Measuring the Impact of the Built Environment on Health, Wellbeing, and Performance: Techniques, Methods, and Implications for Design Research

ISBN-13: 9780367414818 / Angielski

Altaf Engineer; Aletheia Ida; Wooyoung Jung

Opis

This book reveals how subjective and objective data gathered by innovative methods of measurement give us the ability to quantify stress, health, performance and wellbeing outcomes in different built environments.

Spis treści

List of figures

List of abbreviations

Acknowledgements

INTRODUCTION

PART 1: FUNDAMENTALS: HUMAN, ENVIRONMENT, AND MATERIAL MEASURES FOR HEALTH AND WELLBEING

Chapter 1: Human Health and Wellbeing Measures

Chapter 2: Environmental Measures

Chapter 3: Material Measures

PART 2: METHODS: MEASUREMENT TECHNIQUES, TOOLS, AND METHODS FOR HEALTH AND WELLBEING

Chapter 4: Sensing and Data Acquisition

Chapter 5: Measurement Tools and Technologies

Chapter 6: Design and Analysis Methods

PART 3: APPLICATIONS: CASE STUDIES AND FUTURE DIRECTIONS

Chapter 7: Case Studies

Chapter 8: Future Directions

Index

O autorze

Altaf Engineer is an architect and Associate Professor at the School of Architecture and University of Arizona Institute on Place, Wellbeing, and Performance (UA IPWP) - an interdisciplinary institute at the University of Arizona that links expertise of the UA College of Medicine - Tucson, the Arizona Center for Integrative Medicine (AzCIM), and the UA College of Architecture, Planning, and Landscape Architecture (CAPLA). Altaf has expertise in using wearable devices for measuring sleep, stress, activity, and light. He is Chair of the Master of Science in Architecture Health and Built Environment degree at the UA College of Architecture, Planning, and Landscape Architecture (CAPLA).

Aletheia Ida is an architect, designer, and technologist. She has over fifteen years of experience in professional architecture practice and is fluent with building performance analytics. She holds a PhD in Architectural Sciences from the Center for Architecture, Science, and Ecology at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in New York. Aletheia develops interdisciplinary design theory to inform applied research in emerging building technologies with an emphasis on environmental performance, material innovations, and human wellbeing.

Wooyoung Jung is an architectural engineer and scientist, and Assistant Professor in the Department of Civil and Architectural Engineering and Mechanics at the University of Arizona, USA. He has a holistic professional career, dedicated to the building sector, ranging from a practitioner in the construction industry to a researcher in academia and a couple of Department of Energy-funded national laboratories.

Esther Sternberg is a physician and scientist, and internationally recognized pioneer in design and health and brain-immune (science of the mind-body connection). She is Founding Director of University of Arizona’s Institute on Place, Wellbeing & Performance, founding member of the American Institute of Architects’ Design and Health Leadership Group and AIA Design and Health Research Consortium. Previously NIH Senior Scientist and Section Chief (1986-2012), she has authored >225 scholarly articles, edited 8 scholarly books, and authored two popular books including best-selling Healing Spaces: The Science of Place and Wellbeing.