Abstract:
Building Performance Evaluation (BPE) has received an increasing attention over the past two decades
among the researchers to provide a comfortable and stable internal environment to increase and provide
a better human potential. To determining how well the facilities are performing in order to support the
organisational goals and user requirement, it is vital to conduct regular building evaluations which
provide the current status quo of the building. Aiming to this, there are various BPE approaches
developed around the world, and as evidenced there are no in-depth studies on Building Performance
Evaluation (BPE) in tropical countries to evaluate the building performance. However, adapting these
approaches might not necessarily be applicable in the context of tropical countries due to geographical,
climatic, cultural and other differences. This has been identified as the gap in this research and aimed
to formulate a holistic Total Building Performance Evaluation (TBPE) scoring framework, for the
assessment of performance of buildings. First, a comprehensive literature survey was carried out. This
was followed by an expert survey to sieve out the most significant BP factors identified in the literature
survey. With that detailed questioner survey was carried out proposing a TBPE scoring framework
compromising total of two hundred and sixty five points to evaluate buildings with 7 criteria and 57
dimensions in which energy management, reachability to the building, occupational hygiene, thermal
comfort, unit costs savings, load bearing capacity etc had higher contribution in evaluating building
with relation to tropical context. Finally, this paper readdresses the need of evaluating the buildings
and suggesting the paradigm to evaluate the buildings in an objective manner.
Citation:
Sabrina, N.Z. & De Silva, N. (2014). Developing a TBPE scoring framework for assessing total building performance. In Y.G. Sandanayake, N.G. Fernando & G.I. Karunasena (Eds.), Sustainability and development in built environment: the way forward (pp.166-174). Ceylon Institute of Builders. https://ciobwcs.com/downloads/WCS2014-Proceedings.pdf