Occupants' Satisfaction, Acute Health Symptoms and Performance in Certified Office Buildings

It is often claimed that buildings certified as being sustainable secure high IEQ improving occupants' satisfaction and performance. There are few data that documenting this claim. Two multi-building, multi-country measuring campaigns were carried out to provide evidence on the performance of two certification schemes: Green Mark and DGNB-DK. Week long measurements of parameters describing thermal, atmospheric, acoustic and visual environment were performed, along with administration of a web-based occupant satisfaction survey and rating of their work performance. Three short cognitive games meaured short-term memory, concentration, and text comprehension. The results will be discussed comparing them to previously published data.