building occupants
Investigation into the Effects of Sick Building Syndrome on Building Occupants: A Case Study of Commercial Bank Buildings in Awka Nigeria
... Sick Building Syndrome (SBS) is used to describe cases in which building occupants experience general non-specific symptoms of malaise such as irritation of the eye, nose, and throat, lethargy and ...
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Prediction of the consequences of a CO2 pipeline release on building occupants
... a building occupant, as calculated using the toxic dose for the 8 building distances in this case ...a building located at 100m from the ...the building considered will remain below the level ...
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User perceptions of energy consumption in university buildings: A University of Sheffield case study
... shared building environments. For example, it is often argued that building occupants need to first have an awareness of their energy use before efforts to increase efficiency and prevent wastage ...
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Building for Wellness - Healthy Building Course for Cal Poly SLO CM Department
... sick building syndrome and hard and soft building components have an impact on occupant health and ...sustainable building, construction, and ...progressive building and design processes that ...
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Modelling the utility and occupancy costs of local authority office buildings
... a building and counteract obsolescence can result in significant capital ...on building occupants, for example through reduced productivity or on the job stress, and consequently the operational ...
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A comparison study of preferred green building criteria among management and occupants
... green building, nevertheless it causes not necessarily becom e a m ajor business for building occupants (M ansour & Radford, ...the occupants m ake their ow n personal m odification such ...
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Post occupancy evaluation of office buildings in a Johannesburg country club estate
... of building occupants in terms of Indoor Environmental Quality (IEQ) and the effect of IEQ on both the morale and the productivity of the employees working in the ...the occupants and that the ...
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Caught in the middle: the role of the facilities manager in organisational energy use
... in building energy use is through reducing thermostat set points, something that requires no additional equipment and (in theory) little investment of ...Reducing building temperatures whilst maintaining a ...
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The impact of IEQ on occupants’ satisfaction in Malaysian buildings
... the occupants’ satisfaction with the ...the building (Lai and Yik, 2007; Choi et ...the building also influences the relationship between these ...the occupants in the buildings is different ...
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Factors contributing to occupants’ comfort : A survey among occupants of academic buildings in a public university
... academic building and its facilities ...the Building Use Studies (BUS) questionnaire from the ...the building occupants’ overall ...building’s occupants with two significant ...
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Improvement Of Building And Facilities Maintenance Performance : Satisfaction Of Occupants And Users
... completed building should be able to perform its functions in the manner that will ensure satisfaction to its occupants and ...the building is functioning well always, regular maintenance programmes ...
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Development of energy efficient building environmental quality evaluation framework
... comprehensive building performance evaluation from occupants’ perspective compared to other ...to occupants’ perspective, and the period of assessment carried out is for after ...and ...
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On the multi-agent stochastic simulation of occupants in buildings
... We have two methods for calculating presence within a building, the choice of which depends on the type of building. For residential buildings, presence (or rather absence) is predicted directly by the ...
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Development of air conditioning technologies to reduce CO2 emissions in the commercial sector
... response of the AHU HVAC system including building openings. The small heat consumption at 26°C, near the upper limit of the AHU air supply temperature, suggests the effectiveness of blower operation and ...
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Indoor Air Quality and Prevalence of Sick Building Syndrome Among Office Workers in Umm Al-Qura University in Kingdom of Saudi Arabia
... office building have extensively evolved to become tightly constructed and sealed with controlled ...sick building syndrome (SBS) symptoms among office workers in the deanship of faculty members and ...
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Motivation Factors in Energy Saving Behaviour between Occupants in Green and Conventional Buildings — Malaysia Case Study
... Nurul Sakina Mokhtar Azizi graduated from the University Teknologi Malaysia (UTM) in 2008 and completed a Msc degree in construction contract management from Universiti Teknologi Malaysia (UTM) in 2009. She then worked ...
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A novel spatiotemporal home heating controller design: system emulation and field testing
... that occupants' ability to forgive the algorithm's delays in this “miss time” could be utilised to reduce heating and cooling durations, resulting in potential heating and cooling de- mands up to 15% lower than ...
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Energy saving of Green Building Using Solar Photovoltaic Systems
... Green building reduces energy consumptions in numerous ...the building through efficient design, use of recycled and local materials and recycling construction ...Green building design reduces energy ...
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Energy Analysis of P G Block of Mar Athanasius College of Engineering, Kothamangalam
... the building services too, leading to an increase in the demand for ...a building is overshadowed by surrounding obstructions are complicated tasks that necessitate the use of computer ...
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The Effects of Thin-Walled Structure on Vehicle Occupants’ Safety and Vehicle Crashworthiness
... In models 1, 2, and 3, it is shown that the direct beam had overall bending due it's high length and hardness and no crippling is observed. Overall bending of the direct beam in these 3 models made high deformation in ...
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