ABSTRACT
The descriptive title of the syndrome would appear to suggest, correctly as the rest of the text shows, that it is the building that is ill. As physicians we are rarely referred buildings as patients, but commonly to the people who dwell or work in them, and it is from their reports that our diagnoses and proposed treatment for the building must be generated. The management of the building itself lies outside the medical remit of this chapter. However, we must consider the nature and extent of complaints in affected subjects, relevant investigations, differential diagnosis and the management of the problem, which will invariably stray beyond the usual remit of the physician.
