Indoor environmental quality (IEQ) of school classrooms: Case study in Malaysia

Samad, Muna Hanim Abdul; Aziz, Zalena Abdul; Isa, Mohd Hafizal Mohd

doi:10.1063/1.5005784

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“…The emphasis on the IEQ and IAQ components that entail air quality, thermal comfort, lighting, and acoustics, and how they interrelate, has constrained the full capacity actualization of healthy construction and accounted only for the physical aspect of healthy building. According to the above definitions, construction in the context of healthy building standards goes beyond IEQ and IAQ; it also accounts for more concepts like water, nourishment, movement, materials, innovation, and mind that guide human health related to the built environment, and it addresses both physical and psychological aspects [22,[25][26][27][28][29][30][31][32]. Equally, the process implementation of healthy building standards from the design stage is rarely paid attention to, which shows the gap between the application of healthy strategy and the design process to achieve healthy building.…”

Section: Healthy Building Implementation In the Real Worldmentioning

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Invigorating Health Strategy in an Integrated Design Process

Assoumou

Khayeka–Wandabwa

2022

Smart Cities

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Healthy buildings are gaining crucial significance in construction and one health setting for promoting occupants’ health. However, the traditional design process for healthy buildings presents limitations with no specific guidelines. In contrast, the integrated design process (IDP) has proven to be effective in realizing high-performance buildings. However, the IDP shortfall of not having robust health strategy (HS) capability is a concern of interest. Thus, we posit further advancement of IDP in the context of incorporating HS in the prevailing IDP guidelines with a sequential iterative procedure. Moreover, a conceptual framework aimed at invigorating the implementation of HS in all IDP stages is proposed. The strategies within IDP that would reinforce achieving healthy building by addressing building process implementation are highlighted. The (IDP + HS) iterative framework herein advanced is intended to aid neophyte and experienced building professionals to reflect about the process of achieving healthy building while optimizing IDP for one’s health invigoration in construction industry.

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Section: Healthy Building Implementation In the Real Worldmentioning

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Invigorating Health Strategy in an Integrated Design Process

Assoumou

Khayeka–Wandabwa

2022

Smart Cities

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“…However, a lot of discomfort issue in the classroom has been found in previous studies around the world, which could influence students and teachers' activities in the classroom. The research conducted by many scholars had agreed that the condition of classroom environment has significant implication to the teaching & learning process and may improve students' performance Montazami, 2017;Samad, 2017). Discomfort environments in the classroom may disrupt teaching and learning activities, reduce teachers' performance and cause lethargic to the students (Mendell, 2005;Puteh, 2012;Ameerudin, 2014).…”

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Thermal Comfort in Naturally Ventilated Classroom: A Literature Review

Zamri

Ismail

Ajis

2019

IJPS

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A phenomenon of global climate change and global warming led to an increase of study on indoor thermal comfort as it causes an increase in air temperature in both outdoor and indoor environments. Thermal comfort of indoor condition had a significant impact on occupants' performance, especially in the educational building. The impact is more crucial in a natural ventilated building as it is influenced by both outdoor and indoor condition. This paper presents an overview of a study on thermal comfort over the past ten years in the classroom that use the passive ventilation system. The study is divided into two sections; the first reviews the variables that are measured to determine thermal comfort and the second section reviews the other factors that could influence the thermal comfort. The factors that have been reviewed include climatic condition, design of ventilation system of the building, building envelope design and occupants behaviour that had influence the thermal comfort in the building, hence influenced the occupants' performance. Most of the studies had found that the occupants were dissatisfied with the indoor environment and the results of the studies found that thermal comfort is not in the comfort range, as stated in the standards. The ventilation factor has been highlighted in most studies to be the crucial factor that influences the indoor environment and thus influence the thermal comfort of the building.

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