Construction Materials

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  Subject Areas on Research

  • A counterview on data quality and the systematic review process for occupational injury interventions: are we missing the forest for the trees? 
  • Airways obstruction among older construction and trade workers at Department of Energy nuclear sites. 
  • Back injuries among union carpenters in Washington State, 1989-2003. 
  • Bragg grating-based fibre optic sensors in structural health monitoring. 
  • Buyer beware: personnel selling nail guns know little about dangerous tools. 
  • Cancer incidence among union carpenters in New Jersey. 
  • Characterization of the dust/smoke aerosol that settled east of the World Trade Center (WTC) in lower Manhattan after the collapse of the WTC 11 September 2001. 
  • Continued progress in the prevention of nail gun injuries among apprentice carpenters: what will it take to see wider spread injury reductions? 
  • Contribution of environmental fibers to respiratory cancer. 
  • Current state of the science: health effects and indoor environmental quality. 
  • Digging the New York City Skyline: soil fungal communities in green roofs and city parks. 
  • Direct costs and patterns of injuries among residential carpenters, 1995-2000. 
  • Endemic work-related febrile respiratory illness among construction workers. 
  • Environmental aspects of fibrous glass production and utilization. 
  • Mercury hair levels and factors that influence exposure for residents of Huancavelica, Peru. 
  • Methods for using narrative text from injury reports to identify factors contributing to construction injury. 
  • Mortality among sheet metal workers participating in a medical screening program. 
  • Mortality of older construction and craft workers employed at Department of Energy (DOE) nuclear sites. 
  • Nail gun injuries among construction workers. 
  • Nail gun injuries in apprentice carpenters: risk factors and control measures. 
  • Nail gun injuries in residential carpentry: lessons from active injury surveillance. 
  • Nail gun injuries treated in U.S emergency departments, 2006-2011: not just a worker safety issue. 
  • Nail-gun injuries treated in emergency departments--United States, 2001-2005. 
  • Non-fatal construction industry fall-related injuries treated in US emergency departments, 1998-2005. 
  • Prevention of traumatic nail gun injuries in apprentice carpenters: use of population-based measures to monitor intervention effectiveness. 
  • Refining the focus of construction injury surveillance. 
  • Residential mercury contamination in adobe brick homes in Huancavelica, Peru. 
  • Residential metal contamination and potential health risks of exposure in adobe brick houses in Potosí, Bolivia. 
  • Screening for beryllium disease among construction trade workers at Department of Energy nuclear sites. 
  • Speciation and bioaccessibility of mercury in adobe bricks and dirt floors in Huancavelica, Peru. 
  • Surveillance of hearing loss among older construction and trade workers at Department of Energy nuclear sites. 
  • Surveillance of respiratory diseases among construction and trade workers at Department of Energy nuclear sites. 
  • The Anthropocene is functionally and stratigraphically distinct from the Holocene. 
  • Trade-offs between three forest ecosystem services across the state of New Hampshire, USA: timber, carbon, and albedo. 
  • Work-related injuries among union drywall carpenters in Washington State, 1989-2008. 
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  Keywords of People

  • Dement, John McCray, Professor Emeritus in Family Medicine and Community Health, Family Medicine & Community Health,Occupational & Environmental Medicine
  • Halabi, Susan, Professor of Biostatistics and Bioinformatics, Biostatistics & Bioinformatics
  • Hsu-Kim, Heileen, Sternberg Family Professor of Civil & Environmental Engineering, Civil and Environmental Engineering
  • Richter, Daniel D., Professor in the Nicholas School of the Environment and Earth Sciences, Environmental Sciences and Policy