10Aug 2017

BUILDING ALLIED MANAGEMENT OF HEALTH IN ANTHROPOCENE EPOCH.

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The building materials during post Holocene were local materials now replaced by man mediated concrete, steel, aluminum, glass, PVC, sheet rock etc. in the present Anthropocene epoch. The sky scrapers need to be energy efficient, low water demand and waste generation, heat comfort and hazardless. The construction parameters are the R value, U factor, physical properties, shading coefficients; solar heat gain coefficient, volatile organic compounds and other ionizing radiations of the materials those are deteriorating human health. The heat comfort and fatigue reduction technologies for cool and radiation less buildings, active and passive cooling methods are discussed. The recommendations of international working groups like Indian Green Building Council, Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design, Green Rating for Integrated Habitat Assessment, and The United States Agency for International Development are discussed related to human health. The challenge for the modern construction is to find replacement of construction materials to the present radiation causing materials to provide building related safe human health with rising temperature. The study investigates the present building material parameters in the new epoch and its effect on human health and a management strategy have been developed.

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[Dr. Siba Prasad Mishra. (2017); BUILDING ALLIED MANAGEMENT OF HEALTH IN ANTHROPOCENE EPOCH. Int. J. of Adv. Res. 5 (Aug). 138-151] (ISSN 2320-5407). www.journalijar.com

Siba Prasad Mishra
Centurion University of Technology and Management

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Article DOI: 10.21474/IJAR01/5044      
DOI URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.21474/IJAR01/5044

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