WELCOME WELCOME to the Building Environmental Comfort Verification Survey. By answering a few brief questions, you can provide valuable information to assist in maintaining or improving temperature and humidity levels and indoor air quality in your building. No response to this survey indicates you are satisfied with the existing building comfort systems. You can change any previous response by clicking on the PREV button at the bottom of each page. DO NOT use the back button at the top of your browser. Thank you for your time and your particpation! Page 1
1. Which of the following best describes the workspace that you occupy most frequently in the building? Enclosed office (private) Teaching lab Shop area Enclosed office (shared) Classroom/lecture hall Dorm room (private) Cubicle Meeting room Dorm room (shared) Research lab Public area Dorm suite Other (please specify) PLEASE NOTE: ALL REMAINING QUESTIONS ARE ABOUT THE AREA YOU INDICATED ABOVE. Page 2
TEMPERATURE AND HUMIDITY 2. Overall, are you satisfied with the TEMPERATURE and HUMIDITY in your workspace? Satisfied Dissatisfied Page 3
TEMPERATURE AND HUMIDITY 3. When thinking about a time when you were [Q2] with the space temperature or humidity, which choices below best describe the conditions? Check all that apply. Too hot Too cold Too humid Too dry 4. What was the season when you were [Q2] with the temperature or humidity? Check all that apply. Spring Summer Fall Winter. What approximate time of day were you [Q2] with the temperature or humidity? Check all that apply. Morning (before 11am) Mid day (11am 2pm) Afternoon (2pm pm) Evening (after pm) Weekend/Holidays Monday mornings All the time. Please provide a brief description of the comfort problem when you were [Q2] with the temperature or humidity. 7. Was this temperature or humidity issue resolved to your satisfaction? Yes No Page 4
AIR QUALITY 8. How would you rate the following air quality issues in your workspace? No problem Minor problem Somewhat a problem Major problem Air is stuffy or stale Air is not clean Air smells bad (odors) 9. Please describe any air quality issues that you have experienced. 10. Was this air quality issue resolved to your satisfaction? Yes No Page
COMMENTS AND CONTACT INFORMATION 11. Would you like for someone to follow up with you about any concerns you mentioned in previous questions? Yes No 12. Other comments or suggestions? 13. What is your room number? 14. What is your name and contact information? (optional) Page
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Indiana University THERMAL COMFORT VERIFICATION PLAN For Jacobs School of Music Studio LEED Project ID 10313414 Statement of Intent The Jacobs School of Music Studio (Formerly IU Jacobs School of Music Faculty Studio Building) on the Bloomington campus of Indiana University (IU) was designed and is being constructed to provide indoor environmental conditions that equal or exceed the University and ASHRAE Standards for a specified wide range of outdoor temperature and humidity levels and air quality conditions. The intent of this Plan is to establish the procedures that will be used by University staff to verify the comfort level related to those indoor conditions and initiate corrective action if found to be needed. This Plan is intended to fully comply with the requirements of Credit 7.2 in the Indoor Environmental Quality (EQ) section of the LEED New Construction (NC) green building rating program, Version 2.2. Structure of Plan The primary parts of the process for the Plan are the: Survey Development, Distribution and Collection Analysis Evaluating survey results & supplemental field measurements to verify rooms with maintained acceptable thermal conditions and to identify those rooms that are not. Survey Corrective Action Warranty work by contractors or Work Orders by IU Building Maintenance. Development: Using the thermal comfort sections of the ANSI/ASHRAE Standard 2004, Thermal Environmental Conditions for Human Occupancy and the associated Informative Appendix E, Thermal Environmental Survey, IU Engineering Services and the Sustainability Interns of the Office of Sustainability drafted a Thermal Comfort Survey in web survey format during the summer of 2009. The draft was tested for user acceptance and further refined in 2012. Distribution: The Physical Plant Service Center will issue to the Building Representative a comfort survey announcement letter with link to a web survey adapted for the Music Studio. Twelve months after building move in the Building Representative will forward the comfort survey letter and web survey link to all building occupants. The use of a short web survey will help gather sufficient 1
feedback in a time efficient manner. Repeat emailing will be used to gather more responses if needed to have responses from a sufficient number of occupants. If more responses are still required hard paper copies will be distributed and collected by the Building Representative to obtain a cross sampling of occupants from different parts of the building. The length of time between building move in and the collection of the surveys will insure that responses are based on a full range of weather conditions. Collection: Within the first 14 months of occupation the surveys will be collected, counted and tabulated by the Physical Plant Service Center which will then provide the surveys and preliminary results to the Assistant Director of Building Systems (ADBS). Analysis The ADBS shall analyze the specific reports of undesirable temperature or humidity control or air quality problems. Those reports will be reviewed with the Building Representative who will provide additional details on comfort issues. The record of Trouble Calls collected by the Physical Plant Dispatch and Control Centers will be reviewed in relationship to the IU seasonal ambient space temperature settings. The record of the related work done by the contractors kept by the IU Construction Management section will also be reviewed. The Building Commissioning Report shall be reviewed. Engineering Services shall provide its analysis of the actual performance as compared to the design intent. Additional field measurements or data logging from the Energy Management System (EMS) will be used as necessary. Occupant personal factors, such as metabolic rate (activity level) and clothing will also be observed and evaluated when appropriate, in accordance with the above mentioned ASHRAE Standard. If the combined data indicates that 20% of the occupants on any room have thermal comfort conditions that do not meet the IU and ASHRAE standards, then the ADBS shall identify those rooms for corrective action by the contractors and/or IU Physical Plant. Short term monitoring and spot measurements shall be started in appropriate cases. Corrective Action Using the above mentioned list of non compliant rooms and input from the Building Representative, Engineering Services and/or Building Maintenance supervisors, the ADBS will select appropriate corrective action, such as thermostat or diffuser relocations and set point or reset schedule modifications, for particular rooms or the air handler systems that serve them. Those corrective actions shall be assigned to contractors if warranty repair matters are involved. All others will be issued to Physical Plant Building Maintenance crews by the use of Work Orders that will be tracked for completion by the Physical Plant. Corrective actions shall be completed within 18 months of building occupancy if building use and economic factors will allow for modifications in that time frame. Short term monitoring and spot measurements shall be completed by that time. A final report on the Physical Plant Work Orders shall be issued by the Physical Plant Service Center to the Director of Physical Plant, the ADBS and the Building Representative. A similar report on the contractor corrective actions shall be complied & distributed by Construction Management. 2