IDEAS home Printed from https://ideas.repec.org/a/gam/jsusta/v12y2020i14p5569-d382842.html
   My bibliography  Save this article

Influence of Indoor Climate on Employees in Office Buildings—A Case Study

Author

Listed:
  • Peter Kapalo

    (Institute of Architectural Engineering, Faculty of Civil Engineering, Technical University of Košice, Vysokoškolská 4, 04200 Košice, Slovakia)

  • Silvia Vilčeková

    (Institute of Environmental Engineering, Faculty of Civil Engineering, Technical University of Košice, Vysokoškolská 4, 04200 Košice, Slovakia)

  • Ľudmila Mečiarová

    (Institute of Environmental Engineering, Faculty of Civil Engineering, Technical University of Košice, Vysokoškolská 4, 04200 Košice, Slovakia)

  • Florin Domnita

    (Department of Building Services Engineering, Technical University of Cluj-Napoca, B-dul 21 December 1989, nr. 128-130, 400604 Cluj-Napoca, Romania)

  • Mariusz Adamski

    (Faculty of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Bialystok University of Technology, Wiejska 45E street, 15-351 Białystok, Poland)

Abstract

The presented research work is aimed at investigation of the influence of indoor environmental conditions on employees in office buildings. Monitoring of carbon dioxide, temperature, relative humidity and pulse, as well as subjective evaluation, was carried out in three office rooms where air conditioning systems ensured the required amount of fresh air. Investigation showed that in two offices (A and B), the amount of fresh air did not comply with EN 15251:2017. The concentration of CO 2 in office A was above 1000 ppm for 72% of the total length of stay. Respondents confirmed fatigue and headaches. In offices A and B, where CO 2 concentration was around 1000 ppm, people with a weight of up to 70 kg experienced a significant increase in air temperature as well as odor. Persons with weight higher than 75 kg experienced a slight decrease in air quality. In office C, where CO 2 concentration was around 800 ppm, respondents reported a slight decrease in air quality. According to pulse monitoring, it can be stated that in an office where there is an insufficient supply of fresh air, the pulse of a person falls or only slightly rises. A decrease in pulses may indicate the attenuation or stunning of people caused by poor air quality.

Suggested Citation

  • Peter Kapalo & Silvia Vilčeková & Ľudmila Mečiarová & Florin Domnita & Mariusz Adamski, 2020. "Influence of Indoor Climate on Employees in Office Buildings—A Case Study," Sustainability, MDPI, vol. 12(14), pages 1-11, July.
    • Handle: RePEc:gam:jsusta:v:12:y:2020:i:14:p:5569-:d:382842
    as

    Download full text from publisher

    File URL: https://www.mdpi.com/2071-1050/12/14/5569/pdf
    Download Restriction: no
    File URL: https://www.mdpi.com/2071-1050/12/14/5569/
    Download Restriction: no
    ---><---

    Citations

    Citations are extracted by the CitEc Project, subscribe to its RSS feed for this item.
    as


    Cited by:

    1. Jéssica Kuntz Maykot & Candi Citadini de Oliveira & Enedir Ghisi & Ricardo Forgiarini Rupp, 2022. "Influence of Gender on Thermal, Air-Movement, Humidity and Air-Quality Perception in Mixed-Mode and Fully Air-Conditioned Offices," Sustainability, MDPI, vol. 14(15), pages 1-13, August.
    2. Zhifeng Shen & Xirui Yang & Chunlu Liu & Junjie Li, 2021. "Assessment of Indoor Environmental Quality in Budget Hotels Using Text-Mining Method: Case Study of Top Five Brands in China," Sustainability, MDPI, vol. 13(8), pages 1-24, April.
    3. Annamária Behúnová & Lucia Knapčíková & Marcel Behún & Tomáš Mandičák & Peter Mésároš, 2021. "Intelligent Designing and Increasing the Variability of Healthy Residential Buildings by Customizing Recycled Polyvinyl Butyral," Sustainability, MDPI, vol. 13(16), pages 1-17, August.
    4. Pang, Qinghua & Dong, Xianwei & Zhang, Lina & Chiu, Yung-ho, 2023. "Drivers and key pathways of the household energy consumption in the Yangtze river economic belt," Energy, Elsevier, vol. 262(PA).

    Corrections

    All material on this site has been provided by the respective publishers and authors. You can help correct errors and omissions. When requesting a correction, please mention this item's handle: RePEc:gam:jsusta:v:12:y:2020:i:14:p:5569-:d:382842. See general information about how to correct material in RePEc.

    If you have authored this item and are not yet registered with RePEc, we encourage you to do it here. This allows to link your profile to this item. It also allows you to accept potential citations to this item that we are uncertain about.

    We have no bibliographic references for this item. You can help adding them by using this form .

    If you know of missing items citing this one, you can help us creating those links by adding the relevant references in the same way as above, for each refering item. If you are a registered author of this item, you may also want to check the "citations" tab in your RePEc Author Service profile, as there may be some citations waiting for confirmation.

    For technical questions regarding this item, or to correct its authors, title, abstract, bibliographic or download information, contact: MDPI Indexing Manager (email available below). General contact details of provider: https://www.mdpi.com .

    Please note that corrections may take a couple of weeks to filter through the various RePEc services.

    IDEAS is a RePEc service. RePEc uses bibliographic data supplied by the respective publishers.