Have you been experiencing motion sickness, depression, sleepiness, and even fear, as you gaze out of your window from the 44th floor" If so, you may be prone to ?Sick Building Syndrome? ? the informal term for side effects caused by swaying skyscrapers, according to experts at the Universities of Bath and Exeter, who are launching a £7 million ($8.6 million) study into their causes and prevention through testing simulations.

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Have you been experiencing motion sickness, depression, sleepiness, and even fear, as you gaze out of your window from the 44th floor" If so, you may be prone to ?Sick Building Syndrome? ? the informal term for side effects caused by swaying skyscrapers, according to experts at the Universities of Bath and Exeter, who are launching a £7 million ($8.6 million) study into their causes and prevention through testing simulations.?More and more people are living and working in high-rises and office blocks, but the true impact of vibrations on them is currently very poorly understood,? explained Alex Pavic, Professor of Vibration Engineering at the University of Exeter. ?It will for the first time link structural motion, environmental conditions, and human body motion, psychology, and physiology in a fully controllable virtual environment.?Despite the solidity of their masses, skyscrapers are indeed subject to motion in response to the external forces they experience ...