SYTTY
DEVELOPMENT OF METHODS TO MONITOR THE SUCCESS OF REPAIR MEASURES
Project leader: Aino Nevalainen, National Public Health Institute
(KTL), Laboratory of Environmental Microbiology, P.O.Box 95, FIN-70701
Kuopio, Finland, tel. +358-17-210 342, e-mail: Aino.Nevalainen@ktl.fi
PUBLICATIONS
(Updated May 13, 2002)
Articles in international scientific journals
Haverinen U, Husman T, Pekkanen J, et. al. Characteristics of moisture damage in houses and their association with self-reported symptoms of the occupants. Indoor Built Environ, 10, 83-94, 2001a.
Submitted articles
Haverinen U, Vahteristo M, Pekkanen J, et al. Formulation and application of an empirical moisture damage index. Submitted in Environ Modelling and Assessment.
Haverinen U, Vahteristo M, Moschandreas D, et al. Knowledge-based and statistically modeled relationships between residential moisture damage and occupant reported health symptoms. Submitted in Environ Res.
Original articles, partly supported
Chelelgo J, Haverinen U, Vahteristo M, et al. Analysis of moisture findings in the interior spaces of Finnish housing stock. Journal Air Waste Manage, 51, 69-77, 2001.
Haverinen U, Husman T, Toivola M, et al. An approach to management of critical indoor air problems in school buildings. Environ Health Persp, 107 (3), 509-514, 1999a.
Haverinen U, Husman T, Vahteristo M, et al. Comparison of two-level and three-level classifications of moisture damaged dwellings in relation to health effects. Indoor Air, 11, 192-199, 2001b.
Hyvärinen A, Vahteristo M, Meklin T, et al. Temporal and spatial variation of fungal concentrations in indoor air. Aerosol Sci Tech. 35,1-8, 2001.
Hyvärinen A, Meklin T, Vepsäläinen A, and Nevalainen A. Fungi and actinobacteria in moisture-damaged building materials – concentrations and diversity. Accepted for publication in Int Biodeterior Biodegradation.
Immonen J, Meklin T, Taskinen T, et al. Skin-prick test findings in students from moisture- and mould-damaged schools: a 3-year follow-up study. Pediatr Allergy Immunol 12, 87-94, 2001a.
Immonen J, Laitinen S, Taskinen T, et al. Mold-specific immunoglobulin E antibodies in primary school students: a 3-year follow-up study. Pediatr Asthma Aller 14, 101-108, 2001b.
Proceedings and abstracts
Haverinen U, Hyvärinen A, Husman T, et al. Preliminary experiences on developing tools for evaluating repairs and their effects in practical situations. In: Proceedings of the Healthy Buildings 2000, August 6-10, 2000, Espoo, Finland, Vol 3, pp 427-432, 2000.
Haverinen, U, Husman, T, Wahlman J, et al. Follow-up of the repairs
and health effects in a moisture damaged school center. In: Proceedings
of the 8th International Conference on Indoor
Air Quality and Climate, Edinburgh, Scotland 3-13 August 1999, Vol
4, pp 191-197, 1999b.
Haverinen U, Vahteristo M, Moschandreas D, et al. Modeling moisture damage and its association with occupant health symptoms. Accepted for publication in Proceedings of the ASHRAE IAQ 2001 Conference on Moisture, Microbes, and Health Effects, San Francisco, California, USA 4-7 November, 2001.
Haverinen U, Pekkanen J, Nevalainen A, Husman T. Evaluating effects
of moisture damage repairs on students’ health using questionnaires. Submitted
c in Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Indoor Air Quality
and Climate (Indoor Air ’02).