Study of indoor environmental quality and occupant overall comfort and productivity in LEED- and non-LEED–certified healthcare settings

Xuan, Xiaodong

doi:10.1177/1420326x16684007

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“…[115; 119; 126; 134; 140; 143; 147; 178-180]) and educational buildings (e.g. [116; 120; 123; 181-183]), followed by residential buildings [122; 153; 175], hostels and student residences [42; 121], restaurants and cafés [132; 142], factories [118; 184], a healthcare facility [150], a shopping mall [141] and airport terminal [47].…”

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Review of multi‐domain approaches to indoor environmental perception and behaviour

Schweiker

Ampatzi

Andargie

et al. 2020

Building and Environment

177

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Building occupants are continuously exposed to multiple indoor environmental stimuli, including thermal, visual, acoustic, and air quality related factors. Moreover, personal and contextual aspects can be regarded as additional domains influencing occupants' perception and behaviour. The scientific literature in this area typically deals with these multiple stimuli in isolation. In contrast to single-domain research, multi-domain research analyses at least two different domains, for example, visual and thermal. The relatively few literature reviews that have considered multi-domain approaches to indoor-environmental perception and behaviour covered only a few dozen articles each. The present contribution addresses this paucity by reviewing 219 scientific papers on interactions and cross-domain effects that influence occupants' indoor environmental perception and behaviour. The objective of the present review is to highlight motivational backgrounds, key methodologies, and major findings of multi-domain investigations of human perception and behaviour in indoor environments. The in-depth review of these papers provides not only an overview of the state of the art, but also contributes to the identification of existing knowledge gaps in this area and the corresponding need for future research. In particular, many studies use "convenience" variables and samples, there is often a lack of theoretical foundation to studies, and there is little research linking perception to action.

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Section: Approachesmentioning

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Review of multi‐domain approaches to indoor environmental perception and behaviour

Schweiker

Ampatzi

Andargie

et al. 2020

Building and Environment

177

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“…Beside central control, a wide range of degrees of personal control, such as local thermostats, windows, personal lights etc., over the indoor environment can be found in modern office buildings. Personal control has a crucial role in achieving a healthy [1][2][3], comfortable [4][5][6][7] and productive [8][9][10][11] environment, reducing energy consumption in buildings without sacrificing the comfort of occupants [12,13]. The effect of personal control on occupant satisfaction, especially with regards to providing well-being and comfort is an important area of study [14,15].…”

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Personal Control of the Indoor Environment in Offices: Relations with Building Characteristics, Influence on Occupant Perception and Reported Symptoms Related to the Building—The Officair Project

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Personal control over various indoor environment parameters, especially in the last decades, appear to have a significant role on occupants’ comfort, health and productivity. To reveal this complex relationship, 7441 occupants of 167 recently built or retrofitted office buildings in eight European countries participated in an online survey about personal/health/work data as well as physical/psycho-social information. The relationship between the types of control available over indoor environments and the perceived personal control of the occupants was examined, as well as the combined effect of the control parameters on the perceived comfort using multilevel statistical models. The results indicated that most of the occupants have no or low control on noise. Half of the occupants declared no or low control on ventilation and temperature conditions. Almost one-third of them remarked that they do not have satisfactory levels of control for lighting and shading from sun conditions. The presence of operable windows was shown to influence occupants’ control perception over temperature, ventilation, light and noise. General building characteristics, such as floor number and floor area, office type, etc., helped occupants associate freedom positively with control perception. Combined controlling parameters seem to have a strong relation with overall comfort, as well as with perception regarding amount of privacy, office layout and decoration satisfaction. The results also indicated that occupants with more personal control may have less building-related symptoms. Noise control parameter had the highest impact on the occupants’ overall comfort.

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“…The design, however, must also comply with the agreed guidelines to be within the limits [1,8,14,15]. On the other hand, poor lighting quality affects the retina, induces headaches and leads to stressful working conditions [1,8,10,[16][17][18][19].…”

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Addressing Visual Comfort Issues in Healthcare Facilities Using LED Lighting Technology - A Review on Daylighting Importance, Impact of Correlated Colour Temperature, Human Responses and Other Visual Comfort Parameters

Perumal

Baharum

Nawi

2021

ARFMTS

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In the field of lighting technology, the choice of lighting has shifted from conventional incandescent and fluorescent to LED (Light Emitting Dode) lighting. Many businesses have yet to take full advantage of LED lighting technologies to address visual comfort problems for occupants. The current focus of installations and retrofitting jobs is only on dollar returns and energy-saving measures. By defining a range of vulnerabilities and discrepancies, this paper reviews the typical criteria affecting occupant visual comfort and shifts gear into those that are fundamental to healthcare setup. Issues such as the importance of daylight introduction into hospital wards and the benefits of choosing correct correlated colour temperature are discussed, among others discomforts. LED lighting technology has advanced immensely by offering flexibility to build a lighting system that meets the environmental requirements of the end-user. Lighting technology and approach are shifting to a new paradigm by focusing not only on vision but also human psychophysical wellbeing in interior spaces. A balance must exist between energy efficiency and visual comfort factors.

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Study of indoor environmental quality and occupant overall comfort and productivity in LEED- and non-LEED–certified healthcare settings

Cited by 24 publications

References 51 publications

Review of multi‐domain approaches to indoor environmental perception and behaviour

Review of multi‐domain approaches to indoor environmental perception and behaviour

Personal Control of the Indoor Environment in Offices: Relations with Building Characteristics, Influence on Occupant Perception and Reported Symptoms Related to the Building—The Officair Project

Addressing Visual Comfort Issues in Healthcare Facilities Using LED Lighting Technology - A Review on Daylighting Importance, Impact of Correlated Colour Temperature, Human Responses and Other Visual Comfort Parameters

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