Smart and Sustainable Offices (SSO). Showcasing a holistic approach to realise the next generation offices
Journal article, 2017

The Smart Sustainable Offices project (SSO) is a product of years of research with large sets of data collected from more than 30 office buildings in Switzerland, Sweden, and Spain. Based on scientific evidence, the concept of SSO, initially conceived as a research plan to address the interdependencies between office users and their working environment in a European context, is now used as a qualitative and quantitative mixed method approach for office diagnosis and ideation. At the current stage, the SSO methodology aims to implement a new paradigm of user-oriented, lower carbon footprint and resilient office design solutions. The main strategy is articulated around the “office DNA” of every organisation, decoded as a compound of work patterns, operational and individual needs, and their potential to define design criteria. The practical application of SSO and its tentative findings exemplified through three pilot test office-demonstrators are described in this paper.

comfort experience

indoor environmental quality

space-resilience

employees’ needs

Office DNA

sustainable office design

work patterns.

Author

Antonio Cobaleda Cordero

Chalmers, Product and Production Development, Design and Human Factors

Ulrike Rahe

Chalmers, Product and Production Development, Design and Human Factors

Holger Wallbaum

Chalmers, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Building Technology

Quan Jin

Chalmers, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Building Technology

Melina Forooraghi

Chalmers, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Building Technology

Informes de la Construccion

0020-0883 (ISSN) 1988-3234 (eISSN)

Vol. 69 548 1-10

Driving Forces

Sustainable development

Innovation and entrepreneurship

Subject Categories

Work Sciences

Design

Social Sciences Interdisciplinary

Other Civil Engineering

Areas of Advance

Building Futures (2010-2018)

Energy

DOI

10.3989/id.55278

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