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Indoor and Built Environment

Indoor and Built Environment is a science topic covered in the lgStudy science library. This page brings together a partial reference excerpt, illustrations, worked examples, real-world applications and a short study plan, so you can understand Indoor and Built Environment rather than just read about it. In short: Indoor and Built Environment is a peer-reviewed academic journal covering any topic pertaining to the quality of the indoor and built environment and how this affects the efficiency, performance, health, and comfort of those living or working there. Topics range from urban infrastructure, design of buildings, and materials used for laboratory studies including building airflow simulations and health effects.

Key takeaways

Indoor and Built Environment belongs to science; place it in that map before memorising details.
Learn the definition first, then one example that makes the definition concrete.
Connect Indoor and Built Environment to a quantity you can measure, compute or draw — that is where exam questions come from.
Reproduce the core statement of Indoor and Built Environment from memory before moving on to harder problems.

Reference excerpt

Indoor and Built Environment is a peer-reviewed academic journal covering any topic pertaining to the quality of the indoor and built environment and how this affects the efficiency, performance, health, and comfort of those living or working there. Topics range from urban infrastructure, design of buildings, and materials used for laboratory studies including building airflow simulations and health effects. The editor-in-chief is Chuck Yu (EnviroAct Consultants). It was established in 1992 by consultants to the tobacco company Philip Morris, and is published by SAGE Publications.

Criticism A 2005 study in The Lancet found that between 1992 and 2002 Indoor and Built Environment was influenced by the tobacco industry. It was found that up to 61% of articles on indoor smoke published by the journal reached industry-positive conclusions, with up to 90% of these articles having at least one author with a history of association with the industry. Originally, the journal was funded by the International Society of the Built Environment (ISBE) and was published by Karger Publishers from 1992 to 2002. ISBE was closed in 2002 and re-launched in 2009 as a limited company by guarantee as a "Community Interest Company" - a not for profit company. The journal, Indoor Environment, was renamed Indoor and Built Environment in 1996 by John Hoskins, who was editor-in-chief of the journal from 1994 to March 2009.

Abstracting and indexing The journal is abstracted and indexed in Chemical Abstracts Service, Engineered Materials Abstracts, Scopus, and the Science Citation Index Expanded. According to the Journal Citation Reports, the journal has a 2013 impact factor of 1.716, ranking it 7th out of 56 journals in the category "Construction & Building Technology" 22nd out of 44 journals in the category "Engineering, Environmental", and 75th out of 160 journals in the category "Public, Environmental & Occupational Health".

References

External links Official website

Worked examples

Example 1 — a first encounter with Indoor and Built Environment

Start with the simplest possible case. Write down what Indoor and Built Environment claims or describes in one sentence, then invent the smallest concrete situation in which that sentence is true. In science, the smallest case is usually a single object, a single equation or a single measurement. Check that every symbol or term in your sentence has a meaning in that case.

Example 2 — changing one variable

Take the situation from Example 1 and change exactly one quantity: double it, halve it, or set it to zero. Predict what should happen to Indoor and Built Environment before you calculate. Comparing your prediction with the result is the fastest way to find out whether you understand the idea or only the words.

Example 3 — an exam-style question

Typical questions about Indoor and Built Environment ask you to (a) state it precisely, (b) apply it to given data, and (c) explain a limitation. Practise writing all three answers in under five minutes; the third part is what separates a full-mark answer from an average one.

Applications of Indoor and Built Environment

In research: Indoor and Built Environment appears in science research whenever the underlying quantities have to be modelled precisely. Papers usually cite it as a starting assumption and then explore where it breaks down.
In technology and industry: Engineering practice reuses Indoor and Built Environment in design rules, simulations and safety margins. Knowing the idea lets you read a specification sheet and understand why the numbers look the way they do.
In the classroom: Indoor and Built Environment is common in secondary-school and first-year university syllabi. It links to neighbouring topics 8 times per year journals, Academic journals established in 1992, Bimonthly journals, so understanding it makes those chapters shorter.
In everyday life: Look for Indoor and Built Environment outside the textbook — in sport, cooking, traffic, electronics or the sky above you. An example you found yourself is remembered far longer than one you were given.

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How to study Indoor and Built Environment in 20 minutes

Read the reference excerpt below once, without taking notes.
Close the page and write down what Indoor and Built Environment means in your own words.
Compare your version with the excerpt and mark what you missed.
Work through the three examples above with pen and paper.
Explain Indoor and Built Environment out loud to somebody else — or to Teacher Smith in the lgStudy chat.

Frequently asked questions

What is Indoor and Built Environment in simple terms?

Why does Indoor and Built Environment matter?

Because it connects several science ideas at once: it gives you a definition you can apply, a quantity you can calculate, and a way to check whether a result is plausible.

How should I study Indoor and Built Environment?

Read the excerpt, restate it from memory, then work through the examples and applications listed on this page. The five-step study plan above takes about twenty minutes.

What does this page cover?

It gives you a compact reference excerpt plus original lgStudy explanations, examples, applications and study material on Indoor and Built Environment.