Developing Green Building Guidelines for Occupant Productivity, Wellbeing and Behavioural Change

Collaboration

Salford University

Aim Objective

To investigate the state of the art literature in the area of occupant health, productivity and behavior change practices in buildings worldwide and identify key performance indicators and document the relationships between occupant health, productivity and behavior change and factors of green building guidelines. 

Major Impact Expected

  • Incorporation of research outcomes in GSAS manuals for designing and constructing new projects GSAS is a mandatory green building certification system for government projects.

  • Development of web based tool that can be used by designers to assess the impact of design features on occupant productivity and well being.

Publications

Two papers in peer reviewed journals.

Study linking occupant well-being and productivity with green building design, supporting GSAS guidelines and tools.

Developing Green Building Guidelines for Occupant Productivity, Wellbeing and Behavioural Change

Project ID

NPRP Cycle 7
[NPRP 7-344-2-146]

End Users

SC for FIFA 2022 Qatar Rail,
Hamad Port Lusail City and Ashghal

Status

Ongoing Through GORD
Internal Funding