Oh I remember the Sick Building Syndrome well. Initially, I was a student at Georgia Tech’s College of Architecture . . . and then as the problem continued, was a young architect. Actually, it was much worse than you stated. There were a large number of miscarriages in the office buildings of Atlanta’s Peachtree Center. Then it was discovered that male workers in new office buildings throughout the United States were much more inclined to get prostate cancer. Both genders in new office buildings had much higher than normal rates of lymphatic cancer.
Georgia Tech received several large grants to study the problem. Architects in Atlanta certainly did not think the women were psychosomatic. I don’t what reference gave you that impression. The primary cause of this environmental disease was the adhesives and insulating plastic introduced into construction about that time. The most dangerous was the adhesive used to attach carpets to their backing. Peachtree Center had to replace most of its carpets.
Since about 3/4 of the carpet in North America was made in Georgia by three mega-companies, the problem was fixed very quickly by changing adhesives. However, to these day, the public drinking water downstream from the carpet mills is contaminated with these chemicals. That region has a very high rate for the same types of cancer seen in Sick Building Syndrome.