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- Title
Environmental Particulate Matter (PM) Exposure Assessment of Construction Activities Using Low-Cost PM Sensor and Latin Hypercubic Technique.
- Authors
Khan, Muhammad; Khan, Numan; Skibniewski, Miroslaw J.; Park, Chansik
- Abstract
Dust generation is generally considered a natural process in construction sites; ergo, workers are exposed to health issues due to fine dust exposure during construction work. The primary activities in the execution of construction work, such as indoor concrete and mortar mixing, are investigated to interrogate and understand the critical high particulate matter concentrations and thus health threats. Two low-cost dust sensors (Sharp GP2Y1014AU0F and Alphasense OPC N2) without implementing control measures to explicitly evaluate, compare and gauge them for these construction activities were utilized. The mean exposures to PM10, PM2.5 and PM1 during both activities were 3522.62, 236.46 and 47.62 µg/m3 and 6762.72, 471.30 and 59.09 µg/m3, respectively. The results show that PM10 and PM2.5 caused during the concrete mixing activity was approximately double compared to the mortar. The Latin Hypercube Sampling method is used to analyze the measurement results and to predict the exposure concentrations. The high dust emission and exposure from mixing activities fail to meet the World Health Organization and Health and Safety Commission standards for environmental exposure. These findings will leverage the integration of low-cost dust sensors with Building Information Modelling (BIM) to formulate a digital twin for automated dust control techniques in the construction site.
- Subjects
WORLD Health Organization; LATIN hypercube sampling; BUILDING information modeling; PARTICULATE matter; CONCRETE mixing; EMISSION exposure; BUILDING sites; DUST; DUST control
- Publication
Sustainability (2071-1050), 2021, Vol 13, Issue 14, p7797
- ISSN
2071-1050
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.3390/su13147797