| Title |
A Field Survey on the Indoor Air Quality of Newly Built Schools in Busan |
| Authors |
Yee Jurng-Jae ; Kim Seok-Keun ; Choi Seok-Yong |
| Keywords |
Newly Built Schools ; Indoor Air Quality(IAQ) ; PM10 ; HCHO ; Ventilation System |
| Abstract |
Recently, modern people spend more than 80% of their time at indoor space. Therefore, people recognize comfortable indoor environment as important matters, and indoor air pollution is issued as a new environmental problem. In recent years, school buildings are poorly ventilated because of airtightness for energy savings. It leads to reduce the quantity of natural ventilation in the buildings. Therefore, the existing natural ventilation systems can cause the lack of fresh outdoor air and the poor exhaust of indoor air. Due to the redevelopment of new residential districts newly-built school buildings are constructed in these areas. The elementary or middle school students are spending their much time at school in the period of their growing. Accordingly, school building should be constructed with consideration of comfortable and healthful environment for students' activities, but nevertheless the environmental pollution and indoor air quality in schools are not much concerned. In this study, the field survey and the analysis of indoor air quality are performed for the newly-built schools in Busan. Based on the results the indoor air quality database of existing school buildings is constructed to prepare the counterplan for the improvement of indoor air quality. |