Indoor Environmental Quality Assessment and Building Shading Measures Research

Indoor Air Quality and Severity of COVID-19: Where Communicable and Non-communicable Preventive Measures Meet

Quantitative relationships between occupant satisfaction and satisfaction aspects of indoor environmental quality and building design.

UNLABELLED The article examines which subjectively evaluated indoor environmental parameters and building features mostly affect occupants' satisfaction in mainly US office buildings. The study analyzed data from a web-based survey administered to 52,980 occupants in 351 office buildings over 10 years by the Center for the Built Environment. The survey uses 7-point ordered scale questions perta...

Allostatic Load Model Associated with Indoor Environmental Quality and Sick Building Syndrome among Office Workers

This study investigates whether indoor environmental quality (IEQ) influences allostatic load (AL) and whether AL can be a predictor for sick building syndrome (SBS). We also assessed and compared the associations between AL and SBS versus 8-hydroxydeoxyguanosine (8-OHdG) and SBS. A total of 115 office workers from 21 offices completed self-reported SBS questionnaires, and provided 11 biomarker...

A survey of sick building syndrome: Workplace design elements and perceived indoor environmental quality

The design factors (indoor plants, workstation partitions, and operable windows) that predict sick building syndrome (SBS) were described for architects and interior designers. For facility management, the indoor environmental characteristics (thermal comfort, air quality, noise and lighting) that contribute to SBS symptoms were investigated. This study used a standard Building Use Studies (BUS...

indoor air quality assessment in a radiantly cooled tropical building: a case study

background: many studies have been conducted to assess the indoor air quality (iaq) of buildings throughout the world because it is closely related to comfort, safety and work productivity of occupants. however, there is still lack of available literature about iaq in tropical buildings that apply radiant cooling systems in conditioning the indoor air. methods: this paper reports the results ob...