The effect of indoor air quality (IAQ) towards occupants’ psychological performance in office buildings

Indoor air quality (IAQ) in a building is a very important element to ensure the health and comfort level of the building occupants. This is because work productivity may be interrupted due to the polluted environmental condition and bad indoor air quality. Both factors may lead to bad health and ph...

Full description

Bibliographic Details
Main Authors:	Kamaruzzaman .S.N, Sabrani .N.A
Format:	Article
Language:	English
Published:	Penerbit UKM 2011
Online Access:	http://journalarticle.ukm.my/3567/ http://journalarticle.ukm.my/3567/ http://journalarticle.ukm.my/3567/1/volume04paper06.pdf

id	ukm-3567
recordtype	eprints
spelling	ukm-35672016-12-14T06:34:49Z http://journalarticle.ukm.my/3567/ The effect of indoor air quality (IAQ) towards occupants’ psychological performance in office buildings Kamaruzzaman .S.N, Sabrani .N.A, Indoor air quality (IAQ) in a building is a very important element to ensure the health and comfort level of the building occupants. This is because work productivity may be interrupted due to the polluted environmental condition and bad indoor air quality. Both factors may lead to bad health and physical condition and consequently to bad work performance. The study presents the understanding and knowledge of how indoor air quality (IAQ) affects psychological performance and health impact to the occupants in government high rise office buildings in Malaysia. Four high-rise government office buildings located in Kuala Lumpur and Selangor were selected as the case studies. Questionnaire forms were distributed among the building occupants to get their feedback regarding their satisfaction with the buildings’ IAQ performance. All data collected were analysed using SPSS statistical software and based on the data analysed, building occupants’ satisfaction level are identified. Finding shows that in the current situation, the majority of respondents are not satisfied with their office current indoor air quality. This condition is believed to be one of the contributing factors affecting occupants’ work productivity and stress level. Nevertheless, this research managed to provide better understanding and valuable information on how indoor air quality affect psychological performance and health condition of the occupants in office buildings. Recommendations are made to improve the indoor air quality performance in order to provide a comfortable working environment to the workers. Penerbit UKM 2011 Article PeerReviewed application/pdf en http://journalarticle.ukm.my/3567/1/volume04paper06.pdf Kamaruzzaman .S.N, and Sabrani .N.A, (2011) The effect of indoor air quality (IAQ) towards occupants’ psychological performance in office buildings. Jurnal Rekabentuk dan Binaan, 4 . pp. 49-61. ISSN ISSN : 1985-6881 http://www.ukm.my/jsb/jdb
repository_type	Digital Repository
institution_category	Local University
institution	Universiti Kebangasaan Malaysia
building	UKM Institutional Repository
collection	Online Access
language	English
description	Indoor air quality (IAQ) in a building is a very important element to ensure the health and comfort level of the building occupants. This is because work productivity may be interrupted due to the polluted environmental condition and bad indoor air quality. Both factors may lead to bad health and physical condition and consequently to bad work performance. The study presents the understanding and knowledge of how indoor air quality (IAQ) affects psychological performance and health impact to the occupants in government high rise office buildings in Malaysia. Four high-rise government office buildings located in Kuala Lumpur and Selangor were selected as the case studies. Questionnaire forms were distributed among the building occupants to get their feedback regarding their satisfaction with the buildings’ IAQ performance. All data collected were analysed using SPSS statistical software and based on the data analysed, building occupants’ satisfaction level are identified. Finding shows that in the current situation, the majority of respondents are not satisfied with their office current indoor air quality. This condition is believed to be one of the contributing factors affecting occupants’ work productivity and stress level. Nevertheless, this research managed to provide better understanding and valuable information on how indoor air quality affect psychological performance and health condition of the occupants in office buildings. Recommendations are made to improve the indoor air quality performance in order to provide a comfortable working environment to the workers.
format	Article
author	Kamaruzzaman .S.N, Sabrani .N.A,
spellingShingle	Kamaruzzaman .S.N, Sabrani .N.A, The effect of indoor air quality (IAQ) towards occupants’ psychological performance in office buildings
author_facet	Kamaruzzaman .S.N, Sabrani .N.A,
author_sort	Kamaruzzaman .S.N,
title	The effect of indoor air quality (IAQ) towards occupants’ psychological performance in office buildings
title_short	The effect of indoor air quality (IAQ) towards occupants’ psychological performance in office buildings
title_full	The effect of indoor air quality (IAQ) towards occupants’ psychological performance in office buildings
title_fullStr	The effect of indoor air quality (IAQ) towards occupants’ psychological performance in office buildings
title_full_unstemmed	The effect of indoor air quality (IAQ) towards occupants’ psychological performance in office buildings
title_sort	effect of indoor air quality (iaq) towards occupants’ psychological performance in office buildings
publisher	Penerbit UKM
publishDate	2011
url	http://journalarticle.ukm.my/3567/ http://journalarticle.ukm.my/3567/ http://journalarticle.ukm.my/3567/1/volume04paper06.pdf
first_indexed	2023-09-18T19:39:10Z
last_indexed	2023-09-18T19:39:10Z
_version_	1777405473874509824

The effect of indoor air quality (IAQ) towards occupants’ psychological performance in office buildings

Similar Items