EVALUATION OF INDOOR ENVIRONMENTS OF SMALL OFFICE BUILDINGS

Abstract

According to the building management and sanitary law, large office buildings of which floor area exceeds 3000 m^2 are to be maintained so as to keep indoor environments with high quality. However, small buildings have been exemplified. In this study, large buildings and small buildings were investigated on air quality and thermal environment. It was then found that both thermal environment and air quality in the small buildings were necessary to be improved due mainly to insufficient ventilation.