A good indoor climate, with generous daylight levels and the provision of fresh air from outside is the key to making offices, schools and homes healthy. In the EU today, we spend 90 % of our time indoors. But up to 30% of the buildings neither contribute to nor provide a healthy indoor climate. Can we do better, then? Can we design buildings that save energy without jeopardising the indoor climate? Yes we can! With our products and the way they are used, we wish to encourage and contribute to more sustainable ways of creating buildings. We call it Sustainable Living - and call for a holistic view. We believe that buildings need to be designed for meeting basic human needs for health, well-being and comfort with maximum daylight and fresh air, and there must be specific focus on energy efficiency and sustainable energy sources.
In this issue of D&A we compile historic, scientific and human-based approaches as well as the architect’s and engineer’s points of view on indoor climate.
