Interdisciplinary perspectives on building thermal performance

Tweed, Christopher; Zapata-Lancaster, Gabriela

doi:10.1080/09613218.2018.1379815

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“…Despite a rich body of literature arguing for a multi-dimensional view of building performance, there are fewer conceptual framings and practical applications of BPE that take an integrated view of building performance. A prominent architect and architecture critic, Bruno Taut, argues "the aim of architecture is the creation of the performance and therefore most beautiful efficiency" (Taut, 1929). Kolarevic (2015) claims that performance-based design addresses both intangible aspects of performance, such as cultural performance and tangible and quantifiable aspects, such as environment and acoustics.…”

Section: Integrated View Of Building Performancementioning

confidence: 99%

Integrating views on building performance from different stakeholder groups

Patel,

Zapata-Lancaster

2023

JCRE

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Purpose This paper aims to highlight a broader definition of good building performance that goes beyond the traditional emphasis on technical aspects, only adopting the lens of the social construction of technology (SCOT) in the empirical space of the workplace sector. Several building performance evaluation (BPE) methods focus on technical aspects such as energy consumption, indoor environmental conditions and compliance with building regulations and standards. Technical aspects, albeit important goals, only embed a partial component of what buildings are expected to deliver. There is growing interest in considering the organisational and experiential expectations of building performance, particularly integrating various views of performance as expected by different user groups. Design/methodology/approach The paper adopts an archival research method to analyse the archive of the workplace consultants DEGW, particularly focusing on their work on London’s Broadgate development in the 1980s and the 1990s. Findings The findings reveal how voices from a pluralistic client organisation can be addressed to articulate a broad definition of building performance that integrates different viewpoints encompassing technical, organisational and experiential expectations. In DEGW’s work, the views on building performance of various stakeholders involved in the everyday use and management of buildings are identified without imposing predetermined agendas or research notions of performance. Particular emphasis is given to understanding clients as not a homogenous entity but consisting of different interest groups, which implies multiple conceptualisations of building performance and the building itself. Research limitations/implications The performance expectations of a building vary between organisations and even within any organisation. Moreover, the needs of an organisation will change over time, and the BPE criteria need to be changed to ensure better alignment between organisations and the physical spaces they occupy. A critical reflection on the conceptualisation of “users” and “building” in BPE methods is required to create an integrated approach towards building performance. Originality/value The paper offers insights by adopting the theoretical lens of SCOT to explore an integrated approach to building performance that captures the varied needs of building users through the example of London’s Broadgate development.

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Section: Integrated View Of Building Performancementioning

confidence: 99%

Integrating views on building performance from different stakeholder groups

Patel,

Zapata-Lancaster

2023

JCRE

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“…The data collected from both the building envelope and the weather monitoring campaign can be used as input values when defining building models in order to reduce uncertainty in identifying building envelope quality [20,32,33] and the differences between the standard weather simulation files and the actual local weather data [34,35]. It is known that occupants" behaviour is one of the main factors determining the gap between actual and predicted building performance [8,[36][37][38][39][40][41]. The stochastic nature of the user´s behaviour results in standard and normative data being used as input data in energy simulation models.…”

Section: Building Envelope Quality Weather Data and Occupant´s Behaviourmentioning

confidence: 99%

Understanding the performance gap in energy retrofitting: Measured input data for adjusting building simulation models

Cuerda

Guerra-Santin

Sendra

et al. 2020

Energy and Buildings

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“…the extent to which buildings contribute to the operational performance of the occupying organisation. Tweed and Zapata-Lancaster (2017) offer an extended review of current approaches to BPE, including: BREEAM In-Use (BRE, 2016), LEED Operations and Management (USGBC, 2017) and 'Soft Landings' (BSRIA, 2015). They contend that such approaches are largely conceived as technical methods of assessing buildings as physical assets against predetermined technical performance criteria.…”

Section: Beyond the Performance Gapmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Bluyssen, 2009;Vischer, 2008). As an alternative, Tweed and Zapata-Lancaster (2017) advocate a humanities-based approach to understanding 'thermal experience' based on phenomenology. The emphasis hence shifts away from assessing the energy cost of space towards understanding the experience of individual building inhabitants.…”

Section: Beyond the Performance Gapmentioning

confidence: 99%

Beyond the performance gap: reclaiming building appraisal through archival research

Patel

Green

2019

Building Research & Information

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Current debates about building performance evaluation often emphasise the 'performance gap' between how buildings perform in practice and how performance was envisaged during the design stage. While such debates continue to be dominated by energy considerations, increasing attention is directed towards the subjective experiences of building users in terms of thermal comfort and wellbeing. The latter trends are undoubtedly to be welcomed, but buildings continue to be conceptualised as fixed physical objects rather than entities that are enacted in practice. With the aim of challenging current assumptions, research is described which sought to reclaim the concept of building appraisal as practised by the pioneering architectural practice DEGW. The concept of building appraisal differs from current notions of building performance evaluation in that the point of departure was not the supposedly fixed entity of the building, but the essential fluidity of the occupying organisation and their aspirations in terms of space. Empirical data is derived from archival sources and through extensive interaction with the DEGW diaspora, many of whom remain active at the leading edge of international practice. It is concluded that the continued fixation with the 'performance gap' reinforces long-since discredited assumptions of environmental determinism.

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Interdisciplinary perspectives on building thermal performance

Cited by 9 publications

References 41 publications

Integrating views on building performance from different stakeholder groups

Integrating views on building performance from different stakeholder groups

Understanding the performance gap in energy retrofitting: Measured input data for adjusting building simulation models

Beyond the performance gap: reclaiming building appraisal through archival research

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