Good indoor environmental quality (IEQ) and high energy efficiency in multifamily dwellings: How do tenants view the conditions needed to achieve both?

Sustainable housing that both creates good indoor environmental quality (IEQ) and avoids unnecessary energy use has proved difficult to realize. Renovations of multifamily houses provide an opportunity find this balance. This study concerns whether tenants perceive conditions for achieving sufficient IEQ with low exist. Focus group interviews 42 participants, in areas where the rents were lower range included heating up 21 °C, aimed capture tenants' perceptions of: actions taken regulate it; information control; connections between use; role company. Good was crucial interviewees, who described it as heat without draughts, ability ventilate, no disturbing sounds or smells. The main responsibility attributed company, but daily regulation controlled by tenants. However, unclear interfaces systems make act a positive part system. Tenants did not link use. A holistic view physical environment's affordances, including intuitive interfaces, could optimize balance