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Environmental Pollution pp 53–64Cite as

Importance of Indoor Environmental Quality in Green Buildings

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Abstract

One of the primary aims of green buildings is to minimize negative impacts on their occupants by creating a healthy, comfortable and productive indoor environment. The performance of indoor environment is described as indoor environmental quality (IEQ). The quality indoor environment can result in increased occupant satisfaction, enhanced performance and productivity, reduced liability, marketing advantage and lower operations and maintenance costs. The objective of this paper is to study and discuss IEQ and its parameters and effect on green buildings. Building characteristics such as location, climate, design and construction contribute significantly to the IEQ. Thermal, visual and acoustic comfort and existing levels of volatile organic compounds (VOCs) help to measure the IEQ of a green building.

Keywords

  • Green buildings
  • Indoor environmental quality (IEQ)
  • Building characteristics
  • Thermal comfort
  • Volatile organic compounds (VOCs)

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  1. School of Civil Engineering, KIIT University, Bhubaneswar, Odisha, India

    Alisha Patnaik, Vikash Kumar & Purnachandra Saha

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  1. Department of Biological and Agricultural Engineering, and Zachry Department of Civil Engineering, Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas, USA

    Prof. Dr. Vijay P Singh

  2. Department of Civil Engineering, AISECT University, Bhopal, Madhya Pradesh, India

    Prof. Dr. Shalini Yadav

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Patnaik, A., Kumar, V., Saha, P. (2018). Importance of Indoor Environmental Quality in Green Buildings. In: Singh, V., Yadav, S., Yadava, R. (eds) Environmental Pollution. Water Science and Technology Library, vol 77. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-5792-2_5

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