Introduction: Through out this essay I will conduct a literature review on post occupancy evaluation, to give the reader and myself a better understanding what A Post occupancy evaluation (POE) is. I will also look into how it works for different people involved with the building and what benefits it may have for both the client and the users of the site. I will be looking for research to back up the use of this particular way of gathering data. This understanding of POE will then provide the information
It is a very cost effective way to reduce lightning energy consumption using motion sensors, time of the day scheduling, occupancy detection, mood sensors and light level sensing. Lighitng can be turned on/off automatically with the help of motion and occupancy detectors which detect the presence of a human being and thus taking advantage of saving electricity with almost no human effort. Mood sensors change lighting according to the moods
Valuing Developable Land at Canary Wharf In valuing the developable land at Canary Wharf, there are several factors to take into account. Namely, it is crucial to decide on an appropriate rate at which to discount the projected cash flows for the property. The developable properties of Canary Wharf come with considerable risk. For example, the London office market downturn, as well as significant market hits for the large financial services tenants of Canary Wharf, presents serious tenant lease
Lately I have noticed numerous abandoned buildings around the Battle Creek area; the sight makes our city look run down and cheap. I believe something must be done about this issue such as turning the buildings into new city attractions. Two vacant buildings that come to mind are the run down State Police Station and the dilapidated Family Fare store. First of all, I know this issue can be resolved as I have seen it done with my own eyes. Just recently the Hot and Now restaurant which has been
Erick Rosales 3-31-14 Focus Constructing and Building Helping people create tools or projects that will be used frequently is a great act of kindness that can be done for anyone. Whether it be something with a practical use of something created solely for the purpose of entertainment, the ability to build is an invaluable tool. Building is one of the most useful things humans can do. Practically anything can be built with enough time and effort put into it. Creating buildings is something that
Fletcher Building Company Fletchers started their business in the construction sector in 1909. Timber weatherboard house in Dunedin, New Zealand was their first project and they built it. They remain the leading construction company in New Zealand until 2001. In late 2001, they change their name The Fletcher Building Company on the stock exchange of New Zealand. Their main office is in Penrose, Auckland. They have near 20,000 employees working for them. They are dealing with mainly six different
occupation evaluation arouse the interest of both managers and designers and resulted in implementing POE methods also in office buildings (Khalil, 2009). One example of considering POE of workplaces in a systematic manner was the PROBE studies (Post-occupancy Review of Build... ... middle of paper ... ...rom their experience, there would appear to be a number of perceived barriers to conducting a POE including: managers concerns about disruption to business and the sensitivity of the questions
SUMMARY OF INCIDENT On the night of February 20th 2003, 80’s rock and roll band Great White was performing a concert at The Station, a night club located in West Warwick, Rhode Island. During the beginning moments of their show, their manager who was operating the pyrotechnics set off a round of fireworks. This round of pyrotechnics ignited the acoustic foam of the night club and started a blaze that engulfed the club in less than 6 minutes. The night club had a building permit capacity for 200 people
Dubai the new destination for the rich and famous. Arabs who made millions of dollars have invested their fortune into a new city to put them on the map. But, with the hard economic climate, is Dubai necessary in the current economy of the world. Dubai’s extreme projects and buildings are unnecessary and serves little to no purpose. Dubai has spent billions of dollar in construction projects. When these are funded by the government and the investments are failures, the government becomes unstable
Establishing itself as a mediator between the public condition of its location and the intrinsic private aspect of its program becomes essential for the educational building proposed for the town of Smallville. The building offers a public space that serves as the main plaza of the town. The plaza directly engages the school and the town by the use of blade like walls that dissect the overall public space generating a multi layered condition that provides several levels of publicity, spanning from
In these cases, such as building a reservoir, a huge number of concrete trucks are generally brought in in a caravan, and they pour their concrete into the forms that have been constructed onsite. In some cases, this order will put a concrete plant out of commission for a period of time due to the demand, and as such it must obviously be coordinated ahead of time. Another appealing aspect of concrete, apart from the versatility, is the ease of procuring it. Concrete is not made with any fancy, hard
THE RHETORICAL ANALYSIS OF SINGLE ROOM OCCUPANCY Miscellaneous social influences via diverse social media outlets bombard us with abundant argumentations every second of our lives. Comprehending and evaluating how these rhetoric aims to convince us into particular forms of thinking and acting is beneficial to formulate informed and well-grounded responses and argumentations (Carroll 46-47). When scrutinized, Single Room Occupancy, a short documentary film by Artemis Shaw and Alexander Wolf Lewis
In Roderick R. Nash’s essay “Island civilization: A vision for human occupancy of earth in the fourth millenium” he quotes “Of course a change like this one [Island civilization] involves compromises with human freedom.” Nashs plan for the future is to make self-sustaining “islands” of civilization. These civilizations would be clusters of the population, and quite similar to cities. His plan also relies on advanced technology that would not harm the Earth and that the “islands” remain isolated from
Monitoring staff levels is an important factor. Also leveling the flow of patients in and out institutions could help to reduce wide fluctuations in occupancy rates and prevent surges in patient visits that lead to overcrowding, poor handoffs, and delays in care. Studies show that overcrowding in areas such as the emergency rooms lead to adverse outcomes, because physicians and nurses having less time
to residents with activities of daily living (ADLs), housekeeping, meals, and transportation. The three biggest challenges that AL facilities face with organizational performance include occupancy rates, safety, and staff. According to the National Investment Center for Seniors Housing and Care (NIC), the occupancy rate is continuing to fall nationwide for AL facilities due to inventory growth that outpaced healthy absorption rates (Holmes, 2017) (Bowers, 2017). Also, safety is a major issue for many
The Park and Ride services, otherwise known as ‘incentive parking’ seek to attract as much as possible, single occupancy vehicles from going to the major cities to park in these facilities at the sub-urban fringe while shifting people to use high occupancy vehicles such as urban shuttle services, busses, minivans for the latter part of the journey. (Ginn, 2009) These refer to a “peripheral” Park-and-Ride facilities, trips originate outside of the congested urban areas; the destination are usually
Theory of van der Waals-Platteeuw model Modifications to the well-known van der Waals-Platteeuw (VDW-P) model (van der Waals and Platteeuw, 1959) led to several thermodynamic models for predicting hydrate formation and/or dissociation conditions. The VDW-P model was derived which was based on the similarity between the hydrate formation and Langmuir adsorption. However, both the mechanisms are different, even if the adsorption mechanism is able to explain the nonstoichiometric feature of hydrates
it can damage the building by moving location of the foundations. Foundations are expected to build under the frost depth. The building code requires for the northern five feet. Classification by occupancy defines the different groups of occupancy classification. There are nineteen kinds of occupancy groups. The groups are A(high hazard), B-1(storage-moderate hazard), B-2(storage-low hazard), C(mercantile), D-1(industrial-moderate hazard) , D-2(industrial-low hazard), E(Business) , F-1a(assembly-theater
available room (RevPAR), and hotel occupancy rates. To achieve this performance the most appropriate indicators, benchmarks must be analysed together. As stated in the report, in April 2014, the highest occupancy rate is the in the Asia Pacific region, which grew at 68.8 percent, and in the same time both ADR and RevPAR was highest in the Middle East and Africa. (Statista.com, 2015) Although in recent months the United States in 2013 has the world's lowest occupancy rate of only 50.5 percent at present
tools like GoPAR, occupancy percentage. So in the later on stages I will be discussing on the definitions, advantages and disadvantages of ARR and RevPAR. RevPAR is a process of comparing the room revenue from the hotel to hotel (Ismail, 2002). RevPAR - is fixed by distributing room revenue expected for a particular period by the total of accommodations