Little Tree Bali - Green Building Centre

Indoor Air Quality Management

Indoor air quality management is divided into two, ventilation and air conditioning. Ventilation in buildings comprises of supplying fresh outside air and removal of stale indoor air from inside the building. It is one of the most important factors for maintaining healthy indoor air quality and occupant comfort in a building as it removes moisture, odors, smoke, heat and airborne bacteria.

It has been proven that, higher ventilation rates increase productivity and has positive impact on occupant health.

Further, air-conditioning is the highest energy consuming end-use for buildings in Indonesia and energy efficiency measures related to air-conditioning offer some of the best energy saving opportunities with very reasonable paybacks. Typical indoor air temperature set points in Indonesia range from 22-26C, although thermostat setting in some public spaces as low as 20C have been observed. Increasing the average set point temperature by 1C can save up to 11% of the total energy use in typical Indonesia buildings.

These additional savings and increased occupant comfort through higher ventilation can be achieved by combining several indoor air quality management solutions such as High Volume Low Speed fans, Energy Recovery Ventilator and precisely designed and calculated Fabric Ducting.