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Indoor thermal condition of factory building in Bangladesh

Bangladesh is a developing country and has a lot of factories for different products for local use and also export to abroad. Garments industries are one of the top most items of exported items. A huge number of populations are working in garments industries. But these factories are not well designe...

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Main Authors: Al Sayem Khan, Muhammed Abdullah, Ahmad, Mohd. Hamdan, Hayat Khan, Tareef
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Published: The Institute of Research & Community Outreach - Petra Christian University 2011
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TH Building construction
Online Access:http://eprints.utm.my/id/eprint/30577/
http://dx.doi.org/10.9744/dimensi.38.2.55-62
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spelling my.utm.305772019-01-28T03:47:00Z http://eprints.utm.my/id/eprint/30577/ Indoor thermal condition of factory building in Bangladesh Al Sayem Khan, Muhammed Abdullah Ahmad, Mohd. Hamdan Hayat Khan, Tareef TH Building construction Bangladesh is a developing country and has a lot of factories for different products for local use and also export to abroad. Garments industries are one of the top most items of exported items. A huge number of populations are working in garments industries. But these factories are not well designed in sense of the thermal environment. Workers experiences sickness related to indoor environment. The productions of these factories are affected due to employees’ health condition. The research is done in two different methods. One is empirical data collection using thermal data loggers and the other is questionnaire survey on the spots for three factory buildings. The field study was conducted in four different months of the same year during winter and summer period. Expected findings of this research are that the indoor environment is not comfortable for works at day time during summer season. This research will help the factory workers in providing a comfortable thermal environment and also help the employers or factory owners to increase their production margin. The Institute of Research & Community Outreach - Petra Christian University 2011-12 Article PeerReviewed Al Sayem Khan, Muhammed Abdullah and Ahmad, Mohd. Hamdan and Hayat Khan, Tareef (2011) Indoor thermal condition of factory building in Bangladesh. DIMENSI - Journal of Architecture and Built Environment, 38 (2). pp. 55-62. ISSN 0126-219X http://dx.doi.org/10.9744/dimensi.38.2.55-62 DOI: 10.9744/dimensi.38.2.55-62
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topic TH Building construction
spellingShingle TH Building construction
Al Sayem Khan, Muhammed Abdullah
Ahmad, Mohd. Hamdan
Hayat Khan, Tareef
Indoor thermal condition of factory building in Bangladesh
description Bangladesh is a developing country and has a lot of factories for different products for local use and also export to abroad. Garments industries are one of the top most items of exported items. A huge number of populations are working in garments industries. But these factories are not well designed in sense of the thermal environment. Workers experiences sickness related to indoor environment. The productions of these factories are affected due to employees’ health condition. The research is done in two different methods. One is empirical data collection using thermal data loggers and the other is questionnaire survey on the spots for three factory buildings. The field study was conducted in four different months of the same year during winter and summer period. Expected findings of this research are that the indoor environment is not comfortable for works at day time during summer season. This research will help the factory workers in providing a comfortable thermal environment and also help the employers or factory owners to increase their production margin.
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author Al Sayem Khan, Muhammed Abdullah
Ahmad, Mohd. Hamdan
Hayat Khan, Tareef
author_facet Al Sayem Khan, Muhammed Abdullah
Ahmad, Mohd. Hamdan
Hayat Khan, Tareef
author_sort Al Sayem Khan, Muhammed Abdullah
title Indoor thermal condition of factory building in Bangladesh
title_short Indoor thermal condition of factory building in Bangladesh
title_full Indoor thermal condition of factory building in Bangladesh
title_fullStr Indoor thermal condition of factory building in Bangladesh
title_full_unstemmed Indoor thermal condition of factory building in Bangladesh
title_sort indoor thermal condition of factory building in bangladesh
publisher The Institute of Research & Community Outreach - Petra Christian University
publishDate 2011
url http://eprints.utm.my/id/eprint/30577/
http://dx.doi.org/10.9744/dimensi.38.2.55-62
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