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Advances in the Toxicity of Construction and Building Materials

  • 1st Edition - March 5, 2022
  • Latest edition
  • Editors: F. Pacheco-Torgal, Joseph O. Falkinham, Jerzy Galaj
  • Language: English

Advances in the Toxicity of Construction and Building Materials presents the potential and toxic effects of building materials on human health, along with tactics on how to minimi… Read more

Description

Advances in the Toxicity of Construction and Building Materials presents the potential and toxic effects of building materials on human health, along with tactics on how to minimize exposure. Chapters are divided into four sections covering the toxicity of indoor environments, fire toxicity, radioactive materials, and toxicity from plastics, metals, asbestos, nanoparticles and construction wastes. Key chapters focus on the reduction of chemical emissions in houses with eco-labelled building materials and potential risks posed by indoor pollutants that may include volatile organic compounds (VOC), formaldehyde, semi-volatile organic compounds (SVOC), radon, NOx, asbestos and nanoparticles.

Known illnesses and reactions that can be triggered by these toxic building materials include asthma, itchiness, burning eyes, skin irritations or rashes, nose and throat irritation, nausea, headaches, dizziness, fatigue, reproductive impairment, disruption of the endocrine system, impaired child development and birth defects, immune system suppression, and even cancer.

Key features

  • Provides an essential guide to the potential toxic effects of building materials on human health
  • Comprehensively examines materials responsible for formaldehyde and volatile organic compound emissions, as well as semi-volatile organic compounds
  • Presents coverage on fire toxicity and an evaluation of the radioactivity of building materials
  • Includes several cases studies throughout and addresses current international standards

Readership

Academic and industrial researchers, materials scientists, civil engineers, architects, fire safety engineers, postgraduate students, contractors and other professionals working and interested in the field of the toxicity of building materials

Table of contents

PART I - INDOOR AIR CONTAMINANTS

2-Assessment hazardous pollutants in built environment　　

3-Toxicity of semivolatile organic compounds

4- VOC emissions in buiding materials　

PART II - FIRE TOXICITY AND RADIOACTIVE BUILDING MATERIALS

5-Toxicity of toxic gases emitted during a fire and ventilation

6-Flame retardants of wood polymer composites

7-Fire behavior of sandwich panels with different cores　

8-Radioactivity of cement 　　　　　

9-Coal bottom ash natural radioactivity in building materials

10-Recycling of radioactive phophogypsum wastes　　　　　

PART IV - TOXICITY OF METALS, ASBESTOS AND OF WASTE REUSE

Ch.11 - Lead based construction and building materials

Ch.12-Demolition wastes contaminated of asbestos　

Ch.13-Recycling of bottom ash from a municipal solid waste　　　

Ch.14-Leaching of concrete with mine tailings　　

Product details

  • Edition: 1
  • Latest edition
  • Published: March 8, 2022
  • Language: English

About the editors

FP

F. Pacheco-Torgal

Dr. F. Pacheco Torgal is a Principal Investigator at the University of Minho in Portugal. He holds the title of Counsellor at the Portuguese Engineers Association. He is a member of the editorial boards for nine international journals. Over the last 10 years he has participated in the research decision for more than 460 papers and has also acted as a Foreign Expert on the evaluation of 22 PhD thesis. Over the last 10 years he has also been a Member of the Scientific Committees for more than 60 conferences, most of them held in Asian countries. He is also a grant assessor for several scientific institutions in 15 countries, including the UK, US, Netherlands, China, France, Australia, Kazakhstan, Belgium, Spain, Czech Republic, Chile, Saudi Arabia, UA. Emirates, Croatia, Poland, and the EU Commission. In the last 10 years, he reviewed more than 70 research projects.
Affiliations and expertise
C-TAC Research Centre, University of Minho, Guimaraes, Portugal

JF

Joseph O. Falkinham

Dr Falkinham is a professor of microbiology in the Department of Biological Sciences at Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University. His research interests include the epidemiology of Mycobacterium avium, metal oxidation and reduction in biofilms and predatory bacteria ecology
Affiliations and expertise
Professor of Microbiology, Department of Biological Sciences, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, USA

JG

Jerzy Galaj

Dr. Jerzy GALAJ is a head of Hydromechanics and Fire Water Supply Institute of Fire Technique Department at the Main School of Fire Service, Slowackiego Str. 52/54 Warsaw Poland.
Affiliations and expertise
Main school of Fire Service, Warsaw, Poland

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