1 Associated as Professor in Architecture,
2 Doctoral Studies from SPA,
The primary most important goal in the design of educational spaces is to provide an environment that encourages learning achievement for students and teachers. Poor designed spaces with lack of good indoor air quality (IAQ) can negatively affect student health, comfort and performance that will eventually produce unacceptable learning environment. Poor IAQ can decrease a person's ability to perform physical and mental tasks requiring strength, health, concentration, calculation and memory. Therefore, schools should be designed, built and maintained in away to minimize and control the source of pollution. Achieving healthy indoor air quality is a multifaceted a problem which can be arrived at by a comprehensive and interdisciplinary approach to the design, construction and operation of the school building. Research done so far in this aspects indicate that the schools designed so far did not take into consideration the indoor environmental factors as crucial issue in designing school buildings. This study intends to establish a baseline for indoor environmental parameters and catalogue characteristics of schools and give its implications in the form of conclusions and recommendations for further actions needed in this aspect. Air quality improvement represents an important measure for prevention of adverse health consequences in children and adults in schools.
Indoor air quality, Indoor air pollutants, ventilation, school buildings, Design
