An educational building must integrate smart strategies to ensure indoor environmental quality. Thermal, acoustic, visual comfort and air quality are be considered, otherwise they can develop the sick syndrome. Smart buildings solve this potential problem by providing a highly efficient living ambience that includes safety, good of living/learning/working experience, helps users achieve their b...

The measurement of Indoor Environmental Quality (IEQ) requires the acquisition multiple quantities regarding thermal comfort and indoor air quality. IEQ monitoring is essential to investigate building’s performance, especially when renovation needed improve energy efficiency occupants’ well-being. Thus, data should be acquired for long periods inside occupied buildings, but traditional solution...

gram in Environmental and Occupational Health at UC Berkeley concentrates on two major environmental health issues in the Indian subcontinent: arsenic in drinking water in West Bengal, India, and indoor air pollution in India and Nepal. Local trainees and researchers have had the opportunity to work on related research. Concerning arsenic in drinking water, projects included studies of skin les...

Smoking in public places is a hot debate presently in Europe. A number of legislative bodies in Europe have already made policy decisions on the issue of smoking in public places. Scientific evidence relating to this debate has been reported in a diverse range of publications such as BMJ, Indoor air and the BSJ. On inspection much of the reporting concludes negatively on the performance of vent...

This paper presents results of over 34,000 survey responses to air quality and thermal comfort questions in 215 buildings in US, Canada, and Finland. Results show that 80% or more of the occupants expressed satisfaction with their thermal comfort in only 11% of the buildings surveyed. Air quality scores were somewhat higher, with 26% of buildings having 80% or occupant satisfaction. With respec...

Recently, indoor air quality has attracted the attention of policymakers and researchers as a critical issue like that of external air pollution. Indoor air quality is more important as people spend time longer indoors than outdoors. Indoor environments are closed compared to external environments providing less opportunity for the pollutants to dilute. The emissions contain many substances tha...