Completing the missing link in building design process: Enhancing post-occupancy evaluation method for effective feedback for building performance

2015 ◽  
Vol 89 ◽  
pp. 14-27 ◽  
Author(s):  
Özgür Göçer ◽  
Ying Hua ◽  
Kenan Göçer
Keyword(s):  
Design Process ◽  
Evaluation Method ◽  
Building Design ◽  
Building Performance ◽  
Missing Link ◽  
Effective Feedback ◽  
Post Occupancy Evaluation

scholarly journals Defining the sustainable building design process: methods for BIM execution planning in the UK

2014 ◽  
Vol 8 (4) ◽  
pp. 562-587 ◽  
Author(s):  
Maria-Angeliki Zanni ◽  
Robby Soetanto ◽  
Kirti Ruikar
Keyword(s):  
Design Process ◽  
Process Model ◽  
Sustainable Design ◽  
Building Design ◽  
Project Delivery ◽  
Building Performance ◽  
Extensive Literature ◽  
Sustainable Building ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Design Process Model

Purpose – The purpose of this research is to develop a building information modelling (BIM)-enabled sustainable design process model that identifies critical decisions actions in the design process along with the information and level of detail that facilitate an informed and timely decision. Building performance analysis is usually performed after the design and construction documents are produced, resulting in lost opportunities. Design/methodology/approach – A number of research methods have been adopted; these include extensive literature review and 11 in-depth exploratory interviews with industry practitioners (sustainable building design experts, early BIM adopters). Findings – Project delivery methods have a significant effect on the sustainable outcome of buildings. The development of a structured process can assist sustainable design practice among building professionals. Learning from implemented projects, that have utilised BIM processes, facilitates the scope of creating this process and advises future projects to prevent failures. Process mapping is essential to streamline the process, support key project processes and help the design team manage their own responsibilities and deliverables required by them. Originality/value – The identification of the gap and the need for a structured process for sustainable building design for BIM execution is discussed. The synergies that exist between BIM, building performance modelling, Building Research Establishment’s Environmental Assessment Method assessment and the Royal Institute of British Architects Plan of Work are shown. The effect that project delivery has on sustainable design outcome has been established. A coordinated collaborative design process model is presented based on the findings from interviewing early adopters.

scholarly journals The role of feedback in building design 1980–2018 and onwards

2018 ◽  
Vol 40 (1) ◽  
pp. 5-12 ◽  
Author(s):  
Derek Clements-Croome
Keyword(s):  
Building Design ◽  
Human Behaviour ◽  
Theory And Practice ◽  
Building Performance ◽  
Post Occupancy Evaluation ◽  
Health And Wellbeing ◽  
Feedback Data ◽  
Causes Of Failure ◽  
Systematic Appraisal

This is a paper updating the paper I wrote on this topic for BSERT in issue 1 volume 1 in 1980. The original paper set out the causes of failure in building design as being due to various issues such as an inadequate brief, lack of data, poor communication, inadequate analysis or synthesis, quirks of human behaviour which could all contribute. Systematic appraisal – now referred to as post-occupancy evaluation – of buildings in use provides feedback which helps us to understand why theory and practice do not always agree and also gives evidence for improved building economics. It concluded that we have to involve users more in the design of buildings, and for the next generations, we need a much broader based education of building designers. This paper continues the theme by considering the latest methods of measurement and assessment which provide feedback data for sustainability but focusing more on health and wellbeing rating assessments. Practical application: Our professions need more interaction across sectors and to foster a transdisciplinary approach. This means more communication with other professional kinsmen from the health and wellbeing sectors in order to make valuable interventions in the building design process. This paper updates the 1980 paper from the first edition of BSER&T that sets out the causes of failure in building design as being due to various issues such as an inadequate brief, lack of data, poor communication, inadequate analysis or synthesis, quirks of human behaviour which could all contribute. The paper determines that the need for feedback in order to improve building performance and provide data to develop existing guidelines, codes and standards is as valid now as it was in 1980 but the way we do this has changed.

scholarly journals Development of an ontology-based semantic building post-occupancy evaluation framework

2021 ◽  
Vol 12 ◽  
pp. 19
Author(s):  
Yuanhong Zhao ◽  
Qingping Yang
Keyword(s):  
Evaluation Method ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Lessons Learned ◽  
Evaluation Framework ◽  
Systematic Evaluation ◽  
Building Performance ◽  
Indoor Environmental Quality ◽  
Actual Performance ◽  
Post Occupancy Evaluation ◽  
Occupant Satisfaction

Post-occupancy evaluation (POE) is a systematic method to evaluate the actual building performance against the theoretical design intents after the building has been occupied for some time, to understand how the building is performing and to capture lessons learned. The POE offers an opportunity to investigate the buildings' actual performance based upon the occupants' satisfaction levels in the aspects of building overall design, indoor environmental quality, thermal comfort, etc. However, as the key part of POE, occupant satisfaction assessment (OSA) is a missing link in the building performance evaluation (BPE) domain, and there is not a systematic evaluation method for the OSA. Moreover, it is time-consuming and error-prone to conduct the OSA manually. This paper presents from the end-user's satisfaction perspective a semantic post-occupancy evaluation ontology (POEontology) to facilitate the occupant satisfaction assessment of buildings, with the ultimate aim of optimizing building operation guidelines, and improving occupants' use experience quality and well-being. An ontology-based knowledge model has been developed to capture the fragmented knowledge of building use satisfaction assessment in the POE domain, with the benchmarking evaluation rules encoded in Semantic Web Rule Language (SWRL) to enable automatic rule-based rating and reasoning. This ontology model also enables the effective OSA-related knowledge retrieving and sharing, and promotes its implementation in the POE domain. A field study has been conducted based upon the Building Use Study (BUS) methodology to validate the proposed ontology framework.

Post Occupancy Evaluation Study in Hospital Buildings – a Pilot Study

2011 ◽  
Vol 94-96 ◽  
pp. 2248-2256 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jian Zuo ◽  
Xue Liang Yuan ◽  
Stephen Pullen
Keyword(s):  
Performance Evaluation ◽  
Pilot Study ◽  
Carbon Emission ◽  
Critical Role ◽  
Building Design ◽  
Evaluation Study ◽  
Building Performance ◽  
Relative Importance ◽  
Building Stock ◽  
Post Occupancy Evaluation

Building stock plays a critical role in the sustainability agenda worldwide. It consumes a large proportion of energy and is one of the biggest carbon emitters. Hospital buildings are no exception. Therefore, the performance of hospital buildings is critical to achieve the overall carbon emission goal. Post occupancy evaluation has been a popular tool and technique to evaluate the building performance which provides feedback to the building design and construction. This paper investigates the post occupancy evaluation of hospital buildings. A typical hospital campus in China is selected for this research purpose. The results showed that, even though not being implemented widely in China, the POE is an effective and useful tool for building performance evaluation. In addition, the relative importance of POE study criteria is highlighted.

scholarly journals The Perspective of Turkey in the Post Occupancy Evaluation Studies

2020 ◽  
Vol 51 (1) ◽  
pp. 83-91
Author(s):  
Sena Işıklar Bengi ◽  
Abdurrahman Yağmur Topraklı
Keyword(s):  
User Satisfaction ◽  
Evaluation Method ◽  
Evaluation Studies ◽  
Dynamic Structure ◽  
Energy Performance ◽  
Building Performance ◽  
Post Occupancy Evaluation ◽  
The 1960S ◽  
Building Designs ◽  
The Relationship

From past to present, the evaluation of structures has been the subject of both academic studies and practices through different systematic methods. One of these methods is the "Post Occupancy Evaluation". The method, whose first implementations date back to the 1960s, enables to process hard-to-evaluate data that is based on the dynamic structure of the user. It focuses on detecting the gaps between user satisfaction and physical environment. POE provides advantages in certain subjects such as comprehending the relationship among the use, attitude, and evaluation of the building performance, and making conscious decisions about the future building designs. In this study, a review was conducted about the definition and advantages of the "Post Occupancy Evaluation" as well as its introduction into the literature and its place in the literature. Subsequently, progressing further, the studies of this model in Turkey were presented. Concerning the studies conducted since the evaluation was introduced into the academy in Turkey, the qualifications, objectives and types of buildings they focused on were cited. It was determined that the majority of the studies were conducted on several building types, and mainly focused on design evaluations, user evaluations, energy performance evaluations, and IEQ evaluations that are defined as the direct objectives of the POE studies. By evaluating the findings, the deficiencies were discovered in the implementation of the method in Turkey and the development of country-specific evaluation protocols, the importance of the evaluation method was emphasized, and the need to improve the deficiencies was stated.

scholarly journals BIOCLIMATIC ARCHITECTURE APPROACH TO ENERGY EFFICIENT SCHOOL BUILDING CONCEPTS

Arsitektura ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 17 (1) ◽  
pp. 77
Author(s):  
Lia Amelia Megawati ◽  
Akhmad Akromusyuhada
Keyword(s):  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
Evaluation Method ◽  
Building Design ◽  
School Facilities ◽  
Primary Data ◽  
School Buildings ◽  
School Building ◽  
Post Occupancy Evaluation ◽  
Integrated Concept ◽  
Insight Into

<p><em>Bioclimatic architecture is an integrated concept in building design where the structure, space and building construction systems can guarantee comfortable conditions for the occupants. This concept was developed in the building of SMU Al Wahid Kabupaten Tasikmalaya which is physically a school building far from comfortable. The form of school buildings does not support the implementation of good quality teaching and learning activities, so that redesign is needed to support the comfort of school building users. Contoured area locations, beautiful environment and adequate air temperature are sufficient to support the application of bioclimatic architectural concepts. To obtain accurate primary data, the Post Occupancy Evaluation method is used. This study focused on building users, needs and provided insight into the consequences of existing designs. The evaluation results will be used as planning criteria in the program and subsequent design. Bioclimatic architecture is implemented in the hope of increasing the comfort of users of school facilities so that the process of teaching and learning can run optimally.</em></p>

scholarly journals The feasibility of 'Building Performance Sketching' within the building design process

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
◽  
Elzine Braasch
Keyword(s):  
Quality Assurance ◽  
Design Process ◽  
Building Design ◽  
Distributed Model ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Building Performance ◽  
Design Team ◽  
Model Quality ◽  
Team Collaboration ◽  
Building Performance Simulation

<p>This study investigated the question of whether or not the distributed model method (DMM) could be perceived by the New Zealand building industry’s architects and engineers as overcoming barriers which prevent them from implementing building performance sketching within their design processes.  Current literature on the barriers to building performance simulation (BPS) have suggested a number of recommendations for tool developers to address, with little documented success to their impact on overcoming these perceived barriers. The recommendations suggested mainly improving tool interoperability for effective design team collaboration, and means to demonstrate model quality assurance. The DMM presented itself within literature as a new means to overcome the difficulties of interoperability faced by the central modelling method, commonly used in building information modelling (BIM), to meet requirements for design team collaboration. With the ability to provide high interoperability and parametric capabilities with detailed simulation programs, the DMM was hypothesised to address all recommendations from literature to overcome the barriers to implementing BPS within the design process. Furthermore, the study proposed the use of building performance sketching as an approach to assess the architectural sketch as a means to ensure quality assurance.  The study concluded that DMM cannot currently address all wants and wishes of users established in literature, but has potential. Future research efforts are required to focus upon: creating industry specific templates for building types; developing these templates to be adaptable for the different modelling operators of the proposed workflow demonstrated to the participants within this study; and developing quality assurance standards for modelling and guidelines for model validation. Finally, the study concluded with future work required beyond tool development: improving education of architects; and introducing legislation.</p>

scholarly journals The feasibility of 'Building Performance Sketching' within the building design process

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
◽  
Elzine Braasch
Keyword(s):  
Quality Assurance ◽  
Design Process ◽  
Building Design ◽  
Distributed Model ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Building Performance ◽  
Design Team ◽  
Model Quality ◽  
Team Collaboration ◽  
Building Performance Simulation

<p>This study investigated the question of whether or not the distributed model method (DMM) could be perceived by the New Zealand building industry’s architects and engineers as overcoming barriers which prevent them from implementing building performance sketching within their design processes.  Current literature on the barriers to building performance simulation (BPS) have suggested a number of recommendations for tool developers to address, with little documented success to their impact on overcoming these perceived barriers. The recommendations suggested mainly improving tool interoperability for effective design team collaboration, and means to demonstrate model quality assurance. The DMM presented itself within literature as a new means to overcome the difficulties of interoperability faced by the central modelling method, commonly used in building information modelling (BIM), to meet requirements for design team collaboration. With the ability to provide high interoperability and parametric capabilities with detailed simulation programs, the DMM was hypothesised to address all recommendations from literature to overcome the barriers to implementing BPS within the design process. Furthermore, the study proposed the use of building performance sketching as an approach to assess the architectural sketch as a means to ensure quality assurance.  The study concluded that DMM cannot currently address all wants and wishes of users established in literature, but has potential. Future research efforts are required to focus upon: creating industry specific templates for building types; developing these templates to be adaptable for the different modelling operators of the proposed workflow demonstrated to the participants within this study; and developing quality assurance standards for modelling and guidelines for model validation. Finally, the study concluded with future work required beyond tool development: improving education of architects; and introducing legislation.</p>

scholarly journals Design space exploration for flexibility assessment and decision making support in integrated industrial building design

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Julia Reisinger ◽  
Maximilian Knoll ◽  
Iva Kovacic
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Design Process ◽  
Design Space Exploration ◽  
Design Space ◽  
Parametric Design ◽  
Space Exploration ◽  
Building Design ◽  
Assessment Tools ◽  
Industrial Building ◽  
Industrial Buildings

AbstractIndustrial buildings play a major role in sustainable development, producing and expending a significant amount of resources, energy and waste. Due to product individualization and accelerating technological advances in manufacturing, industrial buildings strive for highly flexible building structures to accommodate constantly evolving production processes. However, common sustainability assessment tools do not respect flexibility metrics and manufacturing and building design processes run sequentially, neglecting discipline-specific interaction, leading to inflexible solutions. In integrated industrial building design (IIBD), incorporating manufacturing and building disciplines simultaneously, design teams are faced with the choice of multiple conflicting criteria and complex design decisions, opening up a huge design space. To address these issues, this paper presents a parametric design process for efficient design space exploration in IIBD. A state-of-the-art survey and multiple case study are conducted to define four novel flexibility metrics and to develop a unified design space, respecting both building and manufacturing requirements. Based on these results, a parametric design process for automated structural optimization and quantitative flexibility assessment is developed, guiding the decision-making process towards increased sustainability. The proposed framework is tested on a pilot-project of a food and hygiene production, evaluating the design space representation and validating the flexibility metrics. Results confirmed the efficiency of the process that an evolutionary multi-objective optimization algorithm can be implemented in future research to enable multidisciplinary design optimization for flexible industrial building solutions.

scholarly journals A Methodological Process for the Design of Frameworks Oriented to Infotainment User Interfaces

2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (11) ◽  
pp. 5982
Author(s):  
Carlos-Alberto Domínguez-Báez ◽  
Ricardo Mendoza-González ◽  
Huizilopoztli Luna-García ◽  
Mario Alberto Rodríguez-Díaz ◽  
Francisco Javier Luna-Rosas ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Literature Review ◽  
Design Process ◽  
Systematic Literature Review ◽  
User Interfaces ◽  
Evaluation Method ◽  
Likert Scale ◽  
Work Team

The objective of this paper was to propose a methodological process for the design of frameworks oriented to infotainment user interfaces. Four stages comprise the proposed process, conceptualization, structuring, documentation, and evaluation; in addition, these stages include activities, tasks, and deliverables to guide a work team during the design of a framework. To determine the stages and their components, an analysis of 42 papers was carried out through a systematic literature review in search of similarities during the design process of frameworks related to user interfaces. The evaluation method by a panel of experts was used to determine the validity of the proposal; the conceptual proposal was provided to a panel of 10 experts for their analysis and later a questionnaire in the form of a Likert scale was used to collect the information on the validation of the proposal. The results of the evaluation indicated that the methodological process is valid to meet the objective of designing a framework oriented to infotainment user interfaces.

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