Journal of Korean Society of Occupational and Environmental Hygiene (한국산업보건학회지)

Korean Industrial Hygiene Association (한국산업보건학회)
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Assessment of indoor ventilation in commercial office buildings

업무용 빌딩 소재 사무실의 실내환기 평가

  • 정지연 (용인대학교 산업환경보건학과) ;
  • 이광용 (한국산업안전공단 산업안전보건연구원) ;
  • 이병규 (한국산업안전공단 산업안전보건연구원)
  • Received : 2007.12.26
  • Accepted : 2008.04.21
  • Published : 2008.06.30
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Abstract

In winter season, the survey was performed in three commercial office buildings in the metropolitan Seoul, Pusan, and Gwangju city. The purpose of the survey was to evaluate the effectiveness of ventilation for offices in commercial buildings. The data were compared to standard of applicable to the indoor ventilation in office. The results indicated that the most commercial office buildings used the air handing unit and fan coil unit as HVAC system, and the intake amount of fresh outdoor air were very inadequate to compared to the ASHRAE standard value of $0.57\;m^3/min/person$. Also the surveyed all commercial office building used the HVAC system as a meas of controlling temperature for office indoor air. Ultimately, these results presented that there were possibility of evoking indoor air quality problems by the insufficient ventilation.

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