Indoor Environmental Quality

ARE 529 - Indoor Environmental Quality (3-0-3)

Design principles of the sustainable indoor environment. Total indoor environmental quality (TIEQ). Considerations and impact of IEQ, comfort, well-being, health, and productivity of building occupants. Human physiological factors influencing IEQ. Thermal, visual, and acoustical comfort and Air Quality. Ventilation and indoor air quality (IAQ). IEQ requirements and design criteria. Standard tests, analysis methods, and instrumentation for IEQ-field investigation. Surveying (subjective) vs. monitoring (objective), full and reduced scale experiments. Local and international standards and codes. Computer applications, modeling, and simulation tools. IEQ Assessment and rating systems.