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The Skyscraper Museum is devoted to the study of high-rise building, past, present, and future. The Museum explores tall buildings as objects of design, products of technology, sites of construction, investments in real estate, and places of work and residence. This site will look better in a browser that supports web standards, but it is accessible to any browser or Internet device.



GREEN GLOSSARY

A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z

Indoor Air Quality (IAQ) - Indoor air that contains no known contaminants at harmful concentrations and with which a substantial majority of the people exposed to the air do not express dissatisfaction. Good indoor air quality inside a building results from:
• Introducing an appropriate amount of outside air into the building through the HVAC systems
• locating outside air intakes so that the outside air introduced into the HVAC systems is of the best possible quality
• proper filtration
• proper air distribution
• proper removal of indoor pollutants
• proper commissioning of the building and its building systems.

Insolation - The amount of sunlight (direct, diffuse and reflected) reaching an area exposed to the sky.

Intelligent Materials - Materials that are able to adapt to their environment by altering their properties. Example of intelligent materials include liquid crystal glass which changes from transparent to opaque upon application of a current, and thermochromic glazing that changes transparency in response to ambient temperatures.