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Buildings in Areas near Airports, Highways, and Train Lines
Published in Gds Stevie Famulari, Green Up!, 2019
Long term goals, 5–25 years Maintain air purification, including scheduled testing of the site. Remove or seal lead pipes and lead paint. Replace gas stove top to a conduction stove top. Create consistent and comfortable humidity levels.Create consistent and comfortable temperature levels. Replace old windows with soundproof windows. Renovate walls to create a planted edge for apartment cleaners. Set all plants on timers as appropriate for the temperature and humidity. Create community space for all people who live in the building to socialize.
What makes a healthy home? A study in Auckland, New Zealand
Published in Building Research & Information, 2022
Nipuni Nilakshini Wimalasena, Alice Chang-Richards, Kevin I.-Kai Wang, Kim Natasha Dirks
Lead is a copious contaminant in the environment (Hou et al., 2017) and is considered to be the sixth most important housing factor affecting public health in the current study. Since exposure to lead paint can trigger many health issues including cerebrovascular disease, blood pressure increase, stroke and heart disease, most developed countries and some developing countries have now regulated the use of lead in paints for building interiors and toys (O’Connor et al., 2018). Lead-based paint was used in and on New Zealand buildings until the 1980s, and more than 50,000 Housing New Zealand homes remain covered in toxic lead-based paint (Clent, 2019). Safety precautions are necessary when engaging in the removal of lead-based paint to avoid the risk of lead poisoning and soil contamination. Second-hand smoke is one of the main causes of indoor air pollution in New Zealand (Environmental Health Intelligence, 2021; Mason & Borman, 2016). In the current study, participants identified smoking inside the house as a critical health burden (ranked tenth on the basis of the mean). Similarly, many other countries such as the USA (Tsai et al., 2018), Portugal (Precioso et al., 2019), Hong Kong (Leung et al., 2015) and India (Tripathy, 2020) have also identified negative health issues associated with SHS exposure. In 2015/2016, around 29,000 New Zealand children (3.2%) aged 0–14 years were exposed to second-hand smoke in their dwellings (Environmental Health Intelligence, 2021). Compared with older non-smokers (25–75 + years), young people aged 15–19 years (7.8%) and those 20–24 years (7.6%) experienced the highest levels of second-hand smoke in homes in New Zealand. Thus, it is vital to establish interventions to enhance the prevalence of smoke-free homes to reduce SHS exposure.