Hazardous construction materials can be of significant economic importance in building and real estate industries.

Examples of this include the assessment of potential contaminated sites, the remediation of construction pollutants or the costly disposal of environmentally relevant construction waste.

This book is a useful guide for all industry stakeholders: clients and investors, project developers, construction supervisors and project managers, architects and planners, general contractors and construction companies.

Its lexical structure and easy-to-understand explanations of relevant terminology tailored to its target group and their professional practice, provide the reader with a broad yet comprehensive initiation into an increasingly complex subject matter.

Siegmund Kaub has graduated from Technical University Berlin (Germany) as a mining engineer in 1991 and has since been working as an expert and consultant, as well as a highly regarded speaker on the subject of hazardous materials in the building industry. He is CEO of the engineering office Kaub Umwelt Consult (www.Kaub-Umwelt-Consult.de).