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Introduction to advances in the toxicity of construction and building materials

This chapter starts by addressing the impact of COVID-19 on the time spent by the general population indoors and how this reality exacerbates problems associated with pollutant concentration in indoor air. An introduction on a few indoor pollutants and also on toxic materials used in the built envir...

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Autor principal: Pacheco-Torgal, Fernando
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: 2022
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9265392/
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/B978-0-12-824533-0.00009-8
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spelling pubmed-92653922022-07-11 Introduction to advances in the toxicity of construction and building materials Pacheco-Torgal, Fernando Advances in the Toxicity of Construction and Building Materials Article This chapter starts by addressing the impact of COVID-19 on the time spent by the general population indoors and how this reality exacerbates problems associated with pollutant concentration in indoor air. An introduction on a few indoor pollutants and also on toxic materials used in the built environment is given. Some prospective considerations about the importance of a healthy built environment are included. An outline of the book is also given. 2022 2022-03-18 /pmc/articles/PMC9265392/ http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/B978-0-12-824533-0.00009-8 Text en Copyright © 2022 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved. Since January 2020 Elsevier has created a COVID-19 resource centre with free information in English and Mandarin on the novel coronavirus COVID-19. The COVID-19 resource centre is hosted on Elsevier Connect, the company's public news and information website. Elsevier hereby grants permission to make all its COVID-19-related research that is available on the COVID-19 resource centre - including this research content - immediately available in PubMed Central and other publicly funded repositories, such as the WHO COVID database with rights for unrestricted research re-use and analyses in any form or by any means with acknowledgement of the original source. These permissions are granted for free by Elsevier for as long as the COVID-19 resource centre remains active.
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