A field study of the individual and combined effect of ventilation rate and lighting conditions on pupils’ performance

By C. A. Hviid, C. Pedersen, Kent Helmann Dabelsteen. Building and Environment, 2020

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Abstract A field lab study was conducted to determine how much the indoor climate parameters, ventilation and lighting, influence children's academic abilities. The study involved 92 children, aged 10–12 years, who over four weeks answered a questionnaire and three different performance tests, which measured their processing speed, concentration, logical reasoning and math solving abilities. An experimental design was constructed to test the effect of changing the lighting from constant warm light with a maintained correlated colour temperature average of 2900 K and lighting level of 450 lux to a dynamic cool light of 4900 K and 750 lux. The change was tested at both low (3.9 l/s per person) and high ventilation rate (10.6 l/s per person). The results showed that processing speed (6.6%, P

Subfields: Building and Construction, Education, Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis

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