Indoor air quality in London schools. Part 1: ‘performance in use’

Intelligent Buildings International

Volumn 7, Issue 2-3, 2015, Pages 101-129

  Chatzidiakou, Evangenlia ^a   Mumovic, Dejan ^a   Summerfield, Alex James ^a   Altamirano, Hector Medina ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

carbon dioxide; indoor air quality; particulate matter; relative humidity; schools; temperature; ventilation rates; volatile organic compounds

Indexed keywords

AIR QUALITY; ATMOSPHERIC HUMIDITY; CARBON DIOXIDE; GAS CHROMATOGRAPHY; NITROGEN OXIDES; PARTICLES (PARTICULATE MATTER); SULFUR DIOXIDE; TEMPERATURE; VENTILATION; VOLATILE ORGANIC COMPOUNDS;

HEALTHY INDOOR ENVIRONMENTS; INDOOR AIR QUALITY; INTER QUARTILE RANGES; PARTICULATE MATTER; PARTICULATE MATTER 10; SCHOOLS; TOTAL VOLATILE ORGANIC COMPOUNDS; VENTILATION RATE;

INDOOR AIR POLLUTION;

EID: 84926251491     PISSN: 17508975     EISSN: 17566932     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/17508975.2014.918870     Document Type: Article

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