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Turning the Mirror on the Architects: A Study of the Open-Plan Office and Work Behaviors at an Architectural Company [PDF]
Frontiers in Psychology, 2018 Following the rising cost of real estate and a desire to increase collaboration and communication among employees, the open-plan office has been trending over the past decades.
Dorota Węziak-Białowolska +2 more
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Perception of Water-Based Masking Sounds—Long-Term Experiment in an Open-Plan Office [PDF]
Frontiers in Psychology, 2017 A certain level of masking sound is necessary to control the disturbance caused by speech sounds in open-plan offices. The sound is usually provided with evenly distributed loudspeakers.
Valtteri Hongisto +7 more
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DAYLIGHTING PERFORMANCE OF HORIZONTAL LIGHT PIPE BRANCHING ON OPEN PLAN OFFICE SPACE [PDF]
Dimensi: Journal of Architecture and Built Environment, 2015 For daylighting purpose, office buildings should have a shallow plan and increase the ratio of surface to building’s volume. However, intensive use of air-conditioning drives office building’s plan to be deep with a minimum surface to volume ratio.
Feny ELSIANA +2 more
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Computational studies of speech intelligibility in open-plan offices
Medycyna Pracy, 2019 Background Noise in open-plan offices, connected with an unintentional hearing of conversations and related distraction of attention, causes annoyance of employees.
Witold Mikulski
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Acoustic conditions in open plan offices – Pilot test results
Medycyna Pracy, 2016 Background: The main source of noise in open plan office are conversations. Office work standards in such premises are attained by applying specific acoustic adaptation.
Witold Mikulski
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ROOM ACOUSTIC DESIGN IN OPEN-PLAN OFFICES
8th European Conference on Noise Control 2009, 2023 In a Nordic cooperation project the acoustical conditions in open-plan offices was investigated. Measurements have been carried out in five open plan offices accompanied with an inquiry gathering the subjective judgments by the staff. A program for the acoustical measurements was designed specifying how to perform the measurements and which type of ...
Nilsson, Erling, Hellström, Björn
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The Importance of Office Layout for Employee Productivity
Dinamika Pendidikan, 2020 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).
Nurbarirah Ahmad +5 more
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PLoS ONE, 2020 Over the past few decades many corporate organisations have moved to open-plan office designs, mostly due to financial and logistical benefits. However, recent studies have found significant drawbacks to open plan offices and it is unclear how office ...
Jegar Pitchforth +3 more
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‘Interconnected Groups’: Alvar Aalto’s Competition for the Pohjola Office Building, Helsinki, 1964-65 [PDF]
Athens Journal of Architecture, 2023 This article analyses the Alvar Aalto office’s competition entry for the Pohjola Office Building, Helsinki (2nd prize, 1964-65, unbuilt), named Maiandros. Aalto described the unique plan for this office building – with connected towers placed on a podium
Miguel Borges de Araújo
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Comparative analysis of window operating behavior in three different open-plan offices in Nanjing
Energy and Built Environment, 2021 Research on the window operating behavior of offices is of great significance for reducing building energy consumption and improving indoor comfort. The open-plan office is a common office form that involves a large number of people and a complex staff ...
Jiawen Ren +6 more
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