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Valtteri Hongisto and Jukka Keränen
ISO 3382-3 is globally used to determine the room acoustic conditions of open-plan offices using in situ measurements. The key outcomes of the standard are three single-number quantities: distraction distance, rD, A-weighted sound pressure level of speec...
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Noora Albuainain, Ghaleb Sweis, Wassim AlBalkhy, Rateb Sweis and Zoubeir Lafhaj
Satisfaction is a very important factor in improving productivity and performance in the work environment. This study aims to investigate the levels of occupants? satisfaction with the indoor environmental quality (IEQ) in the governmental buildings in t...
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Sonja Di Blasio, Louena Shtrepi, Giuseppina Emma Puglisi and Arianna Astolfi
This cross-sectional survey has compared subjective outcomes obtained from workers in shared (2–5 occupants) and open-plan (+5 occupants) offices, related to irrelevant speech, which is the noise that is generated from conversations between colleag...
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This study aimed to identify key drivers behind workers’ satisfaction, perceived productivity, and health in open-plan offices while at the same time understanding design similarities shared by high-performance workspaces. Results from a dataset co...
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The Special Issue on “Human Factors in Green Building” addresses the design of indoor environment quality for users’ needs. The collected papers cover various building types and the research highlights the different needs of users. In w...
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Jose Cucharero, Tuomas Hänninen and Tapio Lokki
The reverberation of a room is often controlled by installing sound absorption panels to the ceiling and on the walls. The reduced reverberation is particularly important in classrooms to maximize the speech intelligibility and in open-plan offices to ma...
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Gino Iannace, Giuseppe Ciaburro and Amelia Trematerra
Open-plan offices have lower construction costs, allowing for significant savings in space and, according to designers, facilitate communication between workers, thus, improving collaboration, as well as the exchange of ideas. For these reasons, this typ...
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Sara Delle Macchie, Simone Secchi and Gianfranco Cellai
This paper reports the acoustic issues of open plan office environments. According to a detailed research based on the scientific literature of the most suitable acoustic descriptors recommended for the open plan offices analysis, the main typological-fu...
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Zhonghua Gou, Jian Zhang and Leigh Shutter
Today?s office buildings adopt open-plan settings for collaboration and space efficiency. However, the open plan setting has been intensively criticized for its adverse user experiences, such as noise, privacy loss, and over cooling. The provision of per...
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