Asbestos, a risk that is still current

In Spain the marketing and use of the asbestos was forbid in 2002 but materials with asbestos (ACM) follow present in buildings and facilities: work centres, addresses and public buildings.

The asbestos has a high isolation skills and a high fire resistance and to the corrosion. These characteristics made that it was used profusely in the industry and in the construction to strengthen materials and to do them resistant to the fire. Low the name of asbestos are included six fibrous minerals qualifiers as carcinogenic.

Cause severe illnesses, as an asbestosis and cancer, with very low survival rates and whose first symptoms can take until 30 years in appearing. In 2019 caused the death of almost 72 000 people in the EU.

Europe has defined a strategy for a future free to asbestos and Member states must develop national strategies for the elimination of the asbestos in the buildings. This charges special importance if is united with the aim of the EU of promote the energetic renewal, which you would be able to originate the renewal of 35 million buildings of here to 2030.

It is estimated that the hard-working number of individuals exhibited in the EU (currently between 4.1 and 7.3 millions) will increase 4% a year until 2031.