Course Overview

Indoor Environmental Quality refers to the elements that create a comfortable setting for the inhabitants of a building. This lesson introduces the concept of integration - the optimization of the building envelope and HVAC systems in a commercial building to control the indoor environmental quality.

Learning Objectives

At the conclusion of this lesson, you will be able to:

• Identify the basic conditions that affect human comfort
• Describe why integration is a key design principle of a commercial building
• Differentiate between sensible heat and latent heat
• Describe the basic heat transfer mechanisms for sensible and latent heat
• Identify the units which measure thermal loads

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