Total Performance - Useful Tool to Measure Quality of Buildings
Tomme: LVIII (LXII) Fascicle: 2 | 2012
Pages: 147-156
Abstract text:
The concept of total performance meets the modern vision of improving the products quality, including the buildings. Building quality can be assessed by the extent to which all performance criteria are met, which refers to functionality, safety and quality of the interior environment. This paper presents the results of a study concerning the evaluation of the quality of an education building in terms of the quality of indoor environment. Are taken into account both the levels of performance values as determined by measurement and the processing results based on the users’ responses to a questionnaire relative to the way of perception of indoor environment quality. Comparison of the results of measurements with subjective assessments confirms the importance of the organism adaptability to environmental conditions, but also the necessity of objective measurements of characteristic parameters values, in order to obtain an accurate assessment of total performance.
Key Words:
total building performance; inhabitants’ requirements; performance criteria
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