The presentation will summarize the work of the two working groups with special emphasis on the TVOC indicator and its use for evaluations of indoor air quality. Keywords will be chemical and sensory measures of emission from building materials, modelings of the exposures of occupants of buildings where the material is to be installed and finally evaluation of health and comfort effects of the emissions which can be expected if the source material is installed in buildings. Homes Healthier Shelter from the outside world is a fundamental necessity for mankind. Shelter and clothing have allowed us to inhabit even the most extreme climates. When Designed, furnished and decorated to support human functions, interaction, solitude, security and pleasure, shelter become homes.
Homes express cultural and personal preferences limited by economic resources.
The world is becoming more urbanized, with cities expanding primarily by immigration of a poor, under-educated, rural population. The economic driver for most market-based economics is concentrated in urban areas along with financial and political interests. There is and will continue to be a chronic housing shortage. Miserable sanitation, poor nutrition, and lack of health care will shorten many lives. Well-intended governments rush to increase the supply of urban housing, mostly in the form of densely inhabited high rise apartments.