The design quality manual : improving building performance

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Everyone involved in a building project wants to achieve a better building but design quality means different things to clients, users, architects, cost consultants and contractors. Negotiating design priorities is an important part of the development process.

The Design Quality Manual helps give an objective evaluation of the qualitative aspects of design. Matrices with five defined levels of quality have been developed that cover the key areas of architecture, environmental engineering, user comfort conditions, whole-life costs, detail design and user satisfaction. These can be scored by a visual survey and professional judgement and then augmented by scientific measurement where possible (e.g. temperature, lighting and sound levels). The resultant scores allow comparisons in terms of overall and specific aspects of building performance and design quality.

The Manual covers schools, hospitals and housing and offers a set of criteria by which to judge a broad range of design values; it focuses the design team on the needs of the end user and on the overall building performance.

Author Notes

Martin Cook is a senior researcher at the Building Research Establishment

Acknowledgements	p. ix
Abbreviations and acronyms	p. xi
1 Introduction	p. 1
1.1 Overview of design quality and building performance	p. 1
1.2 Building procurement systems	p. 6
1.3 Chequered history of building procurement systems	p. 6
1.4 Cultural context of building procurement systems - public v. private?	p. 10
1.5 Architects and social status	p. 11
1.6 Architecture: art, profession or commercial enterprise?	p. 13
1.7 Client's changing needs and objectives	p. 19
1.8 References	p. 20
2 Building procurement	p. 23
2.1 Evolution of the building industry and professionalism	p. 23
2.2 Modern building procurement systems	p. 24
2.3 Traditional building procurement	p. 28
2.4 Variants of the traditional system	p. 30
2.5 Design and build	p. 32
2.6 Variants of design and build	p. 34
2.7 Management contracting	p. 35
2.8 Construction management	p. 37
2.9 Design and manage	p. 39
2.10 British Property Federation system	p. 40
2.11 Project management	p. 42
2.12 Professional development system	p. 47
2.13 New Engineering Contract	p. 49
2.14 Private Finance Initiative	p. 49
2.15 Building procurement guidance	p. 51
2.16 Chapter summary	p. 53
2.17 References	p. 57
3 Schools	p. 61
3.1 Historical evolution of schools	p. 61
3.2 The modern era of school building	p. 65
3.3 Twentieth century schools	p. 66
3.4 Twenty-first century schools	p. 68
3.5 PFI schools in England and Wales - Introduction	p. 70
3.6 PFI schools in England and Wales - Design Quality Matrices	p. 72
3.7 PFI schools in England and Wales - Overall summary matrix	p. 74
3.8 PFI schools in England and Wales - Architecture	p. 77
3.9 PFI schools in England and Wales - Environmental engineering	p. 80
3.10 PFI schools in England and Wales - User comfort	p. 84
3.11 PFI schools in England and Wales - Whole life costs	p. 87
3.12 PFI schools in England and Wales - Detail design	p. 90
3.13 PFI schools in England and Wales - Conclusions	p. 93
3.14 PFI schools in England and Wales - Recommendations	p. 94
3.15 PFI schools in England and Wales - Summary	p. 96
3.16 PFI schools in Northern Ireland - Introduction	p. 100
3.17 PFI schools in Northern Ireland - Description of the project	p. 102
3.18 PFI schools in Northern Ireland - Design Quality Matrices	p. 102
3.19 PFI schools in Northern Ireland - Overall summary matrix	p. 104
3.20 PFI schools in Northern Ireland - Architecture	p. 107
3.21 PFI schools in Northern Ireland - Environmental engineering	p. 110
3.22 PFI schools in Northern Ireland - User comfort	p. 113
3.23 PFI schools in Northern Ireland - Whole life costs	p. 116
3.24 PFI schools in Northern Ireland - Detail design	p. 119
3.25 PFI schools in Northern Ireland - User satisfaction	p. 122
3.26 PFI schools in Northern Ireland - Conclusions	p. 124
3.27 PFI schools in Northern Ireland- Recommendations	p. 125
3.28 PFI schools in Northern Ireland - Summary	p. 126
3.29 International case studies	p. 129
3.30 Further international case studies	p. 132
3.31 References	p. 132
4 Hospitals	p. 135
4.1 Historical evolution of hospitals	p. 135
4.2 The modern era of hospital building	p. 140
4.3 Twenty-first century hospitals	p. 144
4.4 Benchmarking hospitals - Introducing a design quality method	p. 147
4.5 Benchmarking hospitals - The Design Quality Matrices	p. 148
4.6 Benchmarking hospitals - Architecture	p. 150
4.7 Benchmarking hospitals - Environmental engineering	p. 151
4.8 Benchmarking hospitals - User comfort	p. 152
4.9 Benchmarking hospitals - Whole life costs	p. 153
4.10 Benchmarking hospitals - Detail design	p. 154
4.11 Benchmarking hospitals - User satisfaction	p. 155
4.12 Benchmarking hospitals - Building aspects of clinical safety	p. 156
4.13 Benchmarking hospitals - Recommendations	p. 157
4.14 Environmental sustainability	p. 158
4.15 International case studies	p. 160
4.16 Further international case studies	p. 163
4.17 Chapter summary	p. 164
4.18 References	p. 166
5 Housing	p. 169
5.1 Historical evolution of housing	p. 169
5.2 The modern era of housing	p. 175
5.3 Twenty-first century housing	p. 180
5.4 Benchmarking housing - Introduction	p. 182
5.5 References	p. 183
Appendix Bre's Design Quality Matrices	p. 185
Index	p. 193

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