Abstract
The complex relation between people, building and environment is negatively affecting the task of healthy environment for users. The need of designing a healthy environment introduced a scientific study where people, building and environment are enclosed. This scientific study is called building biology. Building biology attempts to prevent the negative effects that influence people’s lives by identifying the relationships between the building, its environment, and its users; sets and controls the rules that direct the design, construction and use of the building in terms of its users’ health. Every negatively effect causes people or buildings to be sick. Therefore unhealthy environments are created and sick buildings will cause health effects on people. The steps of the model for determining the health effects caused by buildings are to examine the buildings (negative features of indoor and outdoor environments of the building, negative conditions due to the reasons, hazardous effects on health, health problems) and to determine the health problems with a reverse starting (health problems, hazardous effects on health, negative conditions due to the reasons, negative features of indoor and outdoor environments of the building). By this model; existing buildings can be evaluated in terms of people’s health and results of this evaluation can provide information for the design of new buildings. Beside of this, the problems related to building biology can be examined and solved by using system approach (benefiting from purposes, objectives, resources, activities and outputs steps).
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Balanlı, A. (2011). Building Biology and Examination Models for Buildings. In: Abdul-Wahab, S. (eds) Sick Building Syndrome. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-17919-8_7
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