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Healthy Buildings

How Indoor Spaces Can Make You Sick—or Keep You Well

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HARDCOVER

$35.00 • £30.95 • €31.95

ISBN 9780674278363

Publication Date: 10/18/2022

Academic Trade

336 pages

6-1/8 x 9-1/4 inches

17 illus., 11 tables

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  • Preface to the 2022 Edition: Healthy Buildings as the Foundation of a Health-First Era
  • Preface: Why This Book?
  • I. The Case for Healthy Buildings
    • 1. Who Are We and Why Should You Care?
    • 2. The Global Mega-changes Shaping Our World, Our Buildings, and Us
    • 3. Why Are We Ignoring the 90 Percent?
    • 4. Putting the Building to Work for You
    • 5. Creating and Capturing Value
  • II. A Healthy Building Strategy
    • 6. The 9 Foundations of a Healthy Building
    • 7. Our Global Chemical Experiment
    • 8. Buildings as a First Line of Defense against Covid and Other Airborne Infectious Diseases
    • 9. Healthy Building Certification Systems
    • 10. Moving from KPIs to HPIs
    • 11. Beyond the Four Walls
    • 12. What’s Now and What’s Next?
  • Conclusion: Buildings, Business, Health, and Wealth
  • Notes
  • Acknowledgments
  • Index

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