TABLE OF CONTENTS - The Professional Green Building Council

Theme B: Creating a livable, healthy and environmentally viable citiesThe improvement to indoor environment must eventually aim at the assurance ofuser’s health. Hence, it is necessary to collect the information on the indoor usestatus, the degree of complaints to indoor environment and the symptoms causedby indoor environment. As such, the questionnaires were drafted prior to initialinspection and the survey was conducted focusing on four key points.Taking the implementation of 2006 research project for example, the results of thesurvey are described as follows: A total of 500 copies of questionnaires weremailed, 321 copies of them returned, of which 292 copies were valid. Examiningthe features of the samples, from the structure of sex, the percentage of male(40.34%)is lower than the female’s (59.66%); from the structure of age, primarilyin the range of 30 to 39(33.22%), followed by 40 to 49(31.56%), 20 to 29(17.94%),50 to 59(12.96%), and the percentage of the age above 59(2.66%)and below20(1.66%) are rather low; in the status of smoking, a high percentage of up to85.33% of the users do not smoke, current percentage of smokers is 8%, 6.67% ofthem already quit smoking; in addition, 85% of the users maintain normal livingcondition (85.02%) and balanced meals (84.23%). However, as high as 68.62% ofthe users are under pressure. Probability take place in the indoor personnel'sdiscomfort symptom. in figure 1。3.3 Survey of users’ reaction to indoor environment problemsThe project included the diagnosis and physical improvement of the indoorenvironment . For diagnosis, three different stages were implemented , includingself inspection , the preliminary walk-through , and the detailed inspection of thebuilding from a healthy environment standpoint. For environment measurement ,there were components of indoor acoustics , illumination , thermal comfort , airquality and electromagnetic field. The process for conducting physicalimprovement started by setting the goals of improvement , and followed byplanning , design , construction , and re-assessment after completion. It is also thepurpose of this study to establish a reference manual for future projects of this kind.216