How to Design High Performance Buildings

Brief 

In this article, we outline the top three benefits of designing high-performance buildings and share key strategies to integrate high performance design into your current workflow.

 

Insight

The term ‘high-performing’ may bring different images, ranging from a star student to a virtuosic violinist to a hard-working employee.

As diverse as they may be, these ‘high-performing’ people have common attributes. A cut above the rest, they transcend expectations and bring added benefits through their functioning. They deliver the best possible outputs within their constraints and ensure quality while doing the same.

Most importantly, they are consistent in their results, and they use their excellence to positively influence their own lives and the lives of the people around them.

The same attributes are common to high-performance buildings (HPBs), designed using an integrated approach focusing on diverse parameters to achieve design excellence. High-performance design is a holistic and performance-driven approach to design excellence. It focuses on quantifying its value and continually improving it on all fronts.

It has several benefits for the environment, economy, and occupant health, which helps create affordable, healthy, and sustainable built environments for communities.In this article, we outline the top three benefits of designing high-performance buildings and share key strategies to integrate high performance design into your current workflow.

 

The Benefits of High-Performance Design

 

1. ECONOMIC BENEFITS

There is a commonly held perception that high-performance buildings are expensive, which often creates a barrier to adopting high-performance benchmarks.

However, many studies show that the long-term financial benefits of HPBs outweigh the initial costs of investment, as they contribute to increased market value and lower operating and lifecycle costs.

High-performance buildings also contribute to indirect savings through improved health and wellbeing, increased attraction and retention of employees, lower absenteeism, and higher productivity.

Green-building certifications such as LEED, WELL, and the Living Building Challenge measure how well buildings perform against high-performance standards and how they significantly increase the desirability and asset values of the properties.

 

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