A Review on Indoor Environment Quality of Indian School Classrooms

Nishant Raj Kapoor, Ashok Kumar, Tabish Alam, Anuj Kumar, Kishor S. Kulkarni and Paolo Blecich
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Nishant Raj Kapoor: Architecture and Planning Department, CSIR—Central Building Research Institute, Roorkee 247667, India
Ashok Kumar: Architecture and Planning Department, CSIR—Central Building Research Institute, Roorkee 247667, India
Tabish Alam: Building Energy Efficiency Division, CSIR—Central Building Research Institute, Roorkee 247667, India
Anuj Kumar: Building Energy Efficiency Division, CSIR—Central Building Research Institute, Roorkee 247667, India
Kishor S. Kulkarni: Architecture and Planning Department, CSIR—Central Building Research Institute, Roorkee 247667, India
Paolo Blecich: Faculty of Engineering, University of Rijeka, 51000 Rijeka, Croatia

Sustainability, 2021, vol. 13, issue 21, 1-43

Abstract: The progress of Indoor Environmental Quality (IEQ) research in school buildings has increased profusely in the last two decades and the interest in this area is still growing worldwide. IEQ in classrooms impacts the comfort, health, and productivity of students as well as teachers. This article systematically discusses IEQ parameters related to studies conducted in Indian school classrooms during the last fifteen years. Real-time research studies conducted on Indoor Air Quality (IAQ), Thermal Comfort (TC), Acoustic Comfort (AcC), and Visual Comfort (VC) in Indian school classrooms from July 2006 to March 2021 are considered to gain insight into the existing research methodologies. This review article indicates that IEQ parameter studies in Indian school buildings are tortuous, strewn, inadequate, and unorganized. There is no literature review available on studies conducted on IEQ parameters in Indian school classrooms. The results infer that in India, there is no well-established method to assess the indoor environmental condition of classrooms in school buildings to date. Indian school classrooms are bleak and in dire need of energy-efficient modifications that maintain good IEQ for better teaching and learning outcomes. The prevailing COVID-19 Pandemic, Artificial Intelligence (AI), National Education Policy (NEP), Sick Building Syndrome (SBS), Internet of Things (IoT), and Green Schools (GS) are also discussed to effectively link existing conditions with the future of IEQ research in Indian school classrooms.

Keywords: classroom; ventilation; COVID-19; indoor air pollution; sick building syndrome; artificial intelligence; thermal comfort; visual comfort; acoustic comfort; indoor air quality (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: O13 Q Q0 Q2 Q3 Q5 Q56 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2021
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