Journal articles: 'Quality of the building'

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Lemer, Andrew C. "TEAM BUILDING and Quality Buildings." Design Management Journal (Former Series) 2, no. 2 (June 10, 2010): 54–58. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1948-7169.1991.tb00077.x.

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Bassis, Michael S., and Alan E. Guskin. "Building Quality." Change: The Magazine of Higher Learning 18, no. 4 (August 1986): 57–66. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/00091383.1986.9937083.

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Aigbavboa, Clinton, and Wellington Didibhuku Thwala. "PERFORMANCE OF A GREEN BUILDING'S INDOOR ENVIRONMENTAL QUALITY ON BUILDING OCCUPANTS IN SOUTH AFRICA." Journal of Green Building 14, no. 1 (January 2019): 131–48. http://dx.doi.org/10.3992/1943-4618.14.1.131.

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Indoor environmental quality (IEQ) is important to the health, comfort, and well-being of building occupants. Unsatisfactory IEQ is associated with a number of phenomena, most notably, sick building syndrome (SBS), building-related illnesses (BRIs), and multiple chemical sensitivity (MCS), which have major negative effects on productivity. However, green building investors (owners) are not only concerned about reducing the negative impact of their buildings on the environment, but also about the potentially negative impact green buildings can have on their employees' productivity. This research sets out to address, through a questionnaire survey in South Africa, what constitutes the determinants of green building occupants' satisfaction with the IEQ elements of a green building and the health implications of a building's IEQ on the building occupants. Data analysis (involving a one-sample t-test) reveals some interesting findings in regard to what constitutes the determinants of green building occupants' satisfaction with the IEQ elements and the health implications of the IEQ elements of a five-star green rated building in South Africa. Findings from the survey revealed that the occupants of the building were not satisfied with the green building's IEQ, most especially the ineffectiveness of blocking natural and artificial lighting. Also, it was revealed that the IEQ with particular reference to the noise level and ventilation of the space has some serious health implications for the building occupants. The occupants' evaluation revealed that the major health issues from which they suffer include fatigue, headache, common cold, coughing, and influenza, and these affect their productivity and performance. Since building occupants are a rich source of information about IEQ assessment and its effect on productivity, the study can be used to assess the performance of green buildings, identify areas needing improvement, and provide useful feedback to designers and operators about specific aspects of green building design features and operating strategies that need improvement. This study adds to the body of knowledge on green buildings' IEQ performance.

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Li, Na. "Research on Comfort Performance of Green Building and Conventional Building." Applied Mechanics and Materials 312 (February 2013): 822–25. http://dx.doi.org/10.4028/www.scientific.net/amm.312.822.

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t has been argued that green buildings have a better indoor environmental quality than conventional buildings and that this translates into a more satisfying workplace for the building's occupants and, inturn, a more productive workforce. Assessing a building's cost effectiveness means taking into account all the costs that will be incurred during its life cycle not just development costs. People found no evidence to believe that green buildings are more comfortable than conventional building. In fact, the only difference between the buildings was that occupants of the green building were more likely to perceive their work environment as warm, and occupants who felt warm were more likely to describe their work environment as poor.

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Garrison, Eric, and Joshua New. "Quality Control Methods for Advanced Metering Infrastructure Data." Smart Cities 4, no. 1 (January 28, 2021): 195–203. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/smartcities4010012.

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While urban-scale building energy modeling is becoming increasingly common, it currently lacks standards, guidelines, or empirical validation against measured data. Empirical validation necessary to enable best practices is becoming increasingly tractable. The growing prevalence of advanced metering infrastructure has led to significant data regarding the energy consumption within individual buildings, but is something utilities and countries are still struggling to analyze and use wisely. In partnership with the Electric Power Board of Chattanooga, Tennessee, a crude OpenStudio/EnergyPlus model of over 178,000 buildings has been created and used to compare simulated energy against actual, 15-min, whole-building electrical consumption of each building. In this study, classifying building type is treated as a use case for quantifying performance associated with smart meter data. This article attempts to provide guidance for working with advanced metering infrastructure for buildings related to: quality control, pathological data classifications, statistical metrics on performance, a methodology for classifying building types, and assess accuracy. Advanced metering infrastructure was used to collect whole-building electricity consumption for 178,333 buildings, define equations for common data issues (missing values, zeros, and spiking), propose a new method for assigning building type, and empirically validate gaps between real buildings and existing prototypes using industry-standard accuracy metrics.

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Raheem, Mr Khatik Abdul. "Building a Quality Management System in Higher Education." International Journal of Trend in Scientific Research and Development Volume-3, Issue-4 (June 30, 2019): 977–79. http://dx.doi.org/10.31142/ijtsrd23986.

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Kalmár, Ferenc. "Exergy Quality of Buildings." Advanced Materials Research 899 (February 2014): 30–35. http://dx.doi.org/10.4028/www.scientific.net/amr.899.30.

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Energy labeling of buildings is accepted and used in all European countries. Depending on the yearly specific primary energy consumption the energy quality of a building is expressed using a country specific method. Consequently primary energy is the basis of building energy class. Primary energy is obtained using different country specific transformation factors for gas, electricity, wood, biomass etc. However different quantities of warm water and steam can have the same energy content. Calculating the exergy content of used energy a better classification of buildings can be achieved. This paper presents a method to analyze residential buildings from exergy point of view. It was found a transformation factor between energy and exergy: 0.075.

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NELSON, EUGENE C., PAUL B. BATALDEN, JULIE J. MOHR, and STEPHEN K. PLUME. "Building a Quality Future." Frontiers of Health Services Management 15, no. 1 (1998): 3–32. http://dx.doi.org/10.1097/01974520-199807000-00002.

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Piskor, Barbara Kovalcin. "Building Continuous Quality Improvement." Home Healthcare Nurse: The Journal for the Home Care and Hospice Professional 16, no. 7 (July 1998): 485. http://dx.doi.org/10.1097/00004045-199807000-00016.

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Casparij, Soren. "Building a quality culture." Total Quality Management 8, no. 2-3 (June 1997): 109–13. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/0954412979811.

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Shaneyfelt, Terrence M. "Building Bridges to Quality." JAMA 286, no. 20 (November 28, 2001): 2600. http://dx.doi.org/10.1001/jama.286.20.2600.

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Sutherland, G. "Building Quality into Projects." ITNOW 53, no. 1 (December 23, 2010): 30–31. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/itnow/bwq237.

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Croal, Gerard, Susan M. Ogden, and Nigel P. Grigg. "Building quality housing services." Property Management 21, no. 4 (October 2003): 230–41. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/02637470310495018.

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Soudien, Crain. "Building Quality in Education." Contemporary Education Dialogue 8, no. 2 (June 6, 2011): 183–201. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/097318491100800204.

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Chirillo, Louis D. "TOTAL QUALITY MANAGEMENT - BUILDING QUALITY OR BUREAUCRACIES?" Naval Engineers Journal 102, no. 2 (March 1990): 78–81. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1559-3584.1990.tb02559.x.

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Anosike, M. N., and A. A. Oyebade. "Sandcrete Blocks and Quality Management in Nigeria Building Industry." Journal of Engineering, Project, and Production Management 2, no. 1 (January 31, 2012): 37–46. http://dx.doi.org/10.32738/jeppm.201201.0005.

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Lee, Young S. "Lighting Quality and Acoustic Quality in LEED-Certified Buildings Using Occupant Evaluation." Journal of Green Building 6, no. 2 (May 1, 2011): 139–55. http://dx.doi.org/10.3992/jgb.6.2.139.

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Lighting quality and acoustic quality are often not well addressed in the current green building practice, including the Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) Green Building Rating System in the US. While the level of LEED certification indicates the level of sustainability, it is not clear if a higher level of LEED certification also implies a more comfortable and productive work environment. The study intended to find the relationship between the level of LEED certification and the level of worker satisfaction and perceived job performance regarding lighting quality and acoustic quality from fifteen LEED-certified buildings. The findings indicate that the LEED Platinum building group tended to provide better lighting quality than the other lower certification groups, while the LEED Gold building group showed lower lighting quality and acoustic quality than the rest of the groups. Workplace designers and organizations should be mindful of the importance of lighting and acoustic qualities in promoting better comfort and productivity as it is easy to overlook these criteria when complying with LEED IEQ guidelines.

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Wicaksono, Nur Kukuh, and Bambang Sugiantoro. "Analysis Quality of Service Wireless LAN at University PGRI Yogyakarta." IJID (International Journal on Informatics for Development) 6, no. 1 (November 22, 2018): 9. http://dx.doi.org/10.14421/ijid.2017.06103.

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PGRI University of Yogyakarta is an educational institution that uses the internet as one of the supporting facilities and infrastructures to manage and organize the data and information used by the student to find references about the lecture. PGRI University Yogyakarta has three buildings on the main campus building A building B and C buildings, where each building using wireless LAN as a means for students to use the internet network, the weakness of the wireless LAN network where poor internet network in the wireless LAN network. Thus the researchers wanted to analyze the Quality of Service wireless LAN networks in building A, building B, and C buildings, in each floor.With the existence of quality of the network at PGRI University of Yogyakarta will be done by interviews and observation methods, problems that occur in wireless LAN networks in each building have been prepared in advance, after which it will do an analysis of wireless LAN networks using quality of service parameters, namely delay, packet loss, bandwidth, throughput and factors that influence the wireless network at the University of PGRI Yogyakarta.The results of the measurement and monitoring of Quality of Service wireless LAN at PGRI University of Yogyakarta in building A, building B, C on each floor of the building can be classified in the category of poor with the average delay for each building to around 150 ms and packet loss = 28%, bandwidth = 173523 bits / s and throughput = 22%, and the factors that occurred in the signal range cannot cover every room in every building. From these results it can be concluded that the quality of the wireless LAN at the University PGRI Yogyakarta according to the TIPHON standards categorized as poor.

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Abu Eleinen, Osama, Ghada Elries, and Marwa Elnahas. "Indoor environmental quality and Sick Building Syndrome in office buildings." Port-Said Engineering Research Journal 22, no. 1 (March 20, 2018): 1–16. http://dx.doi.org/10.21608/pserj.2018.32280.

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Литвинова and Natalya Litvinova. "Buildings’ Air Quality in High Traffic." Safety in Technosphere 4, no. 6 (December 25, 2015): 23–26. http://dx.doi.org/10.12737/17550.

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The article presents the results of field studies of air quality depending on mobile sources of pollution. Studies of the carbon monoxide concentration was conducted for the climatic conditions of the South of Western Siberia. The object of the study was residential buildings. The studies were conducted under unfavorable wind speed. Processing of experimental data allowed to obtain the calculated dependences of dimensionless concentration of carbon monoxide (II) on the height of building’s facade under emissions from highways. According to the results of research a nomogram was constructed to determine the optimal air intake height of buildings located near roads of various traffic intensity. Research results and given recommendations allow considering external sources of pollution when designing ventilation of a building.

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Jain, Nishesh, Esfand Burman, Craig Robertson, Samuel Stamp, Clive Shrubsole, Francesco Aletta, Edward Barrett, et al. "Building performance evaluation: Balancing energy and indoor environmental quality in a UK school building." Building Services Engineering Research and Technology 41, no. 3 (December 31, 2019): 343–60. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0143624419897397.

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There is a policy-driven focus, at present, on improving the energy performance of buildings. However, energy-related issues alone do not capture the full impact of buildings on occupants and the wider environment. The performance of a building also includes occupant wellbeing and indoor environmental quality. Specifically, in schools, indoor environmental quality (thermal comfort, indoor air quality, lighting and acoustics) is an important aspect. Additionally, the issue of the ‘performance gap’, generally focused on energy, also affects indoor environmental quality parameters and needs to be addressed holistically. This paper reports on a holistic building performance evaluation covering aspects of energy, thermal comfort, indoor air quality, lighting and acoustics. It assesses the performance issues and inter-relationships between energy and indoor environmental quality in a recently built school campus in London. Based on the evidence collated from this case study and supplementary literature, the endemic issues and constraints within the construction industry are explored, such as inappropriate design calculations and resistance to new low-carbon technologies. Further, lessons for improved performance in the design, operation and maintenance of schools are highlighted such as factoring in the changing building use trends during design and the significance of optimal operations and maintenance of building systems for better energy and indoor environmental quality performance. This study shows that if the building design focus primarily remains on energy, unintended consequence of indoor environmental quality underperformance may occur where there are conflicts between energy and indoor environmental quality objectives. An integrated approach to building performance can help address this issue. Practical application: There are often conflicts between energy efficiency and indoor environmental quality (IEQ) objectives in building design and operation. Most building performance evaluations are primarily focused on one set of these performance criteria. This building performance evaluation was done with an integrated energy and IEQ perspective. The study identifies the causes of underperformance in energy and IEQ in a recently built school in London. Some of the findings from this study provide lessons that are relevant across the industry for the delivery of low-carbon and healthy buildings. These lessons include methods to further strengthen the policy frameworks and design protocols along with overall improvements in the processes followed during design, construction and operation of schools and other non-domestic buildings. The paper can also inform building designers, contractors and facility managers about the ways to reduce the performance gap and achieve energy targets without unintended consequences for indoor environment.

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Rieser, Alexander, Rainer Pfluger, Alexandra Troi, Daniel Herrera-Avellanosa, Kirsten Engelund Thomsen, Jørgen Rose, Zeynep Durmuş Arsan, et al. "Integration of Energy-Efficient Ventilation Systems in Historic Buildings—Review and Proposal of a Systematic Intervention Approach." Sustainability 13, no. 4 (February 20, 2021): 2325. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/su13042325.

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Historic building restoration and renovation requires sensitivity to the cultural heritage, historic value, and sustainability (i.e., building physics, energy efficiency, and comfort) goals of the project. Energy-efficient ventilation such as demand-controlled ventilation and heat recovery ventilation can contribute to the aforementioned goals, if ventilation concepts and airflow distribution are planned and realized in a minimally invasive way. Compared to new buildings, the building physics of historic buildings are more complicated in terms of hygrothermal performance. In particular, if internal insulation is applied, dehumidification is needed for robust and risk-free future use, while maintaining the building’s cultural value. As each ventilation system has to be chosen and adapted individually to the specific building, the selection of the appropriate system type is not an easy task. For this reason, there is a need for a scientifically valid, systematic approach to pair appropriate ventilation system and airflow distribution solutions with historical buildings. This paper provides an overview of the interrelationships between heritage conservation and the need for ventilation in energy-efficient buildings, regarding building physics and indoor environmental quality. Furthermore, a systematic approach based on assessment criteria in terms of heritage significance of the building, building physics (hygrothermal performance), and building services (energy efficiency, indoor air quality, and comfort rating) according to the standard EN 16883:2017 are applied.

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Cidell, Julie. "Building Quality, Building Green: Conventions Theory and Industry Transformation." Urbani izziv 23, s 2 (2012): s186—s194. http://dx.doi.org/10.5379/urbani-izziv-en-2012-23-supplement-2-016.

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Vesitara, R. A. K., and U. Surahman. "Sick building syndrome: Assessment of school building air quality." Journal of Physics: Conference Series 1375 (November 2019): 012087. http://dx.doi.org/10.1088/1742-6596/1375/1/012087.

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HILKEN, KARL H. "JIT: BUILDING‐IN QUALITY ASSURANCE." Logistics World 1, no. 3 (March 1988): 163–66. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/eb007437.

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Ladino, L. A., and S. H. Rondón. "Building a high quality photogate." Physics Education 54, no. 1 (November 5, 2018): 015006. http://dx.doi.org/10.1088/1361-6552/aae907.

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Young, J., T. Green, and T. Desmond. "Building quality full-graphics displays." IEEE Computer Applications in Power 5, no. 2 (April 1992): 17–22. http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/67.127819.

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Long, Michael T. "Information planning: building in quality." Health Libraries Review 8, no. 3 (September 1991): 195–96. http://dx.doi.org/10.1046/j.1365-2532.1991.8301905.x.

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Lawrence, Alan. "Building up the Quality process." Evidence-Based Dentistry 1, no. 2 (June 1999): 2. http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/sj.ebd.6490027.

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Wong, Brian M., Karyn D. Baum, Linda A. Headrick, Eric S. Holmboe, Fiona Moss, Greg Ogrinc, Kaveh G. Shojania, Emma Vaux, Eric J. Warm, and Jason R. Frank. "Building the Bridge to Quality." Academic Medicine 95, no. 1 (January 2020): 59–68. http://dx.doi.org/10.1097/acm.0000000000002937.

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Kerr, Eve A., Dylan M. Smith, Mary M. Hogan, Timothy P. Hofer, Sarah L. Krein, Martin Bermann, and Rodney A. Hayward. "Building a Better Quality Measure." Medical Care 41, no. 10 (October 2003): 1173–82. http://dx.doi.org/10.1097/01.mlr.0000088453.57269.29.

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Hovenden, F. M., S. D. Walker, H. C. Sharp, and M. Woodman. "Building quality into scientific software." Software Quality Journal 5, no. 1 (March 1996): 25–32. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/bf02420942.

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Khan, M., and S. McCauley. "Building The Academy’s Quality Initiatives." Journal of the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics 115, no. 9 (September 2015): A56. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jand.2015.06.197.

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Loganina, Valentina. "Quality control of building materials." E3S Web of Conferences 164 (2020): 08017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1051/e3sconf/202016408017.

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The purpose of the work is to assess the influence of the state of the technological process of production on the error of deciding on the suitability of the batch under control. Information is provided about the values of the error of representativeness at assessing the quality of building materials using ceramic brick as an example. It is shown that the rules for acceptance of the relevant normative documents for construction products should indicate the required number of samples for testing, taking into account the probability of an error-free forecast.

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Tanner, Christine A. "Building the Bridge to Quality." Journal of Nursing Education 42, no. 10 (October 2003): 431–32. http://dx.doi.org/10.3928/0148-4834-20031001-03.

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Su, Dong Bin, Zhi Yong Nie, and Jing Yong Huang. "The Facade Style Research about Renovation of Public Building in City." Applied Mechanics and Materials 209-211 (October 2012): 114–17. http://dx.doi.org/10.4028/www.scientific.net/amm.209-211.114.

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In today’s China, with the development of economy, the urban construction is also very rapid. However, the high speed development has also created many problems. For example, the urban public building layout is unreasonable, the quality of public building is not high. Therefore, many public buildings will be a state of being removed. In order to lengthen the building’s life, Renovation of the building became the topic which the society pays attention together. The renovation of the building has many ways, Transform the building’s facade can change effectively the building’s image and the cost is low. Therefore this article sets up urban public building’s facade transformation to take the research aim, and put the focus to the architectural style.

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Bukowska-Piestrzyńska, Agnieszka. "NEW PUBLIC MANAGEMENT IN BUILDING THE QUALITY OF HEALTH SERVICES." Economics & Sociology 4, no. 1a (July 20, 2011): 27–42. http://dx.doi.org/10.14254/2071-789x.2011/4-1a/3.

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PAVLOVA, L. V. "QUALITY AND RELIABILITY OF THERMAL PERFORMANCE OF BUILDINGS." Urban construction and architecture 3, no. 4 (December 15, 2013): 99–105. http://dx.doi.org/10.17673/vestnik.2013.04.17.

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The issues of quality and reliability of thermal performance of buildings in the current conditions, the design and operation in accordance with the new requirements of building regulations in the light of saving fuel and energy resources and the economy. We present the theory of heating calculation of building envelopes using probabilistic methods.

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Hikmat, Yudi Prana, Ismail Wellid, Kasni Sumeru, Salma Dzakiyah Az-zahro, and Mohamad Firdaus bin Sukri. "Relationship Between Indoor Air Quality and Sick Building Syndrome in Post Office Building in Bandung." Current Journal: International Journal Applied Technology Research 2, no. 2 (October 1, 2021): 136–45. http://dx.doi.org/10.35313/ijatr.v2i2.53.

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Sick building syndrome (SBS) is a collection of symptoms experienced by buildings occupants such as headaches, mucous, membrane irritation, respiratory problems and fatigue. A building is claimed to have SBS if more than 20% of building occupants experience symptoms. Poor indoor air quality contributes to SBS in the building. This study aims to investigate the correlation between indoor air quality and SBS symptoms in 1st and 2nd floors of the Post office building in Bandung. The study used quantitative methods with a cross sectional study design. Data collection was carried out using particle counter, thermometer, lux meter and anemometer to measure the indoor air quality, while the questionnaire utilized random sampling technique with 119 respondents. The results of the primary data were compared with the air quality standard from Minister of Health No. 1077, 2021. The results of the Statically Compare Means and Independent T-test showed that the p-values of the temperature on the 1st floor and 2nd floors were 0.437 and 0.000, respectively. Meanwhile the p-values of PM10 and PM2.5 on the 1st and 2nd floors were 0.005 and 0.290 and 0.004 and 0.364, respectively, and the p-values of the lighting on the 1st and 2nd floors were 0.002 and 0.015. It indicates that there is a significant relationship between concentrations of PM10 and PM2.5 on the 1st floor with SBS symptoms and the temperature and humidity on the 2nd with SBS symptoms. Since 29 peoples (24% of the building’s occupants) experienced SBS, the building was considered to have a significant potential to cause SBS to its occupant.

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Zhang, Li, Laura Balangé, Kathrin Braun, Roberta Di Bari, Rafael Horn, Deniz Hos, Cordula Kropp, Philip Leistner, and Volker Schwieger. "Quality as Driver for Sustainable Construction—Holistic Quality Model and Assessment." Sustainability 12, no. 19 (September 23, 2020): 7847. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/su12197847.

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Facing rising building demands due to a fast-growing world population and significant environmental challenges at the same time, the building sector urgently requires innovation. The Cluster of Excellence Integrative Computational Design and Construction for Architecture at the University of Stuttgart tackles these challenges through a Co-Design approach for integrating computational design and engineering and robotic construction. Within this research framework, a Holistic Quality Model is developed to ensure the technical, environmental, and social quality of Co-Design processes and products. Up to now, quality models that consider and integrate all these three aspects throughout the life cycle of buildings are still missing. The article outlines the concept of holistic quality assessment based on a Holistic Quality Model for sustainable construction. A key mechanism for sustainable quality assessment in the Holistic Quality Model is the definition of control and decision points in the construction process where critical decisions are made that will affect the quality of the building throughout its entire life-cycle. Firstly, subject-specific quality concepts are defined and their interrelations are conceptualized. Subsequently, these interrelations and their effects on the overall Co-Design construction processes and products are explained using the example of the semi-robotic production of concrete slabs. Examples for control and decision points are given as well. The outline presented here serves as a basis for further advancing and concretizing the Holistic Quality Model and its applications in Co-Design for a functioning, liveable, and sustainable high-quality construction and building culture.

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Liao, Chen Ya, Da Lu Tan, and Yun Xuan Li. "Research on the Application of BIM in the Operation Stage of Green Building." Applied Mechanics and Materials 174-177 (May 2012): 2111–14. http://dx.doi.org/10.4028/www.scientific.net/amm.174-177.2111.

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Today the construction of green buildings is in full swing, and the concept of green goes deeply into the hearts of the people. However, practitioners in the construction industry often place the emphasis of green building construction on the stage of design and construction. They hardly realize that green building's operation stage is the most important part in the whole life cycle of the building. To build real green building, it also needs sustainable development in the operation stage. The appearing of BIM (Building Information Model) technique effectively solved this problem. Using BIM technique in operation stage can effectively promote work efficiency of the operation organization, improve quality of service to customers, reduce the occurrence of emergencies in building's operation stage, improve safety performance, reduce resources waste and then construct real green buildings.

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Jalil, Nurul Amira Abd, Nazli Bin Che Din, and Nila Inangda Manyam Keumala Daud. "A Literature Analysis on Acoustical Environment in Green Building Design Strategies." Applied Mechanics and Materials 471 (December 2013): 138–42. http://dx.doi.org/10.4028/www.scientific.net/amm.471.138.

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Acoustic quality is important in ensuring a healthy and workable working environment. One of green buildings main objective is to reduce the building impact on human health and performance. This was emphasized in most green building rating system under its requirement for Indoor Environmental Quality (IEQ). IEQ highlights the four main points for achieving an improved indoor environment: indoor air quality, acoustics, visual comfort (lighting) and thermal comfort. Although acoustics was mentioned in the IEQ criteria, according to previous surveys and studies; acoustics quality in green buildings were not improving. It seems as though in order to improve on other green building criteria, acoustics performance is bound to become poorer. Through review of previous literature, survey and studies on acoustical performance in green buildings, the objective of this paper is to identify how green building design strategies contribute to the degradation of acoustical environment in green office buildings. Findings shows that design strategies implemented to cater for other green building requirements such as natural ventilation, daylight, reduction of finishes and office layout have unintentionally decrease the acoustical quality.

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Guo, Yankun. "The Establishment and Evaluation Method of Prefabricated Building Construction Quality Evaluation Index System Taking into Account Multimedia Sensor Network Nodes." Advances in Multimedia 2021 (December 9, 2021): 1–6. http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2021/9613100.

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Through in-depth analysis of the characteristics of the quality evaluation stage of prefabricated buildings, the quality evaluation of prefabricated buildings can be divided into three stages: before, during, and after construction. According to the detailed design content of the prefabricated building construction stage, we construct the prefabricated construction quality evaluation index system, use the multimedia sensor network node method to obtain the weight of each evaluation index, comprehensively evaluate the construction quality of the prefabricated building, and finally show through the case analysis results that the multimedia sensor network node method can be of high practical value in the process of prefabricated building construction quality evaluation, and it has improved the domestic prefabricated building construction quality evaluation index system and evaluation quality and has certain reference value.

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Erlandson, Grant, Sheryl Magzamen, Ellison Carter, Julia L. Sharp, Stephen J. Reynolds, and Joshua W. Schaeffer. "Characterization of Indoor Air Quality on a College Campus: A Pilot Study." International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health 16, no. 15 (July 30, 2019): 2721. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph16152721.

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Recent construction trends on college campuses have demonstrated a shift to designing buildings with features focused on sustainability. However, few studies have investigated indoor air quality in institutions of higher education, particularly in sustainably designed buildings. The objective of this study was to evaluate the association of building and occupancy on indoor air quality within and between higher education buildings. We measured particulate matter, formaldehyde, carbon dioxide, and nitrogen oxides in LEED certified, retrofitted, and conventional building types on a college campus. Three size fractions of particulate matter were measured in each building. We conducted multi-zonal, 48-h measurements when the buildings were occupied and unoccupied. Outdoor particulate matter was significantly higher (PM2.5 = 4.76, PM4 = 17.1, and PM100 = 21.6 µg/m3) than in classrooms (PM2.5 = 1.7, PM4 = 4.2, and PM100 = 6.7 µg/m3) and common areas (PM2.5 = 1.3, PM4 = 4.2, and PM100 = 4.8 µg/m3; all p < 0.001). Additionally, concentrations of carbon dioxide and particulate matter were significantly higher (p < 0.05) during occupied sampling. The results suggest that occupancy status and building zone are major predictors of indoor air quality in campus buildings, which can, in turn, increase the concentration of contaminants, potentially impacting occupant health and performance. More research is warranted to reveal building features and human behaviors contributing to indoor exposures.

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Yarbrough, David W., Mark Bomberg, and Anna Romanska-Zapala. "Buildings with environmental quality management, part 3: From log houses to environmental quality management zero-energy buildings." Journal of Building Physics 42, no. 5 (August 16, 2018): 672–91. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1744259118786758.

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The discussion in this article starts in the 1920s, that is, at the time of the humble beginnings of building science and brings us to 2020s with the development of net-zero energy buildings. The knowledge accumulated by explaining observed failures in the practice of construction slowly formed a basis for moving toward a predictive capability and to an integration of modeling and testing. Furthermore, we have learned that interactions between energy efficiency, indoor environmental quality, and moisture management are so critical that the three issues must be considered simultaneously. Effectively, a change in the low energy is needed to ensure durability of materials and cost considerations for these buildings. At this stage, one could observe a clear change in the mind-set of the scientific community. Forty years after construction of the first 10 passive homes, we made a shocking observation—an adequate technology has been developed, but our lack of vision prevents effective use of this technology. Again, we need to modify our vision and change the design paradigm to balance comfort, building durability, and cost-effectiveness. If the quest for sustainable buildings is our ultimate objective, then we should learn more from the surrounding nature; termites appear to master the art of hygrothermal control better than humans because they can optimize transient conditions to maintain a stable interior comfort zone. Thus, in the article to follow a new compact building envelope design package is proposed, applicable to different climates with specific modifications of critical hygrothermal material properties. This approach is called the Environmental Quality Management. This will be the second step for a building science (physics) needed to become a leading force in the transition to sustainable built environments.

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Generalov, V. P., and E. M. Generalova. "Potential of Buildings Creating High-Quality Urban Environment." IOP Conference Series: Earth and Environmental Science 988, no. 4 (February 1, 2022): 042086. http://dx.doi.org/10.1088/1755-1315/988/4/042086.

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Abstract The study deals with the problem of creating high-quality comfortable residential urban environment with the inclusion of residential buildings that have different space-planning structure. The analysis of objects built both in the middle of the last century and in the last 20-30 years is carried out. The research provides comparative assessment of these buildings and complexes that have a developed network of service functions in their structure. As a result, these buildings and complexes have a more significant impact on the creation of high-quality comfortable living environment. Due to the different impact of a building on the living environment, the authors propose to introduce such a concept as «typological potential of a building». Depending upon the impact on comfort and quality of the environment there are residential buildings with «negative», «zero», «small», «medium», «above-average» and «high potential».

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Norhidayah, A., Lee Chia-Kuang, M. K. Azhar, and S. Nurulwahida. "Indoor Air Quality and Sick Building Syndrome in Three Selected Buildings." Procedia Engineering 53 (2013): 93–98. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.proeng.2013.02.014.

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Yang, Xue Bin, De Fa Sun, Xiang Jiang Zhou, and Guang Ping Lin. "Literature Survey on Building Rankings by Indoor Environment Quality." Applied Mechanics and Materials 90-93 (September 2011): 3047–50. http://dx.doi.org/10.4028/www.scientific.net/amm.90-93.3047.

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Indoor environment quality can be used to rank the building performance. Environmental parameters involve operative or room temperature, predicted mean vote, predicted percentage of thermally satisfied, predicted percentage dissatisfied, air velocity, relative humidity, indoor air quality and so on. One or more parameters can be possible to establish a corresponding range for building classes. Average CO2 concentration level can be used as the index of indoor air quality to measure the office buildings or public places. Various authors in different climates or zones proposed different baseline for building grades. It should be develop a scientific methodology or evaluation system to give the convincing classification and explanation.

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Taylor, Jonathon, Yanchen Liu, Borong Lin, Esfand Burman, Sung-Min Hong, Juan Yu, Zhe Wang, et al. "Towards a framework to evaluate the ‘total’ performance of buildings." Building Services Engineering Research and Technology 39, no. 5 (March 8, 2018): 609–31. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0143624418762662.

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Internationally, buildings are a major contributor to carbon emissions. Despite significant advances in the technology and construction of energy-efficient buildings, in many cases a performance gap between designed and actual performance exists. While much research has investigated the drivers of the building energy performance gap – both static and transient– there has been considerably less research into the total performance gap, defined here as performance gaps in building energy use, occupant satisfaction and Indoor Environmental Quality parameters such as thermal comfort and air quality which may impact on occupant health and wellbeing. This paper presents a meta-analysis of building performance data from buildings in the UK and China – selected due to their contrasting development environments – which illustrate the presence of and complexities of evaluating total performance gaps in both countries. The data demonstrate the need for (1) high end-use, spatial granularity and temporal resolution data for both energy and Indoor Environmental Quality, and (2) developing methodologies that allow meaningful comparisons between buildings internationally to facilitate learning from successful building design, construction methodologies and policy environments internationally. Using performance data from a UK building, a potential forward path is illustrated with the objective of developing a framework to evaluate total building performance. Practical application: While much research has examined building energy performance gaps, Indoor Environmental Quality and occupant satisfaction gaps are rarely included despite their relationship to energy. We use a meta-analysis of energy, indoor environmental quality, and occupant satisfaction data from buildings in the UK and China to illustrating the presence of and complexities of evaluating total performance gaps for buildings in the two countries, and the need for high resolution dynamic buildings data and novel methodologies for comparison between buildings across different contexts. Illustrative case studies are used to demonstrate potential future directions for evaluating ‘total’ building performance.

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Yang, Xue Bin, Zhi Pan Gu, Ji Chun Yang, and Guang Ping Lin. "Review on the Research of Indoor Environment Quality and Building Energy Consumption." Applied Mechanics and Materials 90-93 (September 2011): 3043–46. http://dx.doi.org/10.4028/www.scientific.net/amm.90-93.3043.

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This study reviews some published literatures to survey the recent research on indoor environment quality and building energy consumption. The indoor environment quality is categorized and defined as different indices and variables. The building energy consumption can be determined by ventilation rates, thermal comfort, adaptive thermal comfort, neutral temperature, set-point temperature, indoor air quality, air velocity, and non-occupied hours. Various climates or regions such as subtropical climates in Hong Kong, Italy, three climatic zones in Greece, hot and dry climates in Africa, hot and humid climate in Thailand, are contained. The building types include office buildings, commercial buildings and school buildings, and the data can be obtained from a simulation model or the field database. It can be concluded that the indoor environment quality has a significant influence on the building energy consumption, and a validated thermal model is be a practical tool to investigate the effect of the indoor environmental parameters.

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