Providing a sustainable framework for academic workspace evaluation: a literature review
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This paper aims to articulate the user-centred variables in academic work
environment with holistically sustainable Academic Workspace Evaluation (AWE)
framework for universities. The paper considers emergent thought on academic
workspace with respect to the requirement of users. Based on this point, a broad-review
of literature around the variables underpinning academic workspace disposition to users‟
conduct is carried out. The study identifies 109 user-centred cognate variables as
prerequisite of AWE. These variables fall into three basic units for ease of analysis: the
organisation culture, the employees‟ work environment, and the academic workspace
condition. Each of the three identified units must contribute respectively to meeting the
desired condition of workspace in its holistic form. In other words, the success in each
unit affects the success of the other two units. Furthermore, the quality of the workspace
depends entirely on the corporate interaction and interrelationship of the three units.
However, differences in culture, system, process, modes of work operations, purpose and
objectives between universities presents difficulties to generating a holistic universal
user-centred AWE framework. It is therefore inappropriate to strictly and absolutely
adopt a universal framework for academic workspace without the inclusion of local
contents for individual university flexibility. The framework is context-based designed to
accommodate these local contents within the conventional structure arrangement of
respective universities. The proposed AWE framework is capable to generate Universal
Minimum Academic Workspace Benchmark Standard (UMAWBS) for use in universities
globally.
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TD Environmental technology. Sanitary engineering