Healthy Buildings Part 2

Overview

Join the Healthy Buildings Part 2 online course from Warnborough College and you will:

• Be able to evaluate how the physical characteristics of a building can affect human health
• Learn what is toxic to the human body
• Learn how to avoid these toxins
• Learn how to remove these toxins

A lot of buildings and homes these day still contain many hazardous materials without us or homeowners knowing. Buildings constructed in the 1960’s may contain substances such asbestos and the residues of toxic and harmful pesticides.

This course helps you understand these and other environmental concerns that exist in both residential and commercial buildings; and how you might respond to such concerns.

You will cover

• Why and how proximity to bodies of water can affect human health

• Why typical weather conditions may affect the design of a house in different regions

• Why and how exposure to electromagnetic radiation may affect human health

• Why and how proximity to various types of pollution can impact human health

• Why different garden designs can affect the ventilation in a building

• The affect of different garden components on lighting inside the building

• Why and how the design of two different gardens can affect the inside environment of a house

• Analyse two different garden designs for the affect they have on surrounding houses

• Compare the affects different finishes have on human health

• Compare the affects different floor coverings have on human health

• Compare the affects different electrical appliances have on human health

• Analyse how specific buildings like a home and a workplace are used; to determine health risk factors

• Recommend guidelines to the way in which different buildings are used, to minimise negative impacts upon health