Evaluation of Indoor Environment Quality (IEQ) of Educational Buildings

Abstract

The Green Building Index (GBI) is Malaysia’s industry accepted green rating tool for buildings to encourage sustainability in the built environment and hoist consciousness and understanding of these issues along with related stakeholders in the construction industry. The application of GBI has became the benchmark rating system incorporates internationally recognized best practices in environmental design and performance. This paper focuses on the Indoor Environmental Quality of Educational Buildings in Universiti Sains Malaysia (USM). Three libraries in USM were chosen as case studies as the subjected buildings have uniqueness in design and comparison can be made amongst them. The result shows that the level of thermal comfort is not achieved by all of the libraries, as it does not attain the occupants’ ideally thermal comfort level. This paper is very useful for future researchers by contributing some important thermal comfort data

Keywords: Green Building Index, Thermal Comfort, Indoor Environment Quality