Relationship between quality of building maintenance management services for indoor environmental quality and occupant satisfaction

2011 ◽  
Vol 46 (11) ◽  
pp. 2179-2185 ◽  
Author(s):  
Suh-Hyun Kwon ◽  
Chungyoon Chun ◽  
Ro-Yeul Kwak
2015 ◽  
Vol 75 (5) ◽  
Author(s):  
Angelina, L., ◽  
Tabassi, A. A

The term maintenance is defined as combination of technical and administration works which includes supervision works that intended to retain item or reestablish it to a state in which it can perform its required function perfectly. Nowadays, with the increasing numbers of users in the public building especially peak season of the year, for the case study a bus terminal, the comfort and user contentment of the indoor environmental quality has become a most important element in maintenance management. In this research, level of current building maintenance management services for indoor environmental quality and user contentment was identified by assessment and checklist. Apart from that, IEQ test was conducted to support the level of contentment in user of the building. However, from the results of data collected, it was known that the latest quality maintenance services level in the bus terminals still not up to the level because user still side to the dissatisfaction range.


2016 ◽  
Vol 11 (10) ◽  
pp. 492-496 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yufan Zhang ◽  
Peter Barrett ◽  
Fay Davies ◽  
Lucinda Barrett

2015 ◽  
Vol 75 (5) ◽  
Author(s):  
Ang Qiu Mei ◽  
Md Azree Othuman Mydin

This study was done to investigate the relationship between indoor environmental quality and prevalence of Sick Building Syndrome in six small offices inPenangIsland. Indoor environmental quality measurement was conducted according to relevant standards. There are totally Sixty workers were selected to participate in an electronic questionnaire survey. Questionnaire was used to record the comfort level of respondents in the case studies and level of sick building syndrome faced by respondents. Through indoor environmental quality measurement, it is found that most of the offices facing the lighting and noise problem. The result from the questionnaire shows that in overall, the occupants satisfy with their working environment in term of indoor environmental quality although the result also shows the opinions of occupants on dissatisfaction on certain indoor environmental parameter according to case study. The study also found that most of the occupants feel drowsy and fatigue when they work within the offices. Besides, due to the difference of the indoor environmental quality of the buildings, the occupants are suffered from different symptoms of the sick building syndrome.


Author(s):  
Ibrahim Al-Sulaihi ◽  
Khalid Al-Gahtani ◽  
Abdullah Alsugair ◽  
Ibrahim Tijani

Author(s):  
Ludmila Meciarova ◽  
Silvia Vilcekova ◽  
Eva Kridlova Burdova ◽  
Ilija Zoran Apostoloski ◽  
Danica Kosicanova

Decent quality of indoor air is important for health and wellbeing of building users. We live, work and study in indoors of various types of buildings. Often people are exposed to pollutants at higher concentrations than these that occur out-doors. Continual investigation of indoor air quality is needed for ensuring comfort and healthy environment. Measuring and analysis of occurrence of physical, chemical and biological factors is the first step for suggestion of optimization measures. Inside school buildings there are often inadequate indoor climate conditions such as thermal comfort parame-ters or ventilation. The aim of this study was determination of indoor environmental quality in selected offices in the building of elementary school in Slovakia. The values of operative temperature were not within the optimum range of values for the warm period of the year in one of the monitored offices. The intensity of illumination was lower in the two offices. Low levels of particulate matters were measured except the one office where permissible value was exceeded by 7.6%.


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