Office Building

In this analysis, we considered three building types that offer the most savings potential: residences, offices, and retail stores. Each building type was characterized in detail by Pre-1980 (old) or 1980 + (new) construction vintage and with natural gas or electricity as heating ...

... and small scale fading in indoor wireless communication channels. Reinaldo A. Valenzuela, Dmitry Chizhik and Jonathan Ling ... References [I] R. A. Valenzuela, 0. Landron, DL Jacobs, "Estimating Local Mean Signal Strength of Indoor Multipath Propagation", IEEE Trans. ...

Today in Algiers, we can observe the tendency from designers to envelop the new office buildings by glass curtain walls. To conciliate between outdoor image of modernity and indoor needs of privacy and sun rays protection; the most used glass is tinted and reflective on outdoors. Through this glass tint, the natural light is highly reduced in offices, particularly those non-exposed to sunshine, and the lighting environment becomes almost static with very low changing levels of sensation. In this paper, our interest is focused on effects of this lighting environment on the occupants' health, especially the visual and biopsychological effects. The results of survey undertaken in a tight office building situated in Algiers, have shown some negative effects as eyes' strain, tiredness, deficiency in notion of time, etc., disturbing the occupants in their work tasks.

... Assuming an efficiency ratio of 80 percent (which is high, but allows for operational energy ... to be 1.5m/m 2 and the energy embodied in recurrent non-furniture elements ... Graham J. Treloar recently completed his PhD, titled “A comprehensive embodied energy analysis framework ...

It has been widely suggested, but rarely demonstrated, that virtual environments (VEs) are effective training media. The purpose of this investigation was to evaluate how well a VE model of a complex office building trained individuals to navigate in the actual building. Sixty participants ...

The electricity use characteristics of 20 air conditioned office buildings in the public sector in subtropical Hong Kong were investigated. Monthly electricity consumption data were gathered and analysed. The annual electricity use per unit gross floor area ranged from 163 to 389 kWh/m2, with a mean of 270 kWh/m2. Detailed energy audits and site surveys were conducted to obtain a

http://irc.nrc-cnrc.gc.ca Energy saving lighting control systems for open-plan offices: a field study ... Page 2. ENERGY SAVING LIGHTING CONTROL SYSTEMS FOR OPEN-PLAN OFFICES: A FIELD STUDY Anca D. Galasiu, Guy R. Newsham, Cristian Suvagau, Daniel M. Sander ...