Review of Indoor Environmental Quality (IEQ) For Development of Sustainable Covid-19 Resilient Framework for Office Building

Coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic has rapidly affected day to day life, business and disrupt the world trade and movements. Various industries and sectors are greatly affected by the cause of this disease. This virus creates significant knock-on effects on the daily life of citizens, as well as the global economy. The World Health Organization (WHO) acknowledge coronavirus airborne transmission could be potentially indoors with crowded and poorly ventilated space. Therefore, new Standard of Procedures (SOP) in workplace has been introduced to reduce the spread of COVID-19 including practicing physical distancing and avoiding physical meetings. Several researchers have suggested that green measurement such as Indoor Environmental Quality (IEQ) would ensure long-term social and environmental protection. Therefore, it is important to integrate the Indoor Air Quality attributes in the recent SOP in workplace. This study is conducted to comprehensively review the Indoor Environmental Quality (IEQ) attributes for office building in Malaysia. This is one of the processes of developing a sustainable COVID-19 resilient framework for office building. There are three green rating tools for office building in Malaysia namely Green Building Index, GreenRE and PHJKR. Seven categories, 16 sub-criteria, and 42 attributes of IEQ for office building that should be consider for the framework development including space management air quality, thermal comfort, lighting comfort, visual comfort, acoustic comfort, and verification and space management.