Post-occupancy Evaluation of Building Facilities in a University Community Using an Electronic Platform

Afolabi, A.O.; Afolabi, I. T.; Akinbo, Faith; Misra, Sanjay; Ahuja, Ravin

doi:10.1007/978-981-15-3338-9_40

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“…The research domain is saturated with numerous studies on POE studies carried out in campus settings (Hassanain, 2008; Sanni-Anibire et al , 2016a; Babatunde and Perera, 2017; Afolabi et al , 2019). Recently, Ikediashi et al (2020) evaluated the performance of buildings in the University of Uyo, Nigeria.…”

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Quality assessment of a campus medical facility: a users' perspective approach

Hassanain

Dehwah

Sanni-Anibire

et al. 2020

IJWHM

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PurposeThis study aims to evaluate the quality of an on-campus medical facility at a leading university.Design/methodology/approachPublished literature was consulted to review knowledge areas on the usability and quality performance requirements of healthcare facilities. Quality indicators were, thus, developed from the extant literature and verified by a walkthrough of a case study medical facility. Then, a quality assessment survey was developed and administered to obtain feedback from users of the medical facility. Additionally, a focus group meeting was conducted to obtain more qualitative feedback on the issues identified through the questionnaire survey.FindingsThe results show that users were generally satisfied with the identified evaluation categories, indicating moderate quality. Potential quality issues related to the exterior and interior finishes, furniture and the indoor air were noted through focus group meetings. The study proposed a number of recommendations to enhance the design quality of the medical center.Originality/valueThe importance of this study is evident in the fact that the quality of healthcare facilities has a direct link to the performance and overall well-being of its intended users, as well as the overall success of its host organization. The study demonstrates the value of users' feedback on the quality of a built facility. It re-emphasizes the point that buildings can only be judged to be of high quality if the users' are highly satisfied.

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Section: Previous Studiesmentioning

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Quality assessment of a campus medical facility: a users' perspective approach

Hassanain

Dehwah

Sanni-Anibire

et al. 2020

IJWHM

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“…Thus, this research aims to develop a systematic framework that can be utilized in future research to ascertain the measured performance of specific types of educational facilities. Afolabi et al (2020) examined the conduct of POE at a university community facility utilizing an online hypertext markup language (HTML) platform. The platform enabled classification of users input, utilizing a MYSQL database.…”

Section: Literature Reviewmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Afolabi et al (2020) examined the conduct of POE at a university community facility utilizing an online hypertext markup language (HTML) platform. The platform enabled classification of users input, utilizing a MYSQL database.…”

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POE of public higher education facilities in Saudi Arabia: lessons learned from three case studies

Hassanain

Ali

Al‐Hammad

et al. 2020

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PurposeThis paper provides an exemplary systematic conduct of post‐occupancy evaluation (POE) on higher education facilities in Saudi Arabia.Design/methodology/approachThe research study utilized several qualitative and quantitative POE techniques which were systematically comprising (1) scoping and reviewing the facilities-related documents, (2) identification of performance indicators through the review of literature, (3) development and collection of questionnaire survey responses from stakeholders, (4) collection of physical measurements and (5) assessing the facilities by walk-throughs. Then, the data were analyzed and the findings were reported to representative samples of users through focus group meetings. Then, recommendations were drawn for improving the occupational conditions of the case study facilities.FindingsThe synthesis of literature led to three main categories of performance elements that are relevant for higher education facilities. These include technical, functional and behavioral elements, in which each of the elements has specific performance indicators, 97 in total. The research study exemplifies a systematic conduct of POE. The stakeholders' perspectives on the performance elements through surveys, measurements and walk-throughs were collected. The assessment led to recommendations toward satisfactory and quality occupation of the case study facilities.Originality/valueThis research aims to standardize POE by introducing its methods as a tool for evaluating higher education facilities and by elaborating the most prominent performance indicators for ensuring higher education core functions, namely, teaching, research and community collaboration.

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“…New electronic platforms aimed at optimizing the postoccupancy evaluation process include systems that show user classes and characteristics, software architecture, functionality, the coding language used, and external interfaces, which can increase the power of POE analysis (Afolabi et al, 2020).…”

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Innovating digital POE platforms during the COVID-19 pandemic: A case study of co-production in Brazilian social housing

Villa

Stevenson²,

Garrefa

et al. 2023

Front. Built Environ.

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This paper deals with digital POE methods focusing on their reached potential in facilitating the face-to-face experiments demanded by the project. Recognized as a set of methods and instruments applied in environments during use, Post-Occupancy Evaluation (POE) can help manage the project process, providing diagnoses and recommendations that feed new projects and interventions in environments in use. POE approaches have been continually restructured in the face of new environmental, social, economic and especially technological demands. In early 2020, the Covid-19 pandemic, lockdowns and quarantines made it challenging to continue to apply traditional face-to-face POE-based tools and techniques. Simultaneously, the MORA Housing Research Group was carrying out a research project in the city of Uberlândia (Brazil) focusing on the understanding of the relationship between the incidence of arboviruses in the case study social housing neighbourhood, the occupants’ practices, and the built environment management, through POE. The social distancing measures applied during the Covid-19 pandemic led the research team to transform methods from face-to-face to hybrid ones, comprising digital and physical approaches to co-produce durable solutions against dengue. The work comprises a five stage method using on-shelf digital platforms and designing other 2 specifically for the project’s purposes. By introducing the digital/physical hybrid POE format, the use of social networks and messaging applications significantly reduced the number of necessary visits by researchers to the neighbourhood from 20 to 5 in the first stage of the work, saving a lot of time and effort. The new tools were easy to use for all users. Users reported finding it pleasant to participate in activities with digitally remote researchers. The findings from this project indicate that the incorporation of new digital tools to facilitate physical POE research as a novel hybrid approach provides a successful alternative approach to standard POE processes that are based on face-to-face participation.

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Post-occupancy Evaluation of Building Facilities in a University Community Using an Electronic Platform

Cited by 6 publications

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Quality assessment of a campus medical facility: a users' perspective approach

Quality assessment of a campus medical facility: a users' perspective approach

POE of public higher education facilities in Saudi Arabia: lessons learned from three case studies

Innovating digital POE platforms during the COVID-19 pandemic: A case study of co-production in Brazilian social housing

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