Indoor Environmental Quality Assessment Model (IEQ) for Houses

Housing and its indoor environment influence inhabitants’ comfort, productivity, health. For this reason, it is becoming increasingly important to investigate the factors that affect environmental quality. Thus, numerous sustainability assessment systems have been developed evaluate building performance. This paper presents a model for evaluating of housing located in Biobio region Chile, integrating aspects overall The research methodology proposes strategy identify appropriate evaluation criteria contextualized standards. application made possible level performance studio dwellings each category, namely air quality, thermal acoustics, lighting, as well IEQ. results reflect lowest levels three houses were with respect acoustic criteria, while highest quality criteria.