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Complaints from office workers about building-related symptoms began to flood public health agencies during the late 1970s, in the wake of the energy crisis. The eye, nose, and throat irritation, headache, and difficulty concentrating that occurred in persons working in office buildings came to be called the sick building syndrome. Ventilation standards had been lowered to 5 ft³ (0.14 m³) of outdoor air per minute per person in 1975, and the new building-related symptoms were assumed to be attributable to lower rates of ventilation. In buildings with a high prevalence of sick building syndrome, the most common recommendation of . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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