Building Performance Evaluation (Bpe) MG 3-4

BUILDING PERFORMANCE
EVALUATION (BPE)
Noor Cholis Idham, Ph.D, IAI
JARS UII BPE-MG 3

Credit: Wolfgang Preiser
Why BPE?
Criteria for designing and building new environments should be based
on the evaluation of existing ones, and modified when appropriate in
the context of the design process.
BUILDING PERFORMANCE
innovative approach to the planning, design, construction and
occupancy of buildings.
based on feedback and evaluation at every phase of building delivery,
ranging from strategic planning to occupancy, through the build-ings
life cycle.
the study of human control functions and of mechanical and elec-
tronic systems designed to replace them, involving the application of
statistical mechanics to communication engineering (Infoplease
Dictionary, 2003).
Feed back system
Three levels of priority of BPE
1.health, safety and security performance;
2.functional, efficiency and work flow performance;
3.psychological, social, cultural and aesthetic performance.
Level of Priorities
Building Performance Variables
BPE and POE (Post Occupancy Evaluation)
BPE is the process of systematically comparing the actual
performance of buildings, places and systems to explicitly
documented criteria for their expected performance
based on the post-occupancy evaluation (POE) process mode
POE Process
POE
Post-occupancy evaluation (POE), viewed as a sub-process of BPE, can
be defined as
the act of evaluating buildings in a systematic and rigorous manner
after they have been built and occupied for some time.
POE History
The history of POE started with one-off case study evaluations in the
late 1960s, and progressed to system-wide and cross-sectional
evaluation efforts in the 1970s and 1980s
Many urban renewal projects in North America, and new town
construction in Western Europe, created large quantities of housing
without thorough knowledge of the needs, expectations, behavior or
lifestyles of the people they were being built for.
POE Aims
POE addresses the needs, activities, and goals of the people and
organizations using a facility, including maintenance, building
operations, and design-related questions.
Measures used in POEs include indices related to organizational and
occupant performance, worker satisfaction and productivity, as well
as the measures of building performance, e.g. acoustic and lighting
levels, adequacy of space, spatial relationships, etc.
The findings from POE studies, while primarily focusing on the
experiences of building users, are often relevant to a broad range of
building design and management decisions.
POE is needed for:
Many of the building problems identified after occupancy have been
found to be systemic:
information the engineer did not have about building use;
changes that were made after occupancy that the architect did not
design for;
or facilities staffs failure to understand how to operate building
systems.
POE for BPE
The BPE framework was developed in order to broaden the basis for
POE feedback to include a wider range of stakeholders and decision-
makers who influence buildings.
This has enabled POEs to be relevant earlier in the design process and
applied throughout the building delivery and life cycle.
BPE as enhancement of POE
The goal of BPE is to improve the quality of decisions made at every
phase of the building life cycle, i.e. from strategic planning to
programming, design and construction, all the way to facility
management and adaptive reuse.
Rather than waiting for the building to be occupied before evaluating
building quality, early intervention helps avoid common mistakes
caused by insufficient information and inadequate communication
among building professionals at different stages.
BPE focus for not only facilities, but also the forces that shape them
(organizational, political, economic, social, etc.) are taken into
account.
BPE framework
Process-oriented evaluations are the genesis of BPE and its
theoretical framework.
The termevaluation contains the word value, therefore occupant
evaluations must state explicitlywhose values are invoked when
judging building performance.
BPE Aspects
buildings actual performance, both measured quantitatively and
experienced qualitatively.
Many aspects of building performance are in fact quantifiable, such as
lighting, acoustics, temperature and humidity, durability of materials,
amount and distribution of square footage, and so on.
Qualitative aspects of building performance pertain to the ambiance
of a space, i.e. the appeal to the sensory modes of touching, hearing,
smelling, kinesthetic and visual perception, including color.
POE/BPE phases
comprising the six major phases of building delivery and life cycle, i.e.
planning, programming, design, construction, occupancy and facility
management, and adaptive reuse/recycling of facilities.
Building-In-Uses Assessment
The seven conditions addressed by the building-in-use assessment
system are: air quality; thermal comfort; spatial comfort; privacy;
lighting quality; office noise control and building noise control
(Vischer, 1999b).
it is not always possible to determine a direct correspondence
between user feed-back and the data provided by calibrated
measuring instruments (Vischer, 1999a).

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