Exploring the problematical nature of building performance in BIM representations

Building performance has been of interest for many years to facilitate better the operation of buildings and to prevent buildings not working as intended. Approaches include Building Performance Evaluation, Post Occupancy Evaluation and Total Building Performance. The advent of Building Information Modelling (BIM) has driven a desire to accommodate building performance into models for use during design. This paper will review the suitability of the various approaches to Building Performance for this task. It will argued that to be successful for this then a multiple perspective analysis is required to accommodate users, facilities managers and designers viewpoints of performance. It will be concluded with a discussion on the possibilities of this and the research required to demonstrate it.

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