• 1st International Conference on Moisture in Buildings (ICMB21) Special Series

    1st International Conference on Moisture in Buildings (ICMB21) Special Series


Based on the 1st International Conference on Moisture in Buildings (ICMB21), which was held online on the 28th and 29th June 2021, this special series collates the highest quality contributions from the ICMB21 in order to act as an archive of this focussed academic gathering. The whole conference programme and details of individual presentations can be found at https://icmb21.exordo.com/programme/at-a-glance.

Moisture in buildings is a field of study with direct, tangible and wide-ranging implications on many areas including climate change mitigation/adaptation, built environment decarbonisation, and health and wellbeing. With the aim of bringing together and consolidating the unusually interdisciplinary research community around this topic, the ICMB21 was held on the 28th and 29th June as the very first event of a biannual conference series organised by the UK Centre for Moisture in Buildings (UKCMB): https://ukcmb.org.


Series Editor

Dr Yasemin D. Aktas, Lecturer, Civil, Environmental and Geomatic Engineering (CEGE), Faculty of Engineering Science, UCL, UK and Deputy Academic Director, UKCMB


Guest Editors

Dr Hector Altamirano, Associate Professor, UCL Institute of Environmental Design and Engineering (IEDE), UCL, UK; Academic Director, UKCMB
Dr Valentina Marincioni, Lecturer, UCL Institute of Environmental Design and Engineering (IEDE), UCL, UK; Technical Director, UKCMB
Dr Peter Rickaby, Principal Research Associate, UCL Institute of Environmental Design and Engineering (IEDE), UCL, UK; Business Manager, UKCMB
Colin King, Commercial Director, UKCMB


Research article


Airborne bacterial species in indoor air and association with physical factors

Anne Mette Madsen, Saloomeh Moslehi-Jenabian, Mika Frankel, John Kerr White and Margit W. Frederiksen

2023-03-31 Volume 5 • 2023

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Special series: 1st International Conference on Moisture in Buildings (ICMB21) Special Series

Mind the gap between non-activated (non-aggressive) and activated (aggressive) indoor fungal testing: impact of pre-sampling environmental settings on indoor air readings

Spyros Efthymiopoulos, Yasemin D. Aktas and Hector Altamirano

2023-02-16 Volume 5 • 2023

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Special series: 1st International Conference on Moisture in Buildings (ICMB21) Special Series

Indoor air quality and early detection of mould growth in residential buildings: a case study

Arianna Brambilla, Christhina Candido and Ozgur Gocer

2022-11-15 Volume 4 • 2022

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Special series: 1st International Conference on Moisture in Buildings (ICMB21) Special Series

In-situ measurements of wall moisture in a historic building in response to the installation of an impermeable floor

Kevin Briggs, Richard Ball and Iain McCaig

2022-11-08 Volume 4 • 2022

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Special series: 1st International Conference on Moisture in Buildings (ICMB21) Special Series

The moisture distribution in wall-to-floor thermal bridges and its influence on mould growth

Yucong Xue, Yifan Fan, Jiang Lu and Jian Ge

2022-10-27 Volume 4 • 2022

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Special series: 1st International Conference on Moisture in Buildings (ICMB21) Special Series

Hygrothermal monitoring of replacement infill panels for historic timber-frame buildings: initial findings

Chris J. Whitman, Oriel Prizeman, Pete Walker, Iain McCaig and Soki Rhee-Duverne

2022-08-26 Volume 4 • 2022

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Special series: 1st International Conference on Moisture in Buildings (ICMB21) Special Series

Moisture control design has to respond to all relevant hygrothermal loads

Hartwig Künzel and Mark Dewsbury

2022-07-15 Volume 4 • 2022

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Special series: 1st International Conference on Moisture in Buildings (ICMB21) Special Series

Achieving a healthy indoor environment by using an emissions barrier to stop the spread of chemicals from a building into the indoor air

Lennart Larsson and Johan Mattsson

2022-03-17 Volume 4 • 2022

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Special series: 1st International Conference on Moisture in Buildings (ICMB21) Special Series