Investigating sick building syndrome

Sick building syndrome SBS) alludes to a certain variety of debilitating symptoms affecting office workers and residents of other buildings. SBS is wide spread and may occur in offices, apartment houses, nurseries and schools, resulting in substantial costs to the community.

1. Designing ecologically

1. Constructing ventilated buildings
2. Building healthy houses

1. Testing contaminated buildings

1. Sick building syndrome
2. Poisonous, allergenic and biologically active wood
3. Over-use of formaldehyde in building materials and personal products
4. Indoor air pollution
5. Environmental hazards of furniture and fixtures manufacture
6. Destructive action of mould in tropical climates
7. Allergy inducing industrial chemicals

1. Unhealthiness
2. Syndrome
3. Sickness