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Key words:

Reglamento de Instalaciones Térmicas, Calidad de Aire Interior, Climatización, Oficinas, Regulations on Building Heating, Ventilating and Air Conditioning , Indoor Air Quality, Air Conditioning, Offices.

Article type:

ARTICULO DE INVESTIGACION / RESEARCH ARTICLE

Section:

VARIOUS

INDOOR AIR QUALITY IN OFFICES
ABSTRACT
The recent appearance of the Regulations on Building Heating, Ventilation and Air Conditioning Installations (RITE), published in the Spanish Official State Gazette (BOE) dated 29 August last year, invites us to consider one of its more innovative aspects, namely, Indoor Air Quality. If we focus on the circumstances of offices in the Basque Country, as revealed by our papers over the past three years, we should acknowledge inclusion of this aspect is highly pertinent. If we delve further into their contents on the extremely important matter of maintenance, we can see our regulations (RITE) are clearly open to improvement simply by comparing them to equivalent legislation in Portugal.