The Radon Gas in Underground Buildings in Clay Soils. The Plaza Balmis Shelter as a Paradigm

International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health
Carlos Rizo Maestre, Víctor Echarri Iribarren

Abstract

In healthy buildings, it is considered essential to quantify air quality. One of the most fashionable indicators is radon gas. To determine the presence of this element, which is harmful to health, in the environment, the composition of the soil is studied. The presence of radon gas within a building depends both on the terrain in which it is located and on the composition of the materials of which it is composed, and not as was previously believed, only by the composition of the soil (whether granitic or not). Many countries are currently studying this phenomenon, including Spain where the building regulations regarding the accumulation of radon gas, do not list in their technical codes, the maximum dose that can a building can hold so that it is not harmful to people and the measures to correct excessive accumulation. Therefore, once the possible existence of radon in any underground building has been verified, regardless of the characteristics of the soil, the importance of defining and unifying the regulations on different levels of radon in all architectural constructions is evident. Medical and health science agencies, including the World Health Organization, consider that radon gas is a very harmful element for people. T...Continue Reading

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Mar 4, 2020·Environmental Science and Pollution Research International·Zeynab Abaszadeh FathabadiAli Asghar Ebrahimi
Dec 2, 2020·International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health·Carlos Rizo-Maestre, Víctor Echarri-Iribarren

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