Abstract: This paper presents an integration method for evaluating environmental quality in office buildings based on a series of interviews with 50 experts in the field of environmental quality in the built environment. A structured ...

Abstract: This paper presents the development of an expert system to evaluate the effects on environmental quality of proposed modifications to an office building following a postoccupancy evaluation. The model presented in this ...

Abstract: Many buildings have capabilities to admit only minimal quantities of fresh air to the air-conditioning supply ducts. There are climates that have temperature and humidity ranges for months of the year during which up to ...

Abstract: Upgrading of elevators is carried out in the interests of maintaining building quality and attaining market rental income. Difficulties experienced in the upgrading of elevator systems indicate a need for development of ...

Abstract: Earthquakes in 1999 and 2000 in Taiwan, Pakistan, and Turkey draw attention to the possibility of an earthquake occurring in a center of population in many diverse locations. In 1992, there was a serious earthquake in ...

Abstract: Sustainability of the building investment depends upon the technological capability of buildings to facilitate their upgrading of systems, to meet changing expectations of building users, and adequacy of financial return ...

Abstract: Noise control is required to provide an indoor environment free from the stress of unwanted noise and to provide a measure of speech privacy. There is a need for the development of guidelines to be used by building designers ...