Building Simulations | Occupant Comfort and Natural Ventilation

Indoor Air Quality

We provide building simulations for indoor air quality to assess how inside air affect a person's health, comfort, and environmental problems for occupants. It can include but not limited to temperature, humidity, mould, bacteria, poor ventilation, or exposure to other chemicals. Indoor environment is affected by building design layout and facade. It has now become a matter of increasing occupants concern, prompted partly by the emergence of new indoor air quality, by the isolation of the indoor environment from the natural outdoor environment in well-sealed office buildings, and by the investigation of so-called Sick Building Syndrome.

Poor indoor air quality can lead to discomfort, ill health, and, in the workplace, absenteeism and lower productivity. Good indoor air quality safeguards the health of the building occupants and contributes to their comfort and well-being. Well-established, serious health impacts resulting from poor IAQ include Legionnaires’ Disease, lung cancer from radon exposure, and carbon monoxide (CO) poisoning. More widespread health impacts include increase allergy and asthma from exposure to indoor pollutants (particularly those associated with building dampness and mould), colds and others infectious disease that are transmitted through the air, and “sick building syndrome” symptoms due to elevated indoor pollutant levels well as other indoor environmental conditions. These more widespread impacts have the potential to affects large numbers of building occupant and are associated with significant cost due to health-care expenses, sick leave and lost productivity.

Understanding and controlling common pollutants indoors can help reduce your risk of indoor health concerns.