Indoor Environmental Quality

 Indoor Environmental Quality


    The acoustics are an important consideration while doing interior design, since the acoustics are how sound travels around a space, and it is important to know, since in commercial spaces, you wouldn't want people to hear important and private information during a meeting.

The three main principles of sound control are Noise Reduction coefficient (NRC) and Sound Transmission Class (STC), and Transmission Loss ( TL)


Reverberation Time (RT) refers to the sound that builds up over time and can be controlled. This is done in classrooms and auditoriums.


image of Reverberation Time 

When it comes to acoustical privacy for medical facilities, HIPAA) It is important since hospitals contain private information on their patients, which is crucial that sound doesn't transmit to other areas. The same can be said for offices like marketing or finance, which hold information about their clients.



    The effects that the Covid 19 had on indoor air are that it is an airborne virus that can be transmitted to other people who are in the same space together, hence, during the time that it came, people had to where masks, and this virus can stay in the air for hours after the person who brought it leaves, so to help fight back agaisnt it designers improve the building ventalations to filter out the air and bring more outdoor air inside the building.

Comments

  1. Gina ChristopherNovember 7, 2025 at 12:03 PM

    Hi Irma, I really enjoyed reading your post this week. Your summary of the chapter was very concise and well said. I also enjoyed reading your extra research about the effects of COVID19 in regard to indoor air quality. Well done!

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  2. Professor VanderNoordaaNovember 8, 2025 at 7:32 AM

    Irma,
    Great Blog post and excellent supportive images. I would have appreciated more information on Indoor Air Quality in general. 45/50 points

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  3. Anna ShultsNovember 8, 2025 at 9:16 AM

    Hey Irma, good job this week I really enjoyed reading your post as well as the image that you selected. Your research on COVID-19 was well done and challenged my thinking!

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