Strategic Management in Building Designs for Sick Building Syndrome Control: The Effect of Ideal Building Orientation

  • Obi, Ifeanyi Chukwudi
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Publication date
January 2016

Abstract

Building occupants sometimes experience unhealthy symptoms or fall sick with such conditions as irritations of the throat, eyes, nose, lethargy and sometimes dizziness due to Sick Building Syndromes (SBS). This study aimed to measure that ideal building orientation reduces the effect of SBS on Occupants and proper management of the design process can reduce the formation of SBS using Northern Cyprus Buildings as case study. The estimated cases of SBS in North Cyprus are at least 909 residential units. Out of the 2252 Responses in North Cyprus, 909 Respondents (40.3%) stated they have seen an SBS building, while 293(13%) have lived in one at some point. 1343(59.6%) reported to have never seen an SBS building. The Occupants of two residential...

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