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ENVIRONMENTAL EDUCATION ASPECTS IN INDOOR ENGINEERING COURSES

Ingrid Senitkova, Zuzana Vranayova, Nadezda Stevulova

Abstract

This work began with the hypothesis that buildings are designed and built to enhance the quality of our life. Many buildings fail to perform adequately and cause illness and productivity losses to the occupants. A lot of US and Europe studies have made the adverse health effects caused by indoor environmental exposure become more and more apparent. The growing impact of indoor pollution problem and property values, and its rise at the subject of litigation, has shown that limitations and the lack of comprehensiveness that current educational paradigms for building and architectural professionals have in addressing the building occupant relationship. Thus, curricula for building professionals should include points of interface where architectural professionals know more about building as a system and building professionals understand more about architecture and human response. There is a clear need for a multidisciplinary education in indoor sciences that should be harmonized at basic university level. The harmonization can be achieved primarily at the basic university education of the four main professional programs targeted to architects, engineers, environmental sciences graduates, and health professionals. The healthy and sustainable building design determine to a great extend the quality of life, which improvement is important for meeting the main needs of education and training. The indoor education and training at the Civil Engineering Faculty of the Technical University of Kosice in Slovakia are presented in the paper. The interdisciplinary approaches are characterized in study program Architectural and Indoor Engineering.

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