Since the oil crisis of the seventies, the interest given to buildings physics, indoor climate and energy use has strongly increased. Outside air quality in the cities in developed countries has improved significantly in recent decades. During the same period, also the quality of indoor environment has reduced. It is the impact of energy savings, reduced ventilation and the introduction of many new materials and sources of indoor pollution.
The indoor environment of buildings is that part of the environment in which the person is immediately acted on by the construction of the building, its technical equipments, including environmental equipments and a whole set of factors of internal environment. Comfortable indoor environment is essential to productivity, happiness and satisfaction of building users. European standards provide guidelines for what should be comfortable in terms of indoor climate. However, there is often a contradiction between the theory mentioned in these instructions, and real comfort for the user of the building.
Standards and guidelines for estimating the required minimum ventilation rates that we have today are not completed. The objective is to be able to calculate a straight the required ventilation rate, such as calculations for cooling and calculations for heat loads.
This paper is devoted to the assessment of the indoor environment of the building based on the individual components of the microclimate.