Intelligent Buildings in South East Asia

Type	Book, Whole
Author(s)	Harrison,A. , Loe,E. , Read,J.
Publication year	1998
URL (web address)	not available
Notes	ID: HARRISON1998; In a volume devoted to case studies of 15 'Intelligent Buildings' in major SE Asian cities the authors devote a chapter to assessment of costs and benefits from both landlord and occupier perspectives and a second to descrition of a new building rating methodology. Within the limits of a quantifiable, and building lead approach this is one of the more sophisticated and detailed approaches so far discovered in the publically available literature. Measures of suggested service productivity include absence (absenteeism, lateness, sickness and turnover), activity (productive days as a percentage of total available days) and routine task processing speed. True business productivity gains are regarded as a) not quantified and b) unlikely to be sustained at above 10%; and even that 'higher end' is likely to require $cultural as well as physical change$. An attempt is then made to quantify the benefits of productivity by valueing the cost to the organisation per employee day.$$ $$
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