Despite policy directives, standards and guidelines, indoor environmental quality is still poor
in many cases. The Healthy Indoor Environment, winner of the 2016 IDEC Book Award, aims …

Winner of the Choice Outstanding Academic Titles of 2010 award. Ensuring that buildings
are healthy and comfortable for their occupants is a primary concern of all architects and …

Indoor environments have a large impact on health and well-being, so it is important to
understand what makes them healthy and sustainable. There is substantial knowledge on …

Many ways, tools and concepts have been developed to determine performance indicators
and criteria for healthy and comfortable buildings, focusing in general on the prevention of …

Relationships between indoor building conditions and wellbeing of occupants are complex;
many indoor stressors can exert their effects additively or through complex interactions. It …

In research and assessment of indoor environmental quality (IEQ), the terms
'Comfort','Health'and 'Well-being'are often used interchangeably without a clear definition of …

Buildings represent a major investment, not just at the design and construction stage, but
throughout their service lives because of on-going operational and maintenance …

In the E uropean research project OFFICAIR, a procedure was developed to determine
associations between characteristics of E uropean offices and health and comfort of office …

Well-being in the built environment is a topic that features frequently in building standards
and certification schemes, in scholarly articles and in the general press. However, despite …

There are many indoor stressors that can cause their effects additively or through complex
interactions (synergistic or antagonistic). It has been shown that exposure to these stressors …