DGNB criteria "Indoor air quality"

Objective

Our aim is to ensure that indoor air is of sufficient quality not to adversely affect users' health and well-being.

Benefits

Nowadays humans spend up to 90 percent of their time in closed rooms. The indoor air quality therefore plays a significant role concerning performance and health. Ensuring high air quality in rooms by using low-emission products and providing an adequate air exchange rate increases users' well-being, productivity and satisfaction.

Indicators for evaluation

1. Indoor air quality – Volatile organic compounds (VOCs)

2. Indoor air quality – Ventilation rate

Schemes

Contribution to high-priority sustainability goals

    

Source of the „Sustainable Development Goals"-icons: www.un.org/sustainabledevelopment/news/communications-material/

The other criteria of the topic "Sociocultural and functional quality":

• SOC1.1 – Thermal comfort
• SOC1.3 – Acoustic comfort
• SOC1.4 – Visual comfort
• SOC1.5 – User control
• SOC1.6 – Quality of indoor and outdoor spaces
• SOC1.7 – Safety and security
• SOC2.1 – Design for all

 

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