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IAQ Lab

  • Assessment of Indoor Air Quality for Apartment Houses
  • Emission test of Pollutants from Finishing Materials

Main Reserchers

  • Measuring and analyzing the indoor air pollutants in newly built apartment houses, following the official test standard

Main Reserchers

  • Emission test for Volatile Organic Compounds & Formaldehyde from finishing materials
  1. Lab Equipments
    Equipment Use
    GC/MS & ATD

    Qualitative and quantitative analysis for Volatile Organic Compounds

    High Performance Liquid Chromatography (HPLC)

    Qualitative and quantitative analysis for Formaldehyde

    Advanced Pollution and Air Quality Chamber (ADPAC) system

    Emission test of pollutants from the surface of finishing materials

  2. Major Studies
    • Plans to improve IAQ in a newly built apartment building
    • Creating the guidelines for IAQ management
    • Understanding the characteristics of pollutants emitted from finishing materials, and studying for ways to reduce such emission
    • Feasibility study of IAQ enhancement by functional products: (visible light photocatalyst and 14 other products)
    • Emission strength test for building material pollutants (performed in a small and a large chamber for 5 different products)
    • Performance evaluation to remove the pollutants by waste heat recuperator (for 31 products)
    • Joint IAQ-related research with the Korea Federation of Construction Contractors
    • IAQ evaluation for the Gimpo Gochon Hillstate apartment complex and other new construction project sites