Title
Comfort of workers in office buildings: The European HOPE project
Author
Bluyssen, P.M.
Aries, M.
van Dommelen, P.
Publication year
2011
Abstract
Previous studies have shown that building, social and personal factors can influence one's perceived health and comfort. The aim of the underlying study was to get a better understanding of the relationships between these factors and perceived comfort. Self-administered questionnaires from 5732 respondents in 59 office buildings and building-specific data from the European Health Optimisation Protocol for Energy-efficient buildings (HOPE) study were used. Principal Component Analysis (PCA), reliability analyses, and linear regression analysis were performed. The outcome showed that perceived comfort is strongly influenced by several personal, social and building factors and that their relationships are complex. Results showed that perceived comfort is much more than the average of perceived indoor air quality, noise, lighting and thermal comfort responses. Perceived comfort is a phenomenon that deserves more research. © 2010 Elsevier Ltd.
Subject
Built Environment Human
BAI - Buildings and Infrastructure LS - Life Style
Themalijn BSS - Behavioural and Societal Sciences
Buildings and Infrastructure
Built Environment
Office buildings
Perceived comfort
Personal, social and building factors
Comfort response
Energy-efficient buildings
Indoor air quality
Optimisations
Perceived comfort
Personal, social and building factors
Self-administered questionnaire
Air quality
Indoor air pollution
Office buildings
Regression analysis
Reliability analysis
Principal component analysis
Air quality
Building
Indoor air
Principal component analysis
Questionnaire survey
Workplace
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TNO identifier
409220
ISSN
0360-1323
Source
Building and Environment, 46 (1), 280-288
Document type
article