The United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) states that most Americans spend 90% of their time indoors, increasing their exposure to indoor airborne allergens. The level of particulate ...

You may not realize it, but the buildings that we live and work in have the capacity to make people sick. A few agencies, such as the World Health Organization and the U.S. Environmental Protection ...

Air conditioning can feel heaven-sent on hot summer days. It keeps temperatures comfortable and controls humidity, making indoor environments tolerable even on the most brutally warm days. But some ...

Remote working / home working, using a laptop. — Image by © Tim Sandle Remote working / home working, using a laptop. — Image by © Tim Sandle Sick building ...

Keeping staff happy and healthy is both ethically and financially important, and taking care of the workplace environment is central to this. With the development of smart tech, companies are ...

While remote work might have been in the spotlight in recent years, many businesses are now actively encouraging, or even mandating, a return-to-work strategy that brings employees back into the ...

If you’ve visited Pittsburgh International Airport, you’ve most likely passed several illuminated 8-foot-tall glass tubes filled with bubbly blue and green liquid and thought, “Who put these weird, ...

When you work in an office, germs are unavoidable – especially during the winter months, when there always seems to be something going around from the latest cold to the flu. But it's not just germs ...

We have heard about “Sick Building Syndrome” (SBS), a condition in which people develop symptoms of illness or become infected from the building in which they work or reside. There is also something ...

The influence of personal characteristics, life-style, job-related factors, and psychosocial work factors on symptoms of the sick building syndrome was investigated in Greater Copenhagen, Denmark. The ...

Vacant for more than two years, a state-owned office building in Hartford — once studied to determine if poor air quality can make workers sick — has a potential buyer offering $1 million in cash.

Last night at 2:17 AM, every child from Mrs. Gandy's class went missing.