Humidity-Dependent Emissions and Residential Exposure to Volatile Organic Compounds from Building Materials

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  • Sawyer Stevenson Author
  • Troy Henderson Author
  • Wade Stewart Author

Keywords:

Residential Material Emissions, Emission Mechanisms, Humidity Response, Chamber Measurement, Residential Exposure, Source Control

Abstract

Residential Material Emissions now turns on the ability to balance performance with evidence quality, resource limits, and transfer across settings. This article critically maps linking humidity-sensitive emission physics with whole-home exposure, health-risk interpretation, and material selection. Its analysis connects 2 focal papers with 13 independently retrieved publications confirmed at bibliographic registration or publisher level. The analysis is organized around emission mechanisms, humidity response, chamber measurement, residential exposure, and source control. The comparison does not regard published metrics as automatically comparable, the review compares problem formulation, design assumptions, and transfer boundary. Across the literature, the most stable insight is that advances in residential material emissions become credible when source, pathway, dose, and outcome are evaluated together and when uncertainty about mixture effects is reported explicitly. The resulting account aligns method selection to application risk, identifies recurring threats to external validity, and proposes a research agenda centered on clear comparators, adversarial conditions, and inspectable evidence.

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Originally published in Inclusive Growth and Management Quarterly (NB), article 52, on 2026-08-31. Transferred to Frontiers in Science and Practice on 3 November 2026. The original authors, publication date and article text are retained.

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2026-08-31

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2026: Transferred NB archive: original Vol. 4, No. 3

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