Issue |
E3S Web Conf.
Volume 111, 2019
CLIMA 2019 Congress
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Article Number | 02047 | |
Number of page(s) | 4 | |
Section | Indoor Environment Quality and Others | |
DOI | https://doi.org/10.1051/e3sconf/201911102047 | |
Published online | 13 August 2019 |
Effects of Wellness Conscious Buildings on the Well-being and Comfort of Workers
1 Waseda University, 1698555, Tokyo, Japan
2 Mitsubishi Electric Corporation, 1008310, Tokyo, Japan
* Corresponding author: nakamura@tanabe.arch.waseda.ac.jp
In recent years, Mental and physical health of office workers is regarded as a problem and the office buildings which improve workers’ wellness. The WELL Building Standard was announced with the aim of improving the health condition of building users in 2014. The purpose of this study is to demonstrate the improvement of the health condition of the office workers who work at the office applying WELL Building Standard. To achieve this purpose, low-score office and high-score office for WELL Building Standard scores were created by changing the indoor environment and furniture in the office, and subject experiments in which we perform the work were conducted in each condition. From the experimental results, we propose environmental control and introduction furniture to verify changes in health condition of office workers, to improve the wellness of building users, and to bring synergy effects to health. It was confirmed that working at plural spaces which workers chose themselves.
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