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1. Space Meets Status

   Designing Workplace Performance

   By Jacqueline Vischer

   Showing how worker productivity and stress levels are affected by factors such as lighting, ventilation, temperature, noise and layout, this book demonstrates how the technical aspects of human comfort do not always tally with users' perceptions and behaviour. With vivid examples and case studies...

   Published August 3rd 2005 by Routledge
2. Assessing Building Performance

   Edited by Wolfgang Preiser, Jacqueline Vischer

   The building performance evaluation (BPE) framework emphasizes an evaluative stance throughout the six phases of the building delivery and life cycle: (1) strategic planning/needs analysis; (2) program review; (3) design review; (4) post-construction evaluation/review; (5) post-occupancy evaluation...

   Published November 22nd 2004 by Routledge