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Assessing Building Performance Item #: 225-1747-04 Author: Wolfgang Preiser, Jacqueline Vischer Publisher: Butterworth-Heinemann ISBN:0750661747 Format: Paperback Your Price: $56.95 |
Assessing Building Performance outlines and clarifies the building performance evaluation (BPE)The building performance evaluation (BPE) framework emphasizes an evaluative stance throughout the six phases of the building delivery and life cycle: (1) strategic planning/needs analysis; (2) program review; (3) design review; (4) post-construction evaluation/review; (5) post-occupancy evaluation; and, (6) facilities management review/adaptive reuse. The lessons learned from positive and negative building performance are fed into future building delivery cycles. The case studies illustrate how this basic methodology has been adapted to a range of cultural contexts, and indicates the positive results of building performance assessment in a wide range of situations.Primarily used by building officials/administrators, facility managers, programmers, design professionals, and property owners/managers. Secondary readership is as a text for college courses in facilities management, environmental psychology, architectural programming, post-occupancy evaluation, and design methods. 256 pp. Assessing Building Performance - Table of Contents:
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