ABSTRACT:

Sick Building Syndrome is an unpleasing mix of health symptoms in poorly designed buildings, and it has a significant negative effect on the inhabitants as occupants cannot control what they are breathing when they are enclosed in a built environment. 80% of people's time is spent indoors when sealed environments are not always the healthiest. This research paper focuses on the relationship between human health and the interior built environment through three case studies in Lebanon: workplace, school, and residential building which was investigated to find the disparities in buildings (problems in humidity, ventilation, human comfort, and materials' radiations) that lead to sick building syndrome. The evaluation of these cases is based on field visits and theoretical information gathered on the subject. The study also aims to identify emission sources and potential indoor air quality problems in order to find solutions on how to sustain occupants' healthy indoor spaces. The results indicated that the concept of sustainability has been applied on the three different selected places to ascertain the health status of buildings and occupants by taking into consideration several steps in order to save water, reduce energy use, reduce indoor air pollution and relying on passive design strategies to achieve natural ventilation and natural lighting, and finally to reduce thermal gain. Indoor Environmental Quality has been an issue of discussion since antiquity; Hippocrates observed that when air is polluted, people become sick (Hippocrates, 1992)

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