The design quality manual improving building performance [electronic resource]
Language: English Publication details: Oxford Blackwell 2007Description: eBookISBN:- 1405130881
- 9781405130882
- 720 $2 22
Item type | Current library | Call number | Copy number | Status | Date due | Barcode | |
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Book | Virtual Online | EBOOK (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | 1 | Available | 135689-2001 |
Introduction -- Building procurement -- Schools -- Hospitals -- Housing -- Appendix: BRE's design quality matrices
Provides an objective evaluation of the qualitative aspects of design, using BRE's design quality matrices. The matrices have five defined levels of quality and cover architecture, environmental engineering, user comfort conditions, whole-life costs, detail design and user satisfaction. The manual looks at schools, hospitals and housing and focuses on the needs of the end user and on the overall building performance. Includes case studies.