Daylighting Impacts on Retail Sales Performance

Heschong, Lisa; Wright, Roger L.; Okura, Stacia

doi:10.1080/00994480.2002.10748389

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“…For example, the size of retail stores and the presence or absence of skylights were found to explain 6.5% and 4.5% of the variance in sales respectively [66]. Studies of the effects of school buildings (e.g., lighting, noise, air quality, age of buildings) on student performance have reported that 3-6% of the variance in standardized test scores can be explained by such features [67,68].…”

Section: Community Planning Features Are Powerful Affectors On Their mentioning

confidence: 99%

How Do Community Planning Features Affect the Place Relationship of Residents? An Investigation of Place Attachment, Social Interaction, and Community Participation

2018

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Abstract:Outdoor environment can have significant connections with place relationships. This study tried to explore the connection in detail. First, the relationship was examined through an integrated view of environmental planning, followed by reviewing impacts of essential elements from the outdoor environment on place relationships. Residents of three public housing communities in Taiwan were surveyed. Each community had a different layout: alley, cluster, and large courtyard. Exploratory factor analysis revealed that outdoor community planning features can be grouped into four factors: outdoor space quality, circulation planning, outdoor recreational facilities, and community layout. Canonical correlation analyses indicate different combinations of these factors were connected to diverse combinations of place relationship dimensions. More importantly, higher levels of satisfaction toward outdoor space quality as well as community layout were associated with greater place attachment and less community participation. Higher levels of satisfaction with circulation planning were connected to greater place attachment and community participation, and less social interaction. Multiple regression analyses found the associations between the community planning features and place relationship dimensions differed among the alley, cluster, and large courtyard. These findings can help planners and architects design public housing and similar communities that better enhance the emotional and social experiences of the inhabitants.

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Section: Community Planning Features Are Powerful Affectors On Their mentioning

confidence: 99%

How Do Community Planning Features Affect the Place Relationship of Residents? An Investigation of Place Attachment, Social Interaction, and Community Participation

2018

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“…Maximizing the use of natural lighting during the day can reduce energy costs and improve the atmosphere for buildings' users. The importance of access to natural light and the impact this has on buildings' users has been established, including the way it can significantly change behaviors; e.g., use of natural lighting improves sales volume at retail outlets versus artificial light (Heschong et al, 2002). Green design facilitates an integrated choice of building function and orientation; e.g., through combinations of high insulation levels; capturing heat and energy from geothermal or other natural resources; use of renewable energy installations (e.g., photovoltaic cells, wind turbines, or solar water heating); careful harvesting of daylight; use of shading tools appropriately during the day; or optimizing building occupancy through smart sensors (Davidson, 2013).…”

Section: Green Building Designmentioning

confidence: 99%

Green hospital design: integrating quality function deployment and end-user demands

Wood

Chen

Abdul‐Rahman

et al. 2016

Journal of Cleaner Production

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There is a rapidly growing awareness amongst the public of facilities where the design incorporates green construction principles. This paper aims to study the quality function deployment (QFD) concept and technique when implemented in the construction industry with a particular focus on supporting green hospital design by identifying the end-user factors (concerns) that affect the design. This research develops QFD tools for green hospital designs known as the house of quality green design (HOQGD).Data were collected using a questionnaire survey distributed to public and private hospital end-users in Klang Valley, Malaysia. Findings revealed that end-users perceived "safety mechanisms during emergency" as being of the utmost importance and also the feature they were most satisfied with. The other demanded qualities were at an average degree of satisfaction; however, the end-users considered that green hospital design must make efforts to maximize the use of natural light and ventilation while considering the building orientation; materials should be free from toxicity and be environmentally friendly; the landscape should be strategically designed and the facilities should increase the sense of a healing environment, and water efficient equipment should be installed. Accordingly, these were prioritized and incorporated in the developed HOQGD to inform green hospital design for both public and private facilities.Keywords: Quality Function Deployment (QFD), green civil engineering, green hospital design, House of Quality Green Design (HOQGD), customer satisfaction Highlights:1. We survey end-users of hospitals regarding perceptions of green design elements 2. Quality Function Deployment (QFD) is used to develop technical specifications 3. A House of Quality Green Design prioritizes specifications for future projects 4. Analysis shows less satisfaction with sustainability factors than safety features 5. Authorities should ensure implementation of sustainable specifications This is the post-print (i.e., final draft, post-refereeing) of the article: Wood, L. C., Wang, C., Abdul-Rahman, H., & Abdul-Nasir, N. S. J. (in press). Green hospital design: Integrating quality function deployment and end user demands, Journal of Cleaner Production. 2 INTRODUCTIONAmong the many studies on green design and construction, little attention has been paid to the systemic incorporation of end-user demands. It is recognized that sustainability and green building commitment improves financial performance, competitive positioning, and market differentiation and is therefore emerging as an important competitive tool for construction companies (Han and Shin, 2014). However, little research has been conducted on how hospitals' end-users -both the staff that work there and the visiting public -perceive green hospital designs. While financial and competitive positioning for construction firms is important, care must also be taken to ensure the long-term success of such projects by ensuring that other, less tangible, success factors ar...

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“…In addition to energy savings, some evidence indicates that exposure to daylight reduces stress and stimulates occupants in the building [22]. An interesting study [20] shows that introduction of daylighting in retail buildings (shopping malls, grocery stores) stimulates buying behavior of the customers, increasing the sales.…”

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confidence: 99%

Intelligent light control using sensor networks

Singhvi

Krause

Guestrin

et al. 2005

Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Embedded Networked Sensor Systems

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Increasing user comfort and reducing operation costs have always been two primary objectives of building operations and control strategies. Current building control strategies are unable to incorporate occupant level comfort and meet the operation goals simultaneously. In this paper, we present a novel utility-based building control strategy that optimizes the tradeoff between meeting user comfort and reduction in operation cost by reducing energy usage. We present an implementation of the proposed approach as an intelligent lighting control strategy that significantly reduces energy cost. Our approach is based on a principled, decision theoretic formulation of the control task. We demonstrate the use of mobile wireless sensor networks to optimize the tradeoff between fulfilling different occupants' light preferences and minimizing energy consumption. We further extend our approach to optimally exploit external light sources for additional energy savings, a process called daylight harvesting. Also we demonstrate that an active sensing approach can maximize the mobile sensor network's lifetime by sensing only during most informative situations. We provide efficient algorithms for solving the underlying complex optimization problems, and extensively evaluate our proposed approach in a proof-of-concept testbed using MICA2 motes and dimmable lamps. Our results indicate a significant improvement in user utility and reduced energy expenditure.

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Daylighting Impacts on Retail Sales Performance

Cited by 55 publications

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How Do Community Planning Features Affect the Place Relationship of Residents? An Investigation of Place Attachment, Social Interaction, and Community Participation

How Do Community Planning Features Affect the Place Relationship of Residents? An Investigation of Place Attachment, Social Interaction, and Community Participation

Green hospital design: integrating quality function deployment and end-user demands

Intelligent light control using sensor networks

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