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Adegbenga Adeyemi - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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Facilities improvement for sustainability of existing Public Office buildings in Nigeria
2017Co-Authors: Adegbenga Adeyemi, David Martin, Rozilah Kasim, A.i. AdeyemiAbstract:The study examined the building design features of a cosmopolitan Public Office building in Abuja. The features were classified into Spatial Plan, Structure and Facilities, to determine which of the 3 variables requires urgent sustainable improvement from end-users' perspective in existing Public Office buildings in developing countries. A quantitative approach was adopted while the research strategy involved survey and direct observation. Post-Occupancy Evaluation was used to collect the survey data on a massive Public Office building in Nigeria, which reflected the quota system and federal character of the nation, as study area. A total of 339 useable questionnaires were retrieved from the respondents, and the analysis conducted revealed that facilities requires the most urgent improvement for sustainability. It was therefore recommended that facilities should be given priority for successful sustainable improvement of Public Office buildings above other design features. Keywords: Existing buildings, Facilities, Performance indicators, Sustainable improvement, Users' requirement
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The relevance of lean thinking to sustainable improvement of Public Office buildings in Nigeria
2017Co-Authors: Adegbenga Adeyemi, David Martin, Rozilah KasimAbstract:This study looked into the relevance of lean thinking, particularly the application of muda as a supplement to the sustainable improvement diagnosis technique of existing Office buildings, for a fuller assessment of user's requirement in Nigeria. The impact of muda as related to the triple bottom line of sustainable development on perceived job productivity and design features was estimated from end-user's perspective, using diagnostic POE as data acquiring tool while the confirmatory analysis was done through AMOS, SPSS and MS Excel to explain the relationship between the different variables. The findings showed that muda is inherent in Public Office buildings and it has highly significant causal effects of 0.66 and 0.76, respectively on perceived job productivity and design features; it also has strong effect sizes of 44 and 58% in explaining both their variances, respectively. The result revealed that users require more improvement in facilities as against spatial plan and structures while there is a medium and positive correlation of 0.48 between perceived job productivity and design features implying that the improvement of one will consequently lead to the improvement of the other. The study concludes that lean thinking is relevant to building improvement and could serve as good supplement to the current improvement diagnosis of existing Public Office buildings but not as a substitute since data were only collected from users who are not able to provide the required technical data that would otherwise warrant use of equipment
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Improvement of existing Public Office buildings in Nigeria from users’ perspective using lean thinking – a pictorial view
International Journal of Architecture and Urban Development, 2016Co-Authors: Adegbenga Adeyemi, David Martin, Rozilah KasimAbstract:This paper gives a pictorial view of the relevance of lean thinking, particularly the application of muda as a supplement to the sustainable improvement diagnosis technique of existing Public Office buildings, for a fuller assessment of users’ requirement in Nigeria. The impact of perceived muda was related to the triple bottom line of sustainable development on perceived job productivity and design features and estimated from endusers’ perspective, using diagnostic POE as data acquiring tool, while the confirmatory analysis was done through AMOS, SPSS and MS Excel to explain the relationship between the different variables. The findings showed that muda is inherent in Public Office buildings and it has highly significant causal effects of 0.66 and 0.76 respectively on perceived job productivity and design features; it also has strong effect sizes of 44% and 58% in explaining both their variances respectively. The result revealed that users require more improvement in facilities as against spatial plan and structures, while there is a medium and positive correlation of 0.48 between perceived job productivity and design features – implying that improvement in design features will consequently lead to improvement in perceived job productivity. The study concludes that lean thinking is relevant to building improvement and could serve as good supplement to the current improvement diagnosis of existing Public Office buildings, but not as a substitute since data were only collected from users who are not able to provide the required technical data that would otherwise warrant use of equipment.
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Enhancement of users’ requirement assessment for sustainability of existing Public Office buildings using lean thinking approach
2016Co-Authors: Martin David, Adegbenga Adeyemi, Rozilah KasimAbstract:The improvement of existing buildings had been argued to be a major approach in attaining sustainability in the built environment, especially in developing countries. However, literature review had shown that users’ requirement, which is the basis of accomplishing sustainable improvement were hardly met in improved buildings. The paper thus approached the sustainable improvement diagnosis technique of Public Office buildings through the enhancement of users’ requirement assessment using the lean thinking concept, which emphasized improvement from end-users’ perspective. The research adopted the quantitative method, using diagnostic Post Occupancy Evaluation as data acquiring tool from a massive Office complex in Nigeria. The research concluded that lean thinking can enhance the assessment of users’ requirement in existing Public Office building improvement diagnosis in developing countries, however, the approach can only be used as a supplement and not a replacement of the diagnosis technique, since the end-users are not able to provide the technical details of professional expertise and equipment needed in a typical improvement diagnosis technique.
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Research Framework for Identification of Waste and Inefficiencies in Existing Public Office Buildings in Developing Nations for Sustainability
British Journal of Applied Science & Technology, 2015Co-Authors: Adegbenga Adeyemi, David Martin, Rozilah KasimAbstract:Aims: Many countries, especially in the developing world, did not meet the UN target of 2002 to achieve sustainable development (SD) in their built environment mainly because the issue of existing buildings which form the bulk of building stock were not adequately addressed. This research paper examined the improvement of existing Public Office buildings in developing countries, using the Lean Thinking strategy for the identification of perceived waste and inefficient facilities for sustainability. Study Design: The paper did a literature review on improvement models for sustainability. Place and Duration of Study: Department of Real Estate Management, UTHM, Johor, from May, 2013 to date. Methodology: The identified improvement models were examined from the perspective of their scope; the triple bottom lines of SD addressed; research framework; philosophies, paradigms; and their applications to decide an appropriate model for improvement of existing buildings for sustainability. A research framework was subsequently developed for the adopted model. Results: The lean model and the diagnostic post-occupancy evaluation (POE) tool were adopted for the study, with a working depth limited to the systematic evaluation of opinion to determine Original Research Article Adeyemi et al.; BJAST, 5(1): 60-75, 2015; Article no.BJAST.2015.005 61 waste and inefficiencies in the building from the perspective of the occupants, in order to assess how well the building match their satisfaction, expectancies and needs, and identifies ways to improve the building design standard, performance and fitness for purpose. Conclusion: There is no doubt that there are a number of other factors and barriers that affect our ability to make existing building stock more sustainable. However, until these two major issues of waste, and inefficient facilities are addressed in built assets, the pace of SD in the developing countries may remain slow. The paper also revealed that the improvement of existing buildings is cheaper and more environmental friendly than rebuild, and will also reduce maintenance cost.
Rozilah Kasim - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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Facilities improvement for sustainability of existing Public Office buildings in Nigeria
2017Co-Authors: Adegbenga Adeyemi, David Martin, Rozilah Kasim, A.i. AdeyemiAbstract:The study examined the building design features of a cosmopolitan Public Office building in Abuja. The features were classified into Spatial Plan, Structure and Facilities, to determine which of the 3 variables requires urgent sustainable improvement from end-users' perspective in existing Public Office buildings in developing countries. A quantitative approach was adopted while the research strategy involved survey and direct observation. Post-Occupancy Evaluation was used to collect the survey data on a massive Public Office building in Nigeria, which reflected the quota system and federal character of the nation, as study area. A total of 339 useable questionnaires were retrieved from the respondents, and the analysis conducted revealed that facilities requires the most urgent improvement for sustainability. It was therefore recommended that facilities should be given priority for successful sustainable improvement of Public Office buildings above other design features. Keywords: Existing buildings, Facilities, Performance indicators, Sustainable improvement, Users' requirement
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The relevance of lean thinking to sustainable improvement of Public Office buildings in Nigeria
2017Co-Authors: Adegbenga Adeyemi, David Martin, Rozilah KasimAbstract:This study looked into the relevance of lean thinking, particularly the application of muda as a supplement to the sustainable improvement diagnosis technique of existing Office buildings, for a fuller assessment of user's requirement in Nigeria. The impact of muda as related to the triple bottom line of sustainable development on perceived job productivity and design features was estimated from end-user's perspective, using diagnostic POE as data acquiring tool while the confirmatory analysis was done through AMOS, SPSS and MS Excel to explain the relationship between the different variables. The findings showed that muda is inherent in Public Office buildings and it has highly significant causal effects of 0.66 and 0.76, respectively on perceived job productivity and design features; it also has strong effect sizes of 44 and 58% in explaining both their variances, respectively. The result revealed that users require more improvement in facilities as against spatial plan and structures while there is a medium and positive correlation of 0.48 between perceived job productivity and design features implying that the improvement of one will consequently lead to the improvement of the other. The study concludes that lean thinking is relevant to building improvement and could serve as good supplement to the current improvement diagnosis of existing Public Office buildings but not as a substitute since data were only collected from users who are not able to provide the required technical data that would otherwise warrant use of equipment
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Improvement of existing Public Office buildings in Nigeria from users’ perspective using lean thinking – a pictorial view
International Journal of Architecture and Urban Development, 2016Co-Authors: Adegbenga Adeyemi, David Martin, Rozilah KasimAbstract:This paper gives a pictorial view of the relevance of lean thinking, particularly the application of muda as a supplement to the sustainable improvement diagnosis technique of existing Public Office buildings, for a fuller assessment of users’ requirement in Nigeria. The impact of perceived muda was related to the triple bottom line of sustainable development on perceived job productivity and design features and estimated from endusers’ perspective, using diagnostic POE as data acquiring tool, while the confirmatory analysis was done through AMOS, SPSS and MS Excel to explain the relationship between the different variables. The findings showed that muda is inherent in Public Office buildings and it has highly significant causal effects of 0.66 and 0.76 respectively on perceived job productivity and design features; it also has strong effect sizes of 44% and 58% in explaining both their variances respectively. The result revealed that users require more improvement in facilities as against spatial plan and structures, while there is a medium and positive correlation of 0.48 between perceived job productivity and design features – implying that improvement in design features will consequently lead to improvement in perceived job productivity. The study concludes that lean thinking is relevant to building improvement and could serve as good supplement to the current improvement diagnosis of existing Public Office buildings, but not as a substitute since data were only collected from users who are not able to provide the required technical data that would otherwise warrant use of equipment.
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Enhancement of users’ requirement assessment for sustainability of existing Public Office buildings using lean thinking approach
2016Co-Authors: Martin David, Adegbenga Adeyemi, Rozilah KasimAbstract:The improvement of existing buildings had been argued to be a major approach in attaining sustainability in the built environment, especially in developing countries. However, literature review had shown that users’ requirement, which is the basis of accomplishing sustainable improvement were hardly met in improved buildings. The paper thus approached the sustainable improvement diagnosis technique of Public Office buildings through the enhancement of users’ requirement assessment using the lean thinking concept, which emphasized improvement from end-users’ perspective. The research adopted the quantitative method, using diagnostic Post Occupancy Evaluation as data acquiring tool from a massive Office complex in Nigeria. The research concluded that lean thinking can enhance the assessment of users’ requirement in existing Public Office building improvement diagnosis in developing countries, however, the approach can only be used as a supplement and not a replacement of the diagnosis technique, since the end-users are not able to provide the technical details of professional expertise and equipment needed in a typical improvement diagnosis technique.
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Research Framework for Identification of Waste and Inefficiencies in Existing Public Office Buildings in Developing Nations for Sustainability
British Journal of Applied Science & Technology, 2015Co-Authors: Adegbenga Adeyemi, David Martin, Rozilah KasimAbstract:Aims: Many countries, especially in the developing world, did not meet the UN target of 2002 to achieve sustainable development (SD) in their built environment mainly because the issue of existing buildings which form the bulk of building stock were not adequately addressed. This research paper examined the improvement of existing Public Office buildings in developing countries, using the Lean Thinking strategy for the identification of perceived waste and inefficient facilities for sustainability. Study Design: The paper did a literature review on improvement models for sustainability. Place and Duration of Study: Department of Real Estate Management, UTHM, Johor, from May, 2013 to date. Methodology: The identified improvement models were examined from the perspective of their scope; the triple bottom lines of SD addressed; research framework; philosophies, paradigms; and their applications to decide an appropriate model for improvement of existing buildings for sustainability. A research framework was subsequently developed for the adopted model. Results: The lean model and the diagnostic post-occupancy evaluation (POE) tool were adopted for the study, with a working depth limited to the systematic evaluation of opinion to determine Original Research Article Adeyemi et al.; BJAST, 5(1): 60-75, 2015; Article no.BJAST.2015.005 61 waste and inefficiencies in the building from the perspective of the occupants, in order to assess how well the building match their satisfaction, expectancies and needs, and identifies ways to improve the building design standard, performance and fitness for purpose. Conclusion: There is no doubt that there are a number of other factors and barriers that affect our ability to make existing building stock more sustainable. However, until these two major issues of waste, and inefficient facilities are addressed in built assets, the pace of SD in the developing countries may remain slow. The paper also revealed that the improvement of existing buildings is cheaper and more environmental friendly than rebuild, and will also reduce maintenance cost.
Reinhard Heinisch - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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success in opposition failure in government explaining the performance of right wing populist parties in Public Office
West European Politics, 2003Co-Authors: Reinhard HeinischAbstract:Drawing on a conceptual distinction between traditional right-wing extremist and right-wing populist parties, this article examines the performance of the latter in Public Office. The central argument is that the specific populist aspects of such parties allow them to succeed in opposition and to do well at the game of elections. Once in government, their unique strengths turn into disadvantages. Significant structural weaknesses inherent in populist parties pose nearly insurmountable problems that make their long-term success in government questionable. The analysis also shows that the rise of right-wing populism has substantially increased the opportunity structures of conservative parties. Following the theoretical discussion, the article examines the case of the Austrian Freedom Party and draws parallels with the Italian and Dutch cases.
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Success in opposition – failure in government: explaining the performance of right-wing populist parties in Public Office
West European Politics, 2003Co-Authors: Reinhard HeinischAbstract:Drawing on a conceptual distinction between traditional right-wing extremist and right-wing populist parties, this article examines the performance of the latter in Public Office. The central argument is that the specific populist aspects of such parties allow them to succeed in opposition and to do well at the game of elections. Once in government, their unique strengths turn into disadvantages. Significant structural weaknesses inherent in populist parties pose nearly insurmountable problems that make their long-term success in government questionable. The analysis also shows that the rise of right-wing populism has substantially increased the opportunity structures of conservative parties. Following the theoretical discussion, the article examines the case of the Austrian Freedom Party and draws parallels with the Italian and Dutch cases.
Angela Frederick - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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bringing narrative in race gender storytelling political ambition and women s paths to Public Office
Journal of Women Politics & Policy, 2013Co-Authors: Angela FrederickAbstract:Gender and politics scholars have yet to recognize political leaders' “deciding to run” accounts as storytelling performances that draw from and contest dominant cultural discourses. In this article, I present findings from interviews I conducted with 33 women candidates in Texas, analyzing my subjects' “deciding to run” accounts as narratives that illuminate much about women's attempts to negotiate contradictions between dominant race–gender values and their drive for Public Office. I find that women tell quite different narratives about their decisions to run for Office, with Black women and Latinas expressing more confidence and self-direction in their stories than white women. I also reveal that many of these stories contain complexities and contradictions that are not illuminated in survey research on candidate emergence.
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Bringing Narrative In: Race–Gender Storytelling, Political Ambition, and Women's Paths to Public Office
Journal of Women Politics & Policy, 2013Co-Authors: Angela FrederickAbstract:Gender and politics scholars have yet to recognize political leaders' “deciding to run” accounts as storytelling performances that draw from and contest dominant cultural discourses. In this article, I present findings from interviews I conducted with 33 women candidates in Texas, analyzing my subjects' “deciding to run” accounts as narratives that illuminate much about women's attempts to negotiate contradictions between dominant race–gender values and their drive for Public Office. I find that women tell quite different narratives about their decisions to run for Office, with Black women and Latinas expressing more confidence and self-direction in their stories than white women. I also reveal that many of these stories contain complexities and contradictions that are not illuminated in survey research on candidate emergence.
David Martin - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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Facilities improvement for sustainability of existing Public Office buildings in Nigeria
2017Co-Authors: Adegbenga Adeyemi, David Martin, Rozilah Kasim, A.i. AdeyemiAbstract:The study examined the building design features of a cosmopolitan Public Office building in Abuja. The features were classified into Spatial Plan, Structure and Facilities, to determine which of the 3 variables requires urgent sustainable improvement from end-users' perspective in existing Public Office buildings in developing countries. A quantitative approach was adopted while the research strategy involved survey and direct observation. Post-Occupancy Evaluation was used to collect the survey data on a massive Public Office building in Nigeria, which reflected the quota system and federal character of the nation, as study area. A total of 339 useable questionnaires were retrieved from the respondents, and the analysis conducted revealed that facilities requires the most urgent improvement for sustainability. It was therefore recommended that facilities should be given priority for successful sustainable improvement of Public Office buildings above other design features. Keywords: Existing buildings, Facilities, Performance indicators, Sustainable improvement, Users' requirement
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The relevance of lean thinking to sustainable improvement of Public Office buildings in Nigeria
2017Co-Authors: Adegbenga Adeyemi, David Martin, Rozilah KasimAbstract:This study looked into the relevance of lean thinking, particularly the application of muda as a supplement to the sustainable improvement diagnosis technique of existing Office buildings, for a fuller assessment of user's requirement in Nigeria. The impact of muda as related to the triple bottom line of sustainable development on perceived job productivity and design features was estimated from end-user's perspective, using diagnostic POE as data acquiring tool while the confirmatory analysis was done through AMOS, SPSS and MS Excel to explain the relationship between the different variables. The findings showed that muda is inherent in Public Office buildings and it has highly significant causal effects of 0.66 and 0.76, respectively on perceived job productivity and design features; it also has strong effect sizes of 44 and 58% in explaining both their variances, respectively. The result revealed that users require more improvement in facilities as against spatial plan and structures while there is a medium and positive correlation of 0.48 between perceived job productivity and design features implying that the improvement of one will consequently lead to the improvement of the other. The study concludes that lean thinking is relevant to building improvement and could serve as good supplement to the current improvement diagnosis of existing Public Office buildings but not as a substitute since data were only collected from users who are not able to provide the required technical data that would otherwise warrant use of equipment
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Improvement of existing Public Office buildings in Nigeria from users’ perspective using lean thinking – a pictorial view
International Journal of Architecture and Urban Development, 2016Co-Authors: Adegbenga Adeyemi, David Martin, Rozilah KasimAbstract:This paper gives a pictorial view of the relevance of lean thinking, particularly the application of muda as a supplement to the sustainable improvement diagnosis technique of existing Public Office buildings, for a fuller assessment of users’ requirement in Nigeria. The impact of perceived muda was related to the triple bottom line of sustainable development on perceived job productivity and design features and estimated from endusers’ perspective, using diagnostic POE as data acquiring tool, while the confirmatory analysis was done through AMOS, SPSS and MS Excel to explain the relationship between the different variables. The findings showed that muda is inherent in Public Office buildings and it has highly significant causal effects of 0.66 and 0.76 respectively on perceived job productivity and design features; it also has strong effect sizes of 44% and 58% in explaining both their variances respectively. The result revealed that users require more improvement in facilities as against spatial plan and structures, while there is a medium and positive correlation of 0.48 between perceived job productivity and design features – implying that improvement in design features will consequently lead to improvement in perceived job productivity. The study concludes that lean thinking is relevant to building improvement and could serve as good supplement to the current improvement diagnosis of existing Public Office buildings, but not as a substitute since data were only collected from users who are not able to provide the required technical data that would otherwise warrant use of equipment.
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Research Framework for Identification of Waste and Inefficiencies in Existing Public Office Buildings in Developing Nations for Sustainability
British Journal of Applied Science & Technology, 2015Co-Authors: Adegbenga Adeyemi, David Martin, Rozilah KasimAbstract:Aims: Many countries, especially in the developing world, did not meet the UN target of 2002 to achieve sustainable development (SD) in their built environment mainly because the issue of existing buildings which form the bulk of building stock were not adequately addressed. This research paper examined the improvement of existing Public Office buildings in developing countries, using the Lean Thinking strategy for the identification of perceived waste and inefficient facilities for sustainability. Study Design: The paper did a literature review on improvement models for sustainability. Place and Duration of Study: Department of Real Estate Management, UTHM, Johor, from May, 2013 to date. Methodology: The identified improvement models were examined from the perspective of their scope; the triple bottom lines of SD addressed; research framework; philosophies, paradigms; and their applications to decide an appropriate model for improvement of existing buildings for sustainability. A research framework was subsequently developed for the adopted model. Results: The lean model and the diagnostic post-occupancy evaluation (POE) tool were adopted for the study, with a working depth limited to the systematic evaluation of opinion to determine Original Research Article Adeyemi et al.; BJAST, 5(1): 60-75, 2015; Article no.BJAST.2015.005 61 waste and inefficiencies in the building from the perspective of the occupants, in order to assess how well the building match their satisfaction, expectancies and needs, and identifies ways to improve the building design standard, performance and fitness for purpose. Conclusion: There is no doubt that there are a number of other factors and barriers that affect our ability to make existing building stock more sustainable. However, until these two major issues of waste, and inefficient facilities are addressed in built assets, the pace of SD in the developing countries may remain slow. The paper also revealed that the improvement of existing buildings is cheaper and more environmental friendly than rebuild, and will also reduce maintenance cost.
