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- Herausgeber: John Wiley & Sons
- Kategorie: Wissenschaft und neue Technologien
- Sprache: Englisch
Explores and brings together the existent body of knowledge on building performance analysis Shortlisted in the CIBSE 2020 Building Performance Awards Building performance is an important yet surprisingly complex concept. This book presents a comprehensive and systematic overview of the subject. It provides a working definition of building performance, and an in-depth discussion of the role building performance plays throughout the building life cycle. The book also explores the perspectives of various stakeholders, the functions of buildings, performance requirements, performance quantification (both predicted and measured), criteria for success, and the challenges of using performance analysis in practice. Building Performance Analysis starts by introducing the subject of building performance: its key terms, definitions, history, and challenges. It then develops a theoretical foundation for the subject, explores the complexity of performance assessment, and the way that performance analysis impacts on actual buildings. In doing so, it attempts to answer the following questions: What is building performance? How can building performance be measured and analyzed? How does the analysis of building performance guide the improvement of buildings? And what can the building domain learn from the way performance is handled in other disciplines? * Assembles the current body of knowledge on building performance analysis in one unique resource * Offers deep insights into the complexity of using building performance analysis throughout the entire building life cycle, including design, operation and management * Contributes an emergent theory of building performance and its analysis Building Performance Analysis will appeal to the building science community, both from industry and academia. It specifically targets advanced students in architectural engineering, building services design, building performance simulation and similar fields who hold an interest in ensuring that buildings meet the needs of their stakeholders.
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Table of Contents
Cover
Foreword
Preface
1 Introduction
1.1 Building Performance: Framing, Key Terms and Definition
1.2 Performance in the Building Domain
1.3 Outline of the Book
1.4 Reflections on Building Performance Analysis
1.5 Summary
1.6 Key References
Part I: Foundation
2 Building Performance in Context
2.1 Building Life Cycle
2.2 Stakeholders
2.3 Building Systems
2.4 Building Performance Challenges
2.5 Building Performance Context in Current Practice
2.6 Reflections on the Complexity of the Context
2.7 Summary
3 Needs, Functions and Requirements
3.1 Requirement Specification
3.2 Requirement Types
3.3 Functional Requirements
3.4 Building Functions
3.5 Stakeholder World Views
3.6 Building Performance Requirements
3.7 Building Needs, Functions and Requirements in Current Practice
3.8 Reflections on Building Performance Requirements
3.9 Summary
3.10 Key References
Part II: Assessment
4 Fundamentals of Building Performance
4.1 Performance: The Interface between Requirements and Systems
4.2 Quantifying Performance
4.3 Experimentation and Measurement
4.4 Building Performance Metrics, Indicators and Measures
4.5 Handling and Combining Building Performance
4.6 Signs of Performance Issues
4.7 Building Performance in Current Practice
4.8 Reflections on Working with Building Performance
4.9 Summary
4.10 Key References
5 Performance Criteria
5.1 Goals, Targets and Ambitions
5.2 Benchmarks and Baselines
5.3 Constraints, Thresholds and Limits
5.4 Performance Categories and Bands
5.5 Criteria in Current Practice
5.6 Reflections on Performance Criteria
5.7 Summary
5.8 Key References
6 Performance Quantification
6.1 Physical Measurement
6.2 Building Performance Simulation
6.3 Expert Judgment
6.4 Stakeholder Evaluation
6.5 Measurement of Construction Process Performance
6.6 Building Performance Quantification in Current Practice
6.7 Reflections on Quantification Methods
6.8 Summary
6.9 Key References
7 Working with Building Performance
7.1 Examples: Selected Building Performance Analysis Cases
7.2 Criterion Development
7.3 Tool and Instrument Configuration
7.4 Iterative Analysis
7.5 Building Performance Analysis in Current Practice
7.6 Reflections on Working with Building Performance
7.7 Summary
7.8 Key References
Part III: Impact
8 Design and Construction for Performance
8.1 Performance‐Based Design
8.2 Performance‐Based Design Decisions
8.3 Tools for Performance‐Based Design
8.4 Performance Visualization and Communication
8.5 Construction for Performance
8.6 Design and Construction for Performance Challenges
8.7 Reflections on Designing for Performance
8.8 Summary
8.9 Key References
9 Building Operation, Control and Management
9.1 Building Performance Management and Control
9.2 Performance Monitoring
9.3 Fault Detection and Diagnostics
9.4 Performance Service Companies and Contracts
9.5 Building Operation, Control and Management Challenges
9.6 Reflections on Building Automation and Monitoring
9.7 Summary
9.8 Key References
10 High Performance Buildings
10.1 Existing Definitions for High Performance Buildings
10.2 Emerging Technologies
10.3 Smart and Intelligent Buildings
10.4 High Performance Building Challenges
10.5 Reflection: A Novel Definition for High Performance Buildings
10.6 Summary
10.7 Key References
Epilogue
11 Emergent Theory of Building Performance Analysis
11.1 Observations, Explanations, Principles and Hypotheses
11.2 Suggested Guidelines for Building Performance Analysis
11.3 Future Challenges
11.4 Closure
Appendix A: Overview of Building Performance Aspects
Appendix B: Criterion Development Template
Appendix C: Tool/Instrument Configuration Checklist
Appendix D: Measurement Instruments
Glossary
Building Performance Abbreviations
Generic Abbreviations
List of Figures and Tables
Figures
Tables
Symbols and Units
SI base units
Derived units
Symbols often used in the context of buildings
SI prefixes
Imperial units
About the Author
References: Longlist and Secondary Sources
Index
End User License Agreement
List of Tables
Chapter 01
Table 1.1 Building Performance Views.
Table 1.2 Overview of the Approved Documents in the UK Building Regulations 2010.
Table 1.3 Overview of voluntary rating schemes.
Chapter 03
Table 3.1 Overview of building functions and related aspects covered by the ASTM WBFS Standard.
Table 3.2 Overview of Total Building Performance Criteria.
Table 3.3 Building Performance View with performance attributes.
Chapter 04
Table 4.1 Fundamental processes in the Function–Behaviour–Structure model.
Chapter 05
Table 5.1 Banding for BREEAM certification.
Table 5.2 Banding for LEED certification.
Chapter 06
Table 6.1 Overview of some ISO standards on building (component) measurement (selection).
Table 6.2 Overview of some ASTM standards on building (component) measurement (selection).
Table 6.3 Overview of some CEN standards on building (component) measurement (selection).
Table 6.4 Selected NFPA standards for fire protection testing of buildings and building products.
Table 6.5 Selection of standards from other organizations.
Table 6.6 Measured and simulated energy use of the SK Telecom building (2012 data).
Chapter 07
Table 7.1 Level of service definition for airports according to IATA.
Table 7.2 Burglary resistance class criteria according to the former EN 1630.
Table 7.3 Energy consumption quantification of the Roland Levinsky Building.
Chapter 08
Table 8.1 Core steps of performance‐based design.
Chapter 09
Table 9.1 Building automation systems synonyms.
List of Illustrations
Chapter 01
Figure 1.1 Stonehenge Monument, Wiltshire, UK.
Figure 1.2 Timeline of selected building performance events.
Figure 1.3 Structure of the book.
Chapter 02
Figure 2.1 Bank of America Plaza, Atlanta, United States.
Figure 2.2 Life stages of a human.
Chapter 03
Figure 3.1 Requirement wording template.
Figure 3.2 UML Use Case diagram for an airport.
Figure 3.3 UML Class diagram for airport infrastructure.
Figure 3.4 UML Activity diagram for passenger handling.
Figure 3.5 UML State diagram for escalator.
Figure 3.6 Overview of main requirement types.
Figure 3.7 GARM model of the meeting between Functional Units and Technical Solutions.
Figure 3.8 Maslovian hierarchy of building functions.
Figure 3.9 Functional decomposition of a bus shelter.
Figure 3.10 Functional decomposition challenges.
Figure 3.11 Hierarchy of building viewpoints.
Figure 3.12 Stakeholder views on a new office: Developer perspective.
Figure 3.13 Stakeholder view of a new office: Tenant perspective.
Figure 3.14 Beijing Capital Airport Terminal 3.
Chapter 04
Figure 4.1 Relation between key elements of building performance (as defined by various authors).
Figure 4.2 GARM model with interface matching performance requirements and specifications.
Figure 4.3 Comparison of functionality and serviceability.
Figure 4.4 Interaction and mapping of building function, system aggregation and performance.
Figure 4.5 Basic elements of an experiment.
Figure 4.6 Akershus Hospital main thoroughfare.
Chapter 05
Figure 5.1 Goal, with binary scoring option.
Figure 5.2 Target, with gradual scoring scale.
Figure 5.3 Traditional surveying benchmark, cut in stone (Devon, UK).
Figure 5.4 Baseline principles.
Figure 5.5 Thermal comfort and survival thresholds and limits.
Figure 5.6 Typical EPBD performance bands.
Figure 5.7 Davies Alpine Greenhouse, Kew Gardens, UK.
Chapter 06
Figure 6.1 Blower door test.
Figure 6.2 Hot box measurement, showing sensors on specimen and in air void on cold side.
Figure 6.3 Thermal comfort measurement trolley.
Figure 6.4 Thermographic image of a domestic property in the United Kingdom.
Figure 6.5 Black, grey and white box models.
Figure 6.6 Geometry of the thermal model of the SKT Headquarters, Seoul, South Korea.
Chapter 07
Figure 7.1 Interacting factors in Building Performance Analysis in practice.
Figure 7.2 Sample upper limits for equivalent sound levels in a dwelling.
Figure 7.3 Some maximum concentrations for selected gaseous pollutants.
Figure 7.4 Typical thermal comfort target and criteria expressed using PMV.
Figure 7.5 Typical limits and thresholds for DGI values.
Figure 7.6 Call centre productivity criteria.
Figure 7.7 Balance between expenses and revenue.
Figure 7.8 Criterion for establishing whether a building is a NZEB.
Figure 7.9 Water use (efficiency) target for a typical UK building.
Figure 7.10 Material efficiency compared with a selected base case.
Figure 7.11 Different types of buildings that aim to manage carbon dioxide emissions.
Figure 7.12 Dual criteria for access control responsiveness.
Figure 7.13 Tool configuration.
Figure 7.14 Roland Levinsky Building, University of Plymouth, UK.
Figure 7.15 Customizing building performance analysis.
Chapter 08
Figure 8.1 Decreasing design freedom graph.
Figure 8.2 Subprocess with logic sequence that may fit at different places in overall design process.
Figure 8.3 Integrated Performance View (IPV) as generated from the ESP‐r system.
Figure 8.4 SurPLUShome by Team Germany, winning entry to the Solar Decathlon 2009.
Chapter 09
Figure 9.1 Downtime and its components.
Figure 9.2 ‘Rosetta’ Clean room at ESTEC, Noordwijk, the Netherlands.
Chapter 10
Figure 10.1 Contour crafting at a space base.
Figure 10.2 Princess Elisabeth Research Station, Utsteinen Nunatak, Antarctica.
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Building Performance Analysis
Pieter de Wilde
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The International Building Performance Simulation Association (IBPSA) was founded to advance and promote the science of building performance simulation in order to improve the design, construction, operation and maintenance of new and existing buildings worldwide. IBPSA recognises the complexity of building performance and the many factors that influence this. This book addresses these issues in detail, unpacking the meaning of building performance analysis by considering its history and current practices. In doing so, it leads the reader to an appreciation of the fundamental importance of building performance analysis and the role it plays at all stages of the life cycle of a building, leading to an emergent theory of building performance analysis in Chapter 11.
Along this journey, the book mobilises an extensive quantity of relevant literature on this broad subject, making it an invaluable resource for students at all levels. Each chapter concludes with a list of activities that not only serves as a summary of the material covered but also provides an excellent basis from which to develop student projects and assessments.
The book provides a broad range of insights, food for thought and suggestions for how to approach your own building performance analysis. It is hoped that the book will go some way to elucidating the topic, equipping graduates with the knowledge and awareness required to specify, design, procure and operate high performance buildings that deliver high quality indoor environments and low energy consumption.
IBPSA is grateful to Professor De Wilde for the many hours he has devoted to bringing this book to fruition and commends it to anyone pursing a detailed knowledge of building performance analysis and its allied disciplines.
Professor Malcolm CookLoughborough University, UKChair of the IBPSA Publication Committee
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Foreword
Ever since I was a young researcher in building simulation at TU Delft, I have been intrigued by the prospect of being able to support rational dialogues in building design projects, in particular to express unambiguously how we want buildings to behave or what goals we want to achieve with them. This inevitably invites the hypothesis that design can be managed as a purely rational fulfilment process in which clients precisely define their expectations (as requirements) and designers verify their creatively generated proposals (as fulfilment) against these expectations. It doesn’t take much to realise that this can only be realised by introducing a set of objectively quantifiable measures, agreed upon by both parties. When expectations are not met, design adaptations or relaxation of client requirements could be negotiated. For many years I have taught a graduate course on this subject that I loosely labelled as ‘performance‐based design’. It was meant to whet the appetite of PhD students that walked in with vague notions about the next generation of building design methods and frameworks to support them. The course examined the literature in an attempt to cement the foundation of the central concepts such as performance, measurement and quantification. Then I showed how their operationalisation requires the development of a plausible worldview of buildings in which their system specification is expressed at increasing levels of resolution and as steps in an evolving design process.
Pieter de Wilde was one of the PhD students who was brave enough to voluntarily enrol in the course. He was looking for answers to his fundamental thesis research, only to find out that the course stopped far short of offering a methodology that could be mapped onto real‐world design projects without some vigorous arm waving. For one there were still many missing pieces that could only be ‘covered’ by fuzzy connections. But above all, a unifying theory that gives building performance analysis a precise meaning in every application setting was and still is missing. The lack of a rigorous definition of generic tasks in building projects is one of the prime reasons why this situation persists. In the course I repeatedly stressed that the lack of a textbook that offers all relevant concepts and underlying ideas in one place is felt as another obstacle to attract the recognition the domain deserves. Some 15 years later, during a long drive through the English countryside, Pieter offered the idea to do something about this, and 3 years later, this resulted in the monograph that is in front of you. The road travelled in these 3 years has been as curvy and challenging as the drive through rural Devon, trying to avoid the sharp edges of the stone hedgerows and slowing down enough at blind corners. Fortunately Pieter’s skills at the steering wheel kept me safe, and his skills at the keyboard proved to be an equal match for all narrow theories and blinding misconceptions that lay ahead.
I am very happy that this book got written. For one, it brings together the extensive body of work that has gone before, thus providing the first coherent account of the state of our knowledge in building performance, from fundamental concepts to operational measures, followed by their quantification in real‐life cases. In organising the book along these three parts, the author has succeeded in taking the reader from a generic basis to operationalisation that gets ever more specific towards the later chapters. This approach is the perfect reflection of the fact that although the basis of performance concepts is generic, their application demands creative thinking and will always be case specific. The link between the two is realised by a broadening palette of multi‐aspect building simulation tools of which the book provides a good overview. The central theme of the book is in the experimental and simulation based analysis of building performance, elegantly wedged between the fundamental concepts of performance and their operationalisation in specific case settings.
Students, developers and scholars in the field of building performance simulation, design management, performance‐based design and rationalisation of building design will find this book useful. And although the ultimate solution for the purely rational design dialogue that I have been chasing remains elusive, this book provides a new and essential stepping stone towards it.
Professor Godfried AugenbroeHigh Performance Buildings LabGeorgia Institute of TechnologyAtlanta, GA, USAJuly 2017
Preface
Building performance is a concept that is used throughout industry, government and academia. It plays an important role in the design of new buildings, the management and refurbishment of the existing stock and decisions about the built environment in general. Yet there is no clear definition of building performance or unifying theory on building performance analysis available in the literature.
This book is an attempt to fill this void and to answer the following key questions:
What is building performance?
How can building performance be measured and analysed?
How does the analysis of building performance guide the improvement of buildings?
What can the building domain learn from the way performance is handled in other disciplines?
In order to answer these questions, the book brings together the existent body of knowledge on the subject. It combines findings from a large number of publications on aspects of building performance that all contribute in different ways. The book tries to unify this previous work, establishing a range of observations that underpin an emergent theory of building performance and building performance analysis. At the same time, the material makes it clear that there still is significant work to do: the theory does not reach beyond a conceptual framework. Operational building performance analysis still requires deep expertise by those carrying out the analysis, and existing tools and instruments only support part of the work. A design methodology that truly ensures performance of a building according to predefined criteria still remains to be developed.
In providing a working definition and emergent theory of building performance analysis, the book caters primarily to the building science community, both from industry and academia. It aims to support the many efforts to build better buildings, run more efficient design processes and develop new tools and instruments. The book will benefit senior undergraduate and graduate students, scholars as well as professionals in industry, business and government. Students engaging with this material will typically be those that are taking a course at MSc level in one of the many directions in architecture and building engineering, such as building performance modelling, environmental building design and engineering, high performance buildings, intelligent/healthy/low‐carbon/sustainable buildings, building science and technology or building services engineering. While the text is intended to be self‐contained, it will be helpful if such readers have developed a solid appreciation of building technology and the construction process, as well as building science. It will also be beneficial if students have been introduced to building simulation and physical experimentation. Research students and academics will have their own specific research interests but will benefit from a unified theory upon which to base their efforts. Extensive references are provided so that these readers can connect to the underlying foundations. It is hoped that professionals can use this material to reflect on the current way of handling performance in the field and that they will help to implement some of the ideas of this book in practice.
The book is structured in three parts. Part I provides a theoretical foundation for building performance. Part II deals with operational performance analysis, providing a conceptual frame that shows what deliberations and decisions are required to carry out an analysis and what tools and methods are available to help. Part III discusses how this analysis can impact on building practice. The book closes with an epilogue that presents an emerging theory of building performance analysis. A study of the complete book allows the reader to follow the underlying thought process and how it connects the many contributions that already have been made to aspects of the field. However, readers who prefer to start with getting an understanding of the emergent theory, or want to test their own ideas against this, may start by reading the final chapter and then explore the underpinning material as required. Non‐linear readers may start at any chapter of interest. The main chapters all include a case study that demonstrates the complexity of building performance analysis in real practice; these cases are intended as challenge for readers to reflect on applicability of the emergent theory. Each chapter also includes six activities that encourage engagement with the material; these have been designed to be ‘real‐world’ problems without a right model answer but instead should provide a basis for deep discussion within groups or teams. Key references are included in the references at the end of each chapter; a complete list and secondary references are provided at the end of the text.
This book is written to encourage dialogue about an emergent theory of building performance and its analysis. A website is maintained at www.bldg‐perf.org to support communication on the subject.
Acknowledgements
This book is the result of more than twenty years of research in and around the area of building performance. In these two decades, many people have influenced my thinking about the subject. By necessity, not all of them can be listed, so these acknowledgements only name those who had a pivotal role in the emergence of this work.
I was introduced to building performance simulation during my studies at the TU Delft, starting with my graduate work in 1994 and continuing on this subject during my PhD project. My supervisor at that time, Marinus van der Voorden, thus laid the foundations of this effort. During my time as postdoc on the Design Analysis Integration (DAI) Initiative at GeorgiaTech, Fried Augenbroe provided deeper insights and guidance. My involvement in DAI also established invaluable connections with Cheol‐Soo Park, Ruchi Choudhary, Ardeshir Mahdavi and Ali Malkawi, who influenced my subsequent career. My years with Dick van Dijk and the other colleagues at TNO Building and Construction Research had a stronger emphasis on industrial application and physical experimentation, giving me a more balanced perspective on the interaction between academia and practice. At the University of Plymouth, Steve Goodhew and colleagues expanded my view in a yet another direction, emphasizing the actual construction process and importance of the existing building stock. Yaqub Rafiq introduced me to genetic algorithms. Derek Prickett became a trusted voice on the practical aspects of building services engineering. Wei Tian, postdoc on my EPSRC project on the management of the impact of climate change on building performance, introduced me to parallel computing and the handling of large search spaces and the application of sensitivity analysis to make sense of the results. Darren Pearson and his colleagues at C3Resources gave me an appreciation of the worlds of monitoring and targeting, automated meter reading and measurements and verification; Carlos Martinez‐Ortiz, the KTP associate on our joint project, introduced me to machine learning approaches. Sabine Pahl and other colleagues in the EPSRC eViz project not only provided me with a deeper understanding of the role of occupant behaviour in building performance but also made me realise that building performance analysis is a separate discipline that needs its own voice. My Royal Academy of Engineering fellowship brought me back to GeorgiaTech in order to learn more about uncertainty analysis; the discussions with Yuming Sun on the energy performance gap also helped shape my thinking. My work at Plymouth with my postdocs and students, notably Rory Jones, Shen Wei, Jim Carfrae, Emma Heffernan, Matthew Fox, Helen Garmston, Alberto Beltrami, Tatiana Alves, João Ulrich de Alencastro and Omar Al‐Hafith, helped me see some of the complexities of building performance and advance my thoughts on the subject. The colleagues within the International Building Performance Simulation Association (IBPSA) have provided an excellent frame of reference ever since my first IBPSA conference in 1997; over the years some of them like Chip Barnaby, Malcolm Cook, Dejan Mumovic and Neveen Hamza have become trusted friends and references for my efforts. The same goes for the colleagues such as Ian Smith, André Borrmann, Timo Hartmann and Georg Suter that are active within the European Group for Intelligent in Computing in Engineering (EG‐ICE) and for those active within the Chartered Institution of Building Services Engineers (CIBSE).
The specific idea to write this book on the subject of building performance analysis crystallised in October 2014 during a visit of my long‐term mentor Fried Augenbroe, on the basis of a casual remark as we were driving to Bristol airport. Further momentum was gained a month later from a discussion with Ruchi Choudhary about real contributions to the field of building simulation during a visit to Cambridge University, leading to the actual start on this manuscript. My special thanks to both of them for setting me off on this journey of discovery. Thanks are also due for many people who provided input on elements of the text and helped with images, such as Joe Clarke, Wim Gielingh, Nighat Johnson‐Amin, Gayle Mault and Ioannis Rizos.
Achieving the current form of the book has been helped by efforts from a group of trusted friends who proofread the material; this included Fried Augenbroe, Cheol‐Soo Park, Georg Suter and Wei Tian. Feedback on parts was also obtained by MSc students at both Georgia Tech and Plymouth, which helped me to develop the material. Any remaining misconceptions and errors are my own responsibility. Further thanks go to Paul Sayer and the team at Wiley who managed the production of the work.
Finally, I would like to thank Anke, Rick and Tom for tolerating the long hours that were invested to realise this book. Without your love, support and endurance, this work could not have been completed.
Pieter de Wilde, Tavistock, UKpieter@bldg‐perf.orgwww.bldg‐perf.org
Endorsements
Many disciplines are concerned with aspects of building performance and its analysis. Surprisingly, little work exists that presents a comprehensive and systematic overview of this diverse and growing field. This timely book by Pieter de Wilde, a leading researcher and practitioner of building performance analysis, thus fills a significant gap. The book guides readers through a wide range of topics from theoretical foundations to practical applications. Key concepts, such as performance attributes, performance targets or performance banding, are introduced, as are the methods to measure and evaluate building performance. Topics of both scientific and practical relevance, including decision making under uncertainty or data collection and analysis for improved building operation and control, are reviewed and discussed. Readers will appreciate the comprehensive coverage of relevant research and standards literature, which makes the book particularly valuable as a reference. In summary, this book is highly recommended reading for both novices and experts who are interested in or want to learn more about building performance analysis.
Georg SuterVienna University of Technology, Austria
It sometimes is a challenge to write a book to describe the things we always talk about. Dr. de Wilde deals with the important topic of ‘building performance’. This sounds easy, but actually the subject is very complex. Yet we must define the meaning of building performance before designing and constructing green buildings, low‐carbon buildings or high performance buildings. After a thorough review of state‐of‐art research on building performance, this book presents an ‘emergent theory’ of building performance analysis. This book will play an important role in a deeper exploration of this fundamental topic.
Wei TianTianjin University of Science and Technology, China
Over the last two decades, I have been involved in simulation studies of more than 20 existing buildings in the United States and South Korea, analysing the performance of double skins, HVAC systems (such as the example briefly introduced in Chapter 6 of this book), occupant behaviour, machine learning models for building systems and many others. However, it has never been easy to unambiguously quantify building performance of these cases. For example, how can we ‘objectively’ quantify the energy/daylighting/lighting/thermal comfort performance of a double skin system under different orientations and changing indoor and outdoor conditions? The performance of this double skin is dependent on design variables (height, width, depth, glazing type, blind type), controls (angle of blind slats, opening ratio of ventilation dampers usually located at the top and bottom of the double skin), occupant behaviour (lights on/off, windows open/closed), HVAC mode (cooling/heating) and so on. As this example shows, objective performance quantification of a double skin is not an easy task. Moreover, so far there is no established theory or set of principles to help us direct the analysis of building performance at different building and system scales. The general way we presently describe building performance is at best a ‘relative’ comparison to a baseline case. This book by Professor de Wilde attempts to fill this void and presents an emergent theory of building performance analysis. I have observed for several years how Professor de Wilde has worked hard to complete this invaluable book. I firmly believe that it will contribute as a foundation stone to the area of building performance studies and will support efforts in this field for many years to come.
Cheol Soo ParkSeoul National University, South Korea
At last, a book that answers the question ‘what is building performance?’ not by theory alone, but through analytics and impacts on building practice. Pieter de Wilde has crafted a comprehensive compilation of what building performance truly means – from its place in the building life cycle and its relationship to stakeholders – through systems, technologies and the unpredictable occupants who often have the most influence on how buildings perform. The book goes beyond the merely theoretical by demonstrating the analytics, tools and instruments needed to evaluate building performance in practice. The case studies are relevant and specific to the system or technology but also to the appropriate part of the building life cycle. By the end, Pieter de Wilde ties it all together through life cycle phase specific theories for evaluating building performance – design, operation and research. Well written, insightful and a pleasure to read.
Dru CrawleyBentley Systems, USA
This is a long awaited primer for those studying performance, simulation and analysis of buildings. As a subject, building performance analysis borrows from a wide variety of viewpoints and disciplines. This book takes on the difficult task of consolidating these together and goes a step further in articulating the particular nuances of building performance. It is the first book on building performance that goes beyond current trends in research and instead reflects on its foundations, remit and reach. The book is sure to become an essential read for graduate students wanting to grasp the breadth of the subject and its roots. The clearly identified reading list and scenario exercises (activities) at the end of each chapter are fantastic; they help the reader go beyond the text and are particularly valuable for generating discussion sessions for graduate courses.
Ruchi ChoudharyUniversity of Cambridge, UK
1Introduction
Modern society is strongly focussed on performance and efficiency. There is a constant drive to make production processes, machines and human activities better, and concepts like high performance computing, job performance and economic performance are of great interest to the relevant stakeholders. This also applies to the built environment, where building performance has grown to be a key topic across the sector. However, the concept of building performance is a complex one and subject to various interpretations. The dictionary provides two meanings for the word performance. In technical terms, it is ‘the action or process of performing a task or function’. It may also mean the ‘act of presenting a play, concert, or other form of entertainment’ (Oxford Dictionary, 2010). Both interpretations are used in the building discipline; the technical one is prevalent in building engineering, while the other one frequently appears in relation to architecture and buildings as work of art (Kolarevic and Malkawi, 2005: 3). But the issue goes much deeper. As observed by Rahim (2005: 179), ‘technical articles of research tend to use the term “performance” but rarely define its meaning’. In the humanities, performance is a concept that implies dynamic, complex processes with changing values, meanings and structures (Kolarevic, 2005b: 205).
Whether approaching building performance from a technological or aesthetic perspective, buildings are complex systems. Typically they consist of a structure, envelope, infill and building services. Many of these are systems in their own right, making a building a ‘system of systems’. All of these work together to ensure that the building performs a whole range of functions, like withstanding structural loads caused by people and furniture, protecting the occupants from environmental conditions, allowing safe evacuation in case of emergency, delivering a return on investment or making an architectural statement. Building performance thus is a central concept in ensuring that buildings meet the requirements for which they are built and that they are fit for purpose. Building performance plays a role in all stages of the building life cycle, from developing the building brief1 to design and engineering, construction, commissioning, operation, renovation and ultimately deconstruction and disposal.
Different disciplines contribute knowledge on specific performance aspects of buildings, such as architectural design, mechanical engineering, structural engineering and building science.2 Other disciplines focus on specific systems, such as building services engineering or facade engineering, or are grounded in a common method, such as building performance simulation or the digital arts; in many cases disciplines overlap. The knowledge of all these disciplines needs to be combined into a building design, a building as a product and ultimately an asset in operation, which adds further complexities of interdisciplinarity, information exchange, management and control.
Building performance is a dynamic concept. The architectural performance depends on the interplay between the observer, building and context. The technical performance relates to how a building responds to an external excitation such as structural loading, the local weather to which the building is exposed and how the building is used. This often introduces uncertainties when predicting performance. Furthermore building performance needs to materialize within the constraints of limited and often diminishing resources such as material, energy and money. Challenges such as the energy crisis of the 1970s, the concern about climate change and the 2008 global financial crisis all contribute to increasingly stringent targets and a drive towards more efficient buildings and a growing interest in building performance.
Within this context, a large body of literature exists on building performance. Underlying principles are provided by generic books like, amongst many others, Clifford et al. (2009) in their introduction to mechanical engineering, Incropera et al. (2007) on fundamentals of heat and mass transfer, Stroud and Booth (2007) on engineering mathematics, Zeigler et al. (2000) on theory of modelling and simulation or Basmadjian (2003) on the mathematical modelling of physical systems. The application of these principles to buildings and to the assessment of building performance can be found in more specialist works such as Clarke (2001) on energy modelling in building design, Underwood and Yik (2004) on energy modelling methods used in simulation, Hensen and Lamberts (2011) on building performance simulation in design and operation and Mumovic and Santamouris (2009) on their integrated approach to energy, health and operational performance. Architectural performance arguably is covered by Kolarevic and Malkawi (2005) in their work on performative architecture. This is complemented by countless articles in peer‐reviewed archived journals such as Building and Environment, Automation in Construction, Energy and Buildings, Advanced Engineering Informatics, Architectural Science Review, the Journal of Building Performance Simulation, Building Research and Information and Design Studies. Building performance is also a day‐to‐day concern in the construction industry and is of central importance to building legislation.
With the complexity of buildings, the many functions they perform and the multitude of disciplines and sciences involved, there are many different viewpoints and interpretations of performance. The many stakeholders in building, such as architects, contractors, owners and tenants, all view it from a different position. Even in academia, different research interests lead to distinct schools of thought on performance. An example is the work by Preiser and Vischer (2005), who provide a worthwhile contribution on building performance assessment from the point of view of post‐occupancy evaluation, yet do not really connect to the aforementioned building performance modelling and simulation domain. This lack of common understanding is problematic as it hinders the integration that is needed across the disciplines involved. It impedes the use of modelling and simulation in the design process or the learning from measurement and user evaluation in practice, since it makes it hard to sell services in these fields to building clients and occupants. The absence of a common understanding also means that building science and scholarship do not have a strong foundation for further progress and that the design and engineering sectors of the building sector are seen to lack credibility.
The discussion about building performance is further complicated by some intrinsic properties of the building sector. Some may consider building to be a straightforward, simple process that makes use of well‐tested products and methods like bricks, timber and concrete that have been around for a long time and where lay people can do work themselves after visiting the local builders market or DIY3 centre; however this risks overlooking some serious complexity issues. Architectural diversity, responding to individualist culture, renders most buildings to be different from others and makes the number of prototypes or one‐off products extremely large in comparison with other sectors such as the automotive, aerospace and ICT industries (Foliente, 2005a: 95). Typically, buildings are not produced in series; almost all buildings are individual, custom‐built projects, and even series of homes built to the same specification at best reach a couple of hundred units. This in turn has implications for the design cost per unit, the production process that can only be optimized to a certain extent and, ultimately, building performance. With small series, the construction sector has only limited prospects for the use of prototypes or the use of the typical Plan‐Do‐Study‐Act4 improvement cycles that are used in other manufacturing industries. Quality control programmes, modularization with standard connectors, construction of components in automated factories and other approaches used in for instance the automotive or electronic system industries are thus not easily transferred to construction as suggested by some authors such as Capehart et al. (2004) or Tuohy and Murphy (2015). Buildings are also complex in that they do not have a single dominant technology. While for instance most automobiles employ a metal structure, building structures can be made from in situ cast concrete, prefabricated concrete, timber or steel or a combination of these; similar observations can be made for the building shell, infill and services. Furthermore the construction industry is typically made up of many small companies who collaborate on an ad hoc basis, with continuous changes in team composition and communication patterns, which are all challenges for the dialogue about building performance. Of all products, buildings also are amongst those that undergo the most profound changes throughout their life; while changing the engine of a car normally is not economically viable, it is common practice to replace the heating system in a building, to retrofit the façade or even to redesign the whole building layout, with profound consequences on the building performance (Eastman, 1999: 27–30). Once buildings exhibit performance faults, these are often hard to rectify; there is no option of a product recall on the full building scale. Moreover, buildings, because of their fixed position in space, are not comparable with other products in terms of procurement strategies; for instance, the decision on the purchase of a building also relates to facilities in the vicinity, not just the building itself. The supply chain of buildings also is different, with the clients who start building processes often selling the product on to other end users (Foliente, 2005a: 95–96).
Yet another complication arises from shifting approaches to performance measurement, driven by the rapid developments in the ICT sector. In the past, measurement of the performance of buildings was an expensive issue, requiring the installation of expensive specialist equipment. Computational assessment of building performance typically took place in a different arena, detached from the world of direct observation. However, the digital age has meant huge reductions in the cost of sensors; wireless technology reduces the need to put intrusive cabling into buildings, and increases in memory size make it easy to harvest data at high frequencies. As more data on building performance is harvested, it becomes obvious that performance predictions and measurement do not always agree, leading to phenomena like the ‘energy performance gap’ (Carbon Trust, 2011; Menezes et al., 2012; CIBSE, 2013; Wilson, 2013; de Wilde, 2014; Fedoruk et al., 2015; van Dronkelaar et al., 2016). Some believe that the main reason for this energy performance gap is a lack of accounting for all energy use in a building such as ICT systems, plug loads, special functions and others (CIBSE, 2013). Others see issues with software, software users, building, commissioning, maintenance and recording (Wilson, 2013). Yet others hold that a key to improvement is a better understanding and representation of the energy‐related occupant behaviour in buildings (Duarte et al., 2015; Ahn et al., 2016; IEA, 2016b). To bridge this gap, it seems obvious that some of the prediction and analysis tools used in the sector need to be revisited in depth (Sun, 2014). However, the different views of building performance also compound the debate and need to be addressed if prediction and direct observation are to become aligned. A common understanding of building performance is also a prerequisite to make sense of the large amount of data collected from buildings and to drive new analysis and management processes.
In spite of the interest of many in building performance and its importance in what clearly is a complex context, building performance remains so far a rather evasive concept. While the term building performance is used regularly in literature, there is a paucity of text that actually defines what it is; in most cases the meaning is left implicit. The generic concept of performance is far from limited to the building domain. Yet literature on the subject of building performance seems mostly restricted to discussions within the discipline, with only few authors looking towards other sectors. With further integration through concepts like machine‐to‐machine communication and the ‘Internet of Things’, it is important to bring the concept of building performance in line with the approaches in the other fields.
From an architectural stance, building design can be considered as the combination of three types of integration: physical, visual and performance integration. Here physical integration relates to the need for building components to connect and share space. Visual integration is combining the components in a way that creates the buildings’ shared image. Performance integration then deals with sharing functions (Bachman, 2003: 4). In this structure, building performance can also be seen as a guiding design principle in architecture, similar to form making. In this context building performance covers a wide domain – from spatial, social and cultural to structural, thermal and other technical aspects (Kolarevic and Malkawi, 2005: 3).
The International Council for Research and Innovation in Building and Construction (CIB),5 taking a technical view, defined the ‘Performance Approach’ to building as ‘working in terms of ends rather than means’. Here ‘ends’ relates to desired technical attributes of a building such as safety or structural stability of load‐bearing capacity; ‘means’ are actual systems and solutions. The CIB definition was originally positioned in the context of building legislation and how to define performance in building regulations (Bakens et al., 2005). However, with the passing of time, many regulations are now performance based, and this definition has thus lost in importance and urgency; moreover a lot of the earlier fundamental thinking by CIB in the 1980s seems to be lost to the performance discourse. In the domain of standards, ISO 6241 (1984: 2) on ‘the principles of performance standards in building’ simply equals performance to ‘the behaviour (of a product) related to use’.
Even so, only very few authors actually define building performance:
Williams (
2006
: 435) notes that building performance is a complex issue. Listing a range of items that buildings need to accommodate (people, equipment, processes, places, spaces, image, convenience, comfort, support systems, costs, income, profitability), he then defines building performance as ‘the contribution made by a building to the functional and financial requirements of the occupiers and/or owners and the associated physical and financial characteristics of the fabric, services and finishes over time’. Williams identifies three key facets of building performance: physical performance, functional performance and financial performance.
Almeida
et al
. (
2010
) define building performance as the behaviour of buildings as a product related to their use; they note that performance can also be applied to the construction process (for instance, interaction between parties) and services (such as the performance of an asset in support of business).
Corry
et al
. (
2014
) define building performance as ‘delivering functional intent of each zone in the building while accounting for the energy and cost of delivering this functional intent’.
An interesting view of looking at building performance is provided by Foliente
et al
. (
1998
: 16), who draw the attention to the opposite of performance: non‐performance, which they define as the failure of meeting a specified performance level.
Key figures in the domain mostly leave the concept undefined. Clarke (2001: ix–x) emphasizes the complexity of buildings and the large search spaces required for analysis, as well as the different interacting physical domains, and then focusses on the benefits of building simulation and how this can be integrated into the design process. Preiser and Vischer (2005: 6) do not directly define building performance but list the priorities of building performance as health, safety, security, function, efficiency, work flow, psychological, social and culture/aesthetic. They also note the interplay between performance and the scale of any performance evaluation and the relation to occupants (individuals, groups or organizations). Hensen and Lamberts (2011: 1–14) build up the need for models and tools from a discussion of sustainability challenges, user requirements and the need for robust solutions; they mention high performance and eco‐buildings, but do not define building performance. In terms of building performance simulation tools, they emphasize that these are multidisciplinary, problem oriented and wide in scope. Augenbroe, arguably a leading thinker on the role of simulation in performance‐based building, approaches performance as central to a stakeholder dialogue and dissects that discussion into an interplay between building functions, performance requirements, performance indicators, quantification methods and system attributes (Augenbroe, 2011).
It is also interesting to note the position of some international organizations on building performance:
The International Building Performance Simulation Association (IBPSA,
2015
) has as its mission ‘to advance and promote the science of building performance simulation in order to improve the design, construction, operation and maintenance of new and existing buildings worldwide’. IBPSA’s vision statement mentions the need to address performance‐related concerns, to identify problems within the built environment and to identify the performance characteristics on which simulation should focus, yet it does not provide a definition of building performance.
The American Society of Heating, Refrigerating and Air‐Conditioning Engineers (ASHRAE,
2015
) provides annual handbooks that are a key reference in this area. Yet their composite index across the handbook series, which does mention many topical areas such as building information modelling (BIM), performance contracting and performance monitoring, does not have an entry on building performance.
The Chartered Institution of Building Services Engineers (CIBSE,
2015a
) publishes the
CIBSE Guide A: Environmental Design
(CIBSE,
2015b
). This opens with a section on quality in environmental design, which discusses key criteria such as thermal, visual and acoustic comfort, health, energy efficiency and greenhouse gas emissions. By focussing on quality assurance in buildings, this guide sidesteps the definition of building performance; however, the guide goes on to define legislation including the Energy Performance of Buildings regulations and discusses performance assessment methods (PAMs) as a key approach to select appropriate calculation methods to assess quality.
Standards typically address only aspects of the overall building performance, yet can provide interesting indirect insights. For instance, BS EN ISO 50001 (2011: 3) defines energy performance as ‘measurable results related to energy efficiency, energy use and energy consumption’. It notes that these measurable results can be reviewed against policy, objectives, targets and other energy performance requirements.
Williams (2006: 435) and Cook (2007: 1–5) associate building performance with building quality. However, Almeida et al. (2010) note that ‘quality’ is a systems attribute that is hard to define; it is often taken to mean the absence of defects. It is related to a range of theories and approaches such as quality control, quality assurance, quality management, quality certification and others. Gann et al. (2003) agree, stating that ‘design quality is hard to quantify as it consists of both objective and subjective components. Whilst some indicators of design can be measured objectively, others result in intangible assets’. Other authors, such as Loftness et al. (2005), use the term ‘design excellence’ rather than performance or quality.
Not having a proper definition of building performance also leads to misunderstanding, fuzzy constructs and overly complex software systems. This is especially the case where building performance is used in the context of a wide view of building sustainability, in the difficult context of building design or as part of larger ICT systems; see for instance Bluyssen (2010), Todorovic and Kim (2012), Becker (2008), Geyer (2012) or Dibley et al. (2011). Some authors such as Shen et al. (2010) promise systems such as ‘fully integrated and automated technology’ (FIATECH), which is based on a workflow that includes automated design in response to user requirements, followed by automated procurement, intelligent construction and ultimately delivering intelligent, self‐maintaining and repairing facilities; clearly such systems are a good long‐term goal to drive developments but require a deeper understanding of performance to become feasible. This has lead to a situation where the building industry is sceptical of the work in academia and prefers to move at its own pace and develop its own guidelines, standards and systems. This situation where building performance is, by and large, an undefined concept in both building practice and industry, and where the term is used without a clear frame of reference and common understanding, needs addressing. A clear definition and theoretical framework will strengthen the position of that part of the building sector that provides services, products and buildings in which performance is important; it will also provide a foundation to move scholarship in this area to a next level.
