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Mohammad A. Binyaseen, Adel. "Office layouts and employee participation." Facilities 28, no. 7/8 (May 25, 2010): 348–57. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/02632771011042455.

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Du, Tiantian, Sabine Jansen, Michela Turrin, and Andy van den Dobbelsteen. "Impact of space layout on energy performance of office buildings coupling daylight with thermal simulation." E3S Web of Conferences 111 (2019): 03077. http://dx.doi.org/10.1051/e3sconf/201911103077.

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Space layout design is one of the most important phases in architectural design, and current studies have shown that it can affect building energy performance. However, its influence has not been quantified. This paper aims at investigating the impact of space layouts on building energy performance. We use the floor plan of an office building in the Netherlands as reference, and propose eleven space layouts based on the reference. Calculations are performed with the tools Honeybee and Ladybug in Grasshopper, which are developed based on Daysim and EnergyPlus, to simulate lighting, cooling and heating demand of these layouts. In addition, we couple daylight with thermal simulation, by importing the artificial lighting schedule calculated in Daysim to EnergyPlus. The result shows that the heating demand of the worst layout is 12% higher than the best layout, the cooling demand of the worst layout is 10% higher than the best layout, and the lighting demand of the worst layout is 65% higher than the best layout. The total final energy use of the worst layout is 19% higher than the best layout.

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Du, Tiantian, Michela Turrin, Sabine Jansen, Andy van den Dobbelsteen, and Francesco De Luca. "Relationship Analysis and Optimisation of Space Layout to Improve the Energy Performance of Office Buildings." Energies 15, no. 4 (February 9, 2022): 1268. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/en15041268.

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Architectural space layout has proven to be influential on building energy performance. However, the relationship between different space layouts and their consequent energy demands has not yet been systematically studied. This study thoroughly investigates such a relationship. In order to do so, a computational method was developed, which includes a method to generate space layouts featuring energy-related variables and an assessment method for energy demand. Additionally, a design of experiments was performed, and its results were used to analyse the relationship between space layouts and energy demands. In order to identify their relationship, four types of design indicators of space layout were proposed, both for the overall layout and for each function. Finally, several optimisations were performed to minimise heating, cooling and lighting demands. The optimisation results showed that the maximum reduction between different layouts was up to 54% for lighting demand, 51% for heating demand and 38% for cooling demand. The relationship analysis shows that when comparing the four types of design indicators, the façade area-to-floor area ratio showed a stronger correlation with energy demands than the façade area ratio, floor area ratio and height-to-depth ratio. Overall, this study shows that designing a space layout helps to reduce energy demands for heating, cooling and lighting, and also provides a reference for other researchers and designers to optimise space layout with improved energy performance.

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Lai, Lawrence W. C., K. W. Chau, Stephen N. G. Davies, and Locinda M. L. Kwan. "Open space office: A review of the literature and Hong Kong case studies." Work 68, no. 3 (March 26, 2021): 749–58. http://dx.doi.org/10.3233/wor-203408.

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BACKGROUND: Open plan or open space office has become increasingly popular but those who promote the concept seldom refer to health studies or workers’ perceptions of a change in office layout towards an open space arrangement. OBJECTIVE: To review the literature on open plan or open space office layouts in terms of facilities management (FM) with users’ perceptions in mind and to obtain opinions of users of open space offices for a better appreciation of the FM issues. METHODS: A literature search of research papers from 2007 in journals using the keywords “open plan office” and “open space office” plus “health”, first in the titles then in the text, was carried out. Thirty-two of those papers, accessible by the authors’ institutions, were consulted together with 5 other works in the Harvard Business Review. The review consulted but excluded papers and reports published or sponsored by commercial firms that were in favour of open space layouts. Case studies were conducted by face to face meetings in confidence with workers in the middle managements of twelve Hong Kong organisations known as friends to two of the authors. Problems as seen by staff are reported and discussed. RESULTS: The literature review reveals that apart from writing that promotes the use of an open plan office layout, a host of scientific works point to the problems of perceived dissatisfaction with such a layout, the nature of the dissatisfaction tending to depend on the actual design. Most workers interviewed disliked the new style open plan layouts, which points to the necessity of consulting workers when such changes are contemplated, as well as monitoring the results of the change once it is in place whether against workers’ wishes or with their support. There is a need for a number of facility arrangements in making a change to open plan that ensures that worker needs for proper lighting, privacy, and indoor health will be met. CONCLUSIONS: If the aim of a change to an open plan arrangement is to promote collegial communications in office, the study sheds light on the extent to which such arrangements may not in practice be suitable for achieving the aim. It follows that further, more specifically sociological studies of workers’ job satisfaction and emotional health in open plan office settings would be worth doing.

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Nanayakkara, Kusal Tharinda, Sara Jane Wilkinson, and Sumita Ghosh. "Future office layouts for large organisations: workplace specialist and design firms’ perspective." Journal of Corporate Real Estate 23, no. 2 (January 21, 2021): 69–86. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/jcre-02-2020-0012.

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Purpose Office layout arrangements have a significant influence on many important aspects of organisations, and design firms need to liaise with the client to determine the most appropriate design process. The purpose of this paper is to explore the factors design firms consider when designing new office layouts and the nature of future offices from the design and workplace strategist firms’ perspectives. Design/methodology/approach A qualitative study comprising interviews with leading international and nation design firms and workplace strategy consultant firms in Australia. Qualitative data was analysed using a thematic approach, which adopted within case, and across case, analyses. Findings Research identified major factors considered when identifying appropriate workplace strategies. These included the existing and preferred culture of the organisation, the level of flexibility required, functionality and technology requirements, acoustic strategies, sense of community and generation gap between employees. Participants believed future offices would be technology driven, community oriented, sustainability, health and well-being focussed, smaller in size with satellite offices, such as co-working and office spaces. Research limitations/implications This research has implications for industry and academics, as it provides an in-depth understanding of workplace specialists’ and design firms’ perceptions of clients’ contemporary and future requirements from office spaces. It also illustrates what they look at when designing office spaces for large corporates. Practical implications Research demonstrates how the office environment should match with the physical and psychological needs of the organisation and its employees. Findings have practical applications to professionals in human resource management and the design, management, development and valuation of office buildings. Originality/value This paper provides in-depth insights into how design firms and workplace strategists meet organisations’ changing demand for physical spaces, their main considerations in developing new workplace strategies, process followed and nature of future workplace in Australian context.

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Du, Tiantian, Sabine Jansen, Michela Turrin, and Andy van den Dobbelsteen. "Effects of Architectural Space Layouts on Energy Performance: A Review." Sustainability 12, no. 5 (February 29, 2020): 1829. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/su12051829.

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As one of the most important design tasks of building design, space layout design affects the building energy performance (BEP). In order to investigate the effect, a literature review of relevant papers was performed. Ten relevant articles were found and reviewed in detail. First, a methodology for studying the effects of space layouts on BEP were proposed regarding design variables, energy indicators and BEP calculation methods, and the methodologies used in the 10 articles were reviewed. Then, the effects of space layouts on energy use and occupant comfort were analysed separately. The results show that the energy use for heating, cooling, lighting and ventilation is highly affected by space layouts, as well as thermal and visual comfort. The effects of space layouts on energy use are higher than on occupant comfort. By changing space layouts, the resulting reductions in the annual final energy for heating and cooling demands were up to 14% and 57%, respectively, in an office building in Sweden. The resulting reductions in the lighting demand of peak summer and winter were up to 67% and 43%, respectively, for the case of an office building in the UK, and the resulting reduction in the air volume supplied by natural ventilation was 65%. The influence of other design parameters, i.e., occupancy and window to wall ratio, on the effects of space layouts on BEP was also identified.

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Ahmad, Nurbarirah, Aziean Jamin, Raja Mayang Delima Mohd Beta, Shafinar Ismail, Siti Rosnita Sakarji, and Zainab Mohd Zain. "The Importance of Office Layout for Employee Productivity." Dinamika Pendidikan 15, no. 2 (December 31, 2020): 164–71. http://dx.doi.org/10.15294/dp.v15i2.26081.

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This study was conducted to explain the impact of open and enclosed plan office layouts on employee productivity. The subject area for this study was in Amanah Saham Pahang Berhad (ASPA). This study involved 52 respondents from Administration Department, Finance Department, Logging, Planning and development of Forest Department and Investment Department. Data collection method used a questionnaire, and descriptive analysis is used to data analysis. The results showed that the condition of employee productivity was in good condition, but the office layout did not affect employee productivity. Moreover, the results from the findings showed that only enclosed plan office had significant positive relationships and it answered research questions and supported the hypotheses presented in this research study. As a conclusion, this research study helps the other researcher to explore the impact of office layout on employee productivity. This research study result was supported by previous results presented at every research finding.

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Kwon, Minyoung, and Hilde Remøy. "Office employee satisfaction: the influence of design factors on psychological user satisfaction." Facilities 38, no. 1/2 (August 30, 2019): 1–19. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/f-03-2019-0041.

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Purpose Employees’ satisfaction and productivity is one of the main interests of employers. Psychological comfort can cause dissatisfaction with their work. Thus, it is important to understand what factors contribute to employees’ satisfaction in workplaces. The purpose of this paper is to identify the weight of contribution of each design parameter on increasing psychological satisfaction. Design/methodology/approach The study included 579 employees in five offices in The Netherlands through an online survey. The typologies of offices vary in terms of office layouts, orientations and façade. Additionally, a parameter of desk location was included as this factor may be associated with user satisfaction. Kruskal–Wallis H test, categorical regression, and logistic regression analyses were performed to examine the impact of these design parameters on psychological user satisfaction. Findings The results revealed the impact of design parameters on the psychological satisfaction. The parameters of office layouts and desk locations were the significant predictor factors for the probability of satisfaction variables (e.g. privacy, concentration, communication, social contact and territoriality). The parameters for optimal satisfaction were found in cellular office, north-west oriented workstation and 4 m away from a window. Originality/value Psychological comfort is an inevitable aspect in user satisfaction studies. This paper, therefore, measures and predicts the relationship between design factors and employees’ satisfaction through case studies in The Netherlands. The findings help designers, architects, planners and facility managers to develop user-focussed office design principles supporting employees’ work performance.

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Anderson, Carl, Carlo Bailey, Andrew Heumann, and Daniel Davis. "Augmented space planning: Using procedural generation to automate desk layouts." International Journal of Architectural Computing 16, no. 2 (June 2018): 164–77. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1478077118778586.

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We developed a suite of procedural algorithms for space planning in commercial offices. These algorithms were benchmarked against 13,000 actual offices designed by human architects. The algorithm performed as well as an architect on 77% of offices, and achieved a higher capacity in an additional 6%, all while following a set of space standards. If the algorithm used the space standards the same way as an architect (a more relaxed interpretation), the algorithm achieved a 97% match rate, which means that the algorithm completed this design task as well as a designer and in a shorter time. The benchmarking of a layout algorithm against thousands of existing designs is a novel contribution of this article, and we argue that it might be a first step toward a more comprehensive method to automate parts of the office layout process.

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Halvitigala, Dulani, and Richard G. Reed. "Identifying adaptive strategies employed by office building investors." Property Management 33, no. 5 (October 19, 2015): 478–93. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/pm-10-2014-0041.

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Purpose – With strategies including flexible work practices, tenants are increasingly seeking flexibility in their physical office space and layouts. The purpose of this paper is to examine to what extent investors address tenants’ changing demand for office space with reference to layouts in new and existing office buildings. Design/methodology/approach – A qualitative study comprising in-depth individual interviews with senior portfolio managers of all listed property trusts investing in the office sector in New Zealand was undertaken. Findings – The findings confirmed property investors incorporate several adaptive and flexible space design and specifications in their modern office buildings to enhance space flexibility and functional efficiency. These include adaptive building structures, efficient floor plates, flexible building services, advanced IT networking, high-quality building amenities and modern building materials. Building structures and layouts are designed to be modified quickly and cost effectively to address tenants’ changing needs. Implications affecting tenant demand for flexible spaces on their lease contracts were also identified. Research limitations/implications – The findings from this research have implications for management of office space. Although the data were sourced with reference to buildings located in New Zealand only, the findings are applicable to office buildings in other countries. Practical implications – The study provides an insight into design strategies adopted in modern office buildings to enhance space flexibility and functional efficiency. These findings are of practical application to professionals involved in the design, development, investment and valuation of modern office buildings. Originality/value – The paper provides in-depth insights into how investors meet tenants’ changing demand for physical space which is linked to delivering improved and stable market-driven returns to investors.

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Dissertations / Theses on the topic "Office layouts"

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Shpuza, Ermal. "Floorplate Shapes and Office Layouts: A Model of the Effect of Floorplate Shape on Circulation Integration." Diss., Available online, Georgia Institute of Technology, 2006, 2006. http://etd.gatech.edu/theses/available/etd-03172006-111654/.

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Müller, Maria. "OHS Practitioners' Application of CAD-tools as Medium for Participatory Design : Facilitating the Projection of Office-layouts." Thesis, KTH, Ergonomi, 2015. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:kth:diva-181313.

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When a company creates, rebuilds or develops new or existing workplace facilitates, research has shown such phases are of the most crucial and influential for creating healthy and effective workplaces. To include ergonomic principles in the early planning stages have proven to result in reduced expenses, and an increased ability to make influential contributions. Practitioners of Occupational Health Services (OHS) possess unique knowledge and expertise in the area, thus have potential to be a tremendous resource during the planning and projection of workspace design projects. Encouraging a participatory approach, OHS practitioners are valuable collaborators with end-users and Architects alike. In this study, three-dimensional CAD-tools were explored in order to provide OHS practitioners with methods and tools that enhance their ability to communicate workspace proposals to end-users of new or renewed office environments. Following an exploration process, a proposed design tool; SketchUp, was preceded for Usability testing. Results of the study indicated a considerable degree of applicability to OHS practitioners, despite an expressed desire for a simpler, more learnable interface. The software was believed to facilitate in the process of visualizing and communicating workspace proposals by increasing end-users understanding of the new work environment, including an enhanced ability to relate to and communicate with Architects.

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Kraatz, Anthony M. "Office park." This title; PDF viewer required. Home page for entire collection, 2005. http://archives.udmercy.edu:8080/dspace/handle/10429/9.

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Shah, Krina R. "Office place : the human side of an organization." Virtual Press, 2007. http://liblink.bsu.edu/uhtbin/catkey/1371192.

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Today, most of us work and many of us are full-time employees. Millions of people spend the majority of their time at an office place working with other people, often in a group working with other groups. We can sense that the office is a site where we connect with others.It seems fairly obvious that when designing any office place, the need for social interaction should always be considered. Still, the contribution of the office environment to any office worker's social life is often overlooked or unobserved. The central question posed by this thesis is: Can an office place be more responsive to the social needs of humans?To address this question, the first portion of this thesis documents the need for social interaction in our everyday life and its benefits for individuals as well as the community. The second portion interprets photographs taken outside and inside conventional office environments in Indianapolis, Indiana; the photo galleries reveal the behavior of regular people around and in the work place. Three cases studies are then offered; the cases provide insights into design and the participatory processes central tosocialization. To conclude, design recommendations are offered that will better connect people to other people in the office place.This work is based on personal observations along with readings done in related subject matter as observed by social psychologists, philosophers, architects, and designers. Research conducted in the field of management provides an additional line of inquiry and its own perspectives.
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Siler, Elizabeth A. "How does beauty matter? An exploration of employee perceptions of office aesthetics." Amherst, Mass. : University of Massachusetts Amherst, 2009. http://scholarworks.umass.edu/open_access_dissertations/26/.

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Parris, Emily. "The fittingness of fitness : the movement of architecture at a human scale: a reinvention of the typical workplace /." Online version, 2007. http://digitalcommons.rwu.edu/archthese/4/.

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Keenan, David Wayne 1955. "BLOCK PLAN CONSTRUCTION FROM A DELTAHEDRON-BASED ADJACENCY GRAPH." Thesis, The University of Arizona, 1986. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/292025.

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Halverson, Marilyn Louise 1958, and Marilyn Louise 1958 Halverson. "Offlay: A computerized solution approach for office layout incorporating group technology methodology and allowing a priori aisle placement." Thesis, The University of Arizona, 1989. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/291946.

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This thesis describes a new approach to office layout problems. Group technology methods are used in grouping office employees into cells followed by cell placement along a pre-established network of aisles. Differences between office and manufacturing layout approaches are discussed. Sample problems are presented and the program description is included.

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Johnson, Virginia Wilson. "Architectural correlates of privacy : the dynamics of privacy regulation /." Diss., This resource online, 1990. http://scholar.lib.vt.edu/theses/available/etd-07132007-143142/.

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Serrato, Margaret Gilchrist. "The role of the physical environment in work group communication patterns." Thesis, Georgia Institute of Technology, 1993. http://hdl.handle.net/1853/21410.

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Books on the topic "Office layouts"

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Eley, Joanna. Understanding offices: What every manager needs to know about office buildings. Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1995.

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E, Rappoport James, Cushman Robert Frank 1931-, and Daroff Karen, eds. Office planning and design desk reference. New York: Wiley, 1992.

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Kennedy, Kay. Make room for success!: A guide for planning and setting up a successful office in your home or on the road. Gig Harbor, Wash. (P.O. Box 889, Gig Harbor 98335): J.R. Hardwick, 1992.

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Fay, Martha. Pottery Barn workspaces. Edited by Lund Mark A, Walters Michael, and Ide Clay. 2nd ed. San Francisco, CA: Weldon Owen Inc., 2008.

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Vance, Mary A. Office layout: A bibliography. Monticello, Ill., USA: Vance Bibliographies, 1989.

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Vance, Mary A. Office layout: A bibliography. Montocello, Ill: Vance Bibliographies, 1989.

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Vance, Mary A. Office layout: A bibliography. Monticello, Ill: Vance Bibliographies, 1985.

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Best of office. Boca Raton, FL: Sandow Media, 2012.

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Interiors management: A guide for facility managers. New York: UpWord Pub, 1996.

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Dietsch, Deborah. Live/work: Working at home, living at work. New York: Abrams, 2008.

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Book chapters on the topic "Office layouts"

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Hart-Davis, Guy. "Creating Complex Documents and Layouts." In Beginning Microsoft Office 2010, 199–231. Berkeley, CA: Apress, 2010. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4302-2950-6_8.

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Hart-Davis, Guy. "Creating Complex Documents and Layouts." In Learn Office 2016 for Mac, 225–62. Berkeley, CA: Apress, 2016. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-2002-3_8.

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Hart-Davis, Guy. "Creating Complex Documents and Layouts." In Learn Office 2011 for Mac OS X, 247–84. Berkeley, CA: Apress, 2010. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4302-3334-3_8.

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Heumann, Andrew, and Daniel Davis. "Humanizing Architectural Automation: A Case Study in Office Layouts." In Impact: Design With All Senses, 662–70. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-29829-6_51.

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Laughton, Keren-Amy, and Andrew Thatcher. "Health and Wellbeing in Modern Office Layouts: The Case of Agile Workspaces in Green Buildings." In Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing, 831–40. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-96068-5_89.

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Silvetti, Alessio, Alberto Ranavolo, Tiwana Varrecchia, Martina Rinaldi, Giorgia Chini, Agnese Marchesi, and Francesco Draicchio. "Comparison of Two Post Office Workstation Layouts by Means of an Optoelectronic Motion Analysis System." In Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing, 230–40. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-60828-0_24.

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Bailey, Paul. "Layout of Business Letters." In Mastering Office Practice, 15–26. London: Macmillan Education UK, 1985. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-07876-9_2.

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Goyal, Lata, Amrit Preet, Arshad Eranhikkal, Prabhat Kumar Chaudhari, and Kunaal Dhingra. "Dental Office Layout and Design." In A Guide to Hospital Administration and Planning, 79–93. Singapore: Springer Nature Singapore, 2023. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-981-19-6692-7_6.

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Holding, Helen, and Clare Martin. "Microsoft Word — text enhancement and document layout." In Mastering Microsoft® Office, 38–54. London: Macmillan Education UK, 2001. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-0-230-80233-9_4.

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Holding, Helen, and Clare Martin. "Microsoft Excel — cell manipulation and worksheet layout." In Mastering Microsoft® Office, 79–93. London: Macmillan Education UK, 2001. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-0-230-80233-9_7.

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Conference papers on the topic "Office layouts"

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Costa, Victor G. J., and César França. "How Office Layouts Influence Software Development?" In SBES '20: 34th Brazilian Symposium on Software Engineering. New York, NY, USA: ACM, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/3422392.3422441.

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Pfnür, Andreas, Felix Gauger, and Kyra Voll. "Office Space Planning – Determining Layouts for Future Work Modes." In 28th Annual European Real Estate Society Conference. European Real Estate Society, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.15396/eres2022_27.

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Norouziasl, Seddigheh, and Amirhosein Jafari. "Comparing Office Layouts Regarding Lighting Energy Saving Potentials Using Agent-Based Real-Time Simulation of Occupancy Behavioral Patterns." In Construction Research Congress 2020. Reston, VA: American Society of Civil Engineers, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.1061/9780784482865.103.

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Muhammad, Zandy O., and Paul Reynolds. "Monitoring of pedestrian patterns of an office floor under normal walking activity." In IABSE Symposium, Guimarães 2019: Towards a Resilient Built Environment Risk and Asset Management. Zurich, Switzerland: International Association for Bridge and Structural Engineering (IABSE), 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.2749/guimaraes.2019.1079.

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<p>Innovative designs and development of advanced construction techniques enabling efficient use of materials have resulted in modern building floors that are characterised by longer spans, lighter weight and lower inherent damping. In the particular case of office floors, current design trends are for fewer internal partition walls and more open plan layouts. Therefore, such floors are more susceptible to excessive vibrations originating mainly from pedestrians traversing the floors with random patterns of walking.</p><p>Technological advances in tracking human locations, well-known in computer sciences, by means of in-built video cameras integrated with vision tracking software are rapidly increasing. Yet their potential implementations have not been extended significantly to monitor and track patterns of pedestrians in civil engineering structures, in particular floors. Research of the use of these techniques and pertinent experimental exercises is lagging. This paper provides the results of video monitoring of the occupant activities of a typical office floor under normal use. It is obvious that floors accommodate multi-pedestrians with walking patterns that are somewhat random. Hence, tracking and monitoring of operational floors accompanied by the vibration response measurements give an insight to the actual patterns of walking and thus corresponding in-service vibration responses. It is recognized that distribution of walking patterns with measured vibration responses help capture realistic vibration levels, particularly when combined with statistical methods of vibration serviceability assessment.</p>

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Al-Thani, Shaikha Saoud, Lolwa Al-Mohannadi, Meera Al-Khulifi, Doha Elsaman, Mark David, and Hebah Osama. "Complexity and Use in Building Evaluation (CUBE2): The Modular Case of the BCR Corridors at Qatar University." In Qatar University Annual Research Forum & Exhibition. Qatar University Press, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.29117/quarfe.2021.0202.

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The BCR Corridors at QU are notorious for wayfinding difficulties of end-users in the building complex. These navigation problems appear to arise due to the repetitive similarity of individual parts in its modular design, highly localized impediments to readability and visibility such as shading device screens and temporary installations, and the relationship of those different parts composing the collective whole of the BCR Corridors to the immediate surrounding context of the QU campus (Figure 1). The purpose of the “Complexity and Use in Building Evaluation” research project (CUBE2: QUST-2-CENG-2019-12) is to build on the research success of the post-occupancy cluster in the first demonstration project (CUBE1: QUST-2-CENG-2018-9). It includes continuing to develop a detailed post-occupancy dataset of movement and space use in buildings at QU. The goal is to contribute positively to future design refinements, alterations, and design of new university buildings at QU. We want to help create a world-class center of education and research where space use, interaction, and innovation are tactically ‘woven’ into the design and planning of the campus at various scales of the built environment. In the CUBE1 study, Major et al. (2019) were able to graphically illustrate building program/use and movement/space use patterns. It included quantifying the relationship between movement and spatial layout, and the significance of other end-user activities such as sitting and interacting in the common areas of the QU Women’s Engineering Building. It also included identifying adaptive re-use of classrooms and storage spaces for laboratory and office uses, leading to a shortage of storage spaces in the building. There was a consistent relationship (R^2=0.68, p < 0.001) between sitting and interacting unrelated to accessibility or metric area, i.e., the availability of seating was the dominant factor for casual encounter, mostly of students. Finally, there was a weak but consistent relationship (R^2=0.38, p < 0.001) between spatial layout and movement flows using space syntax modeling when allowing for the strongly programmatic differences (classrooms versus faculty offices) in different wings of the building (Major et al., 2019) (Figure 2). The post-occupancy evaluation findings in the CUBE1 project were largely consistent with previous results of space syntax research over the last 30 years for generative layouts such as office buildings, colleges, and research laboratories. Those results include the generative role of spatial layout for movement and casual encounter in buildings, the prescriptive effects of strong programmatic aspects (in this case, classroom location and course schedules) in causing some spaces to over-perform/underperform for some types of uses, most usually movement, and the singular importance for the provision of seating to facilitate consistent and robust use of spaces whether at the building or urban level (Hillier and Penn, 1991; Hillier, 1996; Hillier et al., 1996; Major et al., 2019; Sailer et al., 2016).

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Play, Daniel, Nicolas Fritsch, Ste´phane Huot, and Eric Ayax. "Numerical Simulations of Timing Belt Camshaft Layout: Local and Global Behavior." In ASME 2003 International Design Engineering Technical Conferences and Computers and Information in Engineering Conference. ASMEDC, 2003. http://dx.doi.org/10.1115/detc2003/ptg-48008.

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Mechanical behaviors of power transmission systems have to be defined during preliminary design. Today, numerical simulations replace classical tests. General experimental validation of numerical results obtained with computer softwares was performed before. The design of timing belt camshaft layouts follows the same way. Meshing of timing belt on pulleys is related to local behavior of load transmission while dynamic response of a whole camshaft drive layout is related to global behavior. Because of the complex nature of phenomena that take place in such mechanical systems and due to practical requirements in Design Office concerning limitation of computer times for example, local and global analyses are made separately but results of the local analysis serve as inputs for the second analysis. The purpose of the local analysis is to optimize pulley groove profiles of pulleys in order to insure both smaller dynamic excitations and a larger timing belt fatigue life. Simulations of tooth meshing are made under non-linear FEM study. Tooth meshing is described step by step and both bending of inner timing belt cords and transmission error effects are defined in relation to specific shapes of pulley groove profiles. The quasi-static transmission error constitutes one of input data for global dynamic simulations through specific in-house software DSTD (Dynamic Simulation of Timing Drive). Dynamic loads and dynamic transmission error are obtained in relation with inertia, stiffness and damping of mechanical elements and with timing belt characteristics. Results are discussed in relation with design parameters of camshaft drive layout.

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Mifsud, Michael D., Robert N. Farrugia, and Tonio Sant. "Investigating the Influence of MCP Uncertainties on the Energy Storage Capacity Requirements for Offshore Windfarms." In ASME 2019 2nd International Offshore Wind Technical Conference. American Society of Mechanical Engineers, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.1115/iowtc2019-7504.

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Abstract Recent studies have shown that the intermittency of wind energy can be mitigated by means of an energy storage system (ESS). Energy can be stored during periods of low energy demand and high wind availability to then be utilised during periods of high energy demand. Measure-Correlate-Predict (MCP) methodologies are used to predict the wind speed and direction at a wind farm candidate site, hence enabling the estimation of the power output from the wind farm. Once energy storage is integrated with the wind farm, it is no longer only a matter of estimating the power output from the windfarm, but it is also important to model the behaviour of the ESS in conjunction with the energy demand. The latter is expected to depend, amongst other factors, on the reliability of the MCP methodology used. This paper investigates how different MCP methodologies influence the projected time series behaviour and the capacity requirements of ESS systems coupled to offshore wind farms. The analysis is based on wind data captured by a LiDAR system installed at a coastal location and from the Meteorological Office at Malta International Airport in the Maltese Islands. Different MCP methodologies are used to generate wind speed and direction time series at a candidate offshore wind farm site for various array layouts. The latter are then used in WindPRO® to estimate the time series power production for each MCP methodology and wind farm layout. This is repeated with actual wind data, such that the percentage error in energy yield from each MCP methodology is quantified, and the more reliable methodology could be identified. While it is evident that the integration of storage will reduce the need for wind energy curtailment, the reliability of the MCP methodology used is found to be crucial for proper estimation of the behaviour of the ESS.

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Otsuka, Emiri, and Namgyu Kang. "Kansei Evaluation of Localized Film Posters." In 13th International Conference on Applied Human Factors and Ergonomics (AHFE 2022). AHFE International, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.54941/ahfe1001769.

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In recent years, Japanese animation films have been attracting attention overseas. For example, "Blade of the Demon" was released in 2020 and became a massive hit in 45 countries and regions worldwide. Film posters are one of the influential advertising media for the release of a film. film posters are essential advertising media to influence the film box office, as they comprehensively express the contents and appeal of the film story in a single image. However, depending on where the film is released, the poster is changed into a different layout from the home country version. For example, the film poster of "Big Hero6" in Japan appealed to an emotional story, but in some other countries, the poster appealed to an action hero film. In this way, film posters were localized depending on the country where the film was released. According to previous studies on film posters, the Japanese and Americans had different perspectives in grasping the film stories even though the film was the same, reflected in the film posters. In addition, in a previous study conducted by our research team on film posters of Studio Ghibli of Japan, subjects' impressions differed significantly from the original Japanese poster version and re-produced others. However, even though the Japanese and Korean versions are very similar layouts and designs, the participants' impressions about these two posters differed due to the influence of the textual information. Therefore, this study evaluated the impressions of film posters with mosaic processing on the language part to eliminate the influence of the language information on the posters. As a result of the SD method's experiment, there was a negative correlation between the "Familiarity feeling" and the "Unique feeling" of the film posters. However, there was a positive correlation between the "Dynamism feeling" and the "Familiarity feeling" of the posters. Moreover, participants' impression about the mosaiced textual information of the Japanese and Korean versions was almost the same. That means textual information in a poster influences participants' impressions significantly. These results in this study will help future film posters production.

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Martell, Janice L., Arya Ebrahimpour, and Marco P. Schoen. "Intelligent Approach to Floor Vibration Control." In ASME 2005 International Mechanical Engineering Congress and Exposition. ASMEDC, 2005. http://dx.doi.org/10.1115/imece2005-80037.

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Genetic Algorithms (GAs) have been used to solve a multiple of engineering problems with the civil engineering applications ranging from optimal placement of sensors and actuators on structures to pipeline layouts. GAs are especially useful in finding optimal solutions to problems that have many parameters with complex search spaces and a high level of interaction among the describing parameters. The novel experimental control approach presented in this paper uses a GA and a piezoelectric actuator to control the vibration of an aluminum cantilever beam. This set-up is based on a floor vibration problem, where the human perception of vibration dictates the sensitivities in the cost function of the GA. Lightweight floors can be excited by occupant activities such as walking, jumping and dancing. Humans are especially sensitive to vibrations in the range of 4 to 8 Hz. The occupancy of a floor system — whether the floor is used in an office, a shopping mall, or a ballroom — determines the degree to which humans are annoyed by the vibration. In this paper, the GA based control limits the peak acceleration within a predefined bandwidth. Since the cantilever beam has a higher natural frequency than a lightweight floor system a bandwidth of approximately 1.6–15.9 Hz (10–100 rad/s) is used as the frequency range to control. The control to be designed will be a genetic algorithm-robust controller. The analytical results indicate that this novel approach works well.

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Asriana, Nova, Nova Chanda Aditya, and Melania Lidwina Pandiangan. "Spatial Configuration Approach for Predicting Office Layout Plan." In International Webinar on Digital Architecture 2021 (IWEDA 2021). Paris, France: Atlantis Press, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.2991/assehr.k.220703.029.

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