文档介绍：Energy and Buildings 33 (2001) 183±191
Indoor environment quality in buildings and
its impact on outdoor environment
Claude-Alain Roulet*
Solar Energy and Building Physics Research Laboratory, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, CH 1015 Lausanne, Switzerland
Abstract
The main purpose of buildings is to provide fortable living environment for their occupants. This includes, among others, thermal,
visual and fort as well as indoor air quality. Except during the 1950's and 1960's, it has always been considered important that
an excess use of energy should be avoided in the construction and the management of a building, sometimes even at the cost of user
comfort. Energy saving is, however, not the main purpose of the building. Indeed, if it were really so, the largest energy savings would be
obtained by not erecting the building in the ®rst place.
Since the Rio conference, there have been more and more incentives to save energy and lower the impact of buildings on the
environment. Therefore, there is no excuse for the building sector not to adopt a sustainable development policy.
Some energy is required to control the indoor climate and indoor air quality. Therefore, it is often suspected that energy savings result in
poorer indoor environment quality, or, on the contrary, that a fort level is the result of high technology and high energy
consumption. This