Indoor air pollution has traditionally received less attention than outdoors pollution despite
indoors pollutant levels are typically twice higher, and people spend 80–90% of their life in …

To better address energy and indoor air quality issues, ventilation needs to become smarter.
A key smart ventilation concept is to use controls to ventilate more at times it provides either …

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 …

Nowadays, debates addressing climate change, fossil fuels depletion and energy security
highlight the need for a more sustainable built environment in order to reduce energy …

Substantial knowledge is available on the association of the indoor school environment and
its effect among schoolchildren. In the same context, the SINPHONIE (School indoor …

Objective of this paper is to examine whether the available epidemiological evidence
provides information on the link between outdoor air ventilation rates and health, and …

The last decade is marked by an exponential growth of the research interest in comfort
assessment in office buildings. The extensive interest can be linked with the appreciation of …

Background The annual burden of disease caused indoor air pollution, including polluted
outdoor air used to ventilate indoor spaces, is estimated to correspond to a loss of over 2 …

To avoid health risks and discomfort, the European Energy Performance for Building
Directive (EPBD) mandates that “Member States should support energy performance …

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 …