subject: Physical Environment [print this page] The physical layout of workplaces and component materials as well as the location of services to staff and the public should not omit consideration of those physical factors that contribute to creating a positive work environment in Commercial Office Space Manila.
To eliminate or reduce negative effects caused by environmental factors must be taken into account:
The lighting is advised to diffuse light in preference to direct illumination, with it you tend to avoid areas of contrast between shadow and lit brightly. Indirect lighting systems are most appropriate to achieve diffused lighting, but are much more expensive than direct lighting. When using fluorescent tubes, it is not advisable to install the open, but it is recommended the placement of translucent acrylic screens.
Natural light: it is considered that the most appropriate guidance to achieve diffused lighting is available to the holes or they will receive the light, this must come from the left side of the jobs.
Colors area: it is not advisable to use the colored surfaces and white walls that are to receive direct light, or use tones with deep purple or gray trend is depressing because, like the red tones with a tendency to produce intense irritability and excitement. The colors tend to light green or blue are considered psychologically cold and sedatives, so it is recommended for use in local areas facing south or warm, the colors tending to ocher, cream or beige convey the sensation of heat , so it is preferable to use in targeted local areas north or cold predominates.
Room temperature, the recommended margins for the development of administrative activities in Commercial Office Space Manila are between 18 and 22 C. addition to the use of facilities capable of maintaining the temperature right, the use of appropriate colors can psychologically offset, within certain limits , the excess or deficiency of the dominant temperature. The air must be completely renewed three times per hour, using air extraction equipment or air conditioning systems to achieve a speed considerably higher renewal up to ten times per hour.
Soundproofing: the problem of noise becomes most important when the work is done in common premises, aggravated when using concentrations of equipment or machines. The volume of noise is measured in decibels, so approximate unit corresponds to a minimum perceptible intensity variation by the ear man. A room for administrative activities, is considered to be noisy when the units reach the order of 55 to 58 decibels. Figure that in practice it often goes far beyond to reach 70 decibels, especially when involving equipment and machines. In areas of heavy traffic, often used double glazing, formed by layers separated by an air chamber and mounted on gaskets. The spread of noise is reduced by any kind of procedures to prevent the reflection of sound and felt panels and perforated cardboard walls and ceiling plaster coating or porous materials, flooring materials, sound barriers, formation of separations by local chambers common.
