Classroom Indoor Environment Assessment through Architectural Analysis for the Design of Efficient Schools

López-Chao, Vicente; Lorenzo, Antonio Amado; Saorín, José Luis; Cantero, Jorge de la Torre; Melian-Díaz, Dámari

doi:10.3390/su12052020

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“…The metric should give more weight to the radon concentration due to the health risk it poses. The weight the metric assigns to the other variables could be determined by testing to obtain values close to the ones considered optimal in the literature [28][29][30].…”

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“…It includes previously mentioned aspects such as air quality, comfortable temperature, noise pollution, all of those aspects related to this study. Research has shown that IEQ has a relevant impact on the performance of those who occupy the space [28][29][30]. Besides the before-mentioned health, economic and environmental impacts, poor IEQ in buildings makes its occupants less happy and less productive, specifically in workplaces [31].…”

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Development of an Automatic Low-Cost Air Quality Control System: A Radon Application

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Air pollution is the fourth-largest overall risk factor for human health worldwide. Ambient air pollution (outdoors) and household air pollution (indoors) cause about 6.5 million premature deaths. The World Health Organization has established that between 3% and 14% of lung cancer cases are due to radon gas, making it the most important cause of lung cancer after smoking. This work presents a fully automated, low-cost indoor air quality control system that can monitor temperature, pressure, humidity, total volatile organic compounds (TOVC), and radon concentration. Using the radon concentration as an air quality measure, we created a prediction algorithm. The system uses those predictions to control a ventilation system automatically. We tested the algorithm for different prediction windows and compared the results with those without the ventilation system in a radon research room. In this room, the radon concentration is high 100% of the time, reaching a level eleven times higher than the recommended limit. The results show that the system can achieve an 86% reduction of the radon concentration, maintaining it low 90% of the time while having the ventilation system on during only 34% of the time. This work demonstrates that we can control air quality using low-cost resources, keeping a household or workplace safe but comfortable.

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“…The influences of social interactions and the peer effect have been analyzed in recent studies on educational buildings that include disruptive and attractive methodologies such as gamification [27,28]. In addition, classroom design can foster interaction and collaboration among peers, affecting teaching methodology and improving learning [29].…”

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Purpose Adequacy as a Basis for Sustainable Building Design: A Post-Occupancy Evaluation of Higher Education Classrooms

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2021

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Building design is one of the essential elements to consider for maximizing the sustainability of construction. Prior studies on energy and resource consumption and on indoor environmental quality indicators (IEQs) are increasingly frequent; however, attention has not been focused on design as supporting the function performed within architecture. Educational buildings have specific conditions related to teaching methodologies, including activating students and promoting participation and interaction in the classroom. This manuscript aims to explore whether the social dimension of physical space in educational settings can explain a student’s academic outcome. For this, the Learning Environment and Social Interaction Scale was designed and validated and applied to 796 undergraduate students at the University of Coruña, and multiple linear regression analysis was applied to the academic results. The results display a structure comprising five factors; these include novelties such as the division of conventional IEQs into two groups: the workspace and the classroom environment. In addition, place attachment, the design of the classroom as a facilitator of social interaction, the learning value of social interaction, and the satisfaction of the IEQ demonstrated their influence on the academic result.

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“…It includes aspects such as air quality, comfortable temperature, air quality and adequate humidity levels. Research has shown that IEQ has a relevant impact in the performance of those who occupy the space [17][18][19]. IEQ is a value that indicates to what extent the energy used for the construction and use of a building is useful or efficient.…”

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Indicators Framework for Sustainable Urban Design

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Climate change and sustainability have recently been object of study due to the impact on the planet and on human activity of the first and the benefits that could derive from the efficiency of the second. Particularly, urban environments are locations that represent a high percentage of emissions of gases, waste, resources use and so forth. However, they are places where great changes can be made, in an attempt to accomplish the urgent challenge to adapt to current and projected rates of climate change. Research has shown that a fruitful approach to urban sustainability is to describe indicators that measure the effectiveness of current processes of urban infrastructures, analyze areas in need of improvement and measure the effect of any actions taken. The significant feature of this research relies on its global approach, considering both major worldwide used and less widely-spread frameworks and the analysis of the 32 selected tools and guidelines, including over 2000 indicators. The result is a proposed structure of 14 categories and 48 indicators, easily applicable in urban areas, that tries to fulfill basic aspects to obtain a general diagnosis of the sustainable nature of the urban environment, which can serve as support to detect the strongest and weakest areas in terms of their sustainability.

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Classroom Indoor Environment Assessment through Architectural Analysis for the Design of Efficient Schools

Cited by 29 publications

References 32 publications

Development of an Automatic Low-Cost Air Quality Control System: A Radon Application

Development of an Automatic Low-Cost Air Quality Control System: A Radon Application

Purpose Adequacy as a Basis for Sustainable Building Design: A Post-Occupancy Evaluation of Higher Education Classrooms

Indicators Framework for Sustainable Urban Design

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