Safer paint: water-borne alternatives

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Water-borne paints are safer than solvent-based products and are widening their market share. Two thirds of paints produced in Europe are water-based. Their advantages include quick drying, low odour, tolerance to damp and easy clean-up. They are less effective in wet and cold conditions and have poor early shower resistance. Volatile organic compounds in solvent-based paints threaten health of painters and building occupants are damage the environment by reacting with sunlight to produce photechemical oxidants. The principal uses of water-borne paints are for walls, trims, masonry and exterior woods.

Paints, Paint

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Troubled viaduct over water

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Victorian stone Lambley Viaduct has been renovated using 3000 square meters of lime mortar in keeping with its original design. The North pennines, England, structure includes nine 17-meter-wide arches of 32 meters high and runs across the South Tyne river. A description of the restoration work is given. Some of the stonework is being replaced using Nattras Gill Hazle and Stanton Moor Buff stone.

Remodeling and renovation, Architecture, Victorian, Victorian architecture, Viaducts

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Water, water, everywhere

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Flooding in the United Kingdom in 2000 has highlighted the issue of the siting of new houses. An ecological approach to the environmental aspects of flood control may have had a negative impact on defences and an integrated approach to problems may be needed.

Causes of, Flood control, Floods

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