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and the results of those studies showed that these benefits were also offering economic benefits per year. Nevertheless, there are some issues linked to variables such as contamination and
therefore it is a must that the right strategy is to be used in designing proper ventilating systems
all which will improve indoor air quality in different methods such as choosing building materials which do not emit or emit a low level. This will help prevent contamination from reaching
the air by stopping at its source. This source control is crucial as it is a method to reduce indoor
contamination. However, we still need to use proper strategies for the right ventilation in order to
eliminate the negative aspects largely (Itron 2008; EREC 1999).

Conclusions
The key objective of this study was to encapsulate the present collected literature related to the
effects of indoor environmental factors on health, productivity and comfort of building users.
Referred studies in this detailed research found clear impact of IEQ parameters on building inhabitants. The information and data collected in this review conveys communicative evidence
that poor indoor environmental conditions can have serious consequences on performance and
wellbeing of inhabitants especially children and elderly. Briefing the methodology studying the
correlation between indoor environmental factors and satisfaction, we have realized that the
quantitative models provide more information over qualitative because they indicate precisely
to which extent the environmental conditions have and/or should be changed in order to develop comfort. As for qualitative surveys, it only provided information of environmental parameters
considered to be important mainly by inhabitants.
To guide the building industry towards intelligent buildings, energy efficient, environmentally
green, dominant on the user health and most importantly sustainable is a substantial, significant
and critical environmental friendly approach. To support occupant’s health indoors is acute to
prevent illness and protect and prevent the health of the community. The necessity to for energy
efficiency in building or indoor air quality is not the major factor but, to enhance the current behavior toward sustainable buildings in order to avoid subsidizing health vulnerability from indoor
agents. Therefore, the need to achieve a good scheme or project scope is by bearing in mind the
integrated view of its multiple elements which must be stressed and should not favor individually
an explicit aspect of the environmental comfort but rather should systemically encourage and
inspire a healthy environment.

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