Sick Building Syndrome carpets

Outgassing indoors of forest products-like particle board, carpets, drapes, adhesives TCA air Indoor air incidents, Sick building syndrome... 

In another recent development, an EPA registration has been received for the SYLGARD Antimicrobial Treatment [3-(trimethoxysilyl)-propylocta-decyldimethyl ammonium chloride] to be used by commercial applicators as an aftercare treatment to carpeting and basement walls.Expansion of this use to other surfaces will allow us to address some major building environmental concerns such as the microbial influences associated with the "sick building syndrome". 

Ventilation rates may be inadequate, however, due to incorrect design or operation (sometimes blowers are operated at lower ventilation rates to save energy costs). In such situations, the inability to open windows can result in the sick building syndrome lack of sufficient fresh air causes people who work in such buildings to become ill when concentrations of chemicals released from carpets, furnishings, and cleaning compounds (Godish, 1989), or concentrations of CO2 exhaled by people, increase to nuisance or toxic levels. 

Invisible to our eyes, chemicals wafting from carpet, ink, and adhesive are starring protagonists in the story of sick building syndrome. Environmental historians and historians of science have often debated how best to include nonhuman actors—such as buildings or molecules—in... 

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