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The article covers this. > In the 1990s, a wave of lawsuits holding architects and engineers liable for health problems related to poorly built or maintained b
by Foreignborn 4y ago
The article covers this.
> In the 1990s, a wave of lawsuits holding architects and engineers liable for health problems related to poorly built or maintained buildings led to massive overhauls of construction codes. The new codes created restrictions for the materials architects and engineers could use in buildings and HVAC systems. “Buildings were afraid of litigation,” said Sachin Anand, an engineer who leads a Chicago-based sustainable building firm. So most of them made meaningful changes that ultimately led to much healthier indoor climates all over the US.
> By the early 2000s, complaints of sick building syndrome — and concerns about indoor air quality more broadly — had faded from the public eye.
- ChrisMarshallNY 4y agoYeah. These things have a “cyclical” nature. A new HEPA filter industry sprung up, and plumbers started accounting for Legionnaires Disease (I have friends that are plumbers and HVAC techs, and they have told me some of the practices they do). A lot of these practices are things that expose water to sunlight and air. Having bad insulation isn’t always a bad thing, I guess… I remember coworkers, in those days, suddenly developing all sorts of symptoms that they would attribute to a "sick building." These symptoms were never there, until the press started writing about it. The problem was very real, and needed to be dealt with, but there was a lot of hysteria, too.