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A unified methodology for establishing minimum performance criteria and performance grading tools for buildings
Abstract Various performance criteria are usually established by different experts and committees, and as a consequence are not based on a unified approach or methodology. The paper presents a methodology for developing performance criteria for whole buildings, and grading tools for evaluating designs with excessive performances, which is based on a common approach to all the attributes and aspects of the physical performances, and intends to gap these differences. It suggests that the target of the design should be stated by “providing, in all the spaces of the building, conditions that would satisfy “most” users “most” of the time, during the expected design life of the building”. Minimal performance criteria would then be established by explicity specifying target percentages of satisfied, and eleveated levels of performance will be graded according to the relative improvement in the percentages of satisfied that a given design is expected to provide. The “best” or “optimal” performance levels that are graded 100, can be identified with the strict case of largest percentage of satisfied that can be achieved (usually 100%, but for thermal conditions only 95%). No additional bonus or penalty is suggested for overdesign. The paper presents only a simplified application. More comprehensive research is still necessary for immediate day to day application of the methodology.
A unified methodology for establishing minimum performance criteria and performance grading tools for buildings
Abstract Various performance criteria are usually established by different experts and committees, and as a consequence are not based on a unified approach or methodology. The paper presents a methodology for developing performance criteria for whole buildings, and grading tools for evaluating designs with excessive performances, which is based on a common approach to all the attributes and aspects of the physical performances, and intends to gap these differences. It suggests that the target of the design should be stated by “providing, in all the spaces of the building, conditions that would satisfy “most” users “most” of the time, during the expected design life of the building”. Minimal performance criteria would then be established by explicity specifying target percentages of satisfied, and eleveated levels of performance will be graded according to the relative improvement in the percentages of satisfied that a given design is expected to provide. The “best” or “optimal” performance levels that are graded 100, can be identified with the strict case of largest percentage of satisfied that can be achieved (usually 100%, but for thermal conditions only 95%). No additional bonus or penalty is suggested for overdesign. The paper presents only a simplified application. More comprehensive research is still necessary for immediate day to day application of the methodology.
A unified methodology for establishing minimum performance criteria and performance grading tools for buildings
Becker, Rachel (author)
Building and Environment ; 28 ; 243-249
1993-01-01
7 pages
Article (Journal)
Electronic Resource
English
| British Library Online Contents | 1993
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