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  title info:
    title: Office Buildings
    sub title: Health, Safety and Environment
  name:
    name part: Nag, Pranab Kumar.
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
    role:
      role term: aut
    role:
      role term: http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut
  name:
    name part: SpringerLink (Online service)
  type of resource: text
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: si
    date issued: 2019
    edition: 1st ed. 2019.
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: electronic
    form: electronic resource
    reformatting quality: access
    form: remote
    extent: XVII, 533 p. 103 illus., 54 illus. in color. online resource.
  abstract: This book brings together concepts from the building, environmental, behavioural and health sciences to provide an interdisciplinary understanding of office and workplace design. Today, with changes in the world of work and the relentless surge in technology, offices have emerged as the repositories of organizational symbolism, denoted by the spatial design of offices, physical settings and the built environment (architecture, urban locale). Drawing on Euclidian geometry that quantifies space as the distance between two or more points, a body of knowledge on office buildings, the concept of office and office space, and the interrelationships of spatial and behavioural attributes in office design are elucidated. Building and office work-related illnesses, namely sick building syndrome and ailments arising from the indoor environment, and the menace of musculoskeletal disorders are the alarming manifestations that critically affect employee satisfaction, morale and work outcomes. With a focus on office ergonomics, the book brings the discussion on the fundamentals of work design, with emphasis on computer workstation users. Strategic guidance of lighting systems and visual performance in workplaces are directed for better application of ergonomics and improvement in office indoor environment. It discusses the profiles of bioclimatic, indoor air quality, ventilation intervention, lighting and acoustic characteristics in office buildings. Emphasis has been given to the energy performance of buildings, and contemporary perspectives of building sustainability, such as green office building assessment schemes, and national and international building-related standards and codes. Intended for students and professionals from ergonomics, architecture, interior design, as well as construction engineers, health care professionals, and office planners, the book brings a unified overview of the health, safety and environment issues associated with the design of office buildings.
  table of contents: Concept of Office and Office Space -- Spatial and Behavioural Attributes in Office Design -- Sick Building Syndrome and Other Building Related Illnesses -- Musculoskeletal Disorders: Office Menace -- Fundamentals of Office Ergonomics -- Ergonomics of Computer Workstation -- Strategic Office Lighting -- Visual Performance in Office -- Bioclimatic Approach: Thermal environment -- Characteristics of Indoor Environmental Quality -- Assessing IEQ Performance in Buildings -- Ventilation in Office Buildings -- Lighting Systems -- Energy Performance in Buildings: Standards and Codes -- Green Building and Assessment Systems -- Building Sustainability: Credit Rating Criteria.
  note: by Pranab Kumar Nag.
  subject:
    topic: Engineering design
  subject:
    topic: Buildings-Design and construction
  subject:
    topic: Building
  subject:
    topic: Construction
  subject:
    topic: Engineering, Architectural
  subject:
    topic: Medical research
  subject:
    topic: Engineering Design
  subject:
    topic: Building Construction and Design
  subject:
    topic: Quality of Life Research
  classification: TA174
  classification: TA403.6
  classification: 620.0042
  related item:
    title info:
      title: Springer eBooks
  related item:
    title info:
      title: Design Science and Innovation
  identifier: 9789811325779
  identifier: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-13-2577-9
  record info:
    record creation date: 181230
    record change date: 20191024012100.0
    record identifier: 978-981-13-2577-9