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Learning from Our Buildings A State-of-the-Practice Summary of Post-Occupancy Evaluation (2001) / Chapter Skim
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... Regardless of the medium, all assessment work begins with good research design, clearly stated objectives, solid planning, and preparation to conduct a survey, complete the analysis, and produce reports. This chapter addresses issues related to implementing cybersurveys and assumes that sound principles of building performance assessment are in place.
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From page 55...
... The author sees cybersurveys as the next technology-based advance in building performance assessments. The remainder of this chapter discusses how this technology is used to assess building performance.
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From page 56...
... and self-selected individuals who choose to Participate. Because there is no central registry of Web users, one does not know who is on-line, so one cannot reliably reach a target population (see Appendix E for details of who is on-line and where they are geographically)
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From page 57...
... Electronic pre-testing is easier and cheaper than traditional methods.
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From page 58...
... CONCLUSIONS AND DISCUSSION The Internet or intranet and World Wide Web enable traditional building performance assessments to be accomplished more cheaply and effectively. The electronic medium may well become the primary survey vehicle owing to its convenience, low-cost of distribution and return, ability to verify (check for errors)
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From page 59...
... It is hard to imagine future building performance assessments without extensive use of the Internet or intranet and the Web. However, traditional methods will continue to be used, perhaps becoming a smaller part of the overall work.
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... Appendixes
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Key Terms

  • building performance
  • traditional methods
  • work environment
  • environmental quality
  • performance assessments

  • design research
  • environmental design
  • built environment
  • office buildings
  • evaluation process

  • search engines
  • target population
  • survey results
  • response rate


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