Lyu, Junpeng; Pitt, Michael; Jiao, Yu; (2023) Impact of indoor environmental quality on occupant in the post pandemic: a literature review. In: Proceedings of the 29th Annual PRRES Conference in Sydney Australia. (pp. pp. 1-16). Pacific Rim Real Estate Society (PRRES)

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People spend 90% of their time indoors on average even before the COVID-19 epidemic. More than ever before, people are not only concerned about the Indoor Environmental Quality (IEQ) of public buildings, but also the IEQ of residential buildings. After all, occupants are more likely to develop a number of ailments when their IEQ is compromised, and these diseases are made worse by social and economic factors. Understanding the factors that affect IEQ and how to operate buildings to provide the ideal IEQ is essential for protecting health. This research aimed to investigate how COVID-19 affected the indoor environment's impacts on occupants. We reviewed the impact on occupants of the environment of four key themes in the post-pandemic era (indoor thermal comfort, indoor air quality, acoustic comfort and visual comfort). In addition, CiteSpace is employed in this paper's visual analysis of the IEQ studies literature from 2020 to 2022 in order to determine current research hotspots and identify potential trends. In general, there has been a rise in occupant health research interest among researchers in the following of the COVID-19 epidemic, as well as an increase in interest in health-related projects. In particular, indoor air quality was the IEQ direction that received the greatest attention in the literature evaluations, with an emphasis on the health of the occupants. The results of a cluster analysis showed that the knowledge base focuses more of an emphasis on topics like "indoor air quality", "temperature", "carbon dioxide", "energy consumption", "residential heritage", and "air quality". Lastly, many studies confirmed that the COVID-19 pandemic has changed people's perceptions about how buildings affect people's health. As a result of the pandemic, people think that future building design, construction, and operation will pay more attention to people's health from the perspective of indoor air quality and indoor air pollutants.

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