Architectural Design and Indoor Microbial Pollution - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0195044363 ISBN 13: 9780195044362

Publisher: OUP USA, 1989

Synopsis

The problem of indoor pollution has raised concern among occupational and environmental health workers, architects, and engineers involved in the heating and ventilation of buildings. To date, most of the attention has focused on chemical contaminants.

This monograph opens up a new aspect of the subject, by examining the effects of modern, energy-efficient architectural design on levels of microbial contamination inside buildings, particularly office buildings and hospitals. It discusses how, badly designed, poorly located, or badly maintained heating, ventilation, and air-conditioning systems can become breeding grounds for fungi, bacteria, and other micro-organisms, thereby causing and facilitating the transmission of airborne diseases to the building's occupants.

Architectural Design and Indoor Microbial Pollution is based on an interdisciplinary seminar held by the American Society of Microbiology.

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Review

"Makes an excellent case for the effect of the 'bioburden' on the problems of indoor air quality and morbidity . . . . Very well illustrated with remarkable photographs . . . . One comes away from this book with a very real appreciation of biologic hazards in the indoor living space and the role that building design and ventilation engineering have in fostering or eliminating these hazards." --New England Journal of Medicine "Architectural Design and Indoor Microbial Pollution addresses the problems of construction and its relation to indoor microbial pollution. It presents and interdisciplinary exploration of the effects of modern, energy-efficient architecture on levels of microbial contamination in air and water supplies . . . . An authoritative resource for assuring consumers health and safety in buildings." --Pollution Engineering

Edition details

• Publisher: OUP USA
• Publication date: 1989
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0195044363
• ISBN 13: 9780195044362
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 328
• Editor: Kundsin Ruth B.