This series of guidance documents aims to help anyone involved in a building project to understand what Building Performance Evaluation (BPE) is and how it can increase occupant satisfaction, lower environmental impact, and reduce risk.
There are 5 separate training modules. A fuller description of all of these is provided in Module 1.
- BPE: What, why and the benefits that it brings
- Planning a BPE: Where to start and common techniques
- Undertaking dwelling BPE
- Data interpretation, reporting and taking action
- The performance golden thread: BPE and robust QA (coming soon!)
Module 1 explains what BPE is and why we need it, Module 2 discusses how to begin a BPE programme, and Module 3, describes how data is collected and analysed. This module, Module 4, explores what happens next: how we interpret data, communicate it to different audiences, and use it to take meaningful action. This stage is essential to quality BPE, it requires interpretation of data to determines the reliability and relevance of findings, and appropriate reporting of insights for different stakeholders is needed to ensure outcomes and lessons learned are identified.
All modules are freely available to download from the GHA Knowledge Base.
Module 4 is authored by Dr Kate van Someren & Dr Samantha Mudie with contributions and peer review from Prof David Glew and Dr Tom Dollard.
The development of the guides have been supported by Ecology Building Society.
