A Post-occupancy Evaluation of a Modular Multi-residential Development in Melbourne, Australia

Woo, Jin

doi:10.1016/j.proeng.2017.04.195

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“…In [ 51 , 52 ], they developed an integrated occupant psychological response score, based on the activities of 22 experimental participants and changes in the IEQ conditions. The authors of [ 53 , 54 ] analyzed the context of commercial buildings in Australia, evaluating the ways to improve occupant satisfaction through better indoor conditions. In [ 55 ], the effect of library interiors on occupant satisfaction and performance was assessed by the authors.…”

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“…In [ 95 ], the authors measured indoor climate conditions in high-performance residential buildings in Norway. The authors of [ 53 ] evaluated the living experiences of the residents in 199 apartments, which made up a modular multi-residential development in central Melbourne. The authors of [ 96 ] studied occupant satisfaction and awareness through the performance of 158 green homes in the UK.…”

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confidence: 99%

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Post-Occupancy Evaluation’s (POE) Applications for Improving Indoor Environment Quality (IEQ)

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Marinello

Coruzzolo

et al. 2022

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To improve buildings and their characteristics, the feedback provided directly by users is generally fundamental in order to be able to adapt the technical and structural functions to the well-being of users. The post-occupancy evaluation (POE) fits perfectly into this context. The POE, through qualitative and quantitative information on the interior environment, makes it possible to identify the differences between the performances modeled in the design phase and the real performances experienced by the occupants. This review of 234 articles, published between 2006 and 2022, aims to analyze and compare the recent literature on the application of the POE methodology. The aim was to provide both a qualitative and quantitative assessment of the main factors that comprise the indoor environmental quality (IEQ). The study highlighted the factors that comprise the quality of the indoor environment, as well as the variables that are usually analyzed to describe the well-being of the occupants. The results suggested which are the most common approaches in carrying out POE studies and will identify the factors that most influence the determination of the good quality of an indoor environment.

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Post-Occupancy Evaluation’s (POE) Applications for Improving Indoor Environment Quality (IEQ)

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Marinello

Coruzzolo

et al. 2022

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“…By benchmarking occupant satisfaction levels against the established consistent dataset, the solutions can be found with informed decisions to improve occupant living experience and optimise performance. The BUS methodology has been widely used in POE research [41]. It is also a recognised tool for postoccupancy evaluation contributing towards BREEAM, LEED, WELL Standard, NABERS and Soft Landings.…”

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Development of an ontology-based semantic building post-occupancy evaluation framework

Zhao

Yang

2021

Int. J. Metrol. Qual. Eng.

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Post-occupancy evaluation (POE) is a systematic method to evaluate the actual building performance against the theoretical design intents after the building has been occupied for some time, to understand how the building is performing and to capture lessons learned. The POE offers an opportunity to investigate the buildings' actual performance based upon the occupants' satisfaction levels in the aspects of building overall design, indoor environmental quality, thermal comfort, etc. However, as the key part of POE, occupant satisfaction assessment (OSA) is a missing link in the building performance evaluation (BPE) domain, and there is not a systematic evaluation method for the OSA. Moreover, it is time-consuming and error-prone to conduct the OSA manually. This paper presents from the end-user's satisfaction perspective a semantic post-occupancy evaluation ontology (POEontology) to facilitate the occupant satisfaction assessment of buildings, with the ultimate aim of optimizing building operation guidelines, and improving occupants' use experience quality and well-being. An ontology-based knowledge model has been developed to capture the fragmented knowledge of building use satisfaction assessment in the POE domain, with the benchmarking evaluation rules encoded in Semantic Web Rule Language (SWRL) to enable automatic rule-based rating and reasoning. This ontology model also enables the effective OSA-related knowledge retrieving and sharing, and promotes its implementation in the POE domain. A field study has been conducted based upon the Building Use Study (BUS) methodology to validate the proposed ontology framework.

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“…Although studies based on modelling and simulation are of great use, using them as the only performance prediction method does not allow seeing part of the reality, as they are based on assumptions and simplifications of all the complexities of real buildings. Therefore, it is necessary to include a more exhaustive investigation related to the human factors in improvement works (Woo, 2016).…”

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Enhanced retrofitting process by integrating post-occupancy evaluation and user perception

Wegertseder

Kelly

2019

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As part of a thermal retrofitting process of existing housing, energy and thermal performance is normally predicted by dynamic simulation that supposes standardized patterns of building use, without considering the key role of the users in building's energy consumption. This represents a weakness in how the evaluation and design of retrofitting projects is structured, as integrally determining factors in thermal and energy performance are not considered. Integrated evaluations of the homes being improved will help to choose effective and objective guidelines. This work proposes a more objective and holistic evaluation that uses varied and compared techniques, involving the user in post-occupancy evaluation so that they provide feedback for the improvement's design. The integrated diagnosis comprises numerical calculations, onsite measurements, energy simulations and an estimation of the user's perception, with the goal of showing the different results obtained through the different methods. The study shows great differences in what users perceive and expect with the suggestions for thermal improvement obtained from the simulation. It is concluded that, to attain a higher user satisfaction and a better energy performance of the building, thermal improvement strategies must be defined not solely based on standards or previous cases but must consider the expectations of the inhabitants and including experimentally measured values of certain physical-construction properties to calibrate the dynamic simulations.

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A Post-occupancy Evaluation of a Modular Multi-residential Development in Melbourne, Australia

Cited by 25 publications

References 4 publications

Post-Occupancy Evaluation’s (POE) Applications for Improving Indoor Environment Quality (IEQ)

Post-Occupancy Evaluation’s (POE) Applications for Improving Indoor Environment Quality (IEQ)

Development of an ontology-based semantic building post-occupancy evaluation framework

Enhanced retrofitting process by integrating post-occupancy evaluation and user perception

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