INDOOR AIR QUALITY MONITORING IN EDUCATIONAL ENVIRONMENTS: A CASE STUDY

Abstract

Indoor Air Quality in educational buildings plays an important role in students and professors performance and health, gaining much attention in recent years. This paper presents the results obtained in a one-year campaign of continuous real-time monitoring of Radon, TVOCs, and CO2 concentrations, as well as of indoor relative humidity in three different educational spaces located on the ground floor of a university building. The air pollutants concentrations were compared with the recommended values reported by guidelines and were used for health risk assessment. The annual effective dose due to indoor Radon exposure was determined together with the hazard index due to indoor TVOCs and CO2 exposure in university classrooms. The results showed in general, a suitable indoor air quality for learning and work.