Building pathology

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Biodeterioration of building materials is a complex issue and requires a multidisciplinary integrated approach, which combines the skills of: building mycologists entomologists public health services structural engineers architectural and material sciences surveyors conservation officers conservation bodies and environmental monitoring specialists. The study of fungi is known as mycology ('mykes': mushroom or fungus; 'lugos': discourse). The world's ecosystems are sustained and kept in balance...