ESSAY 1Building performance evaluation
Richard Partington, Studio Partington
At every stage of building design we have to navigate a multitude of technical standards and regulations, from the mundane rules that fix the width of a stair to the elusive performance indicators that seek to safeguard ‘design quality’. But, as Bill Gething explains in his essay, despite this barrage of performance standards, the difference between what we intend, through design, and what we achieve, in reality, is widening – most obviously in energy use, but also in comfort and productivity.
Although evidence of a performance gap has existed for decades, it is only ...
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