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Indoor Air Quality and Sick Building Syndrome: Are Green Buildings Better than Conventional Buildings?

Indoor air quality (IAQ) influences human health, productivity and wellness. Green buildings are believed to have better IAQ. The 'sick building syndrome' (SBS) describes a set of nonspecific symptoms experienced by occupants due to time spent in a building with poor IAQ. Thus this study w...

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Autores principales: Gawande, Sonal, Tiwari, Rajnarayan R., Narayanan, Prakash, Bhadri, Ashwin
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Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Wolters Kluwer - Medknow 2020
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7227732/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32435112
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/ijoem.IJOEM_148_19
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author Gawande, Sonal
Tiwari, Rajnarayan R.
Narayanan, Prakash
Bhadri, Ashwin
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description Indoor air quality (IAQ) influences human health, productivity and wellness. Green buildings are believed to have better IAQ. The 'sick building syndrome' (SBS) describes a set of nonspecific symptoms experienced by occupants due to time spent in a building with poor IAQ. Thus this study was undertaken to assess the IAQ in green buildings and compare it with that of conventional buildings. The prevalence of SBS in both types of buildings is also studied. In five pairs of green and conventional buildings measurements of comfort parameters (temperature & relative humidity) and indoor air pollutants using monitors was done. 148 employees which included 84 from green buildings and 64 from conventional buildings were surveyed for SBS using an interviewer-administered questionnaire. The analysis was done using SPSS16 and included Mann Whitney for IAQ pollutant concentrations and Chi-square for the SBS prevalence. Similar indoor air quality was found in both types of buildings. The mean of temperature, CO2 and formaldehyde was statistically lower in green buildings. The SBS prevalence was found to be 38.1% in green buildings and 53.1% in conventional buildings. Thus to conclude the poorly maintained green building does not have any added advantage for occurrence of SBS.
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spelling pubmed-72277322020-05-20 Indoor Air Quality and Sick Building Syndrome: Are Green Buildings Better than Conventional Buildings? Gawande, Sonal Tiwari, Rajnarayan R. Narayanan, Prakash Bhadri, Ashwin Indian J Occup Environ Med Brief Communication Indoor air quality (IAQ) influences human health, productivity and wellness. Green buildings are believed to have better IAQ. The 'sick building syndrome' (SBS) describes a set of nonspecific symptoms experienced by occupants due to time spent in a building with poor IAQ. Thus this study was undertaken to assess the IAQ in green buildings and compare it with that of conventional buildings. The prevalence of SBS in both types of buildings is also studied. In five pairs of green and conventional buildings measurements of comfort parameters (temperature & relative humidity) and indoor air pollutants using monitors was done. 148 employees which included 84 from green buildings and 64 from conventional buildings were surveyed for SBS using an interviewer-administered questionnaire. The analysis was done using SPSS16 and included Mann Whitney for IAQ pollutant concentrations and Chi-square for the SBS prevalence. Similar indoor air quality was found in both types of buildings. The mean of temperature, CO2 and formaldehyde was statistically lower in green buildings. The SBS prevalence was found to be 38.1% in green buildings and 53.1% in conventional buildings. Thus to conclude the poorly maintained green building does not have any added advantage for occurrence of SBS. Wolters Kluwer - Medknow 2020 2020-03-18 /pmc/articles/PMC7227732/ /pubmed/32435112 http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/ijoem.IJOEM_148_19 Text en Copyright: © 2020 Indian Journal of Occupational and Environmental Medicine http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0 This is an open access journal, and articles are distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 License, which allows others to remix, tweak, and build upon the work non-commercially, as long as appropriate credit is given and the new creations are licensed under the identical terms.
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Gawande, Sonal
Tiwari, Rajnarayan R.
Narayanan, Prakash
Bhadri, Ashwin
Indoor Air Quality and Sick Building Syndrome: Are Green Buildings Better than Conventional Buildings?
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title_full Indoor Air Quality and Sick Building Syndrome: Are Green Buildings Better than Conventional Buildings?
title_fullStr Indoor Air Quality and Sick Building Syndrome: Are Green Buildings Better than Conventional Buildings?
title_full_unstemmed Indoor Air Quality and Sick Building Syndrome: Are Green Buildings Better than Conventional Buildings?
title_short Indoor Air Quality and Sick Building Syndrome: Are Green Buildings Better than Conventional Buildings?
title_sort indoor air quality and sick building syndrome: are green buildings better than conventional buildings?
topic Brief Communication
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7227732/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32435112
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/ijoem.IJOEM_148_19
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