The social component of building performance simulation: understanding architects

Alsaadani, Sara and Bleil De Souza, Clarice ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7823-1202 2012. The social component of building performance simulation: understanding architects. Presented at: Building Simulation and Optimization 2012, Loughborough, UK, 10-11 September 2012. Proceeding of Building Simulation and Optimization, 2012. Loughborough: Loughborough University, pp. 332-339.

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Abstract

Building performance simulations (BPS) have a significant potential in informing architects’ design decisions. However, architects seldom consider BPS as an integral element of their design processes. This paper reports on a combined qualitative-quantitative methodology aimed at exploring socio-cultural; non-technical barriers discouraging BPS integration; from UK architects’ perspectives. A storyline of phenomena consisting of three levels; architects’ professional identities, attitudes towards BPS and collaboration with BPS specialists, is deduced using a grounded theory-inspired coding procedure. These are validated by way of descriptive statistics and frequencies from a quantitative follow-up. The paper concludes that long-term solutions, addressing differences in professional paradigms, are required rather than rapid response software-level and/or interface improvements.

Item Type:	Conference or Workshop Item (Paper)
Date Type:	Publication
Status:	Published
Schools:	Schools > Architecture
Subjects:	N Fine Arts > NA Architecture
Additional Information:	Copyright © IBPSA-England, 2012
Publisher:	Loughborough University
ISBN:	9781897911426
Related URLs:	Organisation
Last Modified:	21 Oct 2022 09:33
URI:	https://orca.cardiff.ac.uk/id/eprint/36861

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