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Condensation and Dampness in Buildings Workshop
This one-day course aims to provide information and guidance on the problems of condensation and its relationship with toxic mould. The course is aimed at:
- Property Developers
- Estate Agents
- Environmental Health Inspectors
- Property Managers
- Home Inspectors
- Building Surveyors
- Property Care Surveyors
- Architects
- Home Owners
- Landlords and Tenants
These subjects include:
Sources of water in buildings
- Importance of identification
- Features of the sources of water
- Distribution of water in materials
- Methods of measuring and assessing moisture
- Moisture meters
- Carbide meters
- Gravimetric methods
- Environmental moisture
- Contaminant salts
- Origins and effects
Condensation
- Condensation -v- other sources of dampness
- Understanding relative humidity, vapour pressure and environmental moisture
- Water vapour in buildings and its originv
- Mould growth
- Biology of mould
- Toxic moulds
- Measuring environmental moisture
- Hygrometers, surface temperature thermometers, data loggers
- Assessment of collected data
- Case studies
Practical assessment of environmental moisture
- Use of hygrometers, surface temperature thermometers and data loggers
- practical assessment of data