Impact of attached garages on indoor residential BTEX concentrations

R. E. Dodson; J. I. Levy; J. P. Shine; J. D. Spengler; Deborah H Bennett

Impact of attached garages on indoor residential BTEX concentrations

R. E. Dodson, J. I. Levy, J. P. Shine, J. D. Spengler, Deborah H Bennett

Public Health Sciences

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Abstract

Attached garages can act as potential source areas of volatile organic compounds to indoor residential environments. Integrated concentration measurements of several VOCs were collected over 48 hour periods in residences and in corresponding attached garages at 11 homes around the Boston, Massachusetts area across two seasons. Continuous air exchange measurements were also collected using sulfur hexafluoride. Concentrations of VOCs associated with gasoline were much greater in the garage than inside the house, and there is enough air flow to the home attributable to the attached garage that the attached garages represent a potentially important contribution to indoor VOCs.

Original language	English (US)
Title of host publication	HB 2006 - Healthy Buildings: Creating a Healthy Indoor Environment for People, Proceedings
Pages	217-220
Number of pages	4
Volume	1
State	Published - 2006
Event	Healthy Buildings: Creating a Healthy Indoor Environment for People, HB 2006 - Lisboa, Portugal Duration: Jun 4 2006 → Jun 8 2006

Other

Other	Healthy Buildings: Creating a Healthy Indoor Environment for People, HB 2006
Country	Portugal
City	Lisboa
Period	6/4/06 → 6/8/06

Keywords

Attached garages
Indoor air
Volatile organic compounds (VOCs)

ASJC Scopus subject areas

Civil and Structural Engineering
Building and Construction
Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis

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