Monitoring success of remediation: Seven case studies of moisture and mold damaged buildings

Science of the Total Environment

Volumn 399, Issue 1-3, 2008, Pages 19-27

  Haverinen Shaughnessy, Ulla ^a   Hyvärinen, Anne ^a   Putus, Tuula ^a   Nevalainen, Aino ^a  

^a NATIONAL PUBLIC HEALTH INSTITUTE   (Finland)

Author keywords

Follow up; Health symptoms; Microbial measurements; Questionnaire; Visual inspection; Work environment

Indexed keywords

AIR CONDITIONING; AIR QUALITY; MOISTURE; VENTILATION;

HEALTH SYMPTOMS; VISUAL INSPECTION; WORK ENVIRONMENT;

REMEDIATION;

BUILDING; DAMAGE; DEGRADATION; FUNGUS; MICROBIAL ACTIVITY; MOISTURE; MONITORING; QUESTIONNAIRE SURVEY; REMEDIATION; SYMPTOM; VISUAL ANALYSIS;

AIR CONDITIONING; AIR QUALITY; ARTICLE; BUILDING; CONTROLLED STUDY; HEALTH HAZARD; HEALTH STATUS; HEATING; HUMAN; MOISTURE; MOULD; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

AIR CONDITIONING; AIR POLLUTANTS, OCCUPATIONAL; AIR POLLUTION, INDOOR; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; FACILITY DESIGN AND CONSTRUCTION; FUNGI; HUMANS; HUMIDITY; OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH; RISK ASSESSMENT; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 44649169683     PISSN: 00489697     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2008.03.033     Document Type: Article

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