Visible information on health and safety effects from building materials in adaptation activities

Abstract

The growing attention of sustainability agenda has led the development strategies on hazardous and toxic building materials identification for building construction industries. Unfortunately, the fragmentation and complexity of the construction process and involvement of many stakeholders resulted in lack of knowledge and information to manage the risks and hazards. There is a need for creating, converting, exchanging and sharing knowledge from scientific research findings with construction practices. For this study, a conceptual model was developed to assist the understanding on available building material information. This information model focuses on the initial effort to obtain baseline information on building material used and the possible risk management and mitigation strategies. Visible and accessible information on possible negative effects from building materials may assist decision making that could avoid and reduce potential deficiencies that may lead to increased adverse effects to health, safety or unforeseen death.