Viruses, Bacteria and Fungi in the Built Environment: Designing Healthy Indoor Environments

by F. Pacheco-Torgal (Editor), Volodymyr Ivanov (Editor), Joseph O. Falkinham (Editor)

Viruses, Bacteria and Fungi in the Built Designing Healthy Indoor Environments opens with a brief introduction to viruses, bacteria and fungi in the built environment and discusses their impact on human health. Sections discuss the microbiology of building materials, the airborne transmission of viruses and bacteria in the built environment, and plumbing-associated microbiome. As the first book on this important area to be written in light of the COVID-19 pandemic, this work will be a valuable reference resource for researchers, civil engineers, architects, postgraduate students, contractors and other professionals working and interested in the field of the built environment. Elements of building design, including choice of materials, ventilation and plumbing can have important implications for the microbiology of a building, and consequently, the health of the building's occupants. This important new reference work explains the microbiology of buildings and disease control in the built environment to those who design and implement new construction and renovate.

348 pages, Paperback

Published December 20, 2021

Reviews

[Library Of Pangea · Rating 5 out of 5]

Very informative,
The section on opportunistic premise plumbing pathogens in particular had a lot of practical and useful information, which is actionable and can be put immediately into effect to improve living conditions.
It also had good information related to the fields of geomycology, which I was not expecting. Though the section on viruses was mostly COVID focused this is understandable given when the book was published. There were some minor grammatical errors that should have been caught in editing but these are superficial given the unique nature of the text.
I think the book left room for a second edition to be much more comprehensive and expansive. Hopefully by the time that book comes out there will have been great advances on the subject.