- 著者
- Kim Hyun-tae Kim Tae-woo Hong Won-hwa Tanabe Shin-ichi
- 出版者
- 日本建築学会、大韓建築学会、中国建築学会
- 雑誌
- Journal of Asian Architecture and Building Engineering (ISSN:13467581)
- 巻号頁・発行日
- vol.16, no.3, pp.633-639, 2017-09-15 (Released:2017-09-15)
- 参考文献数
- 45
- 被引用文献数
- 6
The authors evaluate indoor air quality in apartments built according to the South Korean Clean-Healthy House construction standard. The evaluation includes three types of residential units with differing gross floor areas. Indoor air was analyzed for formaldehyde (observed range 52.0–99.2 ug/m3), acetaldehyde (14.6–61.0 ug/m3), benzene (0.6–1.3 ug/m3), toluene (161.8–371.0 ug/m3) ethylbenzene (6.5–17.0 ug/m3), xylene (14.7–45.0 ug/m3), and styrene (37.7–112.5 ug/m3). The concentrations of all analyzed substances were within the South Korean guidelines. The findings confirm that the Clean-Healthy Homes initiative has led to a greatly improved indoor air environment compared to existing newly built apartment blocks in South Korea. However, this construction standard is applied only to large apartment developments comprising 1,000 or more units, and it seems that further effort should be made to extend the standard to stand-alone residences and small-scale apartment blocks in order to ensure that indoor air quality is maintained more widely.
- 著者
- Kim Hyun-tae Tanabe Shin-ichi
- 出版者
- 日本建築学会、大韓建築学会、中国建築学会
- 雑誌
- Journal of Asian Architecture and Building Engineering (ISSN:13467581)
- 巻号頁・発行日
- vol.16, no.3, pp.661-668, 2017-09-15 (Released:2017-09-15)
- 参考文献数
- 56
- 被引用文献数
- 1
PVC floor material is widely used in Korean homes, and people customarily sit or lie on the floor surface. This could potentially put residents of such homes at high risk of exposure to semi-volatile organic compounds (SVOCs). However, there is a current lack of information regarding the degree of SVOC contamination in Korean homes. Therefore, this study was implemented to measure SVOC concentration in the air and house dust in homes and kindergartens, places where children spend long periods of time. The substances analyzed were 2E1H, D6, DEP, TBP, TCEP, DBP, TPP, DOA, and DEHP. Amounts of 2E1H, D6, DEP, DBP, and DEHP were detected in the air of the homes included in the study, and the average air concentrations of DBP and DEHP were 0.53 μg/m3 and 0.28 μg/m3, respectively. The average dust DEHP concentrations in the rooms of homes and kindergartens were 2,800 μg/g and 4,350 μg/g, respectively, showing that higher values were measured in kindergartens. The measured DEHP concentrations in the dust of both homes and kindergartens where PVC floor materials are used were high.