Indoor environment especially concerning to interior architecture affect us not only by their mass, surfaces, color and shapes. Indoor surfaces mostly emit the compounds which have great impact on human beings. Growing attention is being paid to indoor air quality as one of the main health and well-being factors, also in Slovakia. The Building and Environmental Engineering Institute is concerned to indoor sciences research work within indoor environmental engineering orientation of the structural architecture. Today, the buildings are divided into: very low-polluting, low polluting and not low polluting. The classification of buildings is affected by the approach in selecting low emitting materials and restricting activities that emit pollutants into the environment of buildings. Therefore, the interior material surfaces selection is important from volatile organic compounds (VOCs) occurrence point of view. The main subject of the last period interest is and the materials emissions. Several office interior surfaces emissions are compared in this study. Comparing performed by chemical analysis and sensory tests using the test chamber. Methodology of material comparison is based on the volume of total volatile organic compounds (TVOCs) in the air. It has become evident that building materials are the major source of indoor volatile organic compounds. The indoor air acceptability and indoor air quality concerning to several types of interior materials are presented in this case study. The impact of individual materials and their interaction effects to the indoor air quality will be discussed within the paper. Copyright © 2011 IAHS.
