Passive design strategies are important for achieving building sustainability given their proved influences over the building performance in both energy and indoor environmental aspects.
The questionnaire surveys revealed building characteristics, housing appliances, household characteristics, indoor environment and aspects of life style, during winter and summer seasons.
An overview for risk factors on allergic disease discussing genetics aspects, indoor and outdoor pollution, socio-economic factors, climate change and migration has recently been published [ 12].
Unfortunately, the model does not yet include indoor air quality aspects, which include the introduction of indoor air toxicants off-gassed from building finishing and decorative materials, a result of Chinese urban affluence and growing consumer preferences.
Buildings utilized for commercial use often have high annual ventilation heating demand due to high ACH required from indoor air quality aspect.
Only recently has indoor air, one aspect of the indoor environment, made its cautious appearance in the WHO Euro ministerial declaration (WHO 2004) and the EU Environment and Health Action Plan European Commissionn 2004).
Thermal comfort aspects of indoor spaces are crucial during the design stages of building layout planning.
These standards cover all aspects of indoor and outdoor mushroom production,including substrate materials, pest control and disease management, water, substrate disposal,sterilizing and pasteurizing substrate, and containers.
Ten years after his death, this paper is a memorial of his research in the field of thermal comfort and some aspects of indoor air quality.
