Impact of Indoor Environmental Quality (IEQ) on Academic Building to Psychology and Social of Students

Higher Education Institutions (HEIs) is one of the places to develop human capital development country. The conducive environment is required in order to determine the productivity and quality of the students and academic their performances. Indoor Environmental Quality (IEQ) in the Teaching and Learning (T&L) process can give impact on social psychology and students indirectly. IEQ elements are such as lighting, sound intensity, Indoor Air Quality (IAQ) and thermal comfort. Good IEQ is required to ensure the psychological and social impact on the negative side can be reduced which IEQ have to be improved. The scopes of studies are involving all the Public Higher Education Institutions (HEIs) in Malaysia. This investigation has been carried out by the survey method. A number of 500 respondents from 500,000 populations have been selected from 20 Public HEI. The questionnaires are including the psychology and social impact for IEQ condition. It can seen that the IEQ have some impact on the psychology and social of the students when they are in academic building. Some suggestion has been carried out to improve the IEQ in academic building. The collected data has been analyzed by using the Statistical Package for Social Science (SPSS). It can be concluded that, this research has providing a better understanding about IEQ in psychology and social. Additionally, this finding can be applied as a reference in the future for facility and property management and public in sustaining and optimizing the IEQ. Key word: Building performance, Indoor Environmental Quality, Psychology and Social