<abstract xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><p> 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.</p></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.

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

Technical University of Košice Civil Engineering Faculty, Institute of Environmental Engineering

Selected Scientific Papers - Journal of Civil Engineering

A greater degree of awareness of comfort and productivity of building users according to post-occupancy evaluation and feedback of users in intelligent...

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

Publicado en línea: 09 nov 2013

Páginas: 61 - 72

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/sspjce-2013-0019

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