Causes and prevention of symptom complaints in office buildings : distilling the experience of indoor environmental quality investigators

This project brought together, during a two-day meeting, six experienced IEQ investigators with decades of combined problem-solving experience in thousands of buildings. A group process gathered and synthesized their knowledge about : - the key environmental factors causing building-related symptoms in office buildings and- the key strategies for preventing these problems. Those empirical results were compared to current scientific knowledge and summarized for use in developing practical guidelines for maintaining good IEQ.