Potential Damage to Modern Building Materials from 21st Century Air Pollution

Building 21st Century Enterprises

Health damage from current air pollution levels.

In 2013, the World Health Organization (WHO) recommended concentrationresponse functions (CRF) for three major pollutants: fine particles (PM2.5), ozone (O3) and nitrogen dioxide (NO2) in its Health Risks of Air Pollution in Europe (HRAPIE) report.3 Effects were classified into two groups: group A (pollutant-outcome pairs for which enough data are available to enable reliable quantification of ...

Modern Methods for Air Pollution

The monitoring of basic pollutants (sulphur oxides, nitrogen oxides, carbon monoxide, oxidants, hydrocarbons and particulate matter) to determine the air quality of a certain area is described. The performance of air monitoring by static, mechanized or automatic devices in point sensors and by remote and long-path sensors is discussed and further possibilities forecast. The evaluation of the st...

Building Trust in 21st Century Genomics

Michael J. Szego,* Janet A. Buchanan, and Stephen W. Scherer,,**, *The Centre for Clinical Ethics, Toronto, ON M6R 1B5, Canada, †The Centre for Applied Genomics, The Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, ON M5G 1X8, Canada, ‡The Joint Centre for Bioethics, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON M5T 1P8, Canada, §Program in Genetics and Genome Biology, The Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, ON M5G ...

Endothelial damage due to air pollution

The first human deaths due to air pollution were recorded in the mid-20th century. There were 6,000 cases of illness recorded in Donora, Pennsylvania, in 1948 and 20,000 in London in 1952; 15 and 4,000 cases of death, respectively, were allegedly ascribed to air pollution. Since then, many countries have adopted standards of air quality in order to protect environmental and human health, althou...