A review on approaches and tools used in assessing indoor environmental quality
The quality of an indoor space is very paramount as the well-being of occupants largely depends on it. Various standards have been developed to achieve quality indoor spaces. However knowledge of these standards does not guarantee quality indoor spaces. This review evaluates existing means of ass...
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Penerbit Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia
2019
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| Online Access: | http://journalarticle.ukm.my/13668/ http://journalarticle.ukm.my/13668/ http://journalarticle.ukm.my/13668/1/293-1260-1-PB.pdf |
| Summary: | The quality of an indoor space is very paramount as the well-being of occupants largely depends on
it. Various standards have been developed to achieve quality indoor spaces. However knowledge of
these standards does not guarantee quality indoor spaces. This review evaluates existing means of
assessing indoor environmental quality ( IEQ) and proposes the appropriate for optimum results. 41
articles from highly ranked journals were conveniently sampled between the years 2007 to 2017.
Review shows that even though more publications were done in 2012, indoor air quality had more
publications done within the sampled years. Both subjective and objective assessments are used for
IEQ assessments. Objective assessments are preferred over subjective assessments due to some
limitations with subjective assessments. Subjective assessments should be better with validation from
measured data. Various tools were identified for measured data collection but it is important to choice
and instrument which is well calibrated and the data range it’s within the range of data to be taken.
Software such as Ecotect, Design Builder, IES VE, Contam, Radiance, Energy Plus, Day Sim and
TAS were identified as software for simulation purposes. However, since one software cannot be
used to simulate all four variables (thermal, light, sound and air quality) of IEQ, a combination of
Ecotect and Contam was proposed. The review concludes with the recommendation that both
objective and subjective assessments should be used but always should be backed with validation |
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