Fouad Jalal Mahmood

Fouad Jalal Mahmood
University of Sulaimani | UNIVSUL · Department of Architecture Engineering

Doctor of Engineering

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Introduction
Skills and Expertise
Additional affiliations
January 2011 - February 2021
University of Sulaimani
Position
  • Lecturer
Education
January 2016 - February 2020
University of Sulaimani
Field of study
  • Architecture
October 2008 - August 2011
University of Sulaimani
Field of study
  • Architecture
September 1990 - June 1995
University of Mosul
Field of study
  • Architecture

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Publications (11)
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This study investigates the role of Evidence-Based Design (EBD) principles in decision-making and enhancement of the healthcare architectural design process. The investigation includes correlations between participants' prioritization of hospital design aspects such as circulation, accessibility, wayfinding, visibility, and privacy and their profes...
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Contemporary hospitals may be recognized by a large variety of activities, not only delivery of care but also some concerns, such as the satisfaction level of users. This research investigates the relationship between outpatient department (OPD) design elements and medical staff satisfaction and performance, especially in light of the pandemic sinc...
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This study aims at identifying the notion of Post-Occupancy Evaluation (POE) pertinent to the performance of three general hospitals constructed inside the Sulaimani City, tracing the relationship between the quality of the indoor environments and medical staff (doctors and nurses) satisfaction level. Using some indoor environment elements in the r...
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Purpose This study aims to trace the relationship between the evidence-based design (EBD) process and decision-making during the architectural design process, the barriers to informing health-care architects and possible methods to overcome these barriers. Design/methodology/approach This study aims to explore the barriers to the EBD process durin...
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The contemporary hospital design strongly links the healing process, which is different from curing by including psychological perceptions of health, with the quality of the indoor environment and its influence on patients’ psychological comfort. The rapid evolution of medical technology and its techniques, the advancement of methods of treatment,...
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The aim of the research is to clarify the effect of internal design indicators on improving the efficiency of patients' rooms, to deploy these indicators to be integrated into the curing contexts in achieving healing in a compatible way with the psychological comfort of patients in five public hospitals in Sulaimani city. The contemporary tren...
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Objective This study investigates how patients and medical staff assess the physical environments of two recently built hospitals in Sulaimani City to understand the extent to which indoor environmental factors influence the creation of an optimal healing environment. Background A contemporary healing environment may be recognized by the quality o...
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Modern hospital indoor environment aims at fulfilling the psychological needs and preferences of the people who use it. Nowadays, physical and non-physical and healing environments are perceived as potential contributors to recovery processes. Unlike curing, healing relates to aspects of health that are psychological and spiritual. This study aims...
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The research aims to identify the effect of color on human health in general and psychological dimension, in particular, to enhance the performance of the interior spaces of hospitals by studying the used colors with the possibility of proper utilizing of it with user psychology and health in hospitals spaces. The study also aims to identify the im...
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The wind and its movement is one of the most significant environmental effects that should be taken into consideration in the preparation of the preliminary designs for any project. In spite of the large number of research and studies on the relationship between the building shape and the design vocabulary on the one hand, the wind movement and its...
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Many studies have been devoted to the study of the relationship between the form of the built environment and the air movement. Most of these studies were descriptive, subjective, and selective in their nature and methodologies. Other studies attempted to study the effectiveness of air movement around building, but were incomprehensive, such as the...

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