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Well-Being index of super tall residential buildings in Korea
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In this paper, a well-being index model that can be applied to the evaluation of super tall residential buildings (STRBs) is established. But, the authors still have many issues in terms of residents' health and wellbeing because many people are worried that high-rise living may cause harmful effects on the residents.About:
This article is published in Building and Environment.The article was published on 2011-05-01. It has received 45 citations till now.read more
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Social sustainability assessment framework for managing sustainable construction in residential buildings
TL;DR: In this article, the authors proposed an assessment framework which addresses social sustainability in residential building construction by prioritizing social sustainability criteria based on Iran context, after exploiting social sustainability indicators, through multi-criteria decision-making approach, criteria priorities were obtained with the aid of local experts, local experts considered safety issues as the most important and site considerations and equipment as the least important criterion to be considered in the social sustainability assessment for residential buildings in Iran.
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Residents’ Experiences of Privacy and Comfort in Multi-Storey Apartment Dwellings in Subtropical Brisbane
TL;DR: This article explored private residents' experiences of privacy and comfort and their perceptions of how well their apartment dwelling modulated the external environment in subtropical conditions through analysis of 636 survey responses and 24 interviews with residents of multi-storey apartment buildings in inner urban neighbourhoods of Brisbane, Australia.
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A method to assess lighting quality in educational rooms using analytic hierarchy process
TL;DR: An original lighting quality assessment method is proposed for the evaluation of lighting in educational rooms, aimed at analysing all the main aspects and at defining a ranking of the critical issues, in order to consider improvements.
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COVID-19 and healthy home preferences: the case of apartment residents in Tehran
TL;DR: The results indicated that variables related to mental health such as natural light, view, acoustic, and open or semi-open space are of particular importance and should be considered by planners, builders, and architects in apartment design.
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Energy performance assessment towards nearly zero energy community buildings in South Korea
Hye Soo Suh,Daeung Danny Kim +1 more
TL;DR: In this article, the authors demonstrated a systematic approach to achieve the nearly zero energy community building through the assessment of energy performance of the combined passive and active design solutions and renewable energy systems.
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Urban environmental quality and human well-being Towards a conceptual framework and demarcation of concepts; a literature study
TL;DR: In this article, the authors present a survey of the main concepts of livability, environmental quality, quality of life, and sustainability in the field of urban environmental quality and human well-being.
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The impacts of dwelling conditions on older persons’ psychological well-being in Hong Kong: the mediating role of residential satisfaction ☆
TL;DR: It is proposed that the role of environmental factors and their relation to older persons' psychological well-being depends on the extent to which a person's expectations of residential satisfaction are met, and some implications for local housing and social care policy are discussed.
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Towards new methods and ways to create healthy and comfortable buildings
TL;DR: In this article, a multi-disciplinary approach taking account of positive and negative stimuli and concerned with "real" needs of people is proposed to evaluate the health and comfort of occupants in the indoor environment.
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Residential satisfaction in housing estates: a Hong Kong perspective
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors present a study of the factors (on both physical and social levels), which influence residential satisfaction of a sample of occupants in a chosen residential area in Hong Kong; factor analysis and multiple regression were carried out on the data.
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Subjective quality of life measurement in Taipei
TL;DR: In this article, a field survey of 331 Taipei residents is conducted to survey subjective resident assessments of QOL, and a LISREL analysis is also performed to explore the causal relationships among the QOL variables.
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