Survey shows indoor air quality a concern for North Americans

Less than 30% of respondents feel indoor air and water quality is comfortably safe in office, condominium and hotel buildings.

By Hotel Business

Savanta, a full-service research and insight consultancy agency, has released key findings from a North American survey, which evaluated participants’ perceptions of the safety of indoor air and water quality across a variety of building typologies. The survey of 1,165 participants, ages 18 and over across the U.S. and Canada, found that 73% of North Americans do not consider the indoor air and water in office, condominiums and hotel buildings to be safe.

The release of survey findings reiterates concerns around one of the greatest challenges of the 21st century: Sick Building Syndrome, and according to the World Health Organization (WHO), 40% of buildings in North America are sick.

Highlights of the survey:

General

• Less than 30% of North Americans feel indoor air and water quality is comfortably safe in office, condominium and hotel buildings.

• More than half (51%) of North Americans are concerned about water quality reports and their ability to reduce water-related health worries.

• Almost three-fourths (74%) of North Americans would feel safe entering air quality-certified or air quality-rated buildings.

Hotels

• Only 27% of respondents perceive the indoor air quality in hotel buildings to be extremely or very safe.

• Only 32% of respondents perceive the indoor water quality in hotel buildings to be extremely or very safe.

North Americans, on average, are open to paying roughly $9.50 per day for the indoor air and water quality maintenance of the hotel room they are staying in. Read More 

Source: Hotel Business