Human-Window Interaction in open-plan offices: Guiding occupants to improve window operation through window feedback systems

Occupants are often unaware of window opening strategies that can enhance their well-being and reduce energy consumption. Window feedback systems that indicate when to manually operate a window have become a strategy for enhancing the indoor climate, occupant’s satisfaction and energy efficiency. These systems are recognized for providing the...

Targeting modular adaptive façade personalization in a shared office space using fuzzy logic and genetic optimization

In shared office spaces, occupants' comfort criteria are limited to locally controlled zones while ambient features of the environment and the potential negative impacts of others' behavior require a well-designed control system, especially over adaptive façade elements. This means setting up control strategies for a wider spectrum of varying...

Personal control and environmental user satisfaction in office buildings: Results of case studies in the Netherlands

Personal control is one of the influential factors for user satisfaction and environmental comfort due to its physical and psychological impacts. This paper aims to identify the relationship between the degree of personal control over indoor environmental conditions and user satisfaction with thermal and visual comfort. Trying to answer the...

Design Guide for better usable operable façade elements for offices in the Netherlands

In practice, operable façade elements (OFE’s) in office buildings are often not appropriate to use to gain control over the thermal environment and indoor air quality. This study was performed to provide the means for architects and façade designers to design better usable OFE’s and improve personal control over indoor air quality and thermal...