Indoor fungal growth on variable antifungal at different wall finishing on plasterboard
Various health complaints often been attributed to pollution and the poor quality of the indoor air. If there is good practice in building design, construction, and maintenance, the structures should remain dry. However, when there is moisture damage, the materials may be in contact with water for p...
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| author | Sunar, N.M. Subramaniam, Tamil Selvan Zulkifly, N.F. Parjo, Umi Kalthsom Er, Ching Ming Leman, Abdul Mutalib Khalid, Amir Shaari, Muhammad Farid Abdul Rashid, Azrin Hani Zaidi, E. Azhar, A. T. S. |
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| description | Various health complaints often been attributed to pollution and the poor quality of the indoor air. If there is good practice in building design, construction, and maintenance, the structures should remain dry. However, when there is moisture damage, the materials may be in contact with water for prolonged times, which inevitably leads to microbial growth or even total deterioration of the building material. Antimicrobial coating is designed to generate a surface that is easy to clean and can also incorporate active agents, commonly called antifungal, that prevent microbial colonization, the subsequent growth and bio-deterioration of the substrate. This paper presents the sustainable treatment for indoor environment quality in buildings by examining the application of potassium sorbate, zinc salicylate, and calcium benzoate that used as food industry preservatives as indoor antimicrobial agents. Four types of wall finishing used on plasterboard substrate: acrylic paint, glycerol based-paint, thin wallpaper, and thick wallpaper. The result indicated that potassium sorbate is the best bio compound to react as antifungal agent to prohibit the growth of indoor fungi. All the antifungal shows difference level of their effectiveness from each other. Only 40% of fungi were able to grow on thin wallpaper by using potassium sorbate as antifungal agent. |
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| spelling | uthm-50472022-01-04T07:11:06Z http://eprints.uthm.edu.my/5047/ Indoor fungal growth on variable antifungal at different wall finishing on plasterboard Sunar, N.M. Subramaniam, Tamil Selvan Zulkifly, N.F. Parjo, Umi Kalthsom Er, Ching Ming Leman, Abdul Mutalib Khalid, Amir Shaari, Muhammad Farid Abdul Rashid, Azrin Hani Zaidi, E. Azhar, A. T. S. TA Engineering (General). Civil engineering (General) TA174 Engineering design Various health complaints often been attributed to pollution and the poor quality of the indoor air. If there is good practice in building design, construction, and maintenance, the structures should remain dry. However, when there is moisture damage, the materials may be in contact with water for prolonged times, which inevitably leads to microbial growth or even total deterioration of the building material. Antimicrobial coating is designed to generate a surface that is easy to clean and can also incorporate active agents, commonly called antifungal, that prevent microbial colonization, the subsequent growth and bio-deterioration of the substrate. This paper presents the sustainable treatment for indoor environment quality in buildings by examining the application of potassium sorbate, zinc salicylate, and calcium benzoate that used as food industry preservatives as indoor antimicrobial agents. Four types of wall finishing used on plasterboard substrate: acrylic paint, glycerol based-paint, thin wallpaper, and thick wallpaper. The result indicated that potassium sorbate is the best bio compound to react as antifungal agent to prohibit the growth of indoor fungi. All the antifungal shows difference level of their effectiveness from each other. Only 40% of fungi were able to grow on thin wallpaper by using potassium sorbate as antifungal agent. Science Publishing Corporation 2018 Article PeerReviewed Sunar, N.M. and Subramaniam, Tamil Selvan and Zulkifly, N.F. and Parjo, Umi Kalthsom and Er, Ching Ming and Leman, Abdul Mutalib and Khalid, Amir and Shaari, Muhammad Farid and Abdul Rashid, Azrin Hani and Zaidi, E. and Azhar, A. T. S. (2018) Indoor fungal growth on variable antifungal at different wall finishing on plasterboard. International Journal of Engineering & Technology, 7 (3.23). pp. 53-55. ISSN 2227-524X |
| spellingShingle | TA Engineering (General). Civil engineering (General) TA174 Engineering design Sunar, N.M. Subramaniam, Tamil Selvan Zulkifly, N.F. Parjo, Umi Kalthsom Er, Ching Ming Leman, Abdul Mutalib Khalid, Amir Shaari, Muhammad Farid Abdul Rashid, Azrin Hani Zaidi, E. Azhar, A. T. S. Indoor fungal growth on variable antifungal at different wall finishing on plasterboard |
| title | Indoor fungal growth on variable antifungal at different wall finishing on plasterboard |
| title_full | Indoor fungal growth on variable antifungal at different wall finishing on plasterboard |
| title_fullStr | Indoor fungal growth on variable antifungal at different wall finishing on plasterboard |
| title_full_unstemmed | Indoor fungal growth on variable antifungal at different wall finishing on plasterboard |
| title_short | Indoor fungal growth on variable antifungal at different wall finishing on plasterboard |
| title_sort | indoor fungal growth on variable antifungal at different wall finishing on plasterboard |
| topic | TA Engineering (General). Civil engineering (General) TA174 Engineering design |
| url | http://eprints.uthm.edu.my/5047/ |