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Xianfeng Wu and Xiangyu Li
China fully built a wealthy society but faced a serious COVID-19 epidemic together with the rest of the world. The emergence of the epidemic highlights the importance of sports parks for physical activity. By reviewing national fitness policies and ident...
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Yitong Zhu, Wenzhen Huang and Linhui Hu
The aim of traffic flow design in commercial building space planning is to create a comfortable, easily accessible, and identifiable spatial structure in a complex and changeable business environment. However, modern commercial building spaces often appe...
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Jorge Otaegi, Rufino J. Hernández, Xabat Oregi, Alexander Martín-Garín and Iñigo Rodríguez-Vidal
In the last decade, several European directives have been established to contribute to the 2020, 2030 and 2050 energy saving targets and impose energy efficiency requirements for new construction, existing buildings and building renovation operations. On...
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Noora Albuainain, Ghaleb Sweis, Wassim AlBalkhy, Rateb Sweis and Zoubeir Lafhaj
Satisfaction is a very important factor in improving productivity and performance in the work environment. This study aims to investigate the levels of occupants? satisfaction with the indoor environmental quality (IEQ) in the governmental buildings in t...
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Subhashree Nath and Raphael Karutz
Liveability assessments of informal urban settlements are scarce. In India, a number of slum upgrading schemes have been implemented over the last decades aiming at better living conditions. However, these schemes rarely consider improvement in liveabili...
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Hamad Ahmed, David J. Edwards, Joseph H. K. Lai, Chris Roberts, Caleb Debrah, De-Graft Owusu-Manu and Wellington Didibhuku Thwala
Buildings inevitably deteriorate with time. Schools buildings are no exception and require refurbishment at times. Despite the UK Government announcing the £1 billion funding for rebuilding 50 schools over 10 years starting 2010?2021, it is common practi...
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Abiodun Olatunji Abisuga, Cynthia Changxin Wang and Riza Yosia Sunindijo
There has been growing interest in how to foster collaborative relationships between facility managers and end-users to obtain user-centred post-occupancy data for improving design and user satisfaction. Despite this attempt, there is little understandin...
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Marina Bonomolo, Patrizia Ribino and Gianpaolo Vitale
The paper proposes a new methodological approach for evaluating the comfort condition using the concept of explainable post occupancy to make the user aware of the environmental state in which (s)he works. Such an approach was implemented on a humanoid r...
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This study aimed to identify key drivers behind workers’ satisfaction, perceived productivity, and health in open-plan offices while at the same time understanding design similarities shared by high-performance workspaces. Results from a dataset co...
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The Special Issue on “Human Factors in Green Building” addresses the design of indoor environment quality for users’ needs. The collected papers cover various building types and the research highlights the different needs of users. In w...
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Jihyun Park, Vivian Loftness and Azizan Aziz
The indoor environmental quality (IEQ) of buildings can have a strong influence on occupants’ comfort, productivity, and health. Post-occupancy evaluation (POE) is necessary in assessing the IEQ of the built environment, and it typically relies on ...
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Yukiko Kuboshima, Jacqueline McIntosh and Geoff Thomas
As the population ages, the demand for suitable rental housing will increase. Suitable housing means housing that can accommodate those impairments that typically correspond with ageing. This paper explores the quality of life (QoL) requirements of those...
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Yukiko Kuboshima, Jacqueline McIntosh and Geoff Thomas
As the population ages, the demand for suitable rental housing will increase. Suitable housing means housing that can accommodate those impairments that typically correspond with ageing. This paper explores the quality of life (QoL) requirements of those...
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Clare Newton, Sarah Backhouse, Ajibade A. Aibinu, Benjamin Cleveland, Robert H. Crawford, Dominik Holzer, Philippa Soccio and Thomas Kvan
While relocatable, prefabricated learning environments have formed an important component of school infrastructure in Australia, prefabrication for permanent school buildings is a new and emerging field. This review of prefabrication for schools is timel...
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Magda Mostafa
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Paulina Wegertseder Martínez,Maureen Trebilcock Kelly
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As part of a thermal retrofitting process of existing housing, energy and thermal performance is normally predicted by dynamic simulation that supposes standardized patterns of building use, without considering the key role of the users in building's ene...
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Nelson Bento Pereira, Rui Calejo Rodrigues and Patrícia Fernandes Rocha
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Ahmad Ezanee Hashim,Hasnizan Aksah,Mohamad Sufian Hasim,Siti Aida Samikon
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Health care and hospital buildings are among the most complex construction in the built environment which comprises a broad range of utility, services, and functional units. The objectives of the study are to review the built environment performance leve...
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Marta Brkovic, Oriol Pons, Rosie Parnell
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Participatory evaluation of aspiring sustainable schools and their pedagogical potential has recently come into focus. A few authors have made a significant start in examining schools as both environmentally and socially sustainable environments, which m...
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Ban-Huat Ng,Zainal Abidin Akasah
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