Indoor air quality: The hidden side of the indoor environment
conference paper
The physical environment can be defined and understood in manv different ways, both from its nature, e.g., thermal, accoustic, etc., or its dimension, e.g., global, local, urban, indoors. The indoor environment is much more than the space or the light effects; it is the result of a complex concurrence of several parameters. To have a good indoor environment means to assure the avoidance of a wide number of disturbances such as noise, glare, thermal stress and, a somehow hidden factor the indoor air pollution. Indoor air qunlity depends strongly on the occupancy pattems of the building but it is recognized now that it is mainly affected by the design options and decisions regarding the use of mechanical ventilation or HVAC systems and of the materials to be adopted in the fabrics and fumiture.
The challenge goes beyond the use of solar devices or the adoption of recycled materials in buildings as ways to care about the global or local environment. The challenge is to design healthy buildings, i.e., buildings environment friendly, indoors as well as outdoors.
The challenge goes beyond the use of solar devices or the adoption of recycled materials in buildings as ways to care about the global or local environment. The challenge is to design healthy buildings, i.e., buildings environment friendly, indoors as well as outdoors.
TNO Identifier
329145
Source title
4th European Conference, Berlin, Germany, 26-29 March
Pages
1-4
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