Copyright © 2018 Authors. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. International Journal of Engineering & Technology, 7 (4.38) (2018) 1270-1274 International Journal of Engineering & Technology Website: www.sciencepubco.com/index.php/IJET Research paper Residents’ Health Awareness of the Sustainability of Indoor Air Quality in High Rise Building Dyah Nurwidyaningrum1, Setyo S. Moersidik2, Emirhadi Suganda3 and Haryoto Kusnoputranto4 123School of Environmental Science University of Indonesia Jakarta, Indonesia nurwidyaningrum@yahoo.com 4Department of Environmental Health Faculty of Public Health, University of Indonesia Depok, Indonesia *Corresponding author E-mail: haryoto_k@yahoo.com Abstract This study was concerned with the residents’ health awareness of their behavior which affected indoor air quality (IAQ) in high rise building in Jakarta, Indonesia. This analysis was aimed to describe the difference between the strength of the influence of residents’ dimension to IAQ in unit with knowledge variable and that of without knowledge variable. The behavior based on health knowledge became the parameter of health awareness. The descriptive result indicated that the residents in Rusunami high rise building were well- educated people but not all of them had good behavior. Participants whose occupations are related to health tended to take care of indoor air quality better than those from other occupation. With the structural equation modeling (SEM), the construct of residents’ dimension was formulated based on physical and psychological comfort, as well as involving the healthy life participation and pollution activities. It was found that this combination drove behavioral change to IAQ in high rise building. Partial Least Square analysis showed that the knowledge of IAQ could raise the effect of residents’ dimension to IAQ in unit from 15.2% to 16.6%. Keywords: health awareness; High Rise Building; Indoor Air Quality; Residents’ Dimension; Residents’ Knowledge 1. Introduction Previous studies revealed that formal program for the residents and the knowledge of residents habit were predicted to be able to improve human’s health for minimizing the consumption of natural resources and correcting the indoor comfort [1-3]. Unfortunately, such studies indicated that behavioral change through increasing the resident knowledge did not always obtain the expected output. In reality, without some high supplementary cost and effort, the residents’ awareness is unadequate [4]. In case of the exposure behaviors, the resident knowledge are closely related to the daily activities [5-6]. Initial investigations provided that the residents with indoor air quality (IAQ) health awareness were still polluting the unit, such as by smoking, eating disturbing odor food, and using chemical fragrance. According to Maslow theory of human motivation [7], without the manager completing resident basic need, the residents’ health awareness can not be the drive for IAQ sustainability in high rise building [8]. Thus, a study emphasizing on the fulfillment of the residents’ basic needs: physical and psychological comfort which influences IAQ besides the residents’ participation and pollution activities is important. High rise housing increases rapidly in urban area of developing countries, so does in Jakarta. With the population growth rate of 1,09% on Central Bureau of Statistics in 2016, people in urban area are encouraged to live in a high rise building. The important thing to concern relating to the encouragement is that the health risk in indoor is 2-5 times higher than that of outdoor [9]. Due to indoor air pollution, the respiratory disease and mortality are amongst the greatest environmental threats to health in the devel- oping countries of Asia [10]. In developing countries, the recent quantity of affordable and effective interventions for reducing the risks related with exposure to indoor smoke from household ener- gy technology is restricted [11]. In Jakarta, PM10 [12] and tobac- co [13] are revealed as the pollutants that affect residents’ health in the household as well as the apartment. Thus, in high rise residential building, IAQ issues are very important because air pollution from inside or outside the building is more quickly spread to other units than that of in the horizontal housing. According to the sustainability theory in order to achieve effective IAQ in high rise building, the management needs to carry out the balance of three aspects: environmental, social, and economic [9]. On the social aspect, many studies have revealed the behavioral change through the resident perceptions of IAQ, the impact, and the type activities that cause indoor pollution but only few that have investigated the influence of residents’ knowledge on IAQ. In the residential management, humans through behavioral change hold a major role in keeping the healthy indoor [14-15] which also give impact on the environmental, economic aspects, and the unity of the sustainability of their lives [16]. The residents’ awareness through the health knowledge can be one of the drives in the sustainability of IAQ because it encourages behavioral change. It was hypothesized that if the participants had received training for high performance building features, they would be more satisfied with their environment than those who