Enhancing building performance by Shauna Mallory-Hill, Wolfgang F. E. Preiser, Christopher G.

By Shauna Mallory-Hill, Wolfgang F. E. Preiser, Christopher G. Watson

''Enhancing development functionality provides the most recent BPE paintings, supplying a scientific strategy in the event you desire to use BPE to convey enhanced development functionality that's conscious of the desires of stakeholders. With chapters written via specialists from around the globe the publication demonstrates find out how to practice BPE to augment construction layout. issues lined comprise: evidence-based and integrative layout tactics, evaluate equipment and instruments, and schooling and data move. furthermore, case experiences supply particular examples of the way BPE has been used to review things like the influence of office layout on human productiveness and innovation''

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Quantitative and qualitative building performance criteria that represent the expected outcome or product of the building delivery process, as well as building performance during its life cycle, are at the center of the BPE process model. It shows the six sub-phases, each of which has internal reviews and feedback loops and is connected with state-of-the-art knowledge contained in building typespecific databases. From them, published guidelines, as well as proprietary expertise residing in specialized firms, can be developed.

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