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Occupant's Perception On Indoor Performance Of Historical Museum: A Case Study Of National Museum And Perak Museum, Malaysia, Nursyahida Zulkifli, Goh Wen Shuang, Syahrul Nizam Kamaruzzaman Mar 2014

Occupant's Perception On Indoor Performance Of Historical Museum: A Case Study Of National Museum And Perak Museum, Malaysia, Nursyahida Zulkifli, Goh Wen Shuang, Syahrul Nizam Kamaruzzaman

Nursyahida Zulkifli

The most crucial factors of the indoor environment performances in the museum are the staffs and visitors perception towards sick building syndrome and indoor environment quality. Besides, one of the methods used to investigate the satisfaction level on the indoor environmental performance is Post Occupancy Evaluation. The respondents are the visitors and staffs of the National Museum and Perak Museum and these museums are selected as the case study in this study. The degree of noticeable on the sick building syndrome symptom such as nose, eye, pain and aches, throat, skin and breath while the degree of likeliness on the …


A Review Of The Lighting Performance In Buildings Through Energy Efficiency, Syahrulnizam Kamaruzzaman, Nursyahida Zulkifli Jan 2014

A Review Of The Lighting Performance In Buildings Through Energy Efficiency, Syahrulnizam Kamaruzzaman, Nursyahida Zulkifli

Nursyahida Zulkifli

As developing countries including Malaysia, are now moving towards sustainable development is in line with the Ninth Malaysia Plan, 9th MP, the development should be built to meet current and future needs for achieving sustainability of economic development, social and environmental responsibility for the prosperity without compromising the future generations‘ needs. Over the past five years, there has been a move away from constructing new buildings to refurbishing older and historic ones. Thus, the purpose of this paper is to review and evaluate the approach for the refurbishment of lighting as well as the existing energy efficiency policy and measures …