HOW GREEN BUILDING COMBATS SICK BUILDING SYNDROME

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Sick building syndrome has a thoroughly deserved reputation for being one of the most dangerous, and often the most expensive, problems in commercial property ownership and management. Property managers are frequently driven to distraction defense against sick building syndrome without major surgery is , but some buildings are so bad that even the best cleaning services can only make the place tolerable.

Sick building syndrome became notorious in the 1980s. Many owner of older properties found they had whole portfolios of sick buildings, a very expensive problem indeed. In many cases the solution was to simply tear down the buildings, but the problem of achieving better commercial building design remained.

Air-conditioning problems, ventilation, lack of natural light and antiquated building designs can cause sick building syndrome.

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