Improved Indoor Environments with ISO Standard
Help is on the way for architects, interior designers, builders, and even regulators who are looking to ensure the health, safety, and well-being of users of interior spaces. It comes in the form of a new ISO standard for indoor visual environments. According to the ISO, indoor visual comfort means not just comfortable, healthy lighting conditions for carrying out a task. The new ISO standard—ISO 16817:2012 (Building environment design – Indoor environment – Design process for visual environment) – supplies a framework for the parameters that will shape and determine the indoor environment. ISO 16817 does not impact such standards as ISO 9001 and ISO 27001, but its publication demonstrates the near-universal need for ISO standards and the training associated with them (for instance, ISO 9001 certification and ISO 27001 certification) in enjoying and taking full advantage of the modern world. ISO 16817 was developed to empower design team members by giving them a process to ensure visual comfort, physiological benefits from healthy lighting, plus energy performance and sustainability of buildings. “Application of the family of indoor environment design standards developed in ISO/TC 205, Building environment design, help to assure the health, productivity and well-being of building occupants,” said Stephen Turner, chair of ISO/TC. “ISO 1681 will help building designers in particular to provide the
desired quality of indoor environment and to achieve a high-performance and high-quality visual environment, while managing interactions with other aspects of project design.“ ISO 16817 introduces an integrated design process for high-quality indoor visual environment. This process includes the architectural and engineering aspects of daylighting and artificial lighting for user well-being and productivity, and also energy performance and sustainability of buildings. ISO training providers such as ISOcampus.com provide such ISO training courses as ISO 22000 training, ISO 9001 training, ISO 14001 training, and ISO 27001 training to complement the newer international standards being developed to help communities cope with the demands of a modern world.
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