1st Edition

Building Materials, Health and Indoor Air Quality Volume 2

By Tom Woolley Copyright 2024
234 Pages 2 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

234 Pages 2 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

234 Pages 2 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

In Building Materials , Health and Indoor Air Quality: Volume 2 Tom Woolley uses new research to continue to advocate for limiting the use of hazardous materials in construction and raise awareness of the links between pollutants found in building materials, poor indoor air quality and health problems. Chapters in this volume reinforce previous arguments and present new ones covering:... Read more

Acknowledgements

Chapter 1: Introduction

Chapter 2: Chemicals in building materials

Chapter 3: Emissions from building materials and health impacts

Chapter 4: UK, EU and WHO policies on indoor air quality

Chapter 5: Damp, mould, building materials and retrofit

Chapter 6: Ventilation and personal contaminants

Chapter 7: Testing for indoor air quality

Chapter 8: Healthy building, greenwashing and wellwashing

Chapter 9: Afterthoughts

 

Biography

Professor Tom Woolley is an architect with extensive practice experience in Scotland and London, specialising in the renovation of old buildings and working with community groups. He is former Professor of Architecture at Queens University, Belfast, Editor of the award- winning Green Building Digest, and former Chairman of the Northern Ireland Building Regulations Advisory Committee and former member of the Ministerial Advisory Committee. He is the author of numerous books including Building Materials, Health and Indoor Air Quality, Routledge, 2016.