and Public Health --- Health Care --- Spores, Fungal --- Air Pollution, Indoor --- Civil & Environmental Engineering --- Engineering & Applied Sciences --- Civil Engineering --- Molds (Fungi) --- Dampness in buildings --- Health aspects. --- Prevention. --- Buildings, Dampness in --- Condensation control in buildings --- Moisture control in buildings --- Air --- Mold (Fungi) --- Molds (Botany) --- Mould (Fungi) --- Moulds (Fungi) --- Pollution, Indoor --- Life sciences. --- Plant science. --- Botany. --- Life Sciences. --- Life Sciences, general. --- Plant Sciences. --- Air conditioning --- Buildings --- Exterior walls --- Ventilation --- Waterproofing --- Microfungi --- Filamentous fungi --- Sick building syndrome --- Protection --- Pollution --- Botanical science --- Phytobiology --- Phytography --- Phytology --- Plant biology --- Plant science --- Biology --- Natural history --- Plants --- Biosciences --- Sciences, Life --- Science --- Floristic botany
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Sick Building Syndrome in Public Buildings and Workplaces is the first book of its kind to examine the issue of the interior environment and sick building syndrome in public buildings and workplaces worldwide. Through a comprehensive review of the personal experiences of people who have suffered the symptoms of sick building syndrome, the stories of professionals who have investigated reported occurrences of sick building syndrome, an extensive review of previously published literature on sick building syndrome and the opinions of international experts from a wide variety of fields the causes of sick building syndrome have been identified in this book. Information from this book can be used to provide a healthy safe indoor environment for employees and everyone who enters your building. Advice is provided on how to identify the causes of sick building syndrome in public buildings, workplaces and other buildings. The health effects of sick building syndrome, the influence of these symptoms on people’s work performance, impact on their life and the economic costs of sick building syndrome are examined. Assessment tools for identifying incidences of sick building syndrome are provided. Risk control measures that can be implemented in the design and construction stage of buildings, for ventilation systems, biological causes, physical and chemical causes, ergonomic factors and factors that enhance the effects of sick building syndrome are documented. This book can be used for teaching, research, professional reference and for personal use to maintain a healthy indoor environment.
Architecture. --- Biomedical engineering. --- Engineering. --- Environmental Medicine. --- Immunology. --- Medicine, Industrial. --- Employment --- Environmental Illness --- Personnel Management --- Sanitation --- Environmental Pollution --- Public Health --- Hypersensitivity --- Organization and Administration --- Disorders of Environmental Origin --- Socioeconomic Factors --- Population Characteristics --- Immune System Diseases --- Diseases --- Environment and Public Health --- Health Services Administration --- Health Care --- Environmental Exposure --- Workplace --- Sick Building Syndrome --- Public Facilities --- Health & Biological Sciences --- Biomedical Engineering --- Environmental Health --- Sick building syndrome. --- Building sickness --- Tight building syndrome --- Occupational medicine. --- Buildings. --- Buildings --- Building. --- Construction. --- Engineering, Architectural. --- Environmental health. --- Biomedical Engineering. --- Environmental Health. --- Building Types and Functions. --- Occupational Medicine/Industrial Medicine. --- Building Construction. --- Design and construction. --- Environmentally induced diseases --- Syndromes --- Indoor air pollution --- Biomedical Engineering and Bioengineering. --- Building Construction and Design. --- Immunobiology --- Life sciences --- Serology --- Industrial medicine --- Medicine, Occupational --- Occupational medicine --- Medicine --- Occupational diseases --- Architecture, Western (Western countries) --- Building design --- Construction --- Western architecture (Western countries) --- Art --- Building --- Clinical engineering --- Medical engineering --- Bioengineering --- Biophysics --- Engineering --- Design and construction --- Buildings—Design and construction. --- Architectural engineering --- Construction science --- Engineering, Architectural --- Structural design --- Structural engineering --- Architecture --- Construction industry --- Edifices --- Halls --- Structures --- Environmental quality --- Health --- Health ecology --- Public health --- Environmental engineering --- Health risk assessment --- Health aspects --- Environmental aspects --- Built environment
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