Paper 8: Volume 3 No.3 March 2005 Edition
Indoor Air Quality Guidelines and Standards -
A State of the Art Review
Aristotelis
Avgelis and Agis M.Papadopoulos
Laboratory
of Heat Transfer and Environmental Engineering, Department of Mechanical
Engineering, Aristotle University Thessaloniki, GR-54124 Thessaloniki,
Greece
Abstract
It is only fairly recently that scientific and public concerns have
focused on the probable health risk that the presence of air pollutants
can cause in residential or non-industrial buildings. Several reasons have
contributed to the deterioration of indoor air quality (IAQ) including
some aspects of trends in the construction sector, most important of which
are the design of buildings with increased air tightness for the sake of
energy conservation but also the use of
innovative building materials based on complex synthetic chemical
substances. The degradation of indoor microenvironments and the
realization of the possible risks that may occur due to the combination of
anthropogenic indoor activities and of long term exposure, even to low air
pollutant concentrations, activated the scientific community and the
involved organisations to face the IAQ problem. The development and
application of IAQ guidelines and standards are the result of these
efforts. After several regressions, the world community seems to agree on
the adoption of an integrated building approach, when establishing IAQ
guidelines and standards, as the most appropriate method to accomplish
both acceptable IAQ and energy conservation. The developments that led to
the current state of the art are discussed in this paper.
Key words: indoor
air quality guidelines, ventilation guidelines, labelling building
materials.
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