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Advisory Board
Denis Hayes
Bullitt Foundation, US
Paul Hodges
New Normal Consulting
Richard Lorch
Building & Cities
Professor Bernhard Müller
Technical University of Dresden, DE
Professor Tadj Oreszczyn
University College London, UK
Professor Flora Samuel
University of Cambridge, UK
Briony Turner
European Space Agency: World Climate Research Programme
Alex Wilson
Resilient Design Institute, US
Latest Commentaries
Building Performance Evaluation in Education – Why Not?
Building performance evaluation (BPE) is a process to understand how buildings perform in use and how inhabitants interact with their buildings. BPE can harness these insights to improve building design, operation and use. Paradoxically, BPE is rarely part of the curriculum for education of designers, buildings and managers. Fionn Stevenson (independent scholar) considers why BPE / post-occupancy evaluation is not being taught to architecture students in the UK and how to mainstream BPE in education and practice.
Freedom from Stress is Symptomatic of Death
Marcel Schweiker (RWTH Aachen University) and Richard de Dear (University of Sydney) discuss the neutrality fallacy and resilience. They explain why indoor environments do not need to be stress free in order to support their occupants’ resilience.