Title: Prepare #2
Course: WGF 106 DEVELOPMENT > Section: Content

Unit 1

Lesson 1: Prepare #2
Title | Reading and Audio-Visual Assignments
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Sub-Title | Improved IEQ Benefits
Content | The evidence that improving indoor environmental quality (IEQ) can increase comfort, decrease adverse health effects, decrease absence rates, and increase work and school work performance is presented in other sections of this web site. This section provides estimates at the national level of some of the benefits and costs of taking practical steps to improve indoor environmental conditions in U.S. buildings. The estimates account for the existing IEQ conditions in buildings that are subject to practical improvement, the expected size of improvements in health, absence, and performance when IEQ is improved, and (when possible) the costs of improving IEQ. The estimates rely on journal-published analyses that take advantage of recent large advances in information about the impacts of IEQ on people's health and performance
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Content | The performance of office and school work is affected by indoor environmental conditions and by the features of buildings that influence indoor environmental conditions. Work performance may be improved from a few percent to possibly as much as 10% by providing superior indoor environmental quality (IEQ). The economic benefits of the work performance improvements will often far outweigh the costs of providing better IEQ.
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Terms and Acronyms – U.S. Environmental Protection Agency http://ofmpub.epa.gov/sor_internet/registry/termreg/searchandretrieve/termsandacronyms/search.do

Benefits of IEQ Summarized – Lawrence Berkeley National Lab                       http://www.iaqscience.lbl.gov/benefits-summary.html

Did You Know – Sustainable Facility Tool https://sftool.gov/learn/41/did-you-know

IEQ Search Results (249 references) – U.S. Environmental Protection Agency http://nlquery.epa.gov/epasearch/epasearch?result_template=epafiles_default.xsl&action=filtersearch&filter=&typeofsearch=epa&querytext=IEQ
Attributions | Wordle image by David Bowman Contents courtesy of Lawrence Berkeley National Lab (Benefits of Improving Indoor Environmental Quality - Indoor Air Quality Scientific Findings Resource Bank).