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Learning Resources

Post-Occupancy Evaluation

Conference Presentations

Delivering a Renovated Learning Commons for an Engaged Academic Community
Conference Recordings

Designing a Flexible and Resilient Research Building Through Integrated Planning

 This session will highlight how a collaborative team promoted innovation to enable decision making throughout the Plant Sciences Initiative design process at North Carolina State University (NCSU).
Conference Presentations

Inside Out: Understanding Space and Building Consensus in a Dynamic Environment

 Building consensus is challenging, but planners who are empowered by knowledge of their campus's space can make informed decisions on how to plan for its most efficient usage.
Conference Presentations

Integrated Planning for an Innovative and Efficient Design Process

 Designing a forward-thinking research building without identified occupants is a bold undertaking.
Conference Recordings

Minnesota Sustainable Building Guidelines

 The University of Minnesota follows the state’s sustainable building guidelines, specifically Indoor Environmental Quality (IEQ), and uses post-occupancy evaluations (POE) to measure user satisfaction with campus buildings. In this session, we’ll demonstrate how to implement sustainability initiatives, which have a significant impact on campus building performance and by extension, user performance and wellbeing.
Conference Presentations

Post-Occupancy Evaluation for Active Learning Environments

 We will explore exemplary active-learning environments and the evaluation methodology we used to measure how these environments have elicited learning behaviors that foster student engagement.
Conference Presentations

Taking POE to the Next Level to Measure Space Performance

 Taking post-occupancy evaluation (POE) to the next level, tools have been developed to reveal the measurable factors defined by users’ actions: frequency, duration, and usage of a desk, room, building, and campus.
Conference Recordings

Using Occupant Evaluation Data to Inform Higher Education Design

 Campus facility design is a complex process that involves many sources of opinion and influence. Educational environments must enhance evolving pedagogies, support learning, administrative, and social functions, and accommodate ever-changing institutional needs.