Architectural Design and Indoor Microbial Pollution (Hardcover)

Chemical contaminants and other forms of indoor pollution have recently raised serious concern among occupational and environmental health workers, architects and engineers, and the Environmental Protection Agency and the Occupational Safety and Health Administration. Microbial pollutants in the home pose major health risks to adults, children, and particularly the immuno-suppressed, while "sick building syndrome" is a reality for many office workers. This timely book presents an interdisciplinary exploration of these problems by examining the effects of modern, energy-efficient architecture on levels of microbial contamination in air and water supplies. With the common goal of constructing a microbiologically safe environment, the contributors represent the disciplines upon whose combined efforts a solution depends: systems engineering, medicine, microbiology, environmental hygiene, and architecture. Among the topics considered are methods of contamination control in heating, ventilation, and air-conditioning systems; the microbiologist's role --and the techniques used-- in evaluating the hygienic environment; and assessment of water systems used in health care facilities. Proposing methods for the elimination of the health problems discussed, the contributors stress the need for assessment of architectural design and subsequent preventive maintenance of buildings and their intricate heating and ventilating systems; and they show how poor building design and location affects it occupants. Architectural Design and Indoor Microbial Pollution provides public health professionals, microbiologists, and architects with an authoritative resource for assuring our comfort and safety in thehospitals, homes, and workplaces we inhabit.

General

Imprint:	Oxford UniversityPress
Country of origin:	United States
Release date:	March 1989
First published:	December 1988
Editors:	Ruth B. Kundsin (Associate Professor of Microbiology)
Dimensions:	218 x 147 x 23mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	328
ISBN-13:	978-0-19-504436-2
Categories:	Books > Arts & Architecture > Architecture > Architectural structure & design Books > Medicine > Other branches of medicine > Pathology > Medical microbiology & virology Books > Earth & environment > The environment > Pollution & threats to the environment > General Books > Medicine > General issues > Public health & preventive medicine > Personal & public health > Environmental factors Books > Medicine > Clinical & internal medicine > Diseases & disorders > Infectious & contagious diseases > General Promotions
LSN:	0-19-504436-3
Barcode:	9780195044362

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