Healthy Workplace / Indoor environmental conditions

Cirre 2018 conference

Experience

• Senior Lecturer Facility Management, Hanze University of Applied

Sciences (Hanze UAS) / Researcher Facility Management, Knowledge Centre Northern Area Development;

• Developed the Indoor Comfort Index ©

• Facility Manager Project Manager Shared Service Centre Police

Department Northern Netherlands for facility services / Forerunner of the National Police Force

Henk W. Brink

Conceptual framework

Healthy Workplace • Social • Virtual • Physical - Climate - Acoustics - Ergonomics - Layout - Facilities - Nature Healthy Behaviours • Activity • Nourishment • Relaxation • Interaction • Concentration Healthy Workers • Physical • Mental • Social Healthy Organisation • Performance • Satisfaction • Vitality • Sustainable Employability • Engagement • Image

Prospective outputs

• Living lab:

Place for measuring, experiencing and experimenting

• Knowledge and tools for individual knowledge workers:

How can I improve my health within this workplace?

• Knowledge and tools for employers:

Research projects

• Ba/Ma thesis projects, different disciplines and subjects, e.g.:

sit/stand desks, workplace nudging, data privacy, promoting activity, relaxation needs, personal dashboard, HR/FM involvement, individual climate control

• Data collection in Living Lab at Hanze UAS

• Longitudinal case study new work environment Menzis • Evaluation study ‘Werkplek+’ program at Hanze UAS • Preparing second Living Lab at Menzis location

8 21-6-2019 Titel presentatie (via kop- en voettekst)

Indoor Comfort Index

© Healthy Workplace • Social • Virtual • Physical - Climate - Acoustics - Ergonomics - Layout - Facilities - Nature Healthy Behaviours • Activity • Nourishment • Relaxation • Interaction • Concentration Healthy Workers • Physical • Mental • Social Healthy Organisation • Performance • Satisfaction • Vitality • Sustainable Employability • Engagement • Image

Indoor Comfort Index

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• Research into the quality and perception of the indoor climate • Standardized and validated method for measuring the quality

(perceived and actual conditions) of the indoor climate

• Over 1500 workplaces and a comparable amount of employees were interviewed

10 Optimal Classroom Experience

ICI

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Optimal Classroom Experience (OCE)

Healthy Workplace • Social • Virtual • Physical - Climate - Acoustics - Ergonomics - Layout - Facilities - Nature Healthy Behaviours • Activity • Nourishment • Relaxation • Interaction • Concentration Healthy Workers • Physical • Mental • Social Healthy Organisation • Performance • Satisfaction • Vitality • Sustainable Employability • Engagement • Image

Ph.D research project

TU/e and Hanze UAS

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Developing guidelines for an optimal indoor climate in classrooms for user-interactions in higher education

• Henk W. Brink, Ph.D student

• Prof. dr. Helianthe Kort, supervisor (TU/e, HU) • Dr. Mark Mobach, first supervisor (HG, HH) • Dr. Marcel Loomans, second supervisor (TU/e)

Ph. Research TU/e and Hanze UAS

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• Environmental conditions (indoor climate) (Frontczak & Wargocki, 2011):

– indoor air quality (IAQ) – thermal comfort

– acoustic comfort – visual comfort

• Classrooms higher education • Educational outcome

Quiz

The Dutch Community Health Services of Groningen has recently investigated the quality of the indoor air at secondary schools.

This research shows that levels of carbon dioxide concentrations were classified as unacceptable in ….% of the classrooms of secondary schools A:>35%

B:>55% C:>75% D:>95%

Research shows that environmental conditions in classrooms: • are far from optimal

• in some cases even unhealthy

• affect the performance of teachers and students negatively

Wargocki & Wyon, 2017; De Gids, 2007; Shaughnessy et al., 2006; Tiesler & Oberdörster, 2006; EPA, n.d; GGD, 2009

Current situation

OCE Conceptual framework

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Built environment

− indoor air quality − thermal comfort − acoustic comfort − visual comfort Education users (teachers, students) − alertness − vitality Education interactions (teachers, students)

− quality of the lessons − effectiveness of knowledge transfer (dissemination, absorption) Education outcome (students) − knowledge − skills

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Results

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• Literature review (influence and methods) (2019) • Performing experiments (classroom A and B) (2020)

• Delphi study (how to create an ideal indoor environment) (2021) • Performing experiments (classroom A and A++) (2022)

Henk W. Brink MSc, Ph.D student

h.w.brink@pl.hanze.nl +31 (0) 6 57326712