The Skyscraper Museum is devoted to the study of high-rise building, past, present, and future. The Museum explores tall buildings as objects of design, products of technology, sites of construction, investments in real estate, and places of work and residence. This site will look better in a browser that supports web standards, but it is accessible to any browser or Internet device.
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Indoor Air Quality (IAQ) - Indoor
air that contains no known contaminants at harmful concentrations and with
which a substantial majority of the people exposed to the air do not express
dissatisfaction. Good indoor air quality inside a building results from:
• Introducing an appropriate amount of outside air into the building
through the HVAC systems
• locating outside air intakes so that the outside air introduced
into the HVAC systems is of the best possible quality
• proper filtration
• proper air distribution
• proper removal of indoor pollutants
• proper commissioning of the building and its building systems.
Insolation - The amount of sunlight
(direct, diffuse and reflected) reaching an area exposed to the sky.
Intelligent Materials - Materials that
are able to adapt to their environment by altering their properties. Example
of intelligent materials include liquid crystal glass which changes from
transparent to opaque upon application of a current, and thermochromic glazing
that changes transparency in response to ambient temperatures.
