LOS PRINCIPIOS DE LA CONSTRUCCIÓN SUSTENTABLE COMO UNA MEDIDA PARA ABATIR EL SÍNDROME DEL EDIFICIO ENFERMO. ESTUDIO DE CASO EDIFICIOS ACADÉMICOS 10, 11 Y 12 DE LA UNIDAD PROFESIONAL ADOLFO LÓPEZ MATEOS DEL IPN

Abstract

The buildings are competing with today's cars and factories as sources of deterioration of the environment, contributing to deforestation furthermore pollution of the air, water and soil, increasing the reduction of the stratospheric layer of ozone and the risk of global warming. What makes it particularly urgent the need for a change in the way we built our constructions. Innovation in construction shows several solutions of traditional design and advanced technologies that can eliminate in a profitable way much of the damage caused by the buildings, so that the structures with fewer problems for the health and the environment can improve the places to live and work, with the consequent increase of productivity and wellness. Some people remain up to 80% of its life inside enclosed spaces (Adellac, 2012). This present job performs a diagnostic of the buildings 10, 11 and 12 of the Professional Unit Adolfo Lopez Mateos of IPN by determining whether there is the presence of the Sick Building Syndrome (SBS), so called by the World Health Organization, which defined SBS as a set of conditions caused or stimulated by the air pollution and other factors in enclosed spaces. It is a set of inconvenience and diseases which are originated by poor ventilation, the maladjustment of temperatures, the electromagnetic and ionic charges, the particles in suspension, the gases and vapors of chemical origin and bio aerosols, among other causal agents identified, that are going to be explicated with detail in the chapters of the thesis. The discomforts that produce and stimulate these situations are varied: headaches, nausea, dizziness, persistent colds, irritation of the respiratory tract, skin and eyes, etc. This syndrome can be eradicated through the incorporation of the principles of sustainable construction in the buildings.