Post Occupancy Evaluations

Post Occupancy Evaluation is a systematic assessment of the office layout or building in use. It is concerned with the collection of reliable and valid information and opinion from those people who must function within the environment. Ultimately this process examines how well a building matches users' needs, and identifies ways to improve building design, performance and fitness for purpose.

Benefits of post occupancy evaluations:

• Account for workspace layout and building quality
• Improve the return on your design investment
• Identify successful design features to repeat in other areas
• Identify design and/or layout problems to be removed or reduced
• Fine tune completed settings
• Identify redundant or unnecessary building features

At Zeal our Post Occupancy Evaluations provides the psychological perspective to human-environment interactions. We achieve this in a systematic but practical way to ensure learning about positive and negative environmental features are maximised. Our evaluation procedure is one which engages the client and their employees completely. We aim to improve and transfer problem solving and empower employees to communicate about their workplace design and layout to maximise performance and productivity.