Post-Occupancy Assessment of the Internal Environmental Quality of office Buildings from the viewpoints of Architects

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Considering the importance of property development to the trendy world, user perspective ought to be enclosed within the method of planning property buildings. Therefore, with stress on occupants' views and also the gap in examining the distinction between the views of architects and non-architects on user satisfaction, this paper aims to demarcate the points of convergence and divergence of architects and non-architects in terms of user satisfaction issue. Additionally, IEQ in Iranian workplace buildings was investigated. A quantitative technique was used associate degree an adequate range of questionnaires were stuffed out by Iranian staff with relation to a comprehensive case study. The results showed that the views of architects and non-architects converged on user satisfaction. Conversely, from architects' points of read, energy and water potency for buildings was of upper significance than alternative parts. Moreover, structural stability of the building, ventilating system, dominant the water and energy use of buildings, thermal comfort, building's age, inexperienced yard and landscape, restroom, and amplitudes were recognized as effective parameters yet.