Associations between type of ventilation and air flow rates in office buildings and the risk of SBS-symptoms among occupants
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2019, Science of the Total EnvironmentCitation Excerpt :The basket of SBS symptoms may include skin redness, frequent airway infections, coughing, nasal congestion, eye, nose and throat irritation, etc. (WHO, 1983). Numerous efforts have been made to establish a quantitative relationship between ventilation rate and health risk in order to inform building ventilation design and set up air quality standards (Bornehag et al., 2005; Fisk et al., 2009; Seppanen et al., 1999; Sundell et al., 1994; Wargocki et al., 2002). A systematic review analysing 20 epidemiological studies with over 30,000 subjects suggested that SBS can be significantly reduced with ventilation rate over 10 L/s per person or carbon dioxide (CO2) level below 800 ppm (Seppanen et al., 1999).
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2019, Building and EnvironmentCitation Excerpt :The term ‘natural ventilation’ here refers supplying fresh air to an indoor space and removing aged air from that space using natural forces such as the momentum of wind (wind-driven ventilation), the indoor-outdoor temperature difference (buoyancy-driven ventilation), and a combination of wind and buoyancy [13]. In addition to providing thermal comfort, natural ventilation has the advantages of improving indoor air quality [14–17], reducing energy consumption in buildings [12,18,19], and eliminating what is known as the “sick building syndrome” (SBS) [20,21]. From an economics' point of view, natural ventilation can reduce a building's capital cost by about 10–50%, compared to an air-conditioned building of similar dimensions [22].
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