Building Performance Evaluation From Delivery Process to Life Cycle
The main aim of this book is to present an intriguing retrospective of Building Performance Evaluation (BPE) as it evolved from Post-Occupancy Evaluation (POE) over the past 25 years. On one hand, this is done by updating original authors' chapter content
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Second Edition
Building Performance Evaluation
Wolfgang F.E. Preiser Andrea E. Hardy Ulrich Schramm •
Editors
Building Performance Evaluation From Delivery Process to Life Cycle Phases Second Edition
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Editors Wolfgang F.E. Preiser (deceased) University of Cincinnati Cincinnati, OH USA
Andrea E. Hardy Creo Architects Phoenix, AZ USA Ulrich Schramm Bielefeld University of Applied Sciences Minden, Bielefeld Germany
and Arizona State University Scottsdale, AZ USA
ISBN 978-3-319-56861-4 DOI 10.1007/978-3-319-56862-1
ISBN 978-3-319-56862-1
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In Memory of Wolfgang F.E. Preiser colleague, teacher, mentor, and friend
Foreword
Why Building Performance Evaluation Matters To understand the importance of this book, we need to stand back and look at the long-standing tension existing between those who design buildings and those who assess them after the fact. That tension rests, in part, on a false dichotomy between the sciences on the one hand and the humanities and arts on the other. Echoing the argument of the scientist and novelist C.P. Snow (1993) that these two cultures remain irreconcilable, some in the architectural profession act as if the art of architecture and the social science of environmental psychology occupy different worlds and will forever look at each other with suspicion. This book offers ample evidence to refute that claim. The discip
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