Office Sustainability Assessment for Endearing Resilience in an Academic Environment

Abstract

Office conditions are crucial to assessing the sociocultural, economic, environmental and public health of the majority of the urban population. The office is a built environment that takes up the bulk of the time and energy of society's elite. As such, the quality of office spaces has a significant effect on the health, comfort, satisfaction and productivity of office workers. No doubt, inadequate indoor environmental quality will impede workers' productivity and well-being. Sustainability in the office addresses the interface through which resilience in both the biotic and abiotic components of the indoor working micro-environment can be measured and transformed for full productivity. In the light of this, this article evaluates the factors driving infrastructural, health and economic resilience in academic institutions. The study reviews the literature on the theory of human behaviour, with a view to establishing the link between key concepts in infrastructural, health and economic resilience and office sustainability within an academic environment. It identifies office sustainability as a major determinant in the effective measurement and development of resilience in academic environments. It was observed that the dimensions of infrastructural, health and economic resilience are in-built features which academic institutions should adopt to achieve overall resilience in the academic environment. This assessment should bring about major social and economic benefits, given the quantum of time that members of the university staff spend in their offices