Abstract
The purpose of this study is to present some information about the design and planning of office buildings from the viewpoint of proper refuse treatment, through the questionnaire investigation .to building maintenance workers. In this paper, 158 questionnaires were collected from building maintenance companies and were analysed in each aspect of refuse collection, classification, carriage and storage. Consequently, following points with respect to the building design process were clarified mainly based on a sense of building maintenance workerr: 1) floor space for refuse storage, 2) the. number of elevators required" for refuse carriage, 3) treatment equipments installed in buildings, 4) floor space for a room of maintenance workers.
