The indoor environment handbook how to make buildings healthy and comfortable /

• Main Author: Bluyssen, Philomena M.
• Format: Electronic
• Language: English
• Published: London ; Sterling, VA : Earthscan, 2009.
• Subjects: Buildings > Handbooks, manuals, etc. > Environmental engineering; Sick building syndrome > Handbooks, manuals, etc. > Prevention; Environment Design.; Environment, Controlled.; Architecture as Topic.; Sick Building Syndrome > prevention & control.; ARCHITECTURE > General. > Interior Design; Electronic books.
• Online Access: ebrary; View fulltext via EzAccess; MyiLibrary
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (xxx, 290 p., [4] p. of plates) : ill.
• Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• ISBN: 9781849774611 (electronic bk.); 1849774617 (electronic bk.); 9781844077878 (cloth); 184407787X (cloth)

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, l.