Tourism is Australia's fourth-largest exporting sector, yet little research has been done on how satisfied guests are with the indoor environmental quality (IEQ) of Australian guest homes. This project utilized web-mining, natural language processing and sentiment analysis to analyse customers' IEQ satisfaction in tourist accommodations across ten tourism cities. By analysing 543,213 reviews fr...

The environmental suffering of contaminated communities has been analysed in depth. However, there is a lack knowledge about the such communities’ leaders. Our study aimed to shed light on this issue through interviews with 20 principals working schools poor indoor-air quality Finland. Based reflexive thematical analysis, we identified three themes: (1) being burdened and powerless; (2) knife-e...

As attention to indoor environmental quality (IEQ) grows, a systematic strategy for assessing IEQ in schools needs be developed. For this purpose, paper presents summary of parameters measured school classrooms characterize the thermal, acoustic, and visual environments air (IAQ). The is based on review published literature reporting measurements Europe North America past ten years. It also sum...

One largely unstudied benefit of relocating families from slums to public housing is the potential improvement in indoor air quality (IAQ). We compared families that moved from slums to public housing with those that remained living in slums in Santiago, Chile in terms of fine particulate matter (PM2.5) as main indicator of change. A cross-sectional study of 98 relocated families and 71 still l...

A paradigm change in the management of environmental health issues has been observed in recent years: instead of managing specific risks individually, a holistic vision of environmental problems would assure sustainable solutions. However, concrete actions that could help translate these recommendations into interventions are lacking. This review presents the relevance of using an integrated in...

Under the assumption that information can impact perception, most research on human sensation and satisfaction with indoor environmental quality (IEQ) parameters has been conducted respondents uninformed about test conditions. Therefore, researchers know little of perception. These potential effects are increasingly relevant as quantitative environments becomes accessible via low-cost, wireless...

employees’ satisfaction based on their physical environment is an important factor that can improve employees’ performance, job satisfaction, and organizational productivity in office buildings. occupants’ environmental satisfaction are related to 10 different characteristics, including thermal comfort, air quality, lighting, acoustic quality, office layout, workspace furnishing, cleanliness an...