Life Cycle Assessment of an Office Building Based on Site-Specific Data
Energies, 2019 Life cycle assessment (LCA) is an established method to assess the various environmental impacts associated with all the stages of a building. The goal of this project was to calculate the environmental releases for a whole office building and ...
Peter Ylmén +2 more
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The Office of Deacon in the Reformed Church in Zimbabwe: A historical perspective [PDF]
Pharos Journal of Theology, 2023 A deacon is generally considered to be a member of the diaconate. This relates to an office in most Christian churches that is associated with some type of service offered, but the latter varies among denominations.
Rev. Dr. Ezekiel Baloyi (Research Fellow)
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Is 24.9 °C Too Hot to Think? A Call to Raise Temperature Setpoints in Australian Offices
Buildings, 2022 The current +−0.5 PMV (Predicted Mean Vote) targets adopted by NABERS (National Australian Built Environment Rating System) is the practical range deemed acceptable for 90% acceptability for commercial buildings in Australia, however thermal comfort ...
Samin Marzban +5 more
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Urban Space, Singularity and Networks in Laura Del-Rivo’s The Furnished Room (1961)
American, British and Canadian Studies Journal, 2020 This essay explores the representation of interior and exterior urban space in Laura Del-Rivo’s novel The Furnished Room (1961) through the lenses of singularity and networking, which are proposed as preferable alternatives to notions such as ...
Tredell Nicolas
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Activities recognition and worker profiling in the intelligent office environment using a fuzzy finite state machine [PDF]
, 2014 Analysis of the office workers’ activities of daily working in an intelligent office environment can be used to optimize energy consumption and also office workers’ comfort.
Langensiepen, C, Lotfi, A, Puteh, S
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The Home Office: Ergonomic Lessons From the “New Normal”
Ergonomics in design, 2020 Millions of workers have been uprooted by COVID-19 (coronavirus disease 2019) and been thrown into a “new normal” of working from home offices. To further complicate things, many individuals were provided with only a laptop and little, if any, education ...
K. Davis +5 more
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Indoor Environmental Quality and Comfort in Offices: A Review
Buildings, 2023 People spend about 90% of their time in closed spaces such as residential and office environments, and indoor environmental quality (IEQ) has effects on their health, well-being, overall comfort and work productivity.
Virginia Isabella Fissore +4 more
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INFLUENCE OF OFFICE FACILITIES AND WORK PLACE ENVIRONMENT ON STAFFS' PRODUCTIVITY IN THE UNIVERSITY SYSTEM [PDF]
Proceedings on Engineering Sciences, 2020 The importance of office facilities and workplace environment in the university system cannot be overemphasized because office facilities help in facilitating work schedules and increase staff's efficiency and productivity.
David Ngwoke Mbazor
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Effect of thermal comfort on occupant productivity in office buildings: Response surface analysis
Building and Environment, 2020 Thermal environment is one of the main factors that influence occupants' comfort and their productivity in office buildings. There is ample research that outlines this relationship between thermal comfort and occupant productivity.
A. Kaushik +3 more
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Encounters and conversations: an office café space as a “magnet space”
Japan Architectural Review, 2020 A study was conducted on the activities of office workers at a café space with a lounge in a free‐address office to investigate communication at a “magnet space.” The major results were as follows: (i) The encounter probability between two office workers
Tai Satoh, Tomonori Sano
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