CONTENTS
ABSTRACT iii
UNDERTAKING v
CERTIFICATE vii
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS ix
ABBREVIATIONS xi
LIST OF FIGURES xv
LIST OF TABLES xvi
CHAPTER-1: INTRODUCTION 1
1.1 Background 1
1.2 Aim 2
1.3 Research Question: 2
1.4 Scope and limitation of the study 2
CHAPTER-2: LITERATURE REVIEW 4
2.1 Scope of the literature review 4
2.2 Understanding the impact of indoor environment conditions in hospitals 4
2.3 IEQ assessment parameters 5
2.4 IEQ assessment methodology and measurement conditions 5
2.5 Parameter thresholds for as per guidelines and standards 7
2.6 Significance of the study 7
CHAPTER-3: METHODOLOGY 9
3.1 Overview of the research methodology 9
3.2 Data collection 10
3.2.1 Parameter specific real time measurement procedure 10
3.2.2 Occupant Satisfaction Survey data collection: 11
3.3 Description of the Hospital spaces & procedure of measurements 11
3.4 Placement of sensors and location of point in time measurements 12
3.5 Real time IEQ Monitoring methodology for each hospital 14
CHAPTER-4: OBSERVATIONS AND ANALYSIS 15
4.1 Outdoor temperature and relative humidity variation 15
4.2 Summary of indoor parameters for Hospital A and B respectively. 16
4.3 HOSPITAL A: Key Inferences 17
4.3.1 OPD (Continuous Measurements) 17
4.3.2 OPD Cabin (Point in time measurements) 18
4.3.3 General Ward (Continuous Measurements) 19
4.3.4 General ward (Point in time measurements) 20
4.3.5 Intensive Care Unit (Continuous measurements) 21
4.3.6 Intensive Care Unit (Point in time measurements) 22
4.4 Hospital B: Key Inferences 23
4.4.1 OPD Cabin (Continuous measurements) 23
4.4.2 OPD cabin (Point in time measurements) 24
4.4.3 General ward (Continuous measurement) 25
4.4.4 General ward (Point in time measurements) 26
4.4.5 Intensive care unit (Continuous measurements) 27
4.5 Occupant Comfort Survey 28
4.6 Summary 30
4.7 Recommendations 31
CHAPTER-5: CONCLUSION and way forward 32
REFERENCE 34
APPENDIX A 37
Overview of DRP methodology 37
APPENDIX B 38