First in a series of excerpts from the free executive guide “Concept to Consumption: Outcome-based Oversight of Building Performance.” By Adam McMillen and Lincoln Pearce Efficiently designed buildings often use more energy than they were intended to use – sometimes substantially more. This means owners can end up paying twice for their investment – once upfront
Second in a series of excerpts from the free executive guide “Concept to Consumption: Outcome-based Oversight of Building Performance.” By Adam McMillen and Lincoln Pearce The path to successful outcome-based performance for a new building begins with setting a clear, quantifiable energy goal. The concept to consumption oversight method can protect efficiently designed buildings from the many shortcomings that can lead to poor
Third in a series of excerpts from the free executive guide “Concept to Consumption: Outcome-based Oversight of Building Performance.” By Adam McMillen and Lincoln Pearce The design component of the performance oversight method concept to consumption develops the project’s concepts into clear and specific design documentation. These documents specify the solutions that will achieve the owner’s energy use intensity (EUI) goal and provide
Fourth in a series of excerpts from the free executive guide “Concept to Consumption: Outcome-based Oversight of Building Performance.” By Adam McMillen and Lincoln Pearce The process of commissioning is generally a means of quality assurance and spans an entire project, from beginning to end, to ensure that building systems are operating as designed and intended. In a concept-to-consumption approach, specific
Fifth in a series of excerpts from the free executive guide “Concept to Consumption: Outcome-based Oversight of Building Performance.” By Adam McMillen and Lincoln Pearce Once a building is constructed per the design, commissioned, and determined to be operating correctly, it is, like a newly built and christened ship, “set out to sea” to see how it performs.
