Summary

The Center for Building Performance and Diagnostics (CBPD) and ABSIC continue the development of High-Performance Building Design Guidelines to ensure that the design/engineering of building systems and systems integration delivers high performance buildings for individual comfort and productivity, organizational flexibility, technological adaptability, and environmental sustainability. These guidelines identify major system innovations for performance and critical system integration issues for early design decision-making to educate professionals about high performance building characteristics, illustrate innovation for clients and their design teams to encourage investments in quality, and provide a framework for structuring early design workshops for collaborative, multi-disciplinary design.

Publications and reports

EDF Guidelines – Site, Enclosure, Structure, HVAC, Lighting, Networking, Interiors

Posters for Enclosure Guidelines

Springer Chapter on Enclosure

FM Book Chapter on Smart Buildings

Example PhD Thesis

Eleni Katrini (PhD-BPD, 2019)
Creating the Everyday Commons: spatial patterns of sharing culture (Vivian Loftness • Cameron Tonkinwise, Design, University of Technology Sydney • Matthew Mehalik, Heinz School)