Building drainage pipework system and its impact on a healthy building

Ir Lonnie S. H. Cheun

Building drainage pipework system and its impact on a healthy building

Ir Lonnie S. H. Cheun

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Abstract

A drainage pipework system was initially considered a channel to transmit SARS virus through air droplets at its outbreak in spring 2003 in Hong Kong. Finally, the SARS virus was admitted, which can be transmitted in the air as an air-borne virus. Indeed, the air-borne virus can actually be transferred through empty pipework when the sewage disposal undergoes an exchange of air and sewage discharging. The risk does exist inside a drainage pipework system. Analysis to the sewage flows and air displacement with linkage to air-borne virus reveals the whole phenomenon inside a building drainage pipework system. This study can enable designers and operators to note the system latent problems if the pipework system is improperly designed.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	HB 2006 - Healthy Buildings: Creating a Healthy Indoor Environment for People, Proceedings
Pages	329-334
Volume	2
Publication status	Published - 2006
Event	Healthy Buildings: Creating a Healthy Indoor Environment for People, HB 2006 - Lisboa, Portugal Duration: 4 Jun 2006 → 8 Jun 2006

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Volume	2

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

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This output contributes to the following UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)

SDG 3 Good Health and Well-being

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Air-borne virus
And latent problem
Drainage pipework system
Exchange of air
Risk

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Building drainage pipework system and its impact on a healthy building

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