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optimize building performance and minimize environmental impacts; provide a way to quantify a building's environmental effects; set standards and benchmarks to assess buildings objectively; Furthermore, the result of such an assessment is to provide a certificate verifying the achievement of the desired performance and quality of the building. [1]
There are several different building performance standards widely used for designing building codes and energy-efficiency certifications. For instance, the standards produced by ASHRAE (American Society of Heating, Refrigeration, and Air Conditioning Engineers) and the IECC (International Energy Conservation Code) have been widely used to inform local building codes and energy-efficiency ...
The Living Building Challenge is an international sustainable building certification program created in 2006 by the non-profit International Living Future Institute. [1] It is described by the Institute as a philosophy, advocacy tool and certification program that promotes the measurement of sustainability in the built environment. [2]
Performance-based building design. Performance-Based Building Design is an approach to the design of any complexity of building, from single-detached homes up to and including high-rise apartments and office buildings. A building constructed in this way is required to meet certain measurable or predictable performance requirements, such as ...
KPI Benchmarking – the Annual Report contains an analysis of current ISA key performance indicators (KPIs), which include energy, CO 2, waste and water – at site, building and asset level – by country and sector. This enables members to benchmark their property portfolio within their organisation and against other companies that have ...
The needs for sustainability measurement include improvement in the operations, benchmarking performances, tracking progress, and evaluating process, among others. [12] For the purposes of building sustainability indicators, frameworks can be developed and the steps are as follows: [13] Defining the system- A proper and definite system is ...
The Building Performance Database ( BPD) is an anonymized database that contains energy use intensity data for hundreds of thousands of buildings in the United States. It is built by the Department of Energy in the United States and maintained by the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. [1] [2] Users can examine specific building types and ...
Post Occupancy Evaluations is used to improve the ways that buildings are used to support productivity and wellbeing. Specifically it is used to: Account for building quality. Inform planning and briefing (programming) for new buildings and alterations. Troubleshoot building/use problems (such as change management and new work styles)