Evaluation of priorities for repairing in moisture-damaged school buildings in Finland

We concluded that by examining construction damages of buildings visually, noting the smell and measuring the moisture in surfaces of building materia ls was possible to decide the order of relative importance for repairings i n water-damaged buildings. Also light evaluation of the exposure to fungi a nd bacteria was succeeded with those methods even if the evaluation was dif ficult in case of minor moisture damages. The operation of the HVAC systems had no correlation to the concentrations of fungi and bacteria in air, mat erial and surfaces samples. (C) 2001 Elsevier Science Ltd. All rights reser ved.