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Sick-building syndrome and building-related illness.(New and Emerging Pathogens, part 6)
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Significant health problems linked to very poor indoor air quality are more prevalent than anyone could have predicted. Infectious disease specialists, as a result, search for more effective ways to diagnose and treat such threatening diseases.
Not long ago, a nurse working at a hospital experienced a series of asthma attacks that flared up whenever she worked on the bone marrow transplant unit. Another nurse and a patient aide assigned to the same unit suffered from symptoms including a constant runny nose, itchy eyes, chest tightness, and wheezing. All three complained ...
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BREATHE EASIER WITH INDOOR AIR QUALITY TECHNOLOGY.
Magazine article from: Industrial Environment
; ...and other pollutants inside, reducing indoor air quality and exposing building occupants...Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), indoor air can actually be more polluted than air...that time at home, may be experiencing indoor air pollution and not even know it. In fact...
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Living filter: do houseplants really improve indoor air?(Brief Article)
Magazine article from: E
; ...Environmental Protection Agency cites indoor air pollution as one of the top five public...houseplants for a solution to polluted indoor air. The energy crisis of the 1970s led many...effective houseplants are in improving indoor air, studies in Europe and the U.S. have...
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Dirty indoor air is a winter hazard.
Magazine article from: USA Today (Magazine)
; ...and many other pollutants are fouling indoor air and causing misery for millions of people...Protection Agency noted the level of indoor air pollutants may be two to five times greater...EPA's Science Advisory Board has put indoor air pollution on its list of top five environmental...
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Let indoor air science catch up to policy.
Magazine article from: Real Estate Weekly
; ...recent California legal case involving indoor air quality (IAQ) is reverberating in offices...conclusively known about the ways poor indoor air quality may relate to health problems...that certain biological contaminants of indoor air - molds, fungi, bacteria and dust mites...
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BOMA urges caution on indoor air quality. (Building Owners and Managers Association International criticizes Occupational Safety and Health Administration program)
Magazine article from: Real Estate Weekly
; ...burdensome regulatory approach to improving Indoor Air Quality (IAQ). According to Thomas B...Association (BOMA) International, OSHA's Indoor Air Quality proposal, announced (March 25...as a way to attack a major source of indoor air quality contaminants, said McChesney...
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NRC says OSHA proposal won't solve IAQ problems. (National Realty Committee testimony at OSHA hearing on indoor air quality)
Magazine article from: Real Estate Weekly
; ...Health Administration's (OSHA) broad indoor air quality (IAQ) proposal should be with-dra...protect workers from exposure to poor indoor air quality, according to the National Realty...together under the general rubric of 'indoor air quality problems', NRC Senior Vice Chairman...
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The securitization advantage of indoor air quality assessment.(Focus On: Banking & Financing)
Magazine article from: Real Estate Weekly
; ...factor be taken into account. With indoor air quality (IAQ) problems and building-related...in the United States alone have indoor air quality problems. The costs associated...occupants exhibited signs typical of building-related illness. At the height of the crisis, ...
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Why schools should breathe easier: schools face a much wider variety of possible indoor air quality problems than typical adult workplaces.(GOING GREEN)
Magazine article from: New Hampshire Business Review
; ...face a much wider variety of possible indoor air quality problems than typical adult workplaces...currently provide funding for improved indoor air quality. Let's consider the impact that indoor air can have on schools and the children they...
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Indoor Air Quality Symposium.(symposium on the air quality in school buildings)(Brief Article)
Magazine article from: School Administrator
; ...August to learn how to create healthier indoor air quality, in school buildings. The Indoor Air Quality Tools For Schools (TfS) National...including AASA, committed to improving indoor air quality in the nation's schools. According...
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Action for indoor air.(The Beat)
Magazine article from: Environmental Health Perspectives
; ...congress, the International Academy of Indoor Air Sciences called on the governments, institutions...of the world to invest more in reducing indoor air pollution. According to the academy, indoor air pollution in developing countries can exceed...
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