future challenges
by Professor David Wyon
BA (Cambridge), MSc (Aston), PhD (London)
| Date: | 17 January 2006 (Tuesday) |
| Time: | 7.00pm to 10.00pm |
| Venue: | LR425, Level 4, SDE3 |
| Address: | School of Design and Environment, National University of Singapore, 4 Architecture Drive, Singapore 117566, Tel: 65165150 |
| Fees | Free for Registered ASC members |
| $15 for other guests | |
| Closing date for registration: | 11 January 2005 |
| PDU: | 2 points |
| Programme | |
| Registration | 6.45 - 7.15pm (registration area outside LR425) |
| Buffet dinner | 7.15 - 8.00pm |
| Technical Talk | 8.00 - 10.00pm (Presentation: 1 hr 30 min; Q & A: 30 mins ) |
As there are limited places, please register early for the seminar by completing the form and fax it to Ms Chelvi at 6775 5502 / email to bdgtp@nus.edu.sg by 11 January 2006.
For further enquiries, please call Chelvi, tel: 6516 5150.
Cheque payable to “National University of Singapore”
Synopsis:
Dr Wyon will introduce the topic of productivity research by defining Independent, Intervening
and Dependent Variables and the concept of investigating effects on productivity by validating
Causative Pathways. He will describe the historical development of ergonomic research on
performance, the techniques that he found useful to increase the sensitivity of the approach for
application to a civilian population and to evaluating task performance in light industry, offices,
transportation and schools.
He will discuss the results of key experiments in this process, on thermal effects on school
children in Sweden, on factory workers in South Africa and on driver vigilance in moving
vehicles; thermal, noise and air quality effects on subjects in simulated office environments at the
International Centre for Indoor Environment and Energy at DTU in Copenhagen; and the current
field intervention experiments to examine classroom temperature and air quality effects on the
performance of school work by children under the contract ASHRAE 1257-RP).
Professor David Wyon is known for his behavioural research into indoor environmental effects
on people. In over 40 years of field and laboratory experiments he has shown conclusively that
quite small differences in such factors as temperature, humidity, air quality and noise can have
large effects in practice on health, comfort and productivity. Most of his work has been on IEQ in
buildings, from schools to offices to factories, but also in transportation environments, including
cars, trucks, buses and most recently, aircraft cabins.
He is a Member of the International Academy of Indoor Air Sciences and of ASHRAE’s Technical
Committees TC2.1 (Physiology and Human Requirements) and TC9.3 (Transportation
Environments). He is a professor at the International Centre for Indoor Environment and
Energy in Copenhagen, Denmark, and a Visiting Professor at the National University of Singapore.
From 1995-2001 he was a Corporate Research Fellow with Johnson Controls, Inc., USA and a
Visiting Scholar at the University of California, Berkeley, Center for the Built Environment (CBE),
where he helped to develop the Internet-based Occupant IEQ Survey. Before that he was Head
of the Human Criteria Laboratory of the National Swedish Institute for Building Research. He has
been a guest researcher both at the National Building Research Institute in Pretoria, South Africa
and at the CNRS Laboratory for Applied Physiology and Psychology in Strasbourg, France.
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