Review and analysis of existing methods to assess the Indoor Environmental Quality (IEQ) for office buildings
Population in developed countries spend most of their time indoors, whether in their homes, workplaces, stores or leisure areas. Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, this situation worsened and now, more than ever, the importance of a high Indoor Environmental Quality (IEQ) is highlighted. The IEQ is very...
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| author | Cláudia de Castro Jacinto Adilson Campos de Paula Junior Sandra Maria Gomes Monteiro Silva Ricardo Filipe Mesquita Silva Mateus |
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| description | Population in developed countries spend most of their time indoors, whether in their homes, workplaces, stores or leisure areas. Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, this situation worsened and now, more than ever, the importance of a high Indoor Environmental Quality (IEQ) is highlighted. The IEQ is very important in building performance since it is directly related to its occupants’ comfort, health, wellbeing, and productivity and the Sick Building Syndrome (SBS) concept.
Therefore, it is essential to develop tools to support designers’ decision-making in the materialization of indoor environments with higher quality. From the state-of-art analysis, it is possible to conclude that the methods to assess the overall building performance already consider the IEQ. Still, most use an approach that does not cover all relevant indicators.
In this context, this paper presents the first milestone of a research work that aims to develop a new method to rate the overall IEQ of office buildings in Portugal.
The main objective of the present study is to propose a list of IEQ indicators for office buildings, adapted to the Portuguese context, based on the analysis of existing rating methods for buildings and the recommendations of national and international standards. |
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| spelling | doaj-art-06ebcdab508f4f8ea4216fc357e2bb8c2025-08-20T03:32:40ZengCzech Technical University in PragueActa Polytechnica CTU Proceedings2336-53822022-12-013813814410.14311/APP.2022.38.01385499Review and analysis of existing methods to assess the Indoor Environmental Quality (IEQ) for office buildingsCláudia de Castro Jacinto0https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7816-752XAdilson Campos de Paula Junior1https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1997-7087Sandra Maria Gomes Monteiro Silva2https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3521-459XRicardo Filipe Mesquita Silva Mateus3https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2973-8175University of Minho, Institute for Sustainability and Innovation in Structural Engineering (ISISE), Department of Civil Engineering, 4800-058 Guimarães, PortugalUniversity of Minho, Institute for Sustainability and Innovation in Structural Engineering (ISISE), Department of Civil Engineering, 4800-058 Guimarães, PortugalUniversity of Minho, Institute for Sustainability and Innovation in Structural Engineering (ISISE), Department of Civil Engineering, 4800-058 Guimarães, PortugalUniversity of Minho, Institute for Sustainability and Innovation in Structural Engineering (ISISE), Department of Civil Engineering, 4800-058 Guimarães, PortugalPopulation in developed countries spend most of their time indoors, whether in their homes, workplaces, stores or leisure areas. Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, this situation worsened and now, more than ever, the importance of a high Indoor Environmental Quality (IEQ) is highlighted. The IEQ is very important in building performance since it is directly related to its occupants’ comfort, health, wellbeing, and productivity and the Sick Building Syndrome (SBS) concept. Therefore, it is essential to develop tools to support designers’ decision-making in the materialization of indoor environments with higher quality. From the state-of-art analysis, it is possible to conclude that the methods to assess the overall building performance already consider the IEQ. Still, most use an approach that does not cover all relevant indicators. In this context, this paper presents the first milestone of a research work that aims to develop a new method to rate the overall IEQ of office buildings in Portugal. The main objective of the present study is to propose a list of IEQ indicators for office buildings, adapted to the Portuguese context, based on the analysis of existing rating methods for buildings and the recommendations of national and international standards.https://ojs.cvut.cz/ojs/index.php/APP/article/view/8259indoor environmental quality (ieq) indicators decision-support toolsoffice buildings |
| spellingShingle | Cláudia de Castro Jacinto Adilson Campos de Paula Junior Sandra Maria Gomes Monteiro Silva Ricardo Filipe Mesquita Silva Mateus Review and analysis of existing methods to assess the Indoor Environmental Quality (IEQ) for office buildings Acta Polytechnica CTU Proceedings indoor environmental quality (ieq) indicators decision-support tools office buildings |
| title | Review and analysis of existing methods to assess the Indoor Environmental Quality (IEQ) for office buildings |
| title_full | Review and analysis of existing methods to assess the Indoor Environmental Quality (IEQ) for office buildings |
| title_fullStr | Review and analysis of existing methods to assess the Indoor Environmental Quality (IEQ) for office buildings |
| title_full_unstemmed | Review and analysis of existing methods to assess the Indoor Environmental Quality (IEQ) for office buildings |
| title_short | Review and analysis of existing methods to assess the Indoor Environmental Quality (IEQ) for office buildings |
| title_sort | review and analysis of existing methods to assess the indoor environmental quality ieq for office buildings |
| topic | indoor environmental quality (ieq) indicators decision-support tools office buildings |
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