Chemi-less Town Project to Prevent Sick Building Syndrome: from the View of the Environmental Preventive Medicine Using Sustainable Health Town by Decreasing the Use of Chemicals

There is increasing number of people suffering from “Sick-building Syndrome” in Japan. Therefore, we started “Chemi-less Town Project”, building a model town in which buildings are constructed with fewer chemicals. In this paper, we introduce the background, concept and current situation of the project. We made the key word, “Chemi-less”, which means “fewer” chemicals. In the model town, there are houses, clinic, school, library and park. At the clinic, we will practice the environmental preventive medicine. While decreasing the harmful chemicals in the town, we will carry out to create better environment in order to prevent possible adverse health effects, and to increase the quality of life of future generations. In five years, we would like to suggest new standards of houses and buildings, so that people can choose materials and technique to make towns according to the target level. Using Chemi-less Town project, we will spread our idea world wide, about the necessity of sustainable health town for future generations from the view of the environmental preventive medicine.