Best Sustainable Indoor Air Quality Practices in Commercial Buildings

This paper describes commercial building indoor air quality practices and then discusses them in the context of total building environmental performance. “Green buildings” generally have included some effort to address indoor air quality issues along with an unspecified number of other environmental concerns. Rarely, if ever, is analysis conducted to evaluate trade-offs made among environmental features considered important in “green” buildings even though conflicts occur among design features intended to improve a building’s environmental performance.