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Assessing Occupant Comfort In An Iconic Sustainable Education Building, Rick Best, Brian Purdey
Assessing Occupant Comfort In An Iconic Sustainable Education Building, Rick Best, Brian Purdey
Rick Best
The building that houses the Mirvac School of Sustainable Development at Bond University is the first educational building to achieve a six Green Star rating from the Green Building Council of Australia. It has won numerous awards since opening in August 2008 including being judged the RICS (Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors) Sustainable Building of 2009. After more than two years in use a post-occupancy evaluation study was carried out to assess the performance of the building from the viewpoint of the users; both resident staff and transient students. Results for factors such as lighting, thermal comfort, noise and air …