Indoor Air Quality
Indoor Air Quality
Indoor Air Climate
The importance of indoor air quality or indoor climate has long been neglected.
As we spend most of our lives indoors we should be aware of the affect
indoor climate has on the human body.
Learn why it is so important to focus on healthy indoor air to create
a comfortable climate in your house.
According to the WHO and EPA the pollution of indoor air is significantly higher than outdoor air. The health risks of short and long term exposure can lead to a variety of health issues such as: allergies, headaches, asthma, coughing and other respiratory diseases, sick building syndrome, dizziness, fatigue, itchy eyes, lung cancer, stroke, nausea and many more.
The quality of indoor climate is mainly influenced by four aspects
Air
- Outdoor air
- Air pressure
- Composition of air
- Dust level
- Odor
- Allergens
- Carbon content
- Movement
- Diffusion
- Ventilation
- Sun
- Heat flow
- Outdoor/ Indoor temperature
- Convection
- Thermal radiation
- Thermal conduction
- Surface temperature
- Heating/ air conditioning
Temperature
Humidity
- Insulation
- Condensation
- Air humidity
- Hygroscopicity
- Vapor diffusion
- Material moisture
- AC electric fields
- AC magnetic fields
- Static electric fields
- Static magnetic fields
- Earth's magnetic fields
- RF radiation
- Air ionization/ static electricity
Electro-climate