Advances in the Toxicity of Construction and Building Materials

F. Pacheco-Torgal, Joseph O. Falkinham, Jerzy Galaj

• Publisher: Woodhead Publishing
• Year: 2022
• Print ISBN:
  9780128245330
• eBook ISBN:
  9780323852913
• Topic: Technology & Engineering
• Subtopic: Materials Science
• Index: Technology & Engineering

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. - 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

Table of contents

• Advances in the Toxicity of Construction and Building Materials
• Cover
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Table of Contents
• List of Contributors
• 1 Introduction to advances in the toxicity of construction and building materials
• 2 Assessment of hazardous compounds in building materials accumulated by the action of the atmospheric pollution
• 3 Toxicity of semivolatile organic compounds
• 4 Volatile organic compound emissions in building materials
• 5 Toxicity of toxic gases emitted during a fire and ventilation
• 6 Flame-retardant wood plastic composites
• 7 Fire behavior of sandwich panels with different cores
• 8 Natural radioactivity in cement
• 9 Coal bottom ash natural radioactivity in building materials
• 10 Recycling of radioactive phosphogypsum wastes
• 11 Lead-based construction and building materials: human exposure, risk, and risk control
• 12 Demolition waste contaminated with asbestos
• 13 Recycling and reuse of bottom ashes from municipal solid-waste incineration plants in building materials
• 14 Leaching of concrete with mine tailings
• Index