Usable Buildings: Usability and Controls

Usability and Controls ³⁵

BORDASS W., The Balance Between Central and Local Control Systems
Environmental Quality 90 Conference, British Gas HQ, Solihull, 4-5 October 1990 .
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. 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 W., LEAMAN A and BUNN R., Controls for End Users
: a guide for good design and implementation, Building Controls Industry Association (BCIA), March 2007 .
BORDASS, BIll, How Intelligent Should your Office be?
Outline of presentation to 1AM Conference,,18-20 April 1989 .
BORDASS, Bill, Insights from Building Performance Evaluation Studies
Usable Buildings, presentation to Oxford Brookes University, 16 Nov 2022. .
BORDASS, Bill and LEAMAN, Adrian, Building Performance Evaluation and POE: Past, Present and Future
Heriot-Watt University, 8 February 2023 .
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.W, Window Ventilation and Human Behaviour
Electricity Council Research Centre, Proceedings of the first international indoor climate conference, 1978 .
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 .
DE DEAR, Richard (et al), Progress in thermal comfort research over the last twenty years
Indoor Air 2013; 23: 442–461. Full list of authors : R.J. de Dear, T. Akimoto, E.A. Arens, G. Brager, C. Candido, K.W.D. Cheong, B. Li, N. Nishihara, S.C. Sekhar,S. Tanabe, J. Toftum, H. Zhang, Y. Zhu .
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 .
HEALEY, K. and BEESON B, Reconciling automated and user control of mixed-mode office buildings
Ecolibrium, May 2014, pps 72-80 .
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 .
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 .
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., Usability in Buildings: the Cinderella subject
Building Research and Information, vol 28, no 4, 2000. .
LEAMAN A., Lansdown Window System: review note
Building Use Studies, 1992. An In-house review of a proposed window system. .
LEAMAN A., Usability in Buildings: some briefing preliminaries
Building Use Studies, internal, 1999 .
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 .
LOLLI N., NOCENTE A., and GRYNNING S., Perceived Control in an Office Test Cell, a Case Study
Buildings, vol 10, p. 82, 2020. Creative Commons open source article .
NORMAN, Don, The Design of Everyday Things (retrospective)
Video interview prior to conference. Please see other presentations by Norman in the YouTube sidebar. .
ROAF, Sue, The Net Zero Challenge: Feeling is believing
BD (Building Design) Online, 9 August, 2022. Pdf .
ROWE David., Hybrid Ventilation and Staff Offices in the Wilkinson Building
University of Sydney, January 2002. Kindly made available for use in the public domain by the International Energy Agency: Energy Conservation in Buildings and Community Systems. See also ... .
SMITH G.P., Taking Control
CIBSE Journal, December, 2011 .
SMITH G.P., Eyes on the Load
CIBSE Journal, December 2013 .
SMITH G.P., Heating Systems and their Control
Best Practice Programme, General Information Report 40, 2013 .
SMITH G.P., Biomass Heating – Common problems and their resolution
Birling Consulting, November 2015 .
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 .
USABLE BUILDINGS TRUST, Usability in Buildings
UBT Flashcard 1998 .
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. .