The Indoor Environment Handbook: How to Make Buildings Healthy and Comfortable
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Author(s)Philomena Bluyssen
PublisherRoutledge
ISBN / ASIN184407787X
ISBN-139781844077878
AvailabilityUsually ships in 24 hours
Sales Rank3,456,527
CategoryArchitecture
MarketplaceUnited States 🇺🇸
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Winner of the Choice Outstanding Academic Titles of 2010 award. Ensuring that buildings are healthy and comfortable for their occupants is a primary concern of all architects and building engineers. This highly practical handbook will help make that process more efficient and effective. It begins with a guide to how the human body and senses react to different indoor environmental conditions, together with basic information on the parameters of the indoor environment and problems that can occur. It then moves on to give a background to the development of the study and control of the indoor environment, examining the main considerations (including thermal, lighting, indoor air and sound-related aspects) for a healthy and comfortable indoor environment and discussing the drivers for change in the field. The final section presents a new approach towards health and comfort in the indoor environment, where meeting the wishes and demands of the occupants with a holistic strategy becomes the over-riding priority. The book is filled with useful facts, figures and analysis, and practical methods that designers who are keen to assess and improve the user experience of their buildings will find invaluable.
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