Indoor air pollution has recently become a public concern in Taiwan. People recognize that indoor air quality (IAQ) may be more important than outdoor air quality because they spend over 80% of their time indoors. IAQ could affect health and comfort of building occupants. The objectives of this study are (1) to characterize the indoor concentrations of selected air pollutants at two hospitals i...

There is a growing concern about Indoor Air Quality (IAQ) globally in hospitals, especially after the recent outbreak of diseases like Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS), Swine Flu (H1N1) and other airborne infections such as Tuberculosis. The semi-arid climatic condition in the study area (Maiduguri, Nigeria) which is characterised by Harmattan dust blowing from the northeast, and preval...

background: many studies have been conducted to assess the indoor air quality (iaq) of buildings throughout the world because it is closely related to comfort, safety and work productivity of occupants. however, there is still lack of available literature about iaq in tropical buildings that apply radiant cooling systems in conditioning the indoor air. methods: this paper reports the results ob...

The need of building occupants for ventilation has been recognized many centuries ago; however, since the early 1970s, ventilation systems for buildings and transport systems have considerably evolved. This was invigorated by researchers who demonstrated the requirements for buildings to provide comfort and good air quality indoors (e.g., Fanger, 1972; Fanger and Christensen, 1986; Fanger, 1988...

diseases in indoor environments remains a problem of indoor air quality (IAQ) with few engineering alternatives and for which performance goals and design parameters are unclear. The engineer who attempts to deal with microbial IAQ finds that pertinent microbiological information exists in abundance but not in easily digestible forms. This article summarizes the relevant literature of medical m...

Buildings account for 40% of total global energy use and contribute towards 30% of total CO2 emissions. Heating ventilation and air conditioning (HVAC) systems are the major sources of energy consumption in buildings, and there has been extensive research focusing on efficiently control them. However, in most cases, this is achieved at the cost of sacrificing thermal, visual and/or IAQ comfort....

Gaps in internal audit function (IAF), such as quality (IAQ), began to be pointed out by studies carried after Sarbanes-Oxley (SOX) Act publication. As a subject still under development the literature, this article seeks delineate research profile for IAQ period from 1999 2021. To end, bibliometric on was conducted, resulting identification of how area has progressed over last 22 years, encompa...