Abstract:

Relocating electrical facilities underground, makes planners should pay attention to several other factors, namely the design and aesthetics of underground buildings and their effects on the people who work in them. Thermal, audial, and visual comfort, influence the building design. Otherwise, there were only recently study that design and its accompanying physical symbols been considered as an upcoming factor to increase the employees’ motivation. This study hold a questionnaire survey that was applied to explore how the employees conceive their comfort perception about working in the above-ground Gas Insulated Substation (GIS) and the possibility if they are placed in the underground GIS. In quantitative analysis, data from the questionnaire was analyzed by statistical assessment using SPSS software. The regression analyze that the hypothesis “motivation of working in underground space is affected by the working comfort” is accepted. Using correlation and regression analysis as described in the result section, the most influential factor to increase the motivation is thermal comfort. This study supports previous study where workspace design correlates to the organizational culture. The results show that motivation of working in underground space is affected by the working comfort. That is why thermal comfort is the most important factor for this research