Università Roma Tre

The course develops a series of cutting-edge topics hinged on the subject of the healthiness of confined spaces and oriented toward the possibility of developing this subject through design tools, practical-operational protocols and diagnostic methodologies capable of directing towards a true specialist profession.
The quality of life inside confined environments is determined by the external pollutant load and a considerable contribution of internal contaminants. The ratio between the generic quality of an outdoor environment and that of an indoor space results in a ratio of 1 to 5, that is, under indoor conditions we can be influenced by up to five times more pollutants than outside. Inside a confined environment we can detect everything that is also present outdoors with the addition of contaminants generated by the building envelope, the furnishings in it, the cleaning, cosmetic and personal hygiene products of the occupants, as well as the presence of animals, insects, fungi, bacteria viruses and microorganisms. Since there are no ventilation and aeration conditions inside comparable to those outside, concentrations of pathogens are multiplied and aggravated by the small size of living, study and/or work spaces.
These assumptions give rise to a subject capable of design intervention in the emissive characteristics of a building envelope and the creation of indoor living conditions that form the backbone of proper primary environmental prevention prophylaxis.
The contents of the course are dedicated to raising the quality of the built environment through the development of protocols (of analysis and intervention) aimed at the containment of pollutants present within confined spaces; its scope of action, on the other hand, is characterized by two precise branches of activity that are often synergistic: one of audit and one of certification. The former consists of the measurement of compounds potentially present within confined spaces in order to assess their concentration and possibly intervene to lower it; the latter, on the other hand, is declined through the application of protocols capable of managing each building process (both renovation and new construction) from the design phase and guaranteeing the low emissivity of a building at the time of its delivery.

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