Ergonomic Quality in Green Building Protocols

The control of living conditions in built spaces is a key aspect of design in order to guarantee the final user to live in healthy and safe spaces. This importance is also recognized in green building rating systems that, in fact, present criteria on wellbeing with particular link to physical issues. In this context, the adoption of an ergonomic approach would be useful in order to address the interaction between user and built environment as a whole, considering both factors that affect physical wellbeing (i.e. thermo-hygrometric, acoustic, lighting, air purity), and those that complete the complex sphere of wellbeing, that are psychological and social too.