INDOOR ENVIRONMENTAL QUALITY (IEQ)

AURA IEQ VISUALS® Visualisation Concept

The physical working and living circumstances are just one part of the complex accommodation puzzle but are often leading in people’s perceptions about their work and living place.

Would it not be clarifying if the reality behind human comfort and air quality at the workplace level is revealed? If there were an easily accessible tool, either to offer the building occupant an objective answer to his or her complaint or to preventively achieve the highest possible quality of the indoor environment?

THE BASIC CONSIDERATIONS

Indoor Environmental Quality (IEQ) is a complex phenomenon, which covers two main areas. Human comfort is the main group of topics. Air quality a second. Both influencing wellbeing and health, but also, for instance, learning capability or productivity. All these invisible factors are present in the space around us, inside and outside the buildings.

Widespread impressions exist among many of those involved in the construction and facility industry, that Building Management Systems (BMS), which control the indoor climate, provide adequate data to make the Indoor Environmental Quality (IEQ) assessable and good enough for the measurement of the thermal comfort. But nothing could be less true.

An important question is: How do we know if a building is healthy?

Answering the question requires a wide range of instrumentation to objectify the IEQ by measuring (short term) or monitoring (long term) and, also by visualising what is considered as an invisible reality.

These measurements and visualisations are made possible by our AURA IEQ VISUALS® concept with our environmental sensor AURA IEQ 1001 Multiprobe® and our software.

Several international building certification bodies set standards regarding  IE performance verification and testing device requirements. The challenge of our concept AURA IEQ VISUALS is not only to meet these standards but to exceed them whenever possible.