Introduction:
Through out this essay I will conduct a literature review on post occupancy evaluation, to give the reader and myself a better understanding what A Post occupancy evaluation (POE) is. I will also look into how it works for different people involved with the building and what benefits it may have for both the client and the users of the site. I will be looking for research to back up the use of this particular way of gathering data. This understanding of POE will then provide the information that the reader and myself require to understand the data gathered. The essay then leads onto an analysis of the data gathered from a survey that our class distributed to users of the university’s library. The analysis covers a range of topics from thermal comfort to the interior design of the building, and gives possible reasons for the findings using the percentages gathered from graphs, charts and tables that I personally have produced from the shared SPSS table of data.
Literature Review:
Introduction of literature review:
Through out this literature review I will be looking more closely into what A Post occupancy evaluation (POE) is, how it works and what benefits it may have for both the client and the users of the building. I will be looking for research to back up the use of this particular way of gathering data.
Information Gathered on Post occupancy evaluations (POE):
The first article that I looked at was named “the POE Study”. It stated “ a POE is a structured approach to the collection and analysis of data in relation to facility performance and the translation of these findings into action plans.” (Capital Projects and Service Planning, 2010) the article looks at what a POE survey should include and look ...
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