scholarly journals Current State of the Science: Health Effects and Indoor Environmental Quality

2007 ◽  
Vol 115 (6) ◽  
pp. 958-964 ◽  
Author(s):  
Clifford S. Mitchell ◽  
Junfeng (Jim) Zhang ◽  
Torben Sigsgaard ◽  
Matti Jantunen ◽  
Paul J. Lioy ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Health Effects ◽  
Environmental Quality ◽  
Indoor Environmental Quality ◽  
Current State ◽  
State Of The Science

scholarly journals Necessary Conditions for Multi-Domain Indoor Environmental Quality Standards

2020 ◽  
Vol 12 (20) ◽  
pp. 8439
Author(s):  
Ardeshir Mahdavi ◽  
Christiane Berger ◽  
Veselina Bochukova ◽  
Leonidas Bourikas ◽  
Runa T. Hellwig ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Environmental Quality ◽  
Necessary Conditions ◽  
Built Environments ◽  
Indoor Environmental Quality ◽  
Indoor Environments ◽  
Present Contribution ◽  
Current State ◽  
And Behavior ◽  
Evaluation Approaches ◽  
Further Development

A discussion of sustainability in architecture cannot be meaningfully carried out without the inclusion of most buildings’ central purpose, namely the provision of indoor environments that are accommodating of occupants’ needs and requirements. To this end, building designers and operators are expected to demonstrate compliance with codes and standards pertaining to indoor environmental quality (IEQ). However, the majority of conventional IEQ standards, codes, and guidelines have a single-domain character, in that they address IEQ in terms of a number of isolated domains (i.e., thermal, visual, acoustic, air quality). In this context, the present contribution explores the current state of multi-domain IEQ evaluation approaches and the necessary conditions for their further development and application. Toward this end, a number of common building rating schemes were selected and analyzed in detail. The results of this assessment imply the necessity of both short-term improvements of the existing schemes in terms of the transparency and plausibility of the applied point allocation and weighting strategies and the fundamental need for a deeper empirically grounded understanding of the nature of occupants’ perception of and behavior in the built environments.

130. Indoor Environmental Quality in Six Commercial Office Buildings in the Midwest United States

1999 ◽  
Author(s):  
S. Reynolds ◽  
P. Subramanian ◽  
G. Breuer ◽  
M. Stein ◽  
D. Black ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Environmental Quality ◽  
Office Buildings ◽  
Indoor Environmental Quality ◽  
Midwest United States

scholarly journals Indoor Environmental Quality in Dwellings and Lifestyle Behaviors during the COVID-19 Pandemic: Russian Perspective

2021 ◽  
Vol 18 (11) ◽  
pp. 5975
Author(s):  
Vladimir Reshetnikov ◽  
Oleg Mitrokhin ◽  
Elena Belova ◽  
Victor Mikhailovsky ◽  
Maria Mikerova ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Medical Students ◽  
Environmental Quality ◽  
Indoor Environmental Quality ◽  
Lifestyle Behaviors ◽  
Contagious Diseases ◽  
Health Authorities ◽  
Public Health Authorities ◽  
Isolation Index ◽  
Novel Coronavirus

The novel coronavirus (COVID-19) outbreak is a public health emergency of international concern, and as a response, public health authorities started enforcing preventive measures like self-isolation and social distancing. The enforcement of isolation has consequences that may affect the lifestyle-related behavior of the general population. Quarantine encompasses a range of strategies that can be used to detain, isolate, or conditionally release individuals or populations infected or exposed to contagious diseases and should be tailored to circumstances. Interestingly, medical students may represent an example of how the COVID-19 pandemic can form new habits and change lifestyle behaviors. We conducted a web-based survey to assess changes in lifestyle-related behavior of self-isolated medical students during the COVID-19 pandemic. Then we analyzed the sanitary-hygienic regulations of the Russian Federation to determine the requirements for healthy buildings. Results showed that during the pandemic, the enforcement of isolation affects medical students’ lifestyle-related behavior and accompanies an increase in non-communicable diseases (NCDs). Indoor environmental quality (IEQ) and healthy buildings are cutting-edge factors in preventing COVID-19 and NCDs. The Russian sanitary-hygienic regulations support improving this factor with suitable requirements for ventilation, sewage, waste management, and disinfection. Herein, assessing isolation is possible through the hygienic self-isolation index.

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