dc.contributor.author |
Dilrukshi, H |
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dc.contributor.author |
Mallawarachchi, H |
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dc.contributor.author |
Karunasena, G |
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dc.contributor.editor |
Sandanayake, YG |
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dc.contributor.editor |
Fernando, NG |
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dc.contributor.editor |
Karunasena, GI |
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dc.date.accessioned |
2022-02-24T04:57:27Z |
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dc.date.available |
2022-02-24T04:57:27Z |
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dc.date.issued |
2014-06 |
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dc.identifier.citation |
Dilrukshi, H., Mallawarachchi, H., & Karunasena, G. (2014). Application of green building concept to enhance indoor environmental quality in hospital buildings in Sri Lanka. In Y.G. Sandanayake, N.G. Fernando & G.I. Karunasena (Eds.), Sustainability and development in built environment: the way forward (pp. 80-88). Ceylon Institute of Builders. https://ciobwcs.com/downloads/WCS2014-Proceedings.pdf |
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dc.identifier.uri |
http://dl.lib.uom.lk/handle/123/17068 |
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dc.description.abstract |
Through the number of factors, which can attract the occupants to the building, “quality” gets a
predominant situate. Among the other buildings, hospitals are most important place which has to
maintain quality in high standard. Hence, most of the countries are initiating various strategies to
improve quality of hospitals because, it directly affects to the occupant satisfaction of the hospital.
Further, hospital is mostly a public place which is extremely noisy, crowded and less indoor environment
quality. It causes serious impacts on patient and staff outcomes ranging from sleep loss and elevates
blood pressure among patients to emotional exhaustion and burnout among staff. Henceforth, poorly
designed hospital environments pose a serious threat on building occupants. Literature findings further
said that in current scenario, the majority of occupants are not satisfied with their indoor environment
quality in a hospital.
Nowadays, most of hospitals are following various strategies to improve quality of indoor environment.
Among those strategies, green building concept becomes most prominent which is easy to adapt to
improve the indoor environment quality. Moreover, green hospital design has been linked to better
patient outcomes and staff retention. Even though, in past few years many newly constructed and
renovated buildings moved towards green, buildings in hospital sector in Sri Lanka has not much
familiar with the green building concept. Therefore, this study is mainly focused on presenting the
importance of applying green building concept in hospital buildings to improve indoor environmental
quality. Two case studies consisting private and public hospitals were conducted to collect the data. Six
semi-structured interviews were conducted who have caught up in operational and maintenance
management process of selected hospitals. As revealed by research findings, there was no special
attention to enhance indoor environment quality in Sri Lankan hospitals especially in public sector.
Therefore, several issues were identified comply with the indoor air quality, thermal comfort, acoustic
comfort, visual comfort and spatial comfort. Indoor Air quality is one of the major challenges faced by
many hospital buildings as it creates several issues within hospital environment. Accordingly, probable
green strategies were proposed to overcome identified indoor environment quality issues in hospital
buildings to facilitate high quality indoor environment for building occupants in hospital buildings in
Sri Lanka. |
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dc.description.sponsorship |
Ceylon Institute of Builders (CIOB) |
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dc.language.iso |
en |
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dc.publisher |
Ceylon Institute of Builders |
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dc.relation.uri |
https://ciobwcs.com/downloads/WCS2014-Proceedings.pdf |
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dc.subject |
Green building concept |
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dc.subject |
Hospital buildings |
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dc.subject |
Indoor environmental quality |
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dc.subject |
Occupants’ satisfaction |
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dc.title |
Application of green building concept to enhance indoor environmental quality in hospital buildings in Sri Lanka. |
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dc.type |
Conference-Full-text |
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dc.identifier.faculty |
Architecture |
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dc.identifier.department |
Department of Building Economics |
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dc.identifier.year |
2014 |
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dc.identifier.conference |
3rd World Construction Symposium 2014 |
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dc.identifier.place |
Colombo |
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dc.identifier.pgnos |
pp. 80-88 |
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dc.identifier.proceeding |
Sustainability and development in built environment: the way forward |
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dc.identifier.email |
harshinim@uom.lk |
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