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Perceived Comfort of Indoor Environment and Users’ Performance in Office Building with Smart Elements – case Study Cover

Perceived Comfort of Indoor Environment and Users’ Performance in Office Building with Smart Elements – case Study

Open Access
|Nov 2013

Abstract

A greater degree of awareness of comfort and productivity of building users according to post-occupancy evaluation and feedback of users in intelligent buildings is necessary. This report presents a summary of the results from a physical measurements, a post-occupancy evaluation study on perceived comfort of indoor environment and self-evaluation of occupant’s performance in the new multifunctional 5 floor-building in city of Kosice, Slovakia. There were investigated degree of perceived comfort and user’s performance with regard to objective measurement, respondents' response and building character. This case study has highlighted that influence of monitored factors of building with smart elements is positively received and wasn't determined their negative impact on perceived comfort of indoor environment and occupants' performance. Results show that respondents are mostly satisfied with their indoor environment conditions of workplace. Interviews with respondents detected they have not been perceived (negative) factors in workplace because they have been too concentric on the work and they have not felt discomfort.

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/sspjce-2013-0019 | Journal eISSN: 1338-7278 | Journal ISSN: 1336-9024
Language: English
Page range: 61 - 72
Published on: Nov 9, 2013
Published by: Technical University of Košice
In partnership with: Paradigm Publishing Services
Publication frequency: 2 issues per year

© 2013 Ivana Pilipová, Silvia Vilčeková, published by Technical University of Košice
This work is licensed under the Creative Commons License.