A new report from the Building Performance Institute Europe has called for upgrades to European building regulations to ensure satisfactory indoor environmental quality. Key factors of indoor environmental quality are identified as air quality, thermal comfort, lighting and acoustics.
The Inner Value of a Building looks at opportunities to integrate indoor environmental quality into European regulation that addresses building renovation and energy performance, and identifies four key areas of opportunity where such regulations can be improved to better deliver satisfactory indoor environmental quality. These areas are:
- Long-term renovation strategies that take into account indoor air quality
- Energy Performance Certificates that recommend for the cost-effective or cost-optimal upgrading of the energy performance
- Smart readiness indicators that capture and promote the benefits of smart buildings for building users and occupants, the energy system, the economy and society as a whole
- The integration of indoor environmental quality within regulatory framework where compliance and quality control mechanisms are enforced
The report emphasised the importance of national regulatory frameworks in improving minimum indoor environmental quality.
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