Green Building Certification Systems, Indoor Environmental Quality and Post-Occupancy Evaluation Methods: a Critical Review

This paper presents a critical review and a comprehensive analysis of existing methods and tools for the post-occupancy evaluation (POE) of indoor environmental qualities in buildings, with specific reference to the criteria embedded in the credit requirements of the most popular green building certification schemes. POE procedures allow the quantitative and qualitative analysis of buildings’ and occupants’ performance in new and existing buildings (e.g. offices, schools, and universities, residential, commercial, hotels, libraries and mixed-use) based on the collection of objective and subjective data.