About o2
What is Occupant Orientation (O2)? O2 addresses knowledge, coaching, training, and incentives as methods of encouraging and realizing changes in occupant behaviors which positively affect building performance.
Why the O2 concept?
I created this website while pursuing a dual masters at Catholic University of America Architecture school in Sustainable Design and City & Regional Planning. The disciplines converged while taking a classes on Energy Modeling, Design Synergies and the History of American City Planning into an idea that became my thesis.
Occupant influence on building performance is not new — in fact, good stewardship ranges from virtuous behavior to economic and environmental necessity. While sorting through the literature I found multiple efforts and disciplines aspiring to optimize human/building interface. O2 is an attempt to synthesize these efforts into a tool kit for building practitioners.
This idea became my problem statement: How do owners/managers integrate occupants into building analysis to make them positive contributors to High Performance Buildings (HPB)?
My Thesis Statement = High Performance Buildings (HPB) would be even more effective if there were promulgated protocols to assist owners in the identification, conduct and assessment of O2.
Why? https://www.o2-research.com:
I know that there are others on the quest to optimize people/building harmony and wanted to develop a way to learn, communicate and collaborate. Please share any ideas, criticisms, techniques and data — my thesis is not an ends to a means, it is my humble effort to move people, the built environment and the planet more comfortable, productive, and sustainable.
Why the O2 concept?
I created this website while pursuing a dual masters at Catholic University of America Architecture school in Sustainable Design and City & Regional Planning. The disciplines converged while taking a classes on Energy Modeling, Design Synergies and the History of American City Planning into an idea that became my thesis.
Occupant influence on building performance is not new — in fact, good stewardship ranges from virtuous behavior to economic and environmental necessity. While sorting through the literature I found multiple efforts and disciplines aspiring to optimize human/building interface. O2 is an attempt to synthesize these efforts into a tool kit for building practitioners.
This idea became my problem statement: How do owners/managers integrate occupants into building analysis to make them positive contributors to High Performance Buildings (HPB)?
My Thesis Statement = High Performance Buildings (HPB) would be even more effective if there were promulgated protocols to assist owners in the identification, conduct and assessment of O2.
Why? https://www.o2-research.com:
I know that there are others on the quest to optimize people/building harmony and wanted to develop a way to learn, communicate and collaborate. Please share any ideas, criticisms, techniques and data — my thesis is not an ends to a means, it is my humble effort to move people, the built environment and the planet more comfortable, productive, and sustainable.
