From building regulations and local health rules to the new local building codes: a national survey in Italy on the prescriptive and performance requirements for a new performance approach.
Ann Ig
; 32(5 Supple 1): 36-51, 2020.
Article
in English
| MEDLINE | ID: covidwho-910280
ABSTRACT
BACKGROUND:
World Health Organization has highlighted the need to strengthen the relationship between health and built environment factors, such as inappropriate housing conditions. Building Regulations and Local Health Rules provide safety and building hygiene in construction practices. Currently the Italian Government is giving rise to a Building Regulation Type and the paper aims to verify the present contents of recent innovative Local Health Rules and Building Regulations of several Italian municipalities for supporting the performance approach of the future Building Regulations including hygienic issues.METHODS:
The analysis examines both Building Regulations and Local Health Rules of a sample of about 550 cities, analysing some specific fields of interest urban field, outdoor issues, housing features, housing restrictions, and qualitative aspects.RESULTS:
The analysis focuses on some specific aspects defining the general data reported in Building Regulations and Local Health Rules, in particular around surfaces, heights, lighting and aeration ratio, basements and semi-basements, gas radon, building greenery, etc.CONCLUSION:
The investigation permitted to have a wide vision on the present State of the Art in order to highlight some innovative aspects and design approaches of Building Regulations and Local Health Rules. New perspectives in the new regulations should have a performance approach, starting also from the recent SARS-CoV-2 pandemic.Keywords
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International databases
Database:
MEDLINE
Main subject:
Pneumonia, Viral
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Building Codes
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Hygiene
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Coronavirus Infections
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Pandemics
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Housing
Type of study:
Observational study
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Qualitative research
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Randomized controlled trials
Limits:
Humans
Country/Region as subject:
Europa
Language:
English
Journal:
Ann Ig
Journal subject:
Microbiology
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Public Health
Year:
2020
Document Type:
Article
Affiliation country:
Ai.2020.3393
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