Surface dust contamination and perceived indoor environment in office buildings

Indoor Air

Volumn 14, Issue 5, 2004, Pages 317-324

  Pesonen Leinonen, E ^a   Tenitz, S ^a   Sjoberg A M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

Author keywords

Cleaning; Dust particles; Indoor environment quality; Office buildings; Perception; Well being

Indexed keywords

CLEANING; CONTAMINATION; DUST;

CLEANING; CONTAMINATION PROFILES; DUST CONTAMINATION; DUST PARTICLE; ENVIRONMENT FACTORS; INDOOR ENVIRONMENT; INDOOR ENVIRONMENTS QUALITIES; OCCUPANT PERCEPTION; WELL BEING; WORK ENVIRONMENTS;

OFFICE BUILDINGS;

GELATIN;

ANALYTIC METHOD; ARTICLE; BUILDING; CLEANING; CONTAMINATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DUST; ENVIRONMENT; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; EVALUATION; FOIL; HUMAN; PARAMETER; QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS; QUESTIONNAIRE; SAMPLING; SURFACE PROPERTY; SYMPTOM; WORK; WORK ENVIRONMENT;

EID: 4544291597     PISSN: 09056947     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1600-0668.2004.00249.x     Document Type: Article

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