Abstract
The health issue of Green building material (GBM) has already been
one of the urgent issues for evaluating living environment in Taiwan.
Inappropriate use of the artificial chemical building materials, the
potential hazards and health risk of indoor air quality (IAQ) were
occurred. The GBM labeling system of Taiwan was officially launched in
2004 to systematically and effectively evaluate the performance of green
building materials. The GBM system covers General rule and four major
aspects, including Health, Ecology, Recycling, and High-performance. In
addition, the hormone disrupters are chemicals interfere with the natural
hormones in our bodies, our body’s chemical messengers. The regulation
of heavy metal and toxic chemicals (e.g., phthalate) have also been
involved into the General rule of “Evaluation manual for GBM” and
become effective since 2007. Therefore, the purpose of this study is
planned to screen the hormone disrupters emitted from building materials
on indoor environment and understand the health effect of different
building materials on indoor environment to preserve the human health.
The study first collected the case study of GBM Labeling, and then
checked the item of hormone disrupters of GBM assessment. Second, the
risk assessment method of building materials was established to assess
the health risk of environmental hormones, classified as semiviolatile
organic compounds (SVOCs) on indoor environment under specific
interior decoration materials. Finally, the action plan of screening
hormone disrupters based on different type of building materials was
performed.
摘要
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Based on the above analysis results, the important findings of this
study are concluded as follows:
1. One hundred and fifty-second sample of GBM Labeling reports were
considered. The screening results indicated that overall emissions of
heavy metals and phthalate plasticizers were below the acceptable
standard of “Evaluation manual for GBM”.
2. Based on the mechanism and exposure ways of SVOCs emited from
GBM were identified, the risk assessment framework of plasticizers
emited from GBM was established.
3. The action plan of environmental hormones of GBM Labeling included
continus to check the GBM assessment and increasing the sceening
items.
The immediate and long-term suggestions of this study are proposed
as follows:
1. For immediate suggestion: Planning to check the additive chemicals
with the Material safety data sheet (MSDS) for GBM labeling
assessment by the Architecture and Building Research Institute,
Ministry of the interior (ABRI).
2. For long-term suggestion: Planning to increase the sceening items of
hormone disrupters should be incorporated in GBM labeling by the
ABRI.