Abstract:
Indoor Environmental Quality (IEO) can be considered as one of the main measure of total building
performance. Even though there are various methods to evaluate IEQ of buildings, it is evident that
there is no holistic approach, which considers every possible parameter which results in
pragmatic and operational, mechanism especially for industrial buildings. Similarly in Sri Lanka, there
is no comprehensive framework applied in buildings to evaluate IEQ performance and the situation is
with other countries as there is less regard to IEQ factors in measuring building performance.
The industrial buildings also lacks total IEQ performance methods being utilised, however there are
few which are only based on IEQ measurements such as indoor air quality, thermal, acoustic and
lighting comfort.
When considering the global view, are some evaluation methods or techniques which are being used
However for the industrial buildings there are no methods with a holistic approach. This creates the
need to identify existing IEQ practices with respect to industrial buildings in order to develop a
comprehensive evaluation framework for total IEQ performance of industrial buildings.
Therefore, this paper attempts to establish the indicators and sub indicators proposed for the framework
to evaluate IEQ performance of industrial buildings based on preliminary investigation and literature
survey as part of an on-going research project. The available IEQ techniques have been identified which
needs to be validated in the next step of this research study.
