TY - GEN
T1 - Importance of Indoor Environmental Quality Criteria to Occupants of Low Income Housing
AU - Oke, Ayodeji E.
AU - Aigbavboa, Clinton O.
AU - Ngema, Nkosinathi W.
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2019, Springer International Publishing AG, part of Springer Nature.
PY - 2019
Y1 - 2019
N2 - Temperature, humidity, aeration and lighting among others have been the major traditional variables that are considered in understanding and improving comfort of building occupants. As important as these factors are, the need for an hollistic approach to basic necessities and requirements for comfort and satisfaction of people gave rise to the adoption of indoor environmental quality (IEQ) concept. This study therefore examines the importance attached to various IEQ criteria by occupants of selected low-income housing buildings with a view to understanding and improving needed and required facilities for optimum satisfaction. Using questionnaire as the research instrument, purposive sampling was adopted to collect information from occupants of low-income housing, with emphasis on their residence in the building for at least 2 years and above the age of 18. Analysis of the completed 54 questionnaires indicates that basic and traditional factors such as room temperature, humidity and ventilation are the most important IEQ criteria to sampled occupants. The results of this study will help concerned stakeholders of low-income housing including the government, developers, contractors, construction professionals and regulatory agencies to understand the level of importance attached to basic comfort and satisfaction factors by occupants, with a view to providing improve building for better and optimum satisfaction.
AB - Temperature, humidity, aeration and lighting among others have been the major traditional variables that are considered in understanding and improving comfort of building occupants. As important as these factors are, the need for an hollistic approach to basic necessities and requirements for comfort and satisfaction of people gave rise to the adoption of indoor environmental quality (IEQ) concept. This study therefore examines the importance attached to various IEQ criteria by occupants of selected low-income housing buildings with a view to understanding and improving needed and required facilities for optimum satisfaction. Using questionnaire as the research instrument, purposive sampling was adopted to collect information from occupants of low-income housing, with emphasis on their residence in the building for at least 2 years and above the age of 18. Analysis of the completed 54 questionnaires indicates that basic and traditional factors such as room temperature, humidity and ventilation are the most important IEQ criteria to sampled occupants. The results of this study will help concerned stakeholders of low-income housing including the government, developers, contractors, construction professionals and regulatory agencies to understand the level of importance attached to basic comfort and satisfaction factors by occupants, with a view to providing improve building for better and optimum satisfaction.
KW - Building quality
KW - Health and safety
KW - Indoor environmental quality
KW - Occupants’ satisfaction
KW - Smart structure
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U2 - 10.1007/978-3-319-95774-6_20
DO - 10.1007/978-3-319-95774-6_20
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:85101543943
SN - 9783319957739
T3 - Sustainable Civil Infrastructures
SP - 247
EP - 256
BT - New Developments in Materials for Infrastructure Sustainability and the Contemporary Issues in Geo-environmental Engineering - Proceedings of the 5th GeoChina International Conference 2018 – Civil Infrastructures Confronting Severe Weathers and Climate Changes
A2 - Shu, Shanzhi
A2 - He, Liangcai
A2 - Kai, Yao
PB - Springer Science and Business Media B.V.
T2 - 5th GeoChina International Conference on Civil Infrastructures Confronting Severe Weathers and Climate Changes: From Failure to Sustainability, 2018
Y2 - 23 July 2018 through 25 July 2018
ER -
