Building Materials, Health and Indoor Air Quality

In the follow up to Building Materials, Health and Indoor Air Quality, 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.

Professor Tom Woolley is an architect with extensive practice experience in Scotland and London, specialising in the renovation of old buildings and working with community groups. He is former Professor of Architecture at Queens University, Belfast, Editor of the award- winning Green Building Digest, and former Chairman of the Northern Ireland Building Regulations Advisory Committee and former member of the Ministerial Advisory Committee. He is the author of numerous books including Building Materials, Health and Indoor Air Quality, Routledge, 2016.

Acknowledgements Chapter 1: Introduction Chapter 2: Chemicals in building materials Chapter 3: Emissions from building materials and health impacts Chapter 4: UK, EU and WHO policies on indoor air quality Chapter 5: Damp, mould, building materials and retrofit Chapter 6: Ventilation and personal contaminants Chapter 7: Testing for indoor air quality Chapter 8: Healthy building, greenwashing and wellwashing Chapter 9: Afterthoughts