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Performance Evaluation of Green Buildings Chris Anto L * and Samuel Knight G M** (*PG Student, ** Professor & HOD, E-Mail : [email protected] Division of Structural Engineering, Department of Civil Engineering, Anna University, Chennai-25 ABSTRACT Keywords: Green building, Indoor environmental quality, occupant survey, Chennai. Much importance to date in green building development has been on optimizing energy and resource efficiency. Very less was observed about user perception and satisfaction in green buildings in India . It is widely believed that sustainable building design strategies create improved indoor environmental quality and be associated with improved occupant comfort, satisfaction, health, and work performance relative to buildings designed around standard practices. Yet, this belief remains a hypothesis with little empirical support. This study tries to assess the indoor environmental quality of Green buildings in Chennai by conducting Occupant
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Performance Evaluation of Green BuildingsChris Anto L * and Samuel Knight G M**
(*PG Student, ** Professor & HOD,E-Mail : [email protected]
Division of Structural Engineering,Department of Civil Engineering, Anna University, Chennai-25
ABSTRACT
Keywords: Green building, Indoor environmental quality, occupant survey,
Chennai.
Much importance to date in green building development has been on optimizing
energy and resource efficiency. Very less was observed about user perception and
satisfaction in green buildings in India . It is widely believed that sustainable building design
strategies create improved indoor environmental quality and be associated with improved
occupant comfort, satisfaction, health, and work performance relative to buildings designed
around standard practices. Yet, this belief remains a hypothesis with little empirical support.
This study tries to assess the indoor environmental quality of Green buildings
in Chennai by conducting Occupant survey. A questionnaire survey for occupant satisfaction
was conducted in Anna centenary library building, Kotturpuram which is a Green building
and the results are analyzed to assess the satisfaction level of the occupants. It was observed
that the occupants were much satisfied in green buildings than non green buildings and most
of the users were ignorant of the fact that they are in a green building.
