[Greenbuilding] re: Chemical sensitivities

[Robert Tom]

On Wed, 19 Mar 2008 11:28:12 -0400, Joshua Lloyd <JLloyd at markwoodarch.com>  
wrote:

> Can anyone recommend a good resource about designing homes for people
> with chemical sensitivities?

Joshua;

If you go to the Canada Mortgage and Housing Corp.'s website

http://cmhc.ca

and plug "Environmentally Hypersensitive" into the search engine,
it will return the following (list below).

Most are downloadable PDF documents.

If none of them are what you are looking for specifically, the  
bibliographies that are usually included with the full research reports  
should should be useful.


1. Research House for the Environmentally Hypersensitive
Designed to demonstrate affordable ways of achieving clean-air housing,  
this home and its features are for people with respiratory problems and  
environmental hypersensitivities.

3. Building Materials for the Environmentally Hypersensitive
Learn how to reduce potentially debilitating air contaminants inside the  
home.

4. Research Report : A Guide to Mechanical Equipment for Healthy Indoor  
Environments
Summarizes current information on heating, cooling and ventilation systems  
and equipment with regards to their effect on indoor air quality.

5. A Survey of Problem Homes of the Environmentally Hypersensitive
This document is part of the Research Highlights Technical Series.

6. Housing Needs of the Environmentally Hypersensitive Socio-economic /  
Health Factors
This document is part of the Research Highlights Technical Series.

7. Survey of the Medical Impact on Environmentally Hypersensitive People  
of a Change in Habitat  This document is part of the Research Highlights  
Technical Series.

8.Housing for the Environmentally Hypersensitive: A Survey and Examples of  
Clean-air Housing in Canada
This document is part of the Research Highlights Technical Series.

















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