• Building performance is an attribute of a building that expresses how well that building carries out its functions. It may also relate to the performance...
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    Building performance simulation (BPS) is the replication of aspects of building performance using a computer-based, mathematical model created on the...
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  • The Building Performance Database (BPD) is an anonymized database that contains energy use intensity data for hundreds of thousands of buildings in the...
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  • The Energy Performance of Buildings Directive (2024/1275), the "EPBD") is the European Union's main legislative instrument aiming to promote the improvement...
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  • Performance-Based Building Design is an approach to the design of any complexity of building, from single-detached homes up to and including high-rise...
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  • High-performance buildings are those which deliver a relatively higher level of energy efficiency performance or greenhouse gas reduction than what is...
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  • A building-energy performance gap is a disparity between the energy consumption predicted in the design stage of a building and the energy use in actual...
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    September 11 attacks (category Attacks on buildings and structures in 2001)
    2012. World Trade Center Building Performance Study – Bankers Trust Building, pp. [page needed] "The Deutsche Bank Building at 130 Liberty Street". Lower...
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    WTC-7, or Tower 7), colloquially known as Building 7 or the Salomon Brothers Building, was an office building constructed as part of the original World...
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    Zero energy building Zero heating building Construction Building construction Building Envelope Building performance Deep energy retrofit Weatherization...
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    applications of building science is to provide predictive capability to optimize the building performance and sustainability of new and existing buildings, understand...
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    Civil Engineers (ASCE), who together formed a Building Performance Study Team to understand how the building structures failed and why. The team produced...
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    An energy performance certificate (EPC) is a rating scheme to summarise the energy efficiency of buildings or devices. In the European Union, EPCs are...
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    mitigation alongside other improvements like retrofitting buildings to increase building performance. Energy efficiency improvements may require changes in...
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    Collapse of the World Trade Center (category Building and structure collapses in 2001)
    "Baseline Structural Performance and Aircraft Impact Damage Analysis of the World Trade Center Towers. Appendices A-E. Federal Building and Fire Safety Investigation...
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  • The International Building Performance Simulation Association (IBPSA), is a non-profit international society of building performance simulation researchers...
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    World Trade Center (1973–2001) (category Buildings and structures destroyed in the September 11 attacks)
    World Trade Center Building Performance Study (2002), pp. 5.23 to 5. 24. "Final Report on the Collapse of World Trade Center Building 7 – Draft for Public...
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  • attacks, including the 9/11 Commission Report, as well as FEMA's "WTC Building Performance Study" (2002). Their claims and theories lack support among the relevant...
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    1 World Trade Center (1970–2001) (category Buildings and structures destroyed in the September 11 attacks)
    World Trade Center Building Performance Study, Ch. 5 WTC 7 – section 5.5.4 Final Report on the Collapse of World Trade Center Building 7, p. xxxvii. "How...
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  • Performance path: A proposed building design is demonstrated (through building performance simulation) to use less energy than a baseline building built...
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  • other areas. For example, building the CPU out of better, faster transistors. However, sometimes pushing one type of performance to an extreme leads to a...
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    Gilbert Building". Downtown Express. Archived from the original on December 12, 2006. Retrieved March 13, 2010. World Trade Center Building Performance Study...
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    Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Gillespie (1999), p. 61. World Trade Center Building Performance Study (2002), p. 1.2. "Contracts Totaling $74,079,000 Awarded for...
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  • conception of building. (Anderson, 2011) 4 Building performance is a guiding design principle as an emerging approach to architecture. Buildings are often...
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    Burj Khalifa (category Hotel buildings completed in 2009)
    September 2020. Bester, Nicholas (2013). "Concrete for high-rise buildings: Performance requirements, mix design and construction considerations". Structural...
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    benchmarks the sustainability performance of buildings, indoor environments and districts. Currently, the World Green Building Council is conducting research...
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    that can be used as a load testing tool for analyzing and measuring the performance of a variety of services, with a focus on web applications. JMeter can...
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    The Barclay–Vesey Building (also known as 100 Barclay, the Verizon Building, and formerly the New York Telephone Company Building) is an office and residential...
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    Green building certification systems are a set of rating systems and tools that are used to assess a building or a construction project's performance from...
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    Business performance management (BPM) (also known as corporate performance management (CPM) enterprise performance management (EPM),) is a management...
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