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Building Materials, Health and Indoor Air Quality
The impact of building materials and construction methods on the health and wellbeing of occupants is often underestimated. This book is an essential guide to understanding and avoiding hazardous materials and poor air quality in buildings. The author covers a range of issues beginning with an explanation of how buildings work and how this influences the health of occupants and users. The text covers: Ventilation, air conditioning and indoor air quality Damp and mould Asthma and respiratory problems Cancer and endocrine disorders Radiation and radon Hazardous building materials used in construction Indoor air quality and emissions Ecological alternatives and approaches and remedies for ‘si...
Low Impact Building
This guide to the designs, technologies and materials that really make green buildings work will help architects, specifiers and clients make informed choices, based on reliable technical information. Low Impact Building: Housing using Renewable Materials is about changing the way we build houses to reduce their ‘carbon’ footprint and to minimise environmental damage. One of the ways this can be done is by reducing the energy and environmental impact of the materials and resources used to construct buildings by choosing alternative products and systems. In particular, we need to recognise the potential for using natural and renewable construction materials as a way to reduce both carbon ...
Standing by the Watchtower
Mightier Than the Sword UK is proud to present this collection of poetry in aid of Macmillan Cancer Support. All royalties from the sale of this volume are directly donated to Macmillan Cancer Support. For more details about Macmillan please visit www.macmillan.org.uk Featuring work from poet and author C.S. Woolley, poet Alexandra Brennan and poet Tom Woolley along with contributions from Rebecca Granillo and Naomi Milnes this volume contains poetry that explores themes that include nature, life, death and love.
Natural Building Techniques
Natural materials are increasingly being valued for their use in a wide range of techniques and solutions, not just for building cabins in the countryside, but also for housing, schools and city structures. As the need to respond to climate change becomes a serious requirement for all building projects, so too does our understanding of how these bio-based and renewable materials can help to reduce carbon emissions. With convincing evidence that natural materials work as well as, if not better than, conventional materials, this helpful guide offers an outline of many of the materials, products and methods of construction that are available, equipping readers with confidence to create healthy, ecological homes. This comprehensive book will be of interest to self-builders, home owners, architects, housing developers and specifiers, as well as environmentalists, eco builders and campaigners who want to reduce the impact of construction on the planet.
Building Materials, Health and Indoor Air Quality
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: Further evidence of the health impacts of hazardous emissions from materials Hazardous materials to be avoided and why Fire and smoke toxicity – the Lakanal House and Grenfell Tower legacy Sub-standard retrofits leading to damp and mould in previously sound houses A critical review of recent reports from UK Go...
Living in . . . Brazil
Readers learn what it's to live in Brazil.
Living in . . . Mexico
Rosa introduces life in Mexico.
Living in . . . Italy
Readers learn what it's to live in Italy.
Living in . . . India
Nisha, a young girl who lives in India, describes the history, geography, food, schools, and cities of the country.
