Indoor Environment Quality (IEQ): Temperature and Indoor Air Quality (IAQ) Factors toward Occupants Satisfaction

Abstract

In Malaysia, the demand for green building kept rising from year to year. The design concept of the green building which provides better indoor environment to make occupant more comfortable and healthier. The Green Building Index (GBI) as a rating system in Malaysia was used to evaluate the environmental design and performance of a building by the occupant, due to that, it is used for this research to investigate the relationship between the indicator of the Indoor Environment Quality (IEQ) and occupant satisfaction’s element in a private university in Sarawak. The building occupants are the most important feedback to determine the occupant’s satisfaction level for IEQ within the campus. A quantitative method was applied to reach the objectives by using simple random sampling. A total of 254 copies of the questionnaire survey form were distributed to respondents at School of Business and Management (SBM) and School of Built Environment (SBE) in the university. However, there are only 238 responds are usable for this research. The result shows that the temperature (57.0%) and the indoor air quality (66.7) in IEQ’s indicator had moderate positive and significant relationship with thermal comfort, and ventilation respectively.

Indoor Environmental Quality Survey in Research Institute: A Floor-by-Floor Analysis

“…In particular, IEQ assessments for buildings related to the educational environment focus on analyzing the average response of a large group of students regarding educational buildings such as schools and universities [7][8][9][10]. There are few studies on the staff including non-teaching and teaching staff [11][12][13].…”