Case Studies of Environmental Visualization

Panagiotis Patlakas, Georgios Koronaios, Rokia Raslan, Gareth Neighbour and Hasim Altan
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Panagiotis Patlakas: School of Engineering and the Built Environment, Birmingham City University, 15 Bartholomew Row, Birmingham B5 5JU, UK
Georgios Koronaios: Hodkinson Consultancy, 59-65 Lowlands Road, Harrow HA1 3AW, UK
Rokia Raslan: Institute for Environmental Design and Engineering (IEDE), University College London, 14 Upper Woburn Place, London WC1H 0NN, UK
Gareth Neighbour: School of Engineering and the Built Environment, Birmingham City University, 15 Bartholomew Row, Birmingham B5 5JU, UK
Hasim Altan: Department of Architectural Engineering, University of Sharjah, P. O. Box 27272 Sharjah, UAE

Energies, 2017, vol. 10, issue 10, 1-18

Abstract: The performance gap between simulation and reality has been identified as a major challenge to achieving sustainability in the Built Environment. While Post-Occupancy Evaluation (POE) surveys are an integral part of better understanding building performance, and thus addressing this issue, the importance of POE remains relatively unacknowledged within the wider Built Environment community. A possible reason that has been highlighted is that POE survey data is not easily understood and utilizable by non-expert stakeholders, including designers. A potential method by which to address this is the visualization method, which has well established benefits for communication of big datasets. This paper presents two case studies where EnViz (short for “Environmental Visualization”), a prototype software application developed for research purposes, was utilized and its effectiveness tested via a range of analysis tasks. The results are discussed and compared with those of previous work that utilized variations of the methods presented here. The paper concludes by presenting the lessons drawn from the five-year period of EnViz, emphasizing the potential of environmental visualization for decision support in environmental design and engineering for the built environment, and suggests directions for future development.

Keywords: thermal comfort; post occupancy evaluation; performance gap (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: Q Q0 Q4 Q40 Q41 Q42 Q43 Q47 Q48 Q49 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2017
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