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    Sources and solutions of air pollution in the built environment are discussed. Sources include energy use (39% of carbon emissions), building materials like bricks and concrete production, cooking, and cooling systems. Indoor sources are heating, infiltration through cracks, volatile organic compounds from materials, and construction materials like asbestos. Solutions proposed are planting air quality sensors, cleaning cooling/heating systems, using healthy materials, retrofitting buildings, and improving management and ventilation. Over 90% of the world's population lives in places exceeding WHO air quality guidelines.

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    Sources and solutions of air pollution in the built environment are discussed. Sources include energy use (39% of carbon emissions), building materials like bricks and concrete production, cooking, and cooling systems. Indoor sources are heating, infiltration through cracks, volatile organic compounds from materials, and construction materials like asbestos. Solutions proposed are planting air quality sensors, cleaning cooling/heating systems, using healthy materials, retrofitting buildings, and improving management and ventilation. Over 90% of the world's population lives in places exceeding WHO air quality guidelines.

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    WGBC Air Quality in The Built Environment FINAL PG 2

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    Sources and solutions of air pollution in the built environment are discussed. Sources include energy use (39% of carbon emissions), building materials like bricks and concrete production, cooking, and cooling systems. Indoor sources are heating, infiltration through cracks, volatile organic compounds from materials, and construction materials like asbestos. Solutions proposed are planting air quality sensors, cleaning cooling/heating systems, using healthy materials, retrofitting buildings, and improving management and ventilation. Over 90% of the world's population lives in places exceeding WHO air quality guidelines.

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    AIR QUALITY

    IN THE BUILT ENVIRONMENT

    Sources and solutions:


    Ambient

    Energy Materials Construction Cooking Cooling


    39% of global Most of the Concrete production Traditional HFCs, potent
    energy-related 1,500 billion bricks can release silica cookstoves cause climate forcers,
    carbon emissions are produced annually are dust, a known 58% global black are often found
    Sources

    attributed to buildings using polluting kilns carcinogen carbon emissions in AC systems


    Indoor

    Heating Damp and mould Chemicals Toxic materials Outdoor infiltration


    Combustion of Caused by VOCs, emitted from Construction materials, Most exposure to
    solid fuels causes air infiltration certain materials, e.g. asbestos, can outdoor air pollution
    indoor as well as through cracks have adverse cause harmful occurs inside
    outdoor pollution in building fabric health effects airborne pollution buildings

    Did you know? 91% of world’s population, urban and rural, live in
    places with air that exceeds WHO guidelines for key pollutants1.
    Solutions

    Plant a Clean Clean Healthy Clean and Building Building


    Sensor with cooling construction materials efficient retrofit management
    WorldGBC and heating energy use and
    ventilation
    1
    World Health Organisation. 2018. Ambient (outdoor) air quality and health. https://www.who.int/news-room/fact-sheets/detail/ambient-(outdoor)-air-quality-and-health.

    Find out more at: worldgbc.org/clean-air-buildings

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