Usable Buildings: Users and Occupants

Users and Occupants ⁶⁷

BORDASS W., Naturally Comfortable Offices: a refurbishment project
Best Practice Programme, Good Practice Case study , 308, 1997 .
BORDASS W. and LEAMAN A., User and Occupant Controls in Office Buildings
in STERLING E., BIEVA C. and COLLET C (eds.), Proceedings of the International Conference on Building Design, Technology and Occupant Well-Being in Temperate Climates, Brussels Feb 17-19, ASHRAE, Atlanta GA , 1993, pps. 12-15 .
BORDASS W. and LEAMAN A., What Makes a Building Successful For the People Who Use It?
Outline of talk to DMA/BMIB Construction Group Business Seminar, 5 February 1992 .
BORDASS W. LEAMAN A. and WILLIS S., Control Strategies for Building Services: the role of the user
Buildings and Environment Conference, BRE, 16-20 May, 1994 .
BORDASS, Bill, Beyond Space Heating and Cooling: Changing Mindsets in a Climate and Environmental Emergency
Climate at the Extremes Conference, Edinburgh, 6 September 2002 .
BORDASS, Bill, Insights from Building Performance Evaluation Studies
Usable Buildings, presentation to Oxford Brookes University, 24 Oct 2024. Also covers ground in presentations in 2020, 2022 and 2023. .
BORDASS, Bill and LEAMAN, Adrian, Building Performance Evaluation and POE: Past, Present and Future
Heriot-Watt University, 8 February 2023 .
BORDASS, Bill and PENDER, Robyn, Retrofit: Towards a proportionate people-first, approach
National Retrofit Conference, Futurebuild, Excel, London, 5 March 2025 .
BORDASS, Bill with LEAMAN, Adrian, Buildings that Work
William Bordass Associates, 2000. Presentation to Association for Environment Conscious Building (AECB) July 2000. Please note: this archived presentation was originally given using overhead projector foils. This version does not include the slides and diagrams which were included in the original. .
BRUNDRETT G., The Occupant as Customer
CIBSE Journal, June 1997, 40-42 .
BRUNDRETT G.W, Window Ventilation and Human Behaviour
Electricity Council Research Centre, Proceedings of the first international indoor climate conference, 1978 .
BUNN R., What do we really know about wellbeing?
Usable Buildings, February 2020. This is a revised and extended version of the original from the BSRIA journal, November 2016 .
BUNN R., Post CoVid-19 offices of tomorrow
CIBSE Journal, July 2020. Occupant Density Chart (Fig 1) CIBSE Journal .
BUNN, Roderic, Longitudinal occupant satisfaction studies and their potential for managing the comfort carrying-capacity of buildings
Usable Buildings, April 2022, 30pp, High resolution copy 20.3 Mb. Creative Commons open access .
BUTTERS, C., Myths and Issues about Sustainable Living
Sustainability 13(14), July 2021. Creative Commons open source article. .
CHATER M. (et al), RIBA Plan for Use Guide
RIBA, London, 2021 RIBA Plan for Use Guide .
CURRY, Andrew, Single Mum By Default
Just Two Things blog post, 13 December 2021 .
DIAMOND S., Inkling and Julie Godefroy Sustainability, Building Performance Evaluation Guide
Good Homes Alliance and The Home Grown Homes Project, February 2021. See also BPE Toolkit. .
Energy Demand Flexibility online portal, Energy demand flexibility and the rhythms of everyday life
Energy Demand Flexibility online portal CREDS, UCL .
FEWSON K. and LEAMAN A., Travel Exhaustion
Delta T, BSRIA, June 2008 .
FEWSON K. and LEAMAN A., Travel Exhaustion Assumptions Appendix
Delta T, BSRIA, June 2008 .
FIELDSON R.and SODAGER B., Understanding User Satisfaction Evaluation in Low Occupancy Sustainable Workplaces
Sustainability 2017, 9, 18pp. Open access article .
HEALEY K.H., Unforgivable: exploring thermal comfort, adaptation and forgiveness in a problem green office building
M. A. Schnabel (ed.), Cutting Edge: 47th International Conference of the Architectural Science Associa- tion, pp. 231–240. © 2013, The Architectural Science Association (ANZAScA), Australia .
HEATHCOTE, E., Points of contact – a short history of door handles
Apollo Magazine, 10 June 2020 .
HELLWIG R., SCHWEIKER M and BOERSTRA A, The ambivalence of personal control over indoor climate - how much personal control is adequate?
E3S Web Conf. Volume 172, 2020, 12th Nordic Symposium on Building Physics (NSB 2020) Open access under Creative Commons article E3S .
HUMPHREYS M.A., Creating Adaptive Comfort
Buildings and Cities, Research Pathway: personal reflections on a career in research, 17 March 2022 Pdf .
JOHANSSON, Jan, User Involvement: Effective Performance in Sustainable Social Housing
European Journal of Social Sciences, Vol 5, no 1, Jan-June 2022 .
KARJALAINEN S., SIIVOLA M., JOHNSON M and NIEMINEN M. , User requirements and user interface solutions for individual control of temperature in offices
VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland, 2015 .
KENNARD H., HUEBNER G., SHIPWORTH D. and ORESZCZYN T., The associations between thermal variety and health: Implications for space heating energy use
July 2020. PLoS ONE 15(7): e0236116. PLOS One Open access under Creative Commons licence .
KORSAVI S. JONES R.and FUERTES A. , The gap between automated building management system and office occupants’ manual window operations: Towards personalised algorithms
Automation in Construction. Includes case study of the Marine Building, University of Plymouth. © The authors. Open access article. .
LEAMAN A., What Occupants Want
Chapter 6 of Davis Langdon Everest and Institute of Directors Directors' Guide 'Buildings That Work for Your Business: Building premises to enhance performance', October 2001 .
LEAMAN A., The Great Escape
Ecolibrium, June 2009, vol 8 issue 5, pps 18-20. also The Great Escape (Original Version) .
LEAMAN A., Outside the Comfort Zone: buildings and basic human needs
Human Givens Journal, Vol 11, no 2, 2004. .
LEAMAN A., Usability in Buildings: the Cinderella subject
Building Research and Information, vol 28, no 4, 2000. .
LEAMAN A., User Needs and Expectations
chapter for Cole R. and Lorch R. (eds), Information, Buildings and the Environment, Blackwell Publishing, 2004 More detailed version of Fig 1 Context Map .
LEAMAN A., Usability in Buildings: some briefing preliminaries
Building Use Studies, internal, 1999 .
LEAMAN A., Energy Efficiency and Human Performance: a guide for facilities and personnel managers
Best Practice Programme, General Information Leaflet, Draft, Unpublished, March 1993 .
LEAMAN A. and BORDASS W,, An intelligent approach to occupant satisfaction using feedback
Original text and graphics for article in Building Services Journal, April 2004 .
LEAMAN A. and BORDASS W., Are Users More Tolerant of Green Buildings?
Building Research and Information, 2007, 35(6), 662-667. .
LEAMAN A. and BORDASS W., Keeping Occupants "Satisficed"
Energy and Environmental Management, Second Quarter, 2000, 23-27. .
LEAMAN A. and BORDASS W., Comfort and Complexity: unmanageable bedfellows?
Workplace Comfort Conference, RIBA, 1995, March 22-23 .
LEAMAN A. and BORDASS W., Productivity in Buildings: the killer variables 1997 original
Workplace Comfort Forum, London, 1997, October 29-30 .
LEAMAN A. and BORDASS W., Strategies For Better Occupant Satisfaction
Fifth Indoor Air Quality Conference, Thursday 10 July 1997, British Library, London. .
LEAMAN A. and BORDASS W. , Productivity in Buildings: the killer variables
Revised 2005, for updated edition of Clemence-Croome D (ed), Creating the Productive Workplace, London, A & FN Spon, 2005. .
LEAMAN A. and BUNN R., School Buildings: What the Users Really Think
Chapter 7 of Woolner P. (ed), School Design Together, Routledge, 2015. No open access copy available. Please contact authors .
LEAMAN A., BORDASS W. COHEN R. and STANDEVEN M.,, Probe Final Report 3: Occupant Surveys
Final Report to DETR .
LEAMAN A., CASSELS S. and BORDASS W., The New Workplace: friend or foe?
London: Usable Buildings, 1998, 14pp. .
LEAMAN A., STEVENSON F and BORDASS, W., Building Evaluation: Practice and Principles
Building Research & Information , Volume 38, 2010 - Issue 5, pp 564-577. August 2010 .
LEAMAN A., THOMAS L. and VANDENBERG M., 'Green' Buildings: What Australian Building Users Are Saying
Ecolibrium, the journal of Airah, pp. 22-30, November 2008. .
LEAMAN, A., Window Seat or Aisle? (full version)
Edited version Architects' Journal 3 March 1999 .
LEAMAN, A., Open-plan offices: kill or cure?
Facilities, 1992, March .
McINTYRE D.A., Design Requirements for a Comfortable Environment
Electricity Council Research Centre, Oct 1978, ECRC/M1185 .
NOBLE E., The Impact of Indoor Environment Quality on People on the Autism Spectrum
Victoria University of Wellington, Masters thesis .
NOBLE E., ISAACs N. and LAMB S., The Impact of IEQ Factors on People on the Autism Spectrum
P. Rajagopalan and M.M Andamon (eds.), Engaging Architectural Science: Meeting the Challenges of Higher Density: 52nd International Conference of the Architectural Science Association 2018, pp. 27–33. ©2018, The Architectural Science Association and RMIT University, Australia. .
OLADOTTIR A.D., and BJORNSDOTTIR F.K, What is the experience of public sector employees on the use of open-plan workspaces?
Euram June 2019: Exploring the future of management, Lisbon, 2019 .
PENDER, Robyn, How Energy Availability Influenced Building Form
Online presentation to Traditional Architecture Group, 30 June 2022. Full slide set 40Mb download.. Compressed 15Mb download. Please contact Robyn Pender for slide citation permissions. .
PENDER, Robyn and BORDASS, Bill, Retrofit Our Buildings or Our Brains? A Science-Based People-First Approach
National Retrofit Conference, Futurebuild, Excel, London, 5 March 2025 .
RAW G.J., Sick Building Syndrome: a review of the evidence on causes and solutions
HSE, 42/1992 Download from Health and Safety Executive .
ROAF, Susan and NICOL, Fergus, Acceptable Temperatures in Naturally Ventilated Buildings
TVVL Magazine, Netherlands, Number 5, October 2020 .
SHOVE E., Why social theory is important for energy research and the built environment
Buildings and Cities journal Commentary, Research Legacy: personal reflections on a career in research. Sep 14, 2020. .
STEVENSON F., CARMONA-ANDREU I. and HANCOCK M., The usability of control interfaces in low-carbon housing
Architectural Science Review, iFirst, 2013, 1 13. Link goes to Taylor & Francis website, paywall. .
THOMAS, L., WOODS, A., POWLES, R., KALAI, P., & WILKINSON, S., Residential geothermal air-conditioning: inhabitants’ comfort, behaviour and energy use
Buildings and Cities, 3(1), pp. 226–249. Pdf .
VALE, Brenda and Robert, Learning to Build
BUILD Magazine, 124, 1 June 2011 .
van SOMEREN K., BEAMAN C. and SAO L., Users' Experiences of Lighting Controls: a case study
Lighting Res. Technol. 2017; 0: 1–16 © The Chartered Institution of Building Services Engineers 2017 Society of Light and Lighting .
Willems S, Saelens D. and Heylighen A., Patient well-being, adaptation of and to indoor conditions, and hospital room design: two mixed methods case studies
Building Research and Information, 30 Dec 2021, Log-in required, paywall. .
WISE, Freya, Reducing Carbon while Retaining Heritage: retrofitting approaches for vernacular buildings and their residents
PhD thesis The Open University. 2022. 38MB pdf .
ZUCKERMAN, Ethan, Legacy cities and the changing nature of the good life
Ethan Zuckerman, Blog post, August 7, 2022. Pdf .