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Overall quality of life perception among occupants of green and non-green office buildings in Malaysia

Indoor environmental quality (IEQ) has become an important component of building design because people tend to spend the majority of their time indoors. The main purpose of this study is to investigate the occupants’ overall perceived Quality of Life (QoL) experience in two green and two non-green o...

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Main Authors: Laiche, Abdelfatah Bousbia, Dahlan, Nur Dalilah, Shari, Zalina, Zaky Jaafar, Mohamad Fakri
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Published: Chulalongkorn University - Faculty of Architecture 2023
Online Access:http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/109569/1/109569.pdf
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https://ph01.tci-thaijo.org/index.php/nakhara/article/view/252429
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spelling my.upm.eprints.1095692025-01-09T01:39:26Z http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/109569/ Overall quality of life perception among occupants of green and non-green office buildings in Malaysia Laiche, Abdelfatah Bousbia Dahlan, Nur Dalilah Shari, Zalina Zaky Jaafar, Mohamad Fakri Indoor environmental quality (IEQ) has become an important component of building design because people tend to spend the majority of their time indoors. The main purpose of this study is to investigate the occupants’ overall perceived Quality of Life (QoL) experience in two green and two non-green office buildings. All four buildings are situated in Klang Valley, Malaysia, and they are open-plan office buildings. 162 questionnaires were administered to assess the relationship between individuals' perceived QoL and IEQ factors. The IEQ factors, classified into ambient conditions, designed environment, and behavioural environment, are found to impact QoL. Findings from the case studies reveal that the four buildings varied in the aspect of Behavioural Environment, where some of the IEQ factors in the green buildings were perceived as slightly uncomfortable. It was also found that several IEQ categories interact as a system in which improvement of occupants' QoL experiences cannot be accomplished solely through the instrumental components of IEQ, as the designed and behavioural environments have substantial impacts. Several missing factors linked to the Green Building Index (GBI) criteria were significantly correlated with the QoL experience of occupants. Chulalongkorn University - Faculty of Architecture 2023-09-06 Article PeerReviewed text en cc_by_nc_nd_4 http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/109569/1/109569.pdf Laiche, Abdelfatah Bousbia and Dahlan, Nur Dalilah and Shari, Zalina and Zaky Jaafar, Mohamad Fakri (2023) Overall quality of life perception among occupants of green and non-green office buildings in Malaysia. Nakhara : Journal of Environmental Design and Planning, 22 (1). pp. 1-38. ISSN 2672-9016; eISSN: 2651-2416 https://ph01.tci-thaijo.org/index.php/nakhara/article/view/252429 10.54028/NJ202322307
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description Indoor environmental quality (IEQ) has become an important component of building design because people tend to spend the majority of their time indoors. The main purpose of this study is to investigate the occupants’ overall perceived Quality of Life (QoL) experience in two green and two non-green office buildings. All four buildings are situated in Klang Valley, Malaysia, and they are open-plan office buildings. 162 questionnaires were administered to assess the relationship between individuals' perceived QoL and IEQ factors. The IEQ factors, classified into ambient conditions, designed environment, and behavioural environment, are found to impact QoL. Findings from the case studies reveal that the four buildings varied in the aspect of Behavioural Environment, where some of the IEQ factors in the green buildings were perceived as slightly uncomfortable. It was also found that several IEQ categories interact as a system in which improvement of occupants' QoL experiences cannot be accomplished solely through the instrumental components of IEQ, as the designed and behavioural environments have substantial impacts. Several missing factors linked to the Green Building Index (GBI) criteria were significantly correlated with the QoL experience of occupants.
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author Laiche, Abdelfatah Bousbia
Dahlan, Nur Dalilah
Shari, Zalina
Zaky Jaafar, Mohamad Fakri
spellingShingle Laiche, Abdelfatah Bousbia
Dahlan, Nur Dalilah
Shari, Zalina
Zaky Jaafar, Mohamad Fakri
Overall quality of life perception among occupants of green and non-green office buildings in Malaysia
author_facet Laiche, Abdelfatah Bousbia
Dahlan, Nur Dalilah
Shari, Zalina
Zaky Jaafar, Mohamad Fakri
author_sort Laiche, Abdelfatah Bousbia
title Overall quality of life perception among occupants of green and non-green office buildings in Malaysia
title_short Overall quality of life perception among occupants of green and non-green office buildings in Malaysia
title_full Overall quality of life perception among occupants of green and non-green office buildings in Malaysia
title_fullStr Overall quality of life perception among occupants of green and non-green office buildings in Malaysia
title_full_unstemmed Overall quality of life perception among occupants of green and non-green office buildings in Malaysia
title_sort overall quality of life perception among occupants of green and non-green office buildings in malaysia
publisher Chulalongkorn University - Faculty of Architecture
publishDate 2023
url http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/109569/1/109569.pdf
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https://ph01.tci-thaijo.org/index.php/nakhara/article/view/252429
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