Effects of Educational Buildings Conditions on Education Quality

Soheil Soleimanipirmorad,Sadiye Müjdem Vural

doi:10.4236/ce.2018.913145

Soheil Soleimanipirmorad, Sadiye Müjdem Vural

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https://doi.org/10.4236/ce.2018.913145

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Journal: Creative education	Publication Date: Jan 1, 2018
Citations: 1	License type: CC BY 4.0

Affiliation: Eastern Mediterranean University

Abstract

Quality and productivity of education system is a major issue nowadays. There are lots of factors influencing education quality, one of these important factors is the condition and quality of the building. An educational building should provide a safe and healthy environment which students can study and work at their maximum health and productivity. Buildings may fail to provide such condition; Sick building syndrome (SBS) is one of the main reasons for this issue. Some of the common symptoms are headache, loss of concentration, runny nose, itching, dry skin and dry eyes. SBS is not always easy to recognize and lack of awareness amongst designers and users about SBS leads to problems like reducing the productivity or learning capacity of students in an educational building. In this research, signs of SBS have been observed and analyzed in the Architectural Studios of EMU (Eastern Mediterranean University) to find out if the students are suffering from SBS effects and propose some possible solutions for their improvement.

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Building conditions can affect users’ health and performance
Results of Data As mentioned before according to ASHREE, a building can be called “sick” if twenty percent or more of the occupants or users complain of certain disorders for periods more than two weeks and they relief from the mentioned disorders when they leave the building (Jansz, 2011)
The questionnaire distributed among students who use the studios for a semester and almost all of the symptoms were reported more than 20% by the students in both studios according to Figure 14 and Figure 15; 67% claimed that they experience the disorders at the particular selected studios and

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Building conditions can affect users’ health and performance. Working environments and educational buildings need even more consideration towards this subject as users at these buildings spend long hours at the environment and they need to be productive. Increase of awareness and knowledge about the suitable building conditions can have important impact on students’ health and productivity. Sick Building Syndrome (SBS) is a major issue at schools and educational buildings which can influence education quality (Berglund, & Lindvall, 1986). The impact of SBS on people is a number of symptoms which have been seen. M. Vural and reported mostly at working environments like offices or educational buildings. The most common symptoms are itching, loss or lack of concentration, runny nose, headache, dry skin, lethargy, dryness or irritation of throat and dry eye (Sykes, 1988)

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