Unveiling the Green Impact: Comparing LEED-Certified and Traditional Libraries in Pakistan's with End User Satisfaction through Environmental Design Insights

Abstract

Indoor environmental quality of a library setting impacts on the user satisfaction and prioritization of the facility optimized usage. Since these settings are very few and public at large opt for these towards better access to knowledge, their environmental performance acts as a key a factor towards their user satisfaction. Though service provider perspective have been explored in this regard previously, yet end users side prospective view has been missing. The research aimed to explore the end user perspective towards functional optimization & user satisfaction in library settings with comparison between LEED certified and non-certified library settings to enable identification of key factors contributing to better user satisfaction and ease of use. Interviews using questionnaires with focus on environmental and functional prospects resulted in identification of major issues in non-certified building. Proposed strategies to improve these settings have also been proposed.