A voluntary scheme for certification of indoor environment and energy use

Specialist researchers, property owners, builders and building managers have togetherdeveloped a quality assurance (QA) management scheme that considers indoor environmentand energy use. The primary objective of quality assurance is to work towards continuingimprovements and to encourage those concerned to perform measures that otherwise wouldnot have been considered, and to ensure that energy improvements are not introduced at theexpense of indoor environment conditions. The QA scheme therefore aims to be flexible sothat it can achieve the primary objective independently of the buildings category or themanagement organisation. The new QA schemes flexibility has successfully been tested inthree different buildings; a school building, an office and an area of multi-family houses.