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Building Materials

Product Emission and Combustion Health Hazards

By: Kathleen Hess-Kosa

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Building Materials

Product Emission and Combustion Health Hazards

By: Kathleen Hess-Kosa

The construction industry is bombarded with ever-changing building materials—components of which are more and more difficult, if not impossible, to identify. Building material emissions have been implicated as a major source of indoor air pollution, and toxic gases, often unidentified, are generated in building fires. Building Materials: Product Emission and Combustion Health Hazards undertakes the task of identifying building materials emission and combustion health hazards. This practical guide introduces the complex world of polymers commonly used in building materials along with plasticizers and additives that are not regulated by OSHA. It also explores the topic of building materials as they relate to function and their emissions/combustion products along with thermal decomposition and combustion products as they relate to fire first responders. Engaging environmental professionals, construction management firms, architects, first respondents, and students, this valuable reference delivers a comprehensive spectrum of knowledge needed to face the challenges of managing building materials in the twenty-first century. Awareness is the first line of defense!

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131535408X

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Indoor Air Quality

The Latest Sampling and Analytical Methods, Third Edition

By: Kathleen Hess-Kosa

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Indoor Air Quality

The Latest Sampling and Analytical Methods, Third Edition

By: Kathleen Hess-Kosa

Indoor Air Quality: The Latest Sampling and Analytical Methods, Third Edition is a practical, user-friendly guide to the identification and assessment of the indoor air contaminants that contribute to building-related illness in commercial buildings, institutions, and residences. It covers the basic concepts of indoor air quality assessment, including its historic evolution. The book describes the most common substances encountered in an indoor air quality investigation, their health effects, and their occurrence in the environment. Drawing from the author’s experience, observations, and extensive research, this easy-to-read guide provides readers with a working knowledge of the latest approaches to sampling protocols and cutting-edge trends as well as suggested sampling strategies, helpful experience related tips, and a means for interpreting results. Additionally, in the later part of the book, there is considerable discussion of failure modes of building materials and systems—sources of many indoor air quality problems! This third edition details up-to-date strategies and analytical methods and addresses some of the more recent, as well as less common, concerns on indoor air pollutants. All chapters in the third edition have been updated to adhere to the more recent developments in indoor air quality. Also a new chapter on the illusive data and sampling approaches on ozone has been added. New in the Third Edition Revised and updated standards and guidelines Updated U.S. EPA NAAQS Updated LEEDv4 Standard Updated ANSI/ASHRAE Standard 189.1 Latest approaches to sampling and analytical methods Expanded discussion on controversial inhalable airborne particulate sampling methods Updated and expanded tables and data Updated and expanded figures and schematics Inclusion of a new chapter on ozone

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1351579347

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Environmental Site Assessment Phase I

A Basic Guide, Third Edition

By: Kathleen Hess-Kosa

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Environmental Site Assessment Phase I

A Basic Guide, Third Edition

By: Kathleen Hess-Kosa

Extensively updated, this third edition provides a valuable guide to the tools and techniques used to perform Phase 1 site assessment. This book elucidates the systematic processes and methods used by leaders in the industry. It also emphasizes the development of an easy-to-follow investigative strategy for in-house assessment. After reviewing the history of the field, legal issues, and important terms, the book discusses physical setting, historic usage, property and area reconnaissance, building materials, and industrial activities associated with a property. It also gives interviewing tips, lists regulatory agencies, and considers unique situations such as wetlands and historical buildings.

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0849379679

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9780849379673

Environmental Sampling for Unknowns

By: Kathleen Hess-Kosa

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Environmental Sampling for Unknowns

By: Kathleen Hess-Kosa

Environmental Sampling for Unknowns covers modern approaches to indoor and outdoor environmental sampling, with an emphasis on identifying unknown substances.

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1351450107

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Indoor Air Quality

The Latest Sampling and Analytical Methods, Third Edition

By: Kathleen Hess-Kosa

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The Latest Sampling and Analytical Methods, Third Edition

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The Latest Sampling and Analytical Methods

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This is a practical, user-friendly guide to the identification and assessment of indoor air contaminants that contribute to buildingrelated illness in commercial buildings, institutions, and residences. The third edition covers basic concepts and details various approaches and up-to-date analytical methods.

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Indoor Air Quality

The Latest Sampling and Analytical Methods, Second Edition

By: Kathleen Hess-Kosa

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The Latest Sampling and Analytical Methods, Second Edition

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In the new millennium, indoor air quality methodologies have expanded, evolved, and morphed. This book addresses the old and the new. The focus is shifting from a knee-jerk to a more proactive response. Although indoor air quality in older buildings will continue to present old challenges, new construction is going forward with new challenges. Indoor Air Quality: The Latest Sampling Methods, Second Edition covers basic concepts and details various approaches to the identification and assessment of indoor air contaminants that contribute to building-related illness in commercial buildings, institutions, and residences. Included are newly added topics focusing on less common concerns in indoor air quality such as psychological and building comfort factors and approaches to assessing air movement within buildings. Expanded appendices and three new chapters provide the reader with 30 percent new material, including the most recent approaches to indoor air quality as well as more inclusive information to further address quality problems. Coverage includes: New Sewage Gases and HV AC Systems, assessment guidelines, "tainted Chinese drywall," green buildings, and the LEED Rating System and ASHRAE 189.1 A historic overview with regulatory limits and guidelines; preliminary investigation methods including means for assessing complaints; and a means for speculation, narrowing the hunt for offenders Sampling methodologies for volatile organic compounds; microbial volatile organic compounds; carbon dioxide; carbon monoxide; formaldehyde; and product emissions Sampling methodologies for animals allergens such as dust mites and forensic methods for identifying dust components The book is a "practical guide" for developing a theory and following it through to the sampling methodologies, identification and interpretation of suspect/known air contaminants, and assessing HVAC and sewage systems.

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Environmental Site Assessment Phase I

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Environmental Sampling for Unknowns

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Indoor Air Quality

Indoor Air Quality

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