Developing an Indoor Environment Assessment Tool for Residential Buildings

Hamad, Shalaw Hamza; Ibrahim, Muamal

doi:10.31026/j.eng.2020.11.04

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“…The lack of a common framework or model that integrates all aspects and tasks of designing quality IEs with construction practices at the operational level, is also seen to be a hindrance to delivering IEQ buildings (Taneja, 2020). The absence of mandatory laws, policies and incentives to designing and building quality IEs have been revealed to be a key barrier to designing IEQ buildings (Hamad and Ibrahim, 2020).…”

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Barriers to incorporation of indoor environmental quality (IEQ) principles into building designs

Afful

Ayarkwa

Acquah

et al. 2022

ECAM

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PurposeThis research presents a comprehensive review of the literature on the barriers to incorporating indoor environmental quality (IEQ) principles into building designs. The aim was to identify these barriers in the literature and subsume them under broad categories for the development of a framework showing the interrelationships among the barriers.Design/methodology/approachThe research design used a systematic desktop review which comprised of three levels of screening. The first level allowed for a broad selection of papers; the second level of screening was done to limit the results to papers within the construction industry, and the third level of screening limited the documents strictly to the publication period of 2000–2021.FindingsTwenty-four (24) barriers were identified in the literature, including lack of integrated design teams, which ranked the highest in appearance, high initial costs, poor market for IEQ buildings and higher design charges among others. The identified barriers were classified into six (6) categories namely capacity barriers, economic barriers, process-related barriers, cultural barriers, client-related barriers and steering barriers.Practical implicationsThe findings of this study would enable practitioners and policymakers to better understand what is preventing the widespread adoption of IEQ designs in the built environment and devise actionable strategies to overcome them. It adds to the body of knowledge on IEQ research by categorizing the various barriers that prevent the delivery of IEQ projects.Social implicationsThe developed barriers in this research can serve as a useful checklist to future researchers who may want to validate the barriers to IEQ designs in empirical studies and in different settings.Originality/valueThe interconnectivity revealed by the web-like framework allows for an appreciation of the various barriers of IEQ adoption which would help in expanding the current knowledge on IEQ beyond the narrow scope of isolated barriers. The fact that the papers selected in this study are not limited geographically, underscores the wide applicability of the findings in the global construction industry.

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Section: Classification Of Barriers To Ieq Designmentioning

confidence: 99%

Barriers to incorporation of indoor environmental quality (IEQ) principles into building designs

Afful

Ayarkwa

Acquah

et al. 2022

ECAM

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“…The indoor environment quality (IEQ) of buildings determines the human dimensions, including physical comfort and human psychology, to provide comfortable and healthy internal environments for human work, and the quality of the internal environment takes into account its effects on human health and performance, including indoor air quality, thermal comfort, natural daylight, visual comfort, acoustics, electromagnetic frequency levels, monitoring of working environments, potable waters, Functional Convenience and view [1][2][3].…”

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The Effect of Indoor Air Quality in University Classrooms on the Immunity of Its Occupants

Khalil¹,

Kamoona²

2022

IJSDP

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The spaces of the universities are among spaces in which it is necessary to provide indoor air quality, it focuses on airborne pollutants, health, safety, and thermal comfort issues, which will reflect positively on the health and performance of occupants, as universities are under increasing pressure to deal and respond with climate changes and sustainable development issues and other challenges associated with them. The University of Baghdad is among the prestigious universities at the level of Iraq and the Arab world as a whole, and to face the hot and dry climatic challenges of Baghdad city and ensure the strengthening of the immunity of the occupants in the educational buildings, the research problem was represented by testing indoor air quality in educational spaces and knowing its effects on the occupants. Therefore, the study evaluated two types of educational spaces (studio and classroom) in two evaluations, the first is the objective evaluation, which uses sensors to monitor indoor air quality, where (CO2, temperature, and relative humidity) were evaluated, and the second evaluation is a self-assessment, where the distribution of questionnaires on students, that tested the effect of air quality and appear disease symptoms on them, was monitored in two different evaluation periods, summer and winter. The obtained results showed that CO2 concentration levels were above the recommended limits in both spaces but the temperature and humidity are in an acceptable range. So based on the measured results, methods are proposed to improve indoor air quality in the classroom, and then came up with recommendations could be applied in similar spaces in the future.

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Developing an Indoor Environment Assessment Tool for Residential Buildings

Cited by 2 publications

References 38 publications

Barriers to incorporation of indoor environmental quality (IEQ) principles into building designs

Barriers to incorporation of indoor environmental quality (IEQ) principles into building designs

The Effect of Indoor Air Quality in University Classrooms on the Immunity of Its Occupants

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