Ampofo-Anti, NL2015-11-202015-11-202015-08Ampofo-Anti, NL. 2015. A brief introduction to chemical hazards in the life cycle of building products with floor coverings as a case study. In: Green Building Handbook South Africa, Volume 8: the Essential Guide, pp 54-85.http://hdl.handle.net/10204/8301Copyright: 2015 Alive2GreenBuildings play an essential role in the social and economic advancement of human societies. However, modern buildings contain numerous synthetic, chemically processed and or treated materials, most of which have never been tested to determine the health hazard status (Liddell et al, 2008; AQS, 2010). Given the inordinate materials demand of the building sector, the production, use and disposal of modern building products has come to play a central role in the creation of human and environmental health hazard. The types and quantities of building products are constantly on the increase. The exposure to potentially hazardous chemicals is therefore likely to increase in the absence of an intervention aimed at replacing toxic with benign building products. At the beginning of the 20th Century, about 50 materials were used in buildings (Liddell et al, 2008). Now, more than 55 000 building products are available, and over half are man-made.enBuilding productsChemical building material hazardsFloor coveringsEmbodied toxicityBuilding productsVolatile organic compoundsVOCsSemi-volatile organic compoundsSVOCsBook ChapterAmpofo-Anti, N. (2015). A brief introduction to chemical hazards in the life cycle of building products with floor coverings as a case study., <i>Worklist;15472</i> http://hdl.handle.net/10204/8301Ampofo-Anti, NL. "A brief introduction to chemical hazards in the life cycle of building products with floor coverings as a case study" In <i>WORKLIST;15472</i>, n.p.: n.p. 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/10204/8301.Ampofo-Anti N. A brief introduction to chemical hazards in the life cycle of building products with floor coverings as a case study.. Worklist;15472. [place unknown]: [publisher unknown]; 2015. [cited yyyy month dd]. http://hdl.handle.net/10204/8301.TY - Book Chapter AU - Ampofo-Anti, NL AB - Buildings play an essential role in the social and economic advancement of human societies. However, modern buildings contain numerous synthetic, chemically processed and or treated materials, most of which have never been tested to determine the health hazard status (Liddell et al, 2008; AQS, 2010). Given the inordinate materials demand of the building sector, the production, use and disposal of modern building products has come to play a central role in the creation of human and environmental health hazard. The types and quantities of building products are constantly on the increase. The exposure to potentially hazardous chemicals is therefore likely to increase in the absence of an intervention aimed at replacing toxic with benign building products. At the beginning of the 20th Century, about 50 materials were used in buildings (Liddell et al, 2008). Now, more than 55 000 building products are available, and over half are man-made. DA - 2015-08 DB - ResearchSpace DP - CSIR KW - Building products KW - Chemical building material hazards KW - Floor coverings KW - Embodied toxicity KW - Building products KW - Volatile organic compounds KW - VOCs KW - Semi-volatile organic compounds KW - SVOCs LK - https://researchspace.csir.co.za PY - 2015 T1 - A brief introduction to chemical hazards in the life cycle of building products with floor coverings as a case study TI - A brief introduction to chemical hazards in the life cycle of building products with floor coverings as a case study UR - http://hdl.handle.net/10204/8301 ER -