A Preliminary-study of environment evaluation (Case study: Houses in Aceh Province, Indonesia)

Abstract

A healthy house is a building used to protect humans from climate disturbances, bacteria, and other hazards for human health. A healthy and safe home is necessary to meet human needs both physically, mentally, and socially. A healthy home is also a way to protect ourselves from the current pandemic of Covid-19. Aceh is one of the provinces in Indonesia which has a rising number of infections. This research is a preliminary study to evaluate the home performance, including its environment in Aceh, which utilizes the quantitative method of collecting data through a survey. The evaluation parameters are referred to the healthy house standards from the Indonesian Ministry of Health. The data collection was done conveniently to 14 houses located across Aceh. The study shows that among the surveyed house, one house (7.1%) is good, six houses (42.8%) are moderate, seven houses (50%) are bad. The number of the survey is small; however, it can be a start to figure out the quality of houses in Aceh based on the healthy home standard. This study also indicates that the ventilation for providing air circulation and daylight is the poorest. While, actually an excellent ventilation will outlast the pandemic due to the increase of the infiltration rate that will reduce the trapped virus, odors, and other contaminants.