INDOOR ENVIRONMENTAL QUALITY AND SICK BUILDING SYNDROMES IN NATURALLY VENTILATED EDUCATIONAL LABORAT

The indoor environmental quality (IEQ) of university buildings has a significant impact on students' health, and they may experience a variety of non-specific symptoms as a result of their presence there. In the Eastern Mediterranean climate, the goal of this study is to quantify the incidence of sick building syndromes (SBS) symptoms and to define the perceived indoor environmental quality (IEQ). A validated questionnaire was used to collect data on perceived IEQ satisfaction scores for air, temperature, noise, and health symptoms from university students. In the Gaza Strip, Palestine, a series of field measurements were carried out in naturally ventilated laboratories. The findings revealed that the majority of participants (66.22 percent) did not feel comfortable in the laboratory environment in terms of heat, and that the majority of students' assessments of humidity conditions (55.41 percent) were unsatisfactory. General symptoms had a rather high occurrence rate. Fatigue (43.24 percent) and anxiousness were the most commonly reported symptoms (40.57 percent ). The symptoms listed were shown to be substantially linked with education year (OR= 4.48) and gender (OR= 3.9). Our findings could have ramifications for using perceived indoor environmental quality as a tool for environmental health impact evaluations and the creation of healthy building policies to identify alternate ways to achieve thermal comfort.

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