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Case Studies of Indoor Air Quality and Sustainability Management

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Innovation in Sustainable Management and Entrepreneurship (SIM 2019)

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Abstract

The European Union strategy on air quality management is based on an articulated legislation. In spite of that, some criticalities can emerge in specific cases. The present article focuses on case studies that point out potential criticalities of indoor air quality, in some cases related to outdoor conditions, in other ones depending only on indoor phenomena. For each case, some considerations useful for improving the indoor air quality management are presented. The analyzed cases refer both to the private and to the public sectors, both to health effects and to discomfort conditions. Two specific groups of criticalities have been focused: one concerns particulate matter (zooming on some problems related to different effects that granulometric classes can have on the human health), the other related to the accumulation of CO2 in indoor environments. Solutions for a sustainable management of indoor air quality are discussed case by case. Potentialities of intervention are different depending on the kind of case: theoretical (still at design level) or applied (if the indoor environment of interest already exists).

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This work was supported in part by research grant GNaC2018-ARUT, no. 1359/01.02.2019, financed by Politehnica University of Timisoara.

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  1. University of Trento, via Mesiano 77, Trento, Italy

    Marco Ragazzi

  2. Polithenica University of Timisoara, 14 Remus Street, 300191, Timisoara, Romania

    Matei Tămășilă & Larisa Ivascu

  3. Academy of Romanian Scientists, Splaiul Independentei, 54, Sector 5, 010071, Bucharest, Romania

    Larisa Ivascu

  4. Insubria University, via G.B. Vico, 46, 21100, Varese, Italy

    Cristina Elena Rada

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Ragazzi, M., Tămășilă, M., Ivascu, L., Rada, C.E. (2020). Case Studies of Indoor Air Quality and Sustainability Management. In: Prostean, G., Lavios Villahoz, J., Brancu, L., Bakacsi, G. (eds) Innovation in Sustainable Management and Entrepreneurship. SIM 2019. Springer Proceedings in Business and Economics. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-44711-3_11

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