The question of how different building features can affect the building users has occupied the attention of many researchers and building industry professionals the last decades. In addition, many are concerned as well about how to use effectively all this knowledge in that way to influence the decisions about the design of the building. According to Vischer (2009) the research on the building performance and use can be characterized as intelligence gaining. The measures taken for assessing building performance include users' experience of environmental comfort and satisfaction, as well as subjective data and measurements related to different building systems. But these data are not strong on their own unless there is no evidence of how users are affected (Vischer, 2009).
Measuring the level of users' satisfaction with the features of the physical environment they occupy is a key component of the POE model. This concept started in the 60s and 70s, where surveys were conducted on residents' of social housing satisfaction with their residential environment (Vischer, 1985). The evaluation mainly featured collecting information about occupants feelings and building conditions through questionnaires, interviews, site visits, and field observation. It was then widespread to other facilities such as army barracks, hospitals, prisons, courthouses and hospital (Khalil, 2009). In the 80’s the significant advances in theory, method, strategy and application of post occupation evaluation arouse the interest of both managers and designers and resulted in implementing POE methods also in office buildings (Khalil, 2009). One example of considering POE of workplaces in a systematic manner was the PROBE studies (Post-occupancy Review of Build...
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...rom their experience, there would appear to be a number of perceived barriers to conducting a POE including:
managers concerns about disruption to business and the sensitivity of the questions asked (BCO, 2007),
the issue of 'ownership' – meaning who is responsible for commissioning such evaluations and who is responsible for undertaking them (BCO, 2007; Turpin-Brookes and Viccar, 2006),
a lack of standardised POE methods across the industry may result in ending up with ambiguous and inconclusive data, as well as the interpretation of the occupancy survey results may prove difficult. (Turpin-Brookes and Viccar, 2006),
the fact that POE is not part of the standard procurement procedure and there is little incentive in the industry market to do anything different than standard practice and to innovate (Zimmerman and Martin, 2001; Turpin-Brookes and Viccar, 2006).
This book is important to business students because it shows that even the most seasoned executive runs into unexpected challenges and can find themselves in uncharted territory. Jim Barton’s experiences and lessons can be lessons for anyone. Any employee, whether they are support staff or a top executive, should always maintain an open mind and be ready to learn from a situation or the people around them at any time.
Rittenberg, Larry, Bradley Schwieger, and Karla Johnstone. Auditing. 6th ed. Mason: Thomas South-Western, 2005. 10-40.
...plications affecting efficiency. More focus is necessary on the indoor environment in schools, day care centres, hospitals and nursing homes for elderly, because children, hospital patients and elderly are sensitive subgroups. There are a number of indications that the indoor environment at home is normally worse than in the indoor office environment. The population spends most time at home, and children are exposed at home for many years (National Safety Council, 2009). This suggests that improvements of the home environment may be a cost-effective to reduce the indoor exposure burden in the population. The link between indoor and outdoor air pollution should not be ignored, as most of the exposure to outdoor pollutants occurs indoors. Finally, the function of energy saving and climate changes for the indoor environment and SBS will be an important future issue.
Epstein, E. (2012). Implementing successful building information modeling. (1st ed., pp. 3-10). Norwood, MA: Artech House.
The contemporary business environment is dynamic, ever-changing and increasingly competitive. Their is potential for success, but even more for failure. Businesses are heavily influenced by the changing organisational environment and this intern creates much uncertainty for managers and organisations. With increasing uncertainty in the external environment, the more important it is that managers engage in continual planning. (Robbins 2012 p. 32) Businesses must be flexible and evolve in accordance with their external environment.
In the passage A Clean, Well Lighted Place written by Ernest Hemingway writes that he sees no future in his life, he is a very lonely man. The deaf old man likes to drink at the cafe he is at mostly everyday. The old man that sits by himself in a cafe restaurant drinking his brandy that the waiters poor for him. He comes in every night, sometimes drunker than other times. But when he does get drunk he will forget to pay the bill.
To conclude, atmosphere exists where architecture, beyond its technical apparatus and its programmatic approach, manage to create such a strong connection bridging the gap between professionals and users, that the whole is held together by the constancy of an emotional atmosphere to be shared and
ou used to be able to buy a fake tree, put it in a corner and keep the dust of the leaves and get away with calling it "indoor gardening". But these days indoor gardening has evolved into so much more then that. Although a lot of people have the mindset that plants belong and should stay outside, there are still a lot of reasons you could consider starting with indoor gardening. Plants, for example, remove carbon dioxide from the air and they'll even remove poisenous toxins and pollutants from the air. Besides giving you fresher air, they even serve as wonderful decorations!
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.
Sustainable design seeks to reduce negative impacts on the environment, the health and comfort of building occupants, thereby improving building performance. The basic objects of sustainability are to reduce consumption of non-renewable resources, minimal waste, and create healthy, productive environments (“Sustainable Design”). Focusing primarily on the sustainable design principles, there are five, including: low-impact materials, energy efficiency, quality and durability, design for reuse and recycling, and renewability. As sustainability appears to become the necessary trend in architecture, the question concerning the cost versus outcome of “going green” really an investment or a waste of time and money comes to mind. With our research provided below, we believe the expenses may truly be with the investment in the end.
Interior design is one of the most important professions. When thinking of design and architecture industry, it is necessary to keep in mind that the professionals emphasis on matters of everyday life when commencing a project. Important sectors of interior design consist of: residential, commercial, hospitality, healthcare, education and corporate designs. Thus, the field deals with numerous factors and affects almost everyone in some way. Design is goal-oriented– it strives to achieve a certain purpose. An essential goal of interior design is to create functional spaces that convey a specific mood for an audience using design elements, thus outlining a design for communities versus individuals.
Elsbach & Pratt, 2007 define that the physical environment in the workplace has been described as all material objects and stimuli that employees interact with in their working lives. Material objects can be observed at both for macro (e.g. buildings) and micro levels (e.g. furnishings and office arrangements). Stimuli include the conditions under which employees work such as lighting and temperature. Salient factors within the physical work environment that may impact on employees can be divided into several broad areas: ambient properties, spatial arrangements and architectural design. According to Evans, Johansson & Carrere, 1994; McCoy, 2002 ambient properties refer to factors such as noise, temperature, air quality, and vibration; spatial
Despite the fact that novel technologies are continuously under development to complement existing practices in coming up with greener buildings, the universal intent is that such structures are designed to diminish the general effect on the built environment on health of the humans in addition to the natural environment via: Diminishing environmental degradation, pollution and waste, improving productivity of the employee and guarding occupant health, efficient usage of water, energy, in addition to other resources.
The indoor environment-first and foremost the indoor environment needs to be safe, and it needs to be all inclusive. This means that every child, no matter their age race, ethnicity, gender or abilities or special education needs, can all play. When considering the layout of the indoor area it needs to be spacious and it needs to accommodate children continuous change of interests and abilities so that children are able to grow and learn. If the indoor environment stayed the same each day, children would not be stimulated, they would get bored and they would not develop their learning. Furthermore, the environment needs to be of the highest quality, the toys need to be safe, and good enough to situmulate the childs brain. these toys need to
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