The Design Quality Manual: Improving Building Performance

Product Description
Everyone involved in a building project wants to achieve a better building but design quality means different things to clients, users, architects, cost the consultants and contractors. Negotiating design priorities is an important part of the development process.

Book Description

Design quality often seems intangible as it represents a melding of the art and science of architecture. Clients invariably use the criteria of time, cost, and quality as a strategic framework for their building projects – they tend to want the highest quality in the shortest time and at the lowest cost. bull; bull;The Building Research Establishment's Design Quality Method rates buildings against the subjective (e.g. external appearance) and more objective (e.g. accoustics) performance by using a rating matrix. Five defined levels of the quality cover the key areas of design and quality - architecture; environmental services; user comfort conditions; whole life costing; and detailed design. These can be scored by a visual survey and the professional judgement then augmented by scientific measurement where possible (e.g. temperature, lighting and sound levels). The resultant scores allow comparisons in the terms of overall and specific aspects of design quality


Product Details
Hardcover: 216 pages
Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell; 1 edition (February 26, 2007)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 1405130881
ISBN-13: 978-1405130882
Product Dimensions: 11.8 x 8.4 x 0.7 inches




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