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Health & Comfort

Health & Comfort. Our Aim was: Explaining and applying the principles of built environments that bring a high level of vitality and optimal comfort up to a high age. Our Strategy has been:. Sustainable Comfort = Health = Reducing Health Risk (Safety, Security)* + Health Support +

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Health & Comfort

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  1. Health & Comfort Our Aim was: Explaining and applying the principles of built environments that bring a high level of vitality and optimal comfort up to a high age JEMH van Bronswijk TU/e, October 25, 2003

  2. Our Strategy has been: • Sustainable Comfort • = Health = • Reducing Health Risk (Safety, Security)* + • Health Support + • Extending Healthy, Vital and Productive Years JEMH van Bronswijk TU/e, October 25, 2003

  3. Tactics = use the 3 Professional Outlooks: • Aesthetics, Creativity + User-orientation • Comfort + long-term effects (Sustainable Comfort) • Process Elucidation + Design Creativity Towards a Health Supportive Built Environment JEMH van Bronswijk TU/e, October 25, 2003

  4. (Mis) Conceptions on Users • User Orientation • User as co-designer • Mass individualization (Adaptive & Adaptable) • Integral Design • Designer Orientation • Standardisation • Fear for ICT or Technology Push • User does not want innovation • A Vendor’s market • Innovation will disrupt the market • User orientation is a luxury and not needed JEMH van Bronswijk TU/e, October 25, 2003

  5. Life Expectancy in the Netherlands 1850-1994 Average Life Expectancy at Birth Women Men Year Source: E.M. Tabeau 1997. Grenzen aan de Ouderdom, Demos (Oktober/November) http://www.nidi.nl/public/demos/dm97091.html JEMH van Bronswijk TU/e, October 25, 2003

  6. The 3 P’s in Design • Planet • Profit • 3. People • 1980 1. Profit 2. People 3. Planet 1850 1. People 2. Profit 3. Planet 1950 1. People 2. Profit 3. Planet 2010 ? JEMH van Bronswijk TU/e, October 25, 2003

  7. Occupational Safety & Health (OSH) Guest Speaker at 7y710 ir. Trees Klaver Arbo en Milieu Service Organisatie (AMSO), TU/e JEMH van Bronswijk TU/e, October 25, 2003

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  11. Next trimester: Course on Domotics for more details JEMH van Bronswijk TU/e, October 25, 2003

  12. Health risk Values • Individual Health • Individual Exposure Assessment • Medical Diagnosis • Public Health • Exposure Assessment • Incidence of Nuisance, Stress or Disease • Prevalence of Nuisance, Stress or Disease • Chain Model Risk Analysis (OHS approach) • DALY’s (Disability Adjusted Life Years) HACCP methodology = engineering tool JEMH van Bronswijk TU/e, October 25, 2003

  13. The Expert you will be (MSc, PhD) Oversees and uses the body of Old Knowledge Renews technical legislation and professional guidelines Spreads New Knowledge through professional journals Researcher: makes New Knowledge in peer-reviewed contributions to scientific journals JEMH van Bronswijk TU/e, October 25, 2003

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