Abstract:

Sustainable building design strategies create improved indoor environmental quality and should, thus, be associated with improved occupant comfort, satisfaction, health, and work performance relative to buildings designed around standard practices. With the sustainability agenda growing rapidly, the government of Malaysia embarked upon taking steps towards integrating sustainability into building performance. In response to the underlying issues of sustainability development, Post Occupancy Evaluation (POE) can be incorporated in the construction industry to promote sustainability. However, despite the obvious benefits that can be gained by implementing POE, measuring building performance has not gained much interest from the practitioners in the local construction industry. Considering the impact of these issues, a preliminary survey has been undertaken with the intention to identify the barriers to the implementation of POE in the public sector in Malaysia. Several factors considered as POE implementation barriers were identified from the literature and surveyed among SCI-Network (2012), Aqlima et al. (2011), Izran (2011), Zimmerman and Martin (2010), Hadjri and Crozier (2009), Izran et al., (2009), Riley et al. (2009), Brooks and Viccars (2006), (Kooyman and Haylock (2006), Bordass and Leaman (2005), McDougall et al. (2002), Vischer (2002), Cooper (2002), Eley (2001), Zimmerman and Martin (2001), Kincaid (1994, Becker (1990), and Becker and Sim (1990).