The concept of the ideal indoor environment in multi-attribute assessment of dwelling-houses

Abstract

This paper presents a multi-attribute assessment of an indoor environment of dwelling-houses, since it depends on a number of criteria, like temperature, humidity, noise, etc. There are a number of works, where a comparison of indoor environment of different dwelling-houses are analysed and the best alternative is determined. Only a few works compare a present state of an indoor environment of dwelling-houses with standards, like the Lithuanian hygienic norm or ISO EN 7730. In this paper, a multi-attribute assessment of indoor environment of dwelling-houses based on the concept of the ideal indoor environment is presented. This concept defines an optimal indoor environment of a dwelling-house according to the Lithuanian hygienic norm and some other regulations presented in the paper and is introduced to determine the deviation of each alternative (an indoor environment of a dwelling-house) from the optimal values. In the case study the TOPSIS method is used for the MADM of an indoor environment of dwelling-houses in Naujoji Vilnia, Vilnius, Lithuania.