What is building performance - just energy efficiency, low greenhouse gas emissions? Something to do with BREEAM, LEED or WELL certification? A productive building that maximizes return for the investor? The term building performance is used frequently by many, yet few people can provide a good definition of the concept. This website is dedicated to this subject, and hopes to contribute to a generally accepted theory of building performance and its analysis.
Particular interest are:
Quantification
Building performance analysis implies an effort to quantify building performance - in other words, to put numbers on 'how well' a building does what we want it to do. There are four main approaches to do this: physical measurement/monitoring, computer simulation, expert judgment and stakeholder evaluation.
Unfortunately our toolset is not complete; there are performance aspects where some of the approaches simply are not yet available. In other domains, the outcomes may vary across the quantification methods, leading to the notion of 'building performance gaps'. A good solid understanding of what building performance is, and how to quantify it, is essential for all involved with building performance.
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