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Showing 1 to 13 of 13 for “"sick building syndrome"”.
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Sick building syndrome : challenges and opportunities
Case studies of three office buildings were undertaken in order to determine whether the phenomenon known as 'sick building syndrome' (SBS) creates a lasting economic stigma after a proven or alleged SBS problem is corrected, and whether undertaking preventive measures against factors known to …
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Η δυνητική συμβολή της διατροφής στην αντιμετώπιση των συμπτωμάτων του Συνδρόμου Άρρωστου Κτιρίου - The potential contribution of nutrition to the management of Sick Building Syndrome Symptoms
Το Σύνδρομο του Άρρωστου Κτιρίου αναγνωρίστηκε από τον Παγκόσμιο Οργανισμό Υγείας το 1982 και περιγράφει μια σειρά μη ειδικών, αλλά κλινικά σημαντικών συμπτωμάτων, τα οποία εμφανίζονται σε άτομα που εργάζονται ή διαβιούν σε συγκεκριμένα εσωτερικά περιβάλλοντα. Η συμπτωματολογία του συνδρόμου …
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Developing human response and exposure criteria for evaluating indoor environments
Current building codes and standards may not be adequate to assure occupant wellbeing or to prevent problems such as the Sick Building Syndrome (SBS). As building codes and standards are based at least implicitly on human response criteria, the objective of this dissertation was to define human …
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Health Informatics Solution to Indoor Air Pollution: An Opportunity for Epidemiological Research
… links sources from indoor air pollution to sick building syndrome (SBS). SBS decreases human productivity, impacts learning abilities, and has the potential to trigger existing asthmatic symptoms, cause dizziness, nausea, fatigue, irritation to the lungs, etc. To improve the management of …
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Designing bifunctional materials for in-situ capture and conversion of volatile organic compounds
… of indoor air CO<sub>2</sub> in commercial buildings can lead to various health effects, commonly known as sick building syndrome (SBS). The largest sources of indoor CO<sub>2</sub> accumulation are human beings, and therefore the control of the aforementioned is carried out by ventilation …
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Green realities : the financial opportunities of environmental sensitive development in the commercial real estate development industry
… green development case studies, (1) green building design strategies, (2) environmentally sensitive siting practices, (3) green development incentive programs, and (4) integrated development processes were examined in terms of opportunities for financial gain and development savings …
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The antifungal coating of different wall finishing towards growth inhibition of aspergillus niger
… which directly affects human and the comfort of building occupants. The concentration of fungi, humans, animals and others contribute to indoor air pollutants and can cause a syndrome known as sick building syndrome. In this study, the growth of fungi in a lecturers’ room at Universiti Tun …
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Health risk effect of indoor air quality index at adaptive reused museum in Malaysia
… which affect towards the people in the public building, especially in the museum. As one of the environmental risk assessment tool, the environmental quality index was utilised to determine whether the current location provides a healthy environment or not. Therefore the purpose of this study …
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Performance of an air-to-air heat pump heating and recovery unit at high ventilation rates
… study identifies reasons for ventilation and building strategies involving high ventilation rates, including the physiological and emotional needs of people and the various economic, climatic and Governmental polices (climate change levy, public health legislation) that impact upon heating and …
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Modeling Diffusion-Controlled Emissions of Volatile Organic Compounds from Building Materials
… are a common class of indoor air pollutants. Building materials such as treated wood, pressed-wood products, wallboard, sealants, adhesives, floor coverings, and paints can be sources of VOC emissions. The knowledge-base necessary to develop effective solutions to indoor air quality problems …
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Colorimetric sensor array for identification of fungi & ultrasonic spray synthesis for supercapacitor materials
… for environmental monitoring (e.g., “sick-building syndrome”). Conjugated polymers have been intensively investigated as electrode materials for supercapacitors because of their excellent electrochemical reversibility, fast switching between redox states, high conductivity in a doped …
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Mönsteranalys av inomhusluft. Undersökning av luftkvaliteten i sjuka hus med flytspackelproblem
… effekten som rapporteras i samband med sjuka-hus syndromet (SBS), vars orsak är okänd, kan betraktas som ett mönster av icke specifika symptom såsom irritationer i ögon, näsa och mun, upplevelser av torra sletnhinnor och hud, hudrodnad, mental trötthet och upplevelse av svag men ihållande lukt. …
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A study on the indoor environment quality: its impact on occupants’ productivity of university library (Wolverhampton University libraries as an example)
Indoor Environmental Quality (IEQ) determines occupant comfort, health, and productivity within built environments. As essential academic spaces, university libraries enhance student learning, research, and overall academic performance. While previous studies have primarily examined the health and …