Indoor air quality factors in designing a healthy building

Annual Review of Energy and the Environment

Volumn 25, Issue , 2000, Pages 567-600

  Spengler, John D ^a   Chen, Qingyan ^b  

^a HARVARD SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^b MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AIR CONDITIONING; AIR QUALITY; BUILDINGS; COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; HEALTH RISKS; RISK ASSESSMENT; VENTILATION;

GREEN BUILDINGS; INDOOR AIR QUALITY;

INDOOR AIR POLLUTION;

EID: 0034498133     PISSN: 10563466     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1146/annurev.energy.25.1.567     Document Type: Article

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