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Human-Building Interaction, Thermal Comfort and Indoor Air Quality in K-12 Schools (Before and During Covid-19) : = Suggestions for Stakeholders and Future Studies.

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Human-Building Interaction, Thermal Comfort and Indoor Air Quality in K-12 Schools (Before and During Covid-19) :/
Reminder of title:	Suggestions for Stakeholders and Future Studies.
Author:	Pouresfahani, Helia Taheri.
Description:	1 online resource (133 pages)
Notes:	Source: Dissertations Abstracts International, Volume: 84-01, Section: B.
Contained By:	Dissertations Abstracts International84-01B.
Subject:	Indoor air quality. -
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=29176822click for full text (PQDT)
ISBN:	9798835547050

Human-Building Interaction, Thermal Comfort and Indoor Air Quality in K-12 Schools (Before and During Covid-19) : = Suggestions for Stakeholders and Future Studies.
Pouresfahani, Helia Taheri.

Human-Building Interaction, Thermal Comfort and Indoor Air Quality in K-12 Schools (Before and During Covid-19) :Suggestions for Stakeholders and Future Studies. - 1 online resource (133 pages)

Source: Dissertations Abstracts International, Volume: 84-01, Section: B.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--North Carolina State University, 2022.

Includes bibliographical references

Schools are an important part of children's lives, and school environments have an impact on students' comfort, health, and performance. Thermal comfort and indoor air quality (IAQ) have a noticeable impact on children's comfort, health and learning performance. People feel thermally different in the same condition, and they might have different preferences to interact with their built environment to improve their comfort. COVID-19 added another layer of complexity to these preferences. On the other hand, people are aware of the impact of their built environment on IAQ and their health, and this awareness has been significantly increased since COVID-19 hits the world in March 2020. All leading agencies agreed on the importance of adequate ventilation rate and outdoor air ventilation in safer reopen schools, during the pandemic. Despite the benefits of thermal and IAQ-related recommendations, there might be some drawbacks that make stakeholders not use the suggested strategies or use them ineffectively. This study is an exploratory mixed methods case study that focuses on teachers' preferred behaviors to improve thermal comfort and IAQ in their classrooms, and the benefits and drawbacks of these behaviors. It suggests strategies for different stakeholders to mitigate the drawbacks of those behaviors while enhancing their benefits. The methods used in this study are surveys and interviews. Four elementary schools - a total of 27 survey respondents and eight interviewees - participated in this research. The results of this study show that to improve IAQ teachers prefer to use operable windows and air purifiers and to improve thermal comfort they prefer to use window shading, operable windows, fans, and controllable thermostats. Since different stakeholders play a role in effectively using these building elements, several strategies were recommended to different stakeholders at the end of this study to mitigate the drawbacks of each behavior while enhancing their benefits. This paper established a holistic and foundational knowledge about stakeholders' role to provide a thermally comfortable classroom with a proper IAQ for students and teachers. Also, due to the limitations of this study and a low number of participants, this paper suggested conducting future interdisciplinary mixed methods research on this subject by expanding the scope and including more stakeholders and schools to have a comprehensive understanding of the classroom conditions and how to improve them with the help of all stakeholders.

Electronic reproduction.
Ann Arbor, Mich. :
ProQuest,
2023

Mode of access: World Wide Web

ISBN: 9798835547050Subjects--Topical Terms:

2179141
Indoor air quality.
Index Terms--Genre/Form:

542853
Electronic books.

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