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An investigation into indoor air quality and sick building syndrome


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Hosseinia, Hamid Reza and Mohd Yunus, Mohd Yazid and Ismail, Sumarni and Yaman, Maheran (2017) An investigation into indoor air quality and sick building syndrome. Advanced Science Letters, 23 (7). 6331 - 6335. ISSN 1936-6612; ESSN: 1936-7317

Abstract

This study focuses on indoor air quality and its influence to the healthy of the occupiers and in this case study identified the dissatisfaction level among the respondents in the education environments. Air velocity, temperature, and relation humidity were investigated using a device and then the analysis is correlate with the satisfaction level of the respondents. Using the analysis of regression, the impact of these three items on the dissatisfaction of students, staff, and lecturer were estimated. It is known that temperature and wind speed have the greatest impact on dissatisfaction level. The study also identified the sick building syndrome among the raspondents namely among students, staffs, and lecturers which found that medium risk of sick building syndrome were found between the respondents. The study identified that the sick buildings symptoms tended to disappear after the participants leave their office, classroom and the buildings.


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Item Type: Article
Divisions: Faculty of Design and Architecture
Publisher: American Scientific Publishers
Keywords: Air velocity; Energy; Indoor air quality; Sick building syndrome; Temperature
Depositing User: Ms. Nida Hidayati Ghazali
Date Deposited: 26 Mar 2019 09:53
Last Modified: 26 Mar 2019 09:53
URI: http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/60827
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