Indoor Air Quality In A Clinical Laboratory In Surabaya, Indonesia - Assessed By Occupant Surveys and Air Quality Test

Abstract

Designing a healthy building has become a trend between designers and architects at this time. The main objective of the scheme was to protect the health of its occupants and improve the productivity of employees if the building is an office. A building is considered healthy when the airborne pollutant on the indoor air is still within the normal range. In most cases, airborne pollutant originated from the indoor environment itself, in the form of air contamination, inappropriate application of interior design components and also related to inadequate ventilation system. Therefore a research is needed to analyze the quality of indoor air in the associated building, which includes several techniques like survey and air sampling. Thus it can be understood that the study of Indoor Air Quality (IAQ) always deal with the content of indoor air that could affect health and comfort of the building occupants. This research was conducted in a clinical laboratory and the result shows that more than 60% of the occupants were satisfied with their working environment. But above 40% of the respondents were disrupted by the odour in their working environment. Moreover, several types of health disorder were also reported by the occupants