ASTM Standards on Whole Building Functionality and Serviceability
ASTM Standards on Whole Building Functionality and Serviceability

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Publisher: ASTM International

Published: 2000

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9780803127340

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Provides a resource document for defining the functional requirements of an occupant group and for rating the capability of a building or facility. Contains two standard practices on setting occupant functional requirements and rating serviceability of buildings, and 17 classifications dealing with

The Indoor Environment Handbook
The Indoor Environment Handbook

Author: Philomena Bluyssen

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2009-12-01

Total Pages: 310

ISBN-13: 1136544828

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Winner of the Choice Outstanding Academic Titles of 2010 award. Ensuring that buildings are healthy and comfortable for their occupants is a primary concern of all architects and building engineers. This highly practical handbook will help make that process more efficient and effective. It begins with a guide to how the human body and senses react to different indoor environmental conditions, together with basic information on the parameters of the indoor environment and problems that can occur. It then moves on to give a background to the development of the study and control of the indoor environment, examining the main considerations (including thermal, lighting, indoor air and sound-related aspects) for a healthy and comfortable indoor environment and discussing the drivers for change in the field. The final section presents a new approach towards health and comfort in the indoor environment, where meeting the wishes and demands of the occupants with a holistic strategy becomes the over-riding priority. The book is filled with useful facts, figures and analysis, and practical methods that designers who are keen to assess and improve the user experience of their buildings will find invaluable.

Learning from Our Buildings
Learning from Our Buildings

Author: National Research Council

Publisher: National Academies Press

Published: 2002-03-01

Total Pages: 137

ISBN-13: 0309076110

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In 1986, the FFC requested that the NRC appoint a committee to examine the field and propose ways by which the POE process could be improved to better serve public and private sector organizations. The resulting report, Post-Occupancy Evaluation Practices in the Building Process: Opportunities for Improvement, proposed a broader view of POEs-from being simply the end phase of a building project to being an integral part of the entire building process. The authoring committee recommended a series of actions related to policy, procedures, and innovative technologies and techniques to achieve that broader view. In 2000, the FFC funded a second study to look at the state of the practice of POEs and lessons-learned programs among federal agencies and in private, public, and academic organizations both here and abroad. The sponsor agencies specifically wanted to determine whether and how information gathered during POE processes could be used to help inform decisions made in the programming, budgeting, design, construction, and operation phases of facility acquisition in a useful and timely way. To complete this study, the FFC commissioned a set of papers by recognized experts in this field, conducted a survey of selected federal agencies with POE programs, and held a forum at the National Academy of Sciences on March 13, 2001, to address these issues. This report is the result of those efforts.