A studyon the comprehensive indicator of indoor environment assessment for occupants’ health in Taiwan

This paper presents the methodologyof developing the comprehensive indicator for indoor-environment assessment. It intends to provide the occupants with the measures of indoor-environment quality. These indicators were drawn up by literature review based on the practicability, economic and feasible aspects. The categories we considered included acoustics, vibrations, illumination, thermal comfort, indoor air quality, water quality, greens and electromagnetic 2elds. The purpose is to derive the essential indicators through expertise consultation for quantitative assessment on existing buildings. The analytic hierarchyprocess (AHP) method was used to carryout the weighting among the categories and these indicators in the same categoryrespectively . The consistencyratio was also calculated to 2lter out the null questionnaire. Finally, a comprehensive index, indoor environment index (IEI(AHP)), composed of the 2ltered indicators, is proposed to assess the indoor-environment in the built buildings.