The influence of indoor environment in office buildings on their occupants: expected–unexpected

Muhič, Simon; Butala, Vincenc

doi:10.1016/j.buildenv.2003.09.011

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“…Similar approaches investigated several IEQ parameters in terms of their acceptability to occupants (Wong, Mui, & Hui, 2007) and in terms of the influence on occupant health (Muhic & Butala, 2004). The focus of yet another study measured the impact of IEQ maintenance management on occupant satisfaction (Kwon, Chun, & Kwak, 2011).…”

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Occupant requirements in residential buildings: an empirical study and a theoretical model

Voelker

Beckmann

Koehlmann

et al. 2013

Advances in Building Energy Research

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Occupant needs with regard to residential buildings are not well known due to a lack of representative scientific studies. To improve the lack of data, a large-scale study was carried out using a Post Occupancy Evaluation of 1416 building occupants. Several criteria describing the needs of occupants were evaluated with regard to their subjective level of relevance. Additionally, we investigated the degree to which deficiencies subjectively exist, and the degree to which occupants were able to accept them. From the data obtained, a hierarchy of criteria was created. It was found that building occupants ranked the physiological needs of air quality and thermal comfort the highest. Health hazards such as mould and contaminated building materials were unacceptable for occupants, while other deficiencies were more likely to be tolerated. Occupant satisfaction was also investigated. We found that most occupants can be classified as satisfied, although some differences do exist between different populations. To explain the relationship between the constructs of what we call relevance, acceptance, deficiency and satisfaction, we then created an explanatory model. Using correlation and regression analysis, the validity of the model was then confirmed by applying the collected data. The results of the study are both relevant in shaping further research and in providing guidance on how to maximize tenant satisfaction in real estate management.

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Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 98%

Occupant requirements in residential buildings: an empirical study and a theoretical model

Voelker

Beckmann

Koehlmann

et al. 2013

Advances in Building Energy Research

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“…Noh et al studied thermal comfort and indoor air quality in lecture room (Noh et al 2007). Muhi and Butala studied the influence of thermal environment and air quality level on the employees in the mechanical ventilated administrative offices (Muhi and Butala 2004). An examination of thermal comfort in a hospital had been conducted (Pourshaghaghy and Omidvari 2012).…”

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Optimization of environmental maintenance system used in a refuge chamber

Yang

Zhang

et al. 2015

Int J Coal Sci Technol

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Mine refuge chambers are used to shield miners who fail to escape from the mine when incidents occur. Environment maintaining system plays a key role in stabilizing thermal environment of a mine refuge chamber against heat emitted from metabolism and transferred from outside. The safety and comfort of refugees are closely related to the environment maintaining system design. In order to improve the comfort of refugees, optimization on the environment maintaining system has been done based on the previous work. To evaluate the environment of the chamber, eight volunteers were involved into the experiment. Under close observation and safety protection, they lived in a heat-isolated test chamber for 106 hours. The volunteers were asked to maintain low level of activities to simulate refugees' situation. It shows that the environment maintaining system worked well and the temperature, relative humidity and emitted harmful air content such as CO 2 and CO were all kept in the safety level, and no discomfort was felt by volunteers at all.

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“…The real time indoor environment monitoring system has vast prospects in human thermal comfort assessment and energy conservation opportunities [28]. Tse et al developed a real time measurement system for thermal comfort by using an open network topology.…”

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An Approach Towards Development Of Pmv Based Thermal Comfort Smart Sensor

Kumar

Singh

Sud

2010

International Journal on Smart Sensing and Intelligent Systems

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ASHRAE 55-2004 and ISO 7730 standards failed to predict actual comfort level and lead to oversize design of HVAC system. So proper thermal environment monitoring is an important subject to have right size of HVAC systems. A prototype thermal EM system has been developed. Thermal environment parameters such as: temperature, relative humidity, CO and CO 2 are measured by using the developed system. These data are used to calculate the thermal comfort index. The subjective judgments and the calculated PMV are compared with the results. The results showed the possibility of using PMV based thermal comfort smart sensor. Index terms: Predicted mean vote (PMV), Environment monitoring system (EMS), Indoorenvironment quality, Thermal comfort index.

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The influence of indoor environment in office buildings on their occupants: expected–unexpected

Cited by 45 publications

References 8 publications

Occupant requirements in residential buildings: an empirical study and a theoretical model

Occupant requirements in residential buildings: an empirical study and a theoretical model

Optimization of environmental maintenance system used in a refuge chamber

An Approach Towards Development Of Pmv Based Thermal Comfort Smart Sensor

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