RATING OF INDOOR ENVIRONMENTAL QUALITY IN SYSTEMS OF SUSTAINABILITY ASSESSMENT OF BUILDINGS

Indoor environmental quality (IEQ) has an important impact on health and wellbeing
of building users. In order to maintain an acceptable IEQ, policies, strategies
and guidelines on achieving the required IEQ have been developed. Control
and evaluation of indoor air factors is needed for ensuring the sufficient air quality.
Impact of emmisions from building materials, furnishings and HVAC systems
to indoor air quality should be included in the assessment of indoor environmental
quality. In many systems for sustainability assessment of buildings is put a great
emphasis on indoor environmental quality. This paper provides an overview
of sustainability assessment systems for rating of indoor environmental quality.
The criteria included in LEED, BREEAM and other well known systems for assessment
of indoor environmental quality are presented. Building environmental
assessment system (BEAS) developed for application in Slovakia is also introduced.
Worldwide used rating systems were based on the development of BEAS.
This is multi-criteria system contained six main fields such as site selection and
project planning; building construction; indoor environment; energy performance;
water and waste management. System consist from 53 indicators of assessment.

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