Do you have new carpets and furniture in your office, electronics with plastic covers, or perhaps fire doors? And on top of that, is everything cleaned with various chemicals? Be careful to see if you are also experiencing Sick Building Syndrome.
Globally, the abbreviation SBS = (from English) Sick Building Syndrome is used. It is a collective term mainly for workplaces and also for buildings where people observe various health issues that disappear as soon as they leave the building.
Sick Building Syndrome – symptoms of poor concentration
Long-term exposure to an environment with a high concentration of harmful chemicals and various vapors can cause various health complications. The most common symptoms include headaches, fatigue, irritation and burning of the eyes, nausea, or even coughing.
Sick Building Syndrome is most commonly observed in people in the workplace, reducing their comfort and simultaneously decreasing work efficiency.
While in the last century, the syndrome was attributed only to working in high-rise buildings, today we see it practically everywhere. In recent years, as most buildings have begun to be insulated and sealed with new windows, and new houses are being reconstructed or built, SBS has started to appear more frequently among people.
Many people (including children) have various allergies, asthma, frequent eye irritation, and headaches. Contributing to this are so-called volatile organic compounds, or VOC (Volatile Organic Compounds). These include vapors from carpets, paints, perfumes, cleaning agents, frying, cooking, vapors in restrooms and locker rooms, from plastics, and especially from people.
Helping you achieve a clean and above all healthy indoor environment is our specialization. In our offer, you will find sensors for measuring the concentration of volatile organic compounds – the cause of SBS symptoms. The sensors control the Air Handling Unit (AHU) based on the measured VOC concentration, thus helping to purify the indoor environment from harmful substances.
As you can read in the article CO2 is not the main air pollutant, there are about 10,000 types of volatile organic compounds according to recent measurements. Our VOC sensor specializes in the most commonly found in indoor environments – vapors from human metabolic activity and other substances such as formaldehyde, kitchen vapors, vapors from cleaning agents, carpets, varnishes, etc. Basically, everything that the CO2 sensor cannot detect.
The VOC sensor NL-ECO-TVOC controls the HVAC system based on the measured VOC values in the indoor air, thus providing people inside with a higher quality environment for both work and any stay, while also ensuring energy savings, as the HVAC unit will ventilate only as needed.
Example of using the NL-ECO-TVOC sensor in a household