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Article: Let indoor air science catch up to policy.
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- Real Estate Weekly
- Article date:
- August 19, 1992
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A recent California legal case involving indoor air quality (IAQ) is reverberating in offices, schools and other public buildings throughout the nation.
In Call vs. Prudential - five years in litigation and settled out of court for an undisclosed sum - the plaintiffs charged that the polluted air in the office building where they worked made them ill. Pretrial hearings and arguments revealed that the building's architects and contractors hadn't given any thought to IAQ in designing its ventilating system. But the judge ruled that they could be held liable if the jury decided the system was defective.
This legal scenario could have been played out, to ...