Safer paint: water-borne alternatives
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Water-borne paints are safer than solvent-based products and are widening their market share. Two thirds of paints produced in Europe are water-based. Their advantages include quick drying, low odour, tolerance to damp and easy clean-up. They are less effective in wet and cold conditions and have poor early shower resistance. Volatile organic compounds in solvent-based paints threaten health of painters and building occupants are damage the environment by reacting with sunlight to produce photechemical oxidants. The principal uses of water-borne paints are for walls, trims, masonry and exterior woods.
Publication Name: Architects' Journal
Subject: Business, international
ISSN: 0003-8466
Year: 1992
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Troubled viaduct over water
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Victorian stone Lambley Viaduct has been renovated using 3000 square meters of lime mortar in keeping with its original design. The North pennines, England, structure includes nine 17-meter-wide arches of 32 meters high and runs across the South Tyne river. A description of the restoration work is given. Some of the stonework is being replaced using Nattras Gill Hazle and Stanton Moor Buff stone.
Publication Name: Architects' Journal
Subject: Business, international
ISSN: 0003-8466
Year: 1997
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Water, water, everywhere
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Flooding in the United Kingdom in 2000 has highlighted the issue of the siting of new houses. An ecological approach to the environmental aspects of flood control may have had a negative impact on defences and an integrated approach to problems may be needed.
Publication Name: Architects' Journal
Subject: Business, international
ISSN: 0003-8466
Year: 2000
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