Advances in the toxicity of construction and building materials / edited by Fernando Pacheco-Torgal, Joseph O. Falkinham, and Jerzy Andrzej Galaj.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction to advances in the toxicity of construction and building materials -- Part I. Indoor air contaminants -- Assessment of hazardous compounds in building materials accumulated by the action of the atmospheric pollution -- Toxicity of semivolatile organic compounds -- Volatile organic compound emissions in building materials -- Part II. Fire toxicity of building materials -- Toxicity gases emitted during a fire and ventilation -- Flame-retardant plastic composites -- Fire behavior of sandwich panels with different cores -- Natural radioactivity in cement -- Coal bottom ash natural radioactivity in building materials -- Recycling of radioactive phosphogypsum wastes -- Part III. Toxicity of metals, asbestos and of waste reuse -- Lead-based construction and building materials: human exposure, risk, and risk control -- Demolition waste contaminated with asbestos -- Recycling and reuse of bottom ashes from municipal solid-waste incineration plants in building materials -- Leaching of concrete with mine tailings.