ABSTRACT: The construction sector is responsible for enormous environmental impacts. Those are mainly due to the use of materials, energy and land. The impact of a single building is normally directly dependent on the size of the building or in the area of land it occupies. In this article, it is argued that strategies to improve building performance […]
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Neglected Issues in Building Performance
ABSTRACT: The paper outlines a number of potentially very useful building performance concepts that have been ignored, forgotten or only partially adopted. The idea explored in this paper is that, despite many significant advances in specialized fields, there are also many issues that remain outside the mainstream of building research, guidelines or conventional wisdom. Some of […]