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IMPACTS OF INDOOR ENVIRONMENTAL QUALITY ON OCCUPANTS
ENVIRONMENTAL COMFORT: A Post Occupancy Evaluation Study
By
Varshini Raman
Committee:
Chair: Joon-Ho Choi
Email: joonhoch@usc.edu
Kyle Konis
Email: kkonis@usc.edu
Douglas Noble
Email: dnoble@usc.edu
A Thesis Presented to the
FACULTY OF THE SCHOOL OF ARCHITECTURE
UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA In Partial Fulfillment of the
Requirements for the Degree
MASTER OF BUILDING SCIENCE
August 2015
Copyright 2015 Varshini Raman
Object Description
| Title | Impacts of indoor environmental quality on occupants environmental comfort: a post occupancy evaluation study |
| Author | Raman, Varshini |
| Author email | varshinr@usc.edu;varshiniraman@gmail.com |
| Degree | Master of Building Science |
| Document type | Thesis |
| Degree program | Building Science |
| School | School of Architecture |
| Date defended/completed | 2015-05-01 |
| Date submitted | 2015-07-29 |
| Date approved | 2015-07-31 |
| Restricted until | 2015-07-31 |
| Date published | 2015-07-31 |
| Advisor (committee chair) | Choi, Joon-Ho |
| Advisor (committee member) |
Konis, Kyle Noble, Douglas |
| Abstract | A research methodology applying Post Occupancy Evaluation (POE) as a platform that systematically studies and focuses on indoor environmental quality of an occupied building may help understand and provide lessons to improve their current conditions and also provide guidance to future building designs. In spite of significant design efforts for enhancing building indoor environmental quality (IEQ) conditions, there have been many complaints reported from modern work environments, such as thermal discomfort, glare, and poor air/acoustic condition perceived in a workplace. It may be because of current guidelines developed without much knowledge about modern technology-intensive work environment, which may be different from the condition assumed in the current standards or guidelines. A comprehensive post-occupancy evaluation studies can help understand the current changes that are required in order to improve occupant environmental satisfactions and IEQ conditions by investigating the relationships between building design/ system features, occupants’ physiological characteristics, and their ambient IEQ conditions. ❧ New buildings are required to meet increasingly demanding standards with respect to occupant comfort, cost effectiveness and sustainability, while still allowing the designer to aesthetic and design freedom. And this could be achieved through understanding historical and futuristic approaches of building design and user satisfaction. Keeping in mind sustainability is not only restricted to energy conservation and also extends itself occupant comfort, IEQ conditions and user feedbacks on IEQ becomes most important criteria in a buildings sustainable design, one has to implement POE in building process and maintenance. |
| Keyword | indoor environmental quality; environmental quality standards; post-occupancy evaluation; occupant comfort; environmental comfort; building design; sustainable design |
| Language | English |
| Format (imt) | application/pdf |
| Part of collection | University of Southern California dissertations and theses |
| Publisher (of the original version) | University of Southern California |
| Place of publication (of the original version) | Los Angeles, California |
| Publisher (of the digital version) | University of Southern California. Libraries |
| Provenance | Electronically uploaded by the author |
| Type | texts |
| Legacy record ID | usctheses-m |
| Contributing entity | University of Southern California |
| Rights | Raman, Varshini |
| Physical access | The author retains rights to his/her dissertation, thesis or other graduate work according to U.S. copyright law. Electronic access is being provided by the USC Libraries in agreement with the author, as the original true and official version of the work, but does not grant the reader permission to use the work if the desired use is covered by copyright. It is the author, as rights holder, who must provide use permission if such use is covered by copyright. The original signature page accompanying the original submission of the work to the USC Libraries is retained by the USC Libraries and a copy of it may be obtained by authorized requesters contacting the repository e-mail address given. |
| Repository name | University of Southern California Digital Library |
| Repository address | USC Digital Library, University of Southern California, University Park Campus MC 7002, 106 University Village, Los Angeles, California 90089-7002, USA |
| Repository email | cisadmin@lib.usc.edu |
| Filename | etd-RamanVarsh-3764.pdf |
| Archival file | Volume4/etd-RamanVarsh-3764.pdf |
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| Repository email | cisadmin@lib.usc.edu |
| Full text | 1 IMPACTS OF INDOOR ENVIRONMENTAL QUALITY ON OCCUPANTS ENVIRONMENTAL COMFORT: A Post Occupancy Evaluation Study By Varshini Raman Committee: Chair: Joon-Ho Choi Email: joonhoch@usc.edu Kyle Konis Email: kkonis@usc.edu Douglas Noble Email: dnoble@usc.edu A Thesis Presented to the FACULTY OF THE SCHOOL OF ARCHITECTURE UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA In Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree MASTER OF BUILDING SCIENCE August 2015 Copyright 2015 Varshini Raman |
