scope:

This guideline provides guidance regarding factors and their interactions and includes thermal comfort, indoor air quality (IAQ), sound and vibration, and non-ionizing electromagnetic radiation (including visible light).

It applies to the design, construction, commissioning, operation, and maintenance of buildings.

It applies to all indoor or enclosed spaces that people may occupy, with the following exceptions:

a. Areas of buildings intended primarily for manufacturing, commercial processing, or industrial processing

b. Parking garages

c. Storage spaces intended for only incidental human occupancy

d. Other such enclosed spaces not designed primarily for human occupancy

PURPOSE

The purpose of this guideline is to provide guidance regarding factors and their interactions as they affect the indoor environmental conditions acceptable to human occupants with regard to comfort and health.