Investigation of work-practices, skills and everyday challenges of building operators with respect to indoor climate and energy

Focus on sustainable construction brings many requirements and standards to ensure energy efficiency and high indoor environmental quality (IEQ). However, these are mainly used in design phase. Commissioning becomes increasingly common to ensure functionality when building is taken into use. However, buildings are expected to stay in use for many years. It is a building operator, who ensures that building delivers healthy and comfortable environment. It is beyond discussion that his/her skills and professional level affect building’s actual performance. The present study had an objective to investigate work skills, experiences and professional challenges of building operators in Danish office buildings with particular focus on IEQ and energy efficiency. Thirty building operation professionals working in 23 companies were interviewed. The results showed that occupant complaints were a driving factor with respect to IEQ related measures. Knowledge of standards and requirements regarding IEQ turned up to be rather superficial. In most cases, there was a lack of a well-defined operational strategy regarding IEQ. The results show that there is a need to provide a missing link between technological part of building operation and a strategic part defining clear goals and practices.publishedVersio

DEFF er mere end licenser

Kulturstyrelsen har antydet, at man fremover primært ser DEFF som et forum for indgåelse af licensaftaler. Vi er ikke uenige i, at DEFF skal håndtere licensaftaler, men vi mener bestemt, at DEFF har potentiale til mere

Investigation of work-practices, skills and everyday challenges of building operators with respect to indoor climate and energy

Focus on sustainable construction brings many requirements and standards to ensure energy efficiency and high indoor environmental quality (IEQ). However, these are mainly used in design phase. Commissioning becomes increasingly common to ensure functionality when building is taken into use. However, buildings are expected to stay in use for many years. It is a building operator, who ensures that building delivers healthy and comfortable environment. It is beyond discussion that his/her skills and professional level affect building’s actual performance. The present study had an objective to investigate work skills, experiences and professional challenges of building operators in Danish office buildings with particular focus on IEQ and energy efficiency. Thirty building operation professionals working in 23 companies were interviewed. The results showed that occupant complaints were a driving factor with respect to IEQ related measures. Knowledge of standards and requirements regarding IEQ turned up to be rather superficial. In most cases, there was a lack of a well-defined operational strategy regarding IEQ. The results show that there is a need to provide a missing link between technological part of building operation and a strategic part defining clear goals and practices

Supplementary material to ECOMAR: A data-driven framework for ecosystembased Maritime Spatial Planning in Danish marine waters

Project manager Jesper H. AndersenThis report contains, as said in the title, the supplementary material to the synthesis report from the ECOMAR project (2018- 2020). The supplementary material consists of three parts: 1) Annex A, being the data sets and layers dealing with human pressures and activities, 2) Annex B, being the data set related to ecosystem components and analogue data sets, and 3) Annex C, being additional data used for the mapping of potentially cumulative effects in Danish marine waters as well as maps of results mentioned, but not show in the synthesis report. For each data set, a specific reference to the data authoring organization as well as contact information for the Data Author.THE VELUX FOUNDATIONSpublishedVersio

ECOMAR: A data-driven framework for ecosystem-based Maritime Spatial Planning in Danish marine waters. Results and conclusions from a development and demonstration project

We report the developments and results of the ECOMAR project, which have taken place 2018-2020 and was funded by THE VELUX FOUNDATIONS. ECOMAR has established state-of-the-art data sets for the distribution of human activities and pressures as well as ecosystem components in Danish marine waters. ECOMAR has mapped the combined effects of multiple human pressures, ranked pressures and analysed the potential effects of changes in pressure intensities and new human activities. ECOMAR has also outlined how zoning could be initiated in Denmark. Further, ECOMAR has modelled scenarios for 2030 and 2050 and concludes that agreed strategies and plans will probably not lead to reductions in human activities and pressures and accordingly unlikely to lead to improvements in environmental status.publishedVersio