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OFFICE BUILDING COSTS AS A FUNCTION OF BUILDING ENVELOPE DESIGN
Building design derived from exploration of cost and performance levels of a sufficient range of design alternatives to enable selection of something like an optimum combination for the money available can he helped as much by the development of suitable computational routines as by further refinement of direct measurement of performance.
This paper reports substantial progress with the computation of air-conditioning costs, which when both initial and operating costs are taken into account is the biggest cost item in office building. The peak air-conditioning load and the sum of the initial costs of the plant and envelope plus operating, maintenance, and replacement costs of the plant over the life of the building have been calculated for 122 variations of a hypothetical building situated in Melbourne (38′S, 145″E).
The study showed that depending on envelope design, the return on investment could be increased from nearly 10 per cent. to nearly 11 per per cent. for the hypothetical building of 150,000 sq. ft. of rentable space. For smaller buildings of similar design, this increase would be higher because the ratio of area of building envelope to building volume increases as the volume decreases.
Tables and graphs are presented which give some feel for the economic. consequences of varying building shape, size, and design of fenestration.
OFFICE BUILDING COSTS AS A FUNCTION OF BUILDING ENVELOPE DESIGN
Building design derived from exploration of cost and performance levels of a sufficient range of design alternatives to enable selection of something like an optimum combination for the money available can he helped as much by the development of suitable computational routines as by further refinement of direct measurement of performance.
This paper reports substantial progress with the computation of air-conditioning costs, which when both initial and operating costs are taken into account is the biggest cost item in office building. The peak air-conditioning load and the sum of the initial costs of the plant and envelope plus operating, maintenance, and replacement costs of the plant over the life of the building have been calculated for 122 variations of a hypothetical building situated in Melbourne (38′S, 145″E).
The study showed that depending on envelope design, the return on investment could be increased from nearly 10 per cent. to nearly 11 per per cent. for the hypothetical building of 150,000 sq. ft. of rentable space. For smaller buildings of similar design, this increase would be higher because the ratio of area of building envelope to building volume increases as the volume decreases.
Tables and graphs are presented which give some feel for the economic. consequences of varying building shape, size, and design of fenestration.
OFFICE BUILDING COSTS AS A FUNCTION OF BUILDING ENVELOPE DESIGN
ANSON, M. (author) / SPENCER, J. W. (author)
Architectural Science Review ; 16 ; 118-128
1973-06-01
11 pages
Article (Journal)
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