Abstract
This article presents the reason why a POE is necessary to verify comfort and energy efficiency design targets and the challenges of applying this evaluation to educational buildings.
Post-occupancy evaluation can be defined as the examination of the effectiveness for human users of occupied, designed environments [1]. In other words, POE is a method that is used to evaluate an occupied building during its typical use, with the aim of better understanding the disparities between predicted and observed energy and comfort performances. There are multiple reasons for conducting a POE. The most common reasons are to fine-tune a new building for maximising occupants’ wellbeing and productivity, to inform designers and contractors about the actual energy performances of their ‘product’, to establish benchmark data, to improve certification schemes, and to support the investment decision process.