Pre-versus post-occupancy evaluation of daylight quality in hospitals

Building and Environment

Volumn 45, Issue 12, 2010, Pages 2652-2665

  Alzoubi, Hussain ^a   Al Rqaibat, Sana'a ^a   Bataineh, Rula F ^a  

^a JORDAN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Jordan)

Author keywords

Daylight; Daylight factor; Illuminance; Luminance; Post occupancy; Simulation

Indexed keywords

COMPARATIVE STUDIES; DAYLIGHT; DAYLIGHT FACTORS; DESIGN VARIABLES; FIELD MEASUREMENT; HIGHLY-CORRELATED; INTERIOR DESIGNS; LIGHTING ANALYSIS; LIGHTING DESIGNS; NUMERICAL SIMULATION; POST OCCUPANCY EVALUATION; REPRESENTATIVE SAMPLE; TWO PHASIS;

ARCHITECTURAL DESIGN; COMPUTER SIMULATION; COMPUTER SOFTWARE; DAYLIGHTING; HOSPITALS; QUALITY CONTROL;

DAYLIGHT SIMULATION;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; DESIGN; GRAPHICAL METHOD; HOSPITAL SECTOR; INDOOR AIR; LIGHT QUALITY; PERFORMANCE ASSESSMENT;

EID: 77955432685     PISSN: 03601323     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.buildenv.2010.05.027     Document Type: Article

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