TY  - BOOK
AU  - Mahajan, Aaditi Abhay (PBE22001)
AU  - Damle, Rashmin (Guide)
TI  - Assessment of indoor environment quality of hospitals in Ahmedabad (Softcopy is also available)
U1  - MBEP TH-0093  
PY  - 2024///
N1  - 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

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