Building Performance Assessment Health Premises Assessment Model

T. O. Zubairu, Lawal Dalhatu Eneyemire, Yahya Kauthar

Abstract: Assessment of the performance of a building from the viewpoint of its suitability, improvement, and design needs for people in the hospital is a complex matter. The concerns are beyond measurements of detailed properties of a building, it is more about psychological assessments. As is usual in the built environment, buildings are continually being evaluated to ensure that improvements can be carried out from time to time in the existing building and for new designs. The evaluation is predicated on feedback. The outcomes of the reviews of past building evaluation works indicate that most evaluations are silent on the feedback quality from people with different forms and levels of mental impairments. It is in response to this, and the desire to attend to the aged with age - related cognitive impairment diseases (such as those related to Alzheimer, autism, dementia, and others) that the research motivation emanates. Developing a computational model for the precision assessment of the performance of buildings, in the form of user satisfaction is the aim of this research. The methodology employed for this purpose is anchored on action research through participatory experience and knowledge acquisition of situation via selected case study centers. Descriptively the research exercise entails data acquisition by means of questionnaires supported by literature survey, expert interviews, and observations/experiences, all integrated into a neural networks model. The data gathered were used in analysis and computations to develop the model using an aspect of soft computing techniques - (Fuzzy Neural Networks - FNN). The model is to provide an understanding of the relative importance of the building features taking their simultaneous interrelation into account for the satisfaction of the users in focus.

Keywords: Neural networks, Health Premises performance, assessment, Satisfaction, Users, and Impairments