Land contamination can give rise to volatile contaminants which can pose a risk of harm to human health by asphyxiation or illness if inhaled. Vapours and gases such as methane may also pose a risk of fire or explosion.

BRE

• Construction of New Buildings on Gas-contaminated Land, BR212.  BRE, 1991. (INFO-RA-4a)
• Protective measures for housing on gas-contaminated land. BRE Report 414. 2001.
• Radon: Guidance on protective measures for new buildings, BR211. 2015. BRE.

BSI

• Guidance on investigations for ground gas – permanent gases and volatile organic compounds (VOCs). BS 8576. BSI, 2013.
• Code of Practice for the design of protective measures for methane and carbon dioxide ground gases in new buildings. BS8485. BSI. 2015.

Chartered Institute of Environmental Health

• The Local Authority Guide to Ground Gas. Wilson, S., Card, G. and Haines, S.: Chartered Institute of Environmental Health, London, 2008. - Out of Print

CIRIA

• Methane: Its Occurrence and Hazards in Construction, R130. CIRIA,1993. (INFO-RA2-4b).
• Protecting Development from Methane, R149. CIRIA,1995. (INFO-RA2-4c).
• Interpreting Measurements of Gas in the Ground, R151. CIRIA, 1995. (INFO-RA2-4d).
• Risk Assessment for Methane and Other Gases from the Ground, R152. CIRIA, 1995. (INFO-RA2-4e).
• Assessing Risks Posed by Hazardous Ground Gases to Buildings. C665. CIRIA, 2007.
• The VOC Handbook. Investigation, Assessing and Managing Risks from Inhalation of VOCs at Land Affected by Contamination. Baker et al. CIRIA C682, 2009.
• Good practice on the testing and verification of protection systems for buildings against hazardous ground gases. Mallett, H. , Cox L, Wilson s, Corban M. CIRIA C735, 2014.
• Guidance on the use of plastic membranes as VOC vapour barriers. Wilson, S., Abbot, A. and Mallett, H. CIRIA C748, 2014.

CL:AIRE

• The utility of continuous monitoring in the detection and prediction of worst case ground gas concentration. RB13. CL:AIRE, 2011.
• RB 17 - A Pragmatic Approach to Ground Gas Risk Assessment (2012)

Environment Agency

• Vapour Transfer of Soil Contaminants, R&D Technical Report P5-018/TR. EA, 2002. (INFO-RA2-4h) (PDF, 1.6MB)
  

Info4education

• Passive Venting of Soil Gases Beneath Buildings. DETR/PIT, 1997. (INFO-RA2-4f) Volume 1 (Guide for Design)
• Volume 2 (Computational Fluid Dynamics Modelling: Example Output) 

NCE

• Reliability and Risk in Gas Protection Design. Wilson S., & Card G. Ground Engineering 1999.

NHBC

• Guidance on Evaluation of Development Proposals on Sites Where Methane and Carbon Dioxide are Present. 10627-R01(04). NHBC and RSK Group. NHBC , 2007.

United States Environmental Protection Agency

• Petroleum Hydrocarbons and Chlorinated Solvents Differ in their Potential Vapor Intrusion. USEPA, 2012
• Technical Guide Addressing Petroleum Vapor Intrusion at Leaking Underground Storage Tank Sites. EPA510-R-15-001, USEPA, June 2015
• Technical Guide for Assessing and Mitigating Vapor Intrusion Pathway from Subsurface Vapor Sources to Indoor Air. OSWER Publication 9200.2-154, USEPA, 2015

Others

• The Monitoring of Landfill Gas, Landfill Gas Monitoring Working Group report. IWM, 1998. (INFO-RA2-4g). This report is out of print but may be available from subscription libraries.
• Gas protection measures for buildings. Methodology for the quantitative design of gas dispersal layers. Owen, R. and Paul, V. Proceedings of the Fifth International Conference – Polluted and Marginal Land. 1998
• Ground Gas Handbook. Wilson S, Card G, Haines S. Whittles Publishing. 2009.