Indoor environmental quality, occupant satisfaction, and acute building-related health symptoms in Green Mark-certified compared with non-certified office buildings

Indoor Air

Volumn 29, Issue 1, 2019, Pages 112-129

  Lee, Jang Young ^a,b   Wargocki, Pawel ^c   Chan, Yiong Huak ^a   Chen, Liu ^a   Tham, Kwok Wai ^a  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

^b Building and Construction Authority   (Singapore)

^c TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF DENMARK   (Denmark)

Author keywords

acute health symptom; certified office buildings; green buildings; indoor environmental quality; occupant satisfaction; post occupancy evaluation

Indexed keywords

AIR QUALITY; ARCHITECTURAL DESIGN; HEALTH RISKS; QUALITY CONTROL; RISK ASSESSMENT;

ACUTE HEALTH SYMPTOM; CERTIFIED OFFICE BUILDING; GREEN BUILDINGS; GREEN MARKS; INDOOR ENVIRONMENTAL QUALITY; OCCUPANT HEALTHS; OCCUPANT SATISFACTION; POST OCCUPANCY EVALUATION; RESEARCH DESIGNS; SMALL SAMPLE SIZE;

OFFICE BUILDINGS;

ADULT; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONSTRUCTION WORK AND ARCHITECTURAL PHENOMENA; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; FEMALE; HEALTH STATUS; HUMAN; HUMIDITY; INDOOR AIR POLLUTION; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PREVENTION AND CONTROL; QUESTIONNAIRE; SATISFACTION; SINGAPORE;

ADULT; AIR POLLUTION, INDOOR; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; FACILITY DESIGN AND CONSTRUCTION; FEMALE; HEALTH STATUS; HUMANS; HUMIDITY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PERSONAL SATISFACTION; SINGAPORE; SURVEYS AND QUESTIONNAIRES;

EID: 85056733970     PISSN: 09056947     EISSN: 16000668     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/ina.12515     Document Type: Article

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