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Assaf, S, Hassanain, M A and Abdallah, A (2018) Review and assessment of the causes of deficiencies in design documents for large construction projects. International Journal of Building Pathology and Adaptation, 36(03), 300–17.

Atkinson, G (2008) Sustainability, the capital approach and the built environment. Building Research & Information, 36(03), 241–7.

Bröchner, J (2018) Construction economics and economics journals. Construction Management and Economics, 36(03), 175-80.

Cairns, G (2008) Advocating an ambivalent approach to theorizing the built environment. Building Research & Information, 36(03), 280–9.

Defoe, P S (2018) The consideration of trees in rights of light cases Part 2. International Journal of Building Pathology and Adaptation, 36(03), 318–32.

Gerges, M, Penn, S, Moore, D, Boothman, C and Liyanage, C (2018) Multi-storey residential buildings and occupant’s behaviour during fire evacuation in the UK. International Journal of Building Pathology and Adaptation, 36(03), 234–53.

Moffatt, S and Kohler, N (2008) Conceptualizing the built environment as a social–ecological system. Building Research & Information, 36(03), 248–68.

Ofori-Boadu, A N, Abrokwah, R Y, Gbewonyo, S and Fini, E (2018) Effect of swine-waste bio-char on the water absorption characteristics of cement pastes. International Journal of Building Pathology and Adaptation, 36(03), 283–99.

Rabeneck, A (2008) A sketch-plan for construction of built environment theory. Building Research & Information, 36(03), 269–79.

Sherratt, F (2018) Shaping the discourse of worker health in the UK construction industry. Construction Management and Economics, 36(03), 141-52.

Simpson, E, Bradley, D and O’Keeffe, J (2018) Failure is an option: an innovative engineering curriculum. International Journal of Building Pathology and Adaptation, 36(03), 268–82.

Vischer, J C (2008) Towards a user-centred theory of the built environment. Building Research & Information, 36(03), 231–40.

Type: Journal Article
Keywords: building performance; built environment; occupants; social theory; theory; user experience; user-based theory
ISBN/ISSN: 0961-3218
URL: https://doi.org/10.1080/09613210801936472
Abstract:
The building user's experience is explored as the basis for constructing a theory of the built environment. The first postulate of a user-centred theory is that the built environment exists to support the activities of users that it shelters. This theory, therefore, indicates ways in which we might learn more about this complex relationship; it also provides tools for measuring the degree to which the built environment in use is successful. Ways of approaching the users' experience of built space, and ways of measuring it to ensure that knowledge of the user-environment relationship grows, are described. Challenges to implementing such an exploration include defining users, agreeing on the meaning of experience, and organising if not delimiting what is included in the notion of built environment. The temporal dimension of space use is also a consideration. Drawing on extensive research on space-use in office buildings, a viable user-centred theory is developed in the context of one type of built environment. The user-centred theory enables links to be made between knowledge accumulated both at the micro scale of the users' experience and at the macro perspective of how the built environment is produced and delivered.

Wang, W, Zhang, S and Pasquire, C (2018) Factors for the adoption of green building specifications in China. International Journal of Building Pathology and Adaptation, 36(03), 254–67.