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Imagine if you would that you are coming home from a hard days work and you feel exhausted. You could barely keep focused on any of the tasks presented to you. As you step through the doorway your children don’t greet you because they have been in bed with the cold for the past week. The first thing you notice, same thing you have noticed for months is how stale the air smells as you enter your house. Your house is dark, even a prison cell has more life. Each morning you wake up you can swear that you have even less energy then the morning before. Would you be surprised to hear that a major reason that families today are sick more often, have less energy, and in general aren’t happy is the buildings that they live and work in? For too long the common building practices of most Americans has been a harmful one, harmful to not only the earth, but to us ourselves. The classic example of this is the average contemporary building. We have been taught for years that for a structure to be more energy efficient we have to seal it off from the outside. In theory this is a great idea, but in reality the result is a “sick” building. According to the Environmental Protection Agency some symptoms of (SBS) or Sick Building