“There’s more to environmentally-friendly healthy housing than green roofs and bottle banks!”

Buildings should be designed to take the HEALTH effects of both natural and artificial electromagnetic fields into consideration. The concentrations and types of Electromagnetic Fields (EMFs) present in buildings are significantly influenced by type of electrical equipment used, construction techniques and materials specified, building location and zoning strategies. People spend the majority of their time inside buildings, especially in work and sleep microenvironments. The electrical nature of the indoor environment has been dramatically transformed over a relatively short period of time, with little thought being given to the possible effects of such changes on the health of the occupants. The building design and functions often have to be adjusted to be sympathetic to the end user. Results of EMF measurements presented here show an example of field variations present in an office room. The variations in the strengths of the localised fields in individual microenvironments are clearly demonstrated for both electric and magnetic fields (Figures 1