Indoor Air Quality and Overheating in UK Classrooms – an Archetype Stock Modelling Approach

Abstract Children spend a large part of their waking lives in school buildings. There is substantial evidence that poor indoor air quality (IAQ) and thermal discomfort can have detrimental impacts on the performance, wellbeing health schoolchildren staff. Maintaining good IAQ while avoiding overheating classrooms challenging due to unique occupancy patterns heat properties schools. Building stock modelling has been extensively used recent years quantify evaluate performance numbers buildings at various scales. This paper builds an archetype approach which represents diversity England through analysis The Property Data Survey Programme (PDSP) Display Energy Certificates (DEC) databases. model was for simulating Indoor-to-Outdoor pollution ratios estimate levels (NO2, PM2.5 CO 2 ) comfort (overheating) two climate areas England: London West Pennines. highlighted variations classrooms’ different seasons explored risk relation classroom’s orientation.