‘This is a wonderful book that should be on the desk of every architect and planner. It shows how


How can the idea of continuous improvement be applied to buildings?



Download 3,71 Mb.
Pdf ko'rish
bet209/467
Sana27.06.2022
Hajmi3,71 Mb.
#707769
1   ...   205   206   207   208   209   210   211   212   ...   467
Bog'liq
Positive Development From Vicious Circles to V

How can the idea of continuous improvement be applied to buildings?
In the case of a development, the responsibility of developers usually ends with the sale of the buildings.
Developers would find it onerous to have responsibility, and hence liability, over the full life of the 
development. It would also be difficult to require building owners to retrofit or even integrate eco-
innovations into the building in the future, when new technologies or standards become mainstream.
There is some movement in the direction of extending the responsibility of building owners, however, 
such as requiring that the energy performance of buildings be reported each year. There are also now 
building rating tools that measure building performance in areas beyond energy and greenhouse – to 
at least consider the ecological dimension which could be incorporated in reporting (such as NABERS 
in Australia).
26
Reporting could also be extended to buildings using post-occupancy evaluation 
(POE). POEs can look at occupant satisfaction and/or the operational performance of buildings. The 
field of POE is 
not
new, but has yet to be utilized in most project specifications or tendering processes.
Facilities managers are, or could be, positioned to improve buildings over time – at least where these 
pay for themselves in resource savings. A new kind of facilities management is needed to deliver 
more sustainable or healthier goods and services in developments when eco-technologies become 
available (and/or become more competitive) in the future. For purposes of rewards and incentives, 
we can also measure the environmental quantity and quality of the air, soil, water, sewage treatment 
and energy when it leaves the building.
But won’t facilities managers continue to rely on mechanical systems?
Perhaps, if they are not retrained. Facilities managers of the future will need training in biology and 
ecology as well as mechanical equipment. Facilities managers will prefer to manage mechanical 
systems if they are only trained to operate conventional (fossilized) equipment. However, these 
systems are high-maintenance [Box 20]. Eventually, the maintenance and operational savings provided 
by natural systems will be seen as a potential financial asset. Eco-development will eventually be more 
self-maintaining and cheaper to correct or adapt than projects relying on mechanized systems. POE 
and extended developer responsibility via facilities management will therefore gradually favour eco-
retrofitting using natural systems rather than industrial heating, cooling and ventilating. Already in 
some programmes, money saved by energy and water efficiency are put in a separate fund and rolled 
over into further eco-efficiency improvements.
27
Facilities managers could be encouraged to upgrade 
buildings, using funds raised from energy and water efficiency savings over time, or an eco-retrofitting 
bank [Chapter 11]. This approach has been used in energy upgrades, but could also be applied to 
eco-retrofitting that increases ecological space in the urban environment. To make reporting more 
than a public relations opportunity, government agencies should be allowed to internalize some of 
the savings achieved, or even savings accruing to the general public indirectly, and ‘roll over’ these 
funds to expand their future sustainability programmes. Likewise, if a progress association decided to 
install, say, solar cell-powered street lamps to increase neighbourhood security, the association could 
receive the monetary equivalent of a portion of the policing and energy costs that would otherwise 
have been incurred (or as negotiated).

Download 3,71 Mb.

Do'stlaringiz bilan baham:
1   ...   205   206   207   208   209   210   211   212   ...   467




Ma'lumotlar bazasi mualliflik huquqi bilan himoyalangan ©hozir.org 2024
ma'muriyatiga murojaat qiling

kiriting | ro'yxatdan o'tish
    Bosh sahifa
юртда тантана
Боғда битган
Бугун юртда
Эшитганлар жилманглар
Эшитмадим деманглар
битган бодомлар
Yangiariq tumani
qitish marakazi
Raqamli texnologiyalar
ilishida muhokamadan
tasdiqqa tavsiya
tavsiya etilgan
iqtisodiyot kafedrasi
steiermarkischen landesregierung
asarlaringizni yuboring
o'zingizning asarlaringizni
Iltimos faqat
faqat o'zingizning
steierm rkischen
landesregierung fachabteilung
rkischen landesregierung
hamshira loyihasi
loyihasi mavsum
faolyatining oqibatlari
asosiy adabiyotlar
fakulteti ahborot
ahborot havfsizligi
havfsizligi kafedrasi
fanidan bo’yicha
fakulteti iqtisodiyot
boshqaruv fakulteti
chiqarishda boshqaruv
ishlab chiqarishda
iqtisodiyot fakultet
multiservis tarmoqlari
fanidan asosiy
Uzbek fanidan
mavzulari potok
asosidagi multiservis
'aliyyil a'ziym
billahil 'aliyyil
illaa billahil
quvvata illaa
falah' deganida
Kompyuter savodxonligi
bo’yicha mustaqil
'alal falah'
Hayya 'alal
'alas soloh
Hayya 'alas
mavsum boyicha


yuklab olish