A Study on the Assessment of the Indoor Environment Quality for the Renewal of Historical Buildings: Taking Some Registered Cases in Northern Taiwan as Illustration.

There is a worldwide trend to reuse an old building to renovate the historical district forsustainable development. Because of the different construction type and materials, the historical building should be proposed the reuse process via the different strategies. On the other hand, the historical buildings should also provide the healthy indoor environment. A preliminary study already described the methodology of the indoor environment assessment on existing buildings and intends to draft indoorenvironment indicators [1]. However, the indoor environment of historical buildings is complex, it is necessary to measure the performance of historical buildings and to identify the significant factors. This paper continues the previous results and investigates the current indoor environment indicators in historical buildings from Ilan County of Taiwan. Six cases were carried out the field-measurement, and the hermal environment was found as the significant issue by the comprehensive assessment.