Energizing Kowloon East Office

Total building performance and diagnostics (TBPD) is an integrated and holistic knowledge-based framework for conceptualizing, specifying, designing, analyzing and commissioning a building project.[1] 

 

TBPD includes six primary performance mandates, namely, spatial, acoustical, thermal, visual, indoor air quality, and building integrity, with each mandate embraces performance targets and diagnostic tools. In Prof. Lam’s article, the performance targets are occupant-oriented deliverables that pertain to the environmental or physical attributes of the building which impact the well-being of the occupants physically, psychologically, socially and economically. Diagnostic tools are methodologies to assess the building design in terms of different performance indices.