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A Study on the HCHO Grade of Architectural Material's Standard for Greenness with Consideration for Residents' Safety  

Song, Hyuk (Bio-Housing Research Institute, Chonnam National University)
Go, Seong-Seok (School of Architecture, Chonnam National University)
Chung, Woo-Yang (Division of Forest Resources & Landscape Architecture)
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Journal of the Korean Society of Safety / v.21, no.1, 2006 , pp. 133-140 More about this Journal
Abstract
According to Tokyo protocol which suggests the prevention of global environmental pollution, Korean government establishes the standard of architectural materials emission consistency with best effort to decrease the environmental pollution. But many current architectural materials which are used for constructing and remodeling buildings are composed of a variety of chemicals. These include stimuli bad for the residents' health and safety and harmful discharged air polluting substances such as volatile organic compounds(TVOCs) and formaldehyde(HCHO) that in tern include a variety of carcinogen substances. These discharged substances are also researched into inducing 'sick building syndrome' which induces headache, dizziness, vomiting and concentration failure among residents. But the standard of architectural materials according to the Korean apartment provision is limited to emission factors: HCHO and TVOCs. So the aim of this study is to present a standard of functional material's emission consistency about TVOCs including glues and paints, and a certification grade for green building by instituting a materials standard for green building which has consideration for the residents' safety.
Keywords
resident's safety; construction materials; volatile organic compounds; formaldehyde(HCHO);
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