MSc Sustainable Environmental Design

Proposed Final Project Synopsis

Evaluation of user satisfaction with respect to

environmental parameters in selected residential
apartments of Pakistan Housing Authority, Islamabad.

Student Name: Rao Ali Shair

Roll No: BR564859
Supervisor: Ar. Omer Shujat Bhatti
(Research Associate)
(Department of ED,H&NS, AIOU)
Introduction
Pakistan is highest populated developing country of the world. With rise in
urbanization and rapidly growing population, the need for housing has
increased multiple times in the recent timeline. Pakistan Housing Authority
(PHA) has been a key player in the existing situation to address the issue
through designing and executing housing projects al across the Pakistan.
These projects have been taken up by the population as blessing in the
recent times due to poor socio-economic conditions, high cost of living,
scarcity of land, poor hygiene conditions, etc. Though these have been a
major source of housing sector resolution by the governing bodies, yet these
apartments have not been able to identify the sustainable future needs of the
people and hence lack any evaluation of people occupying these apartments.
Existing research aims to explore this gap through occupants evaluation of
these selected apartments in city of Islamabad with respect to environmental
considerations. The research would act as line of direction for future project
with focusing on environmental improvements and people future needs.
 Problem statement

Pakistan Housing Authority (PHA) is one of the major

housing sector organization developing public housing in
different cities at large. With their projects occupied by
people all across Pakistan, housing projects are extensively
developed. But due to lack of devised protocols and limited
resources, post occupancy evaluation has not been done.
There is a need to evaluate the occupants level of
satisfaction with these apartments with respect to
environmental aspects so that future projects can be made
as per the future needs of the people to keep them
sustainable.
Objectives

1. To evaluate the existing design of the constructed PHA

apartments in Islamabad towards environmental
parameters of thermal comfort, air quality, lighting,
noise and overall cleanliness.
2. To evaluate the apartments occupants perception about
these environmental parameters.
3. To explore the design interventions for the future
projects to keep up with the needs of the future
occupants to make these apartments sustainable.
Research Questions

1. What is the existing design of constructed PHA

apartments with respect to people’s need and
environmental aspects?
2. Which major environmental aspects are hurdles
towards occupants environmental satisfaction?
3. Which design interventions could best resolve
these concerns identified through environmental
design considerations?
Research Rationale
With lack of occupants evaluation towards
environmental satisfaction in housing and
apartments sector in Islamabad, there is a need to
explore the gap through existing documentation and
evaluation of people level of satisfaction with these
housing apartments towards environmental aspects.
Without such an evaluation, the future needs of the
occupants and existing issues cannot be documented
and will be repeated in the future design projects
without consideration for the people needs to make
these apartments sustainable.
Research Significance

The research exploration will contribute towards

better understanding of the existing level of people
satisfaction with PHA apartments and which
environmental variables are causing lack of
satisfaction amongst the people. The research will
opt for the documentation of the existing issues and
would pave way for the future design improvements
to make these sustainable for future usage.
Research Methodology

1. Literature Review.
2. Documentation of existing design.
3. Data collection from occupants.
4. Data Analysis.
5. Conclusions, Recommendations, Suggestions.
Research Delimitations

1. Only selected areas of housing apartments would

be explored for the collection of data and for
research purpose.
2. People engaged would be taken prior permission
to gather data.
3. Photographs will be taken once allowed after
permission.
Thanks……Questions Please…..