A longitudinal study on the effects of hygro‐thermal conditions and indoor air pollutants on building‐related symptoms in office buildings

Abstract

The proportion of people working in office buildings is high and is increasing worldwide with the increase of urban development. Office buildings can affect the health, well-being, and productivity of office workers, particularly due to the substantial amount of time these workers spend in their workplaces.Nonspecific building-related symptoms (BRSs), commonly called sick building syndrome, are described as work-related, nonspecific symptom complexes for which the cause is not always known with