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Evaluating Indoor Air Quality (IAQ) as Modifying Factor in Designing Public School Buildings in Jordan
Abstract
The most fundamental goal in the design of
educational facilities is to provide an environment
that encourages learning achievement for students
and teachers. Poor indoor air quality (IAQ) can
negatively affect student health, comfort and
performance that will eventually produce
unacceptable learning environment. Poor IAQ can
decrease a person's ability to perform specific mental
tasks requiring concentration, calculation and
memory. Therefore, schools should be designed, built
and maintained in away to minimize and control the
source of pollution.
Around 29% of Jordanians occupy school
buildings each day. A specific prototype building
design was applied in the different locations of the
country. This prototype could be appropriate for one
location but it is not for the entire country that has
diversity in climatic and environmental conditions
The purpose of this research paper was to
evaluate the indoor air quality in public school
buildings in urban and rural area, through
investigations of the causes and its effects on student
health, comfort, and performance.
Achieving healthy indoor air quality is a
multifaceted a problem which can be arrived at by a
comprehensive and interdisciplinary approach to the
design, construction and operation of the school
building. Results indicate that the prototype system
used was not appropriate as healthy school design,
and it did not take into consideration the indoor
environmental factors as crucial issue in designing
school buildings.
Citation
Ali, H. H.; Al-Momani, H. (2004). Evaluating Indoor Air Quality (IAQ) as Modifying Factor in Designing Public School Buildings in Jordan. Energy Systems Laboratory (http://esl.tamu.edu); Texas A&M University (http://www.tamu.edu). Available electronically from https : / /hdl .handle .net /1969 .1 /4604.