Usable Buildings: Briefing

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ALLWOOD, J., AZEVEDO, J., CLARE, A., CLEAVER, C., CULLEN, J., DUNANT, C., FELLIN, T., et al. , Absolute Zero
Research report Full reference See also .
BORDASS W., The Building Services Brief of the Future
Facility Perspectives, Issue 35, May 2009 .
BORDASS W., Optimising the irrelevant: lessons from real buildings in use
Green Buildings Conference, Nottingham, March 1992, later republished in revised version in Building Services: the CIBSE Journal, September, 1992 .
BORDASS W. and LEAMAN A., Building Services in Use: Some Lessons for Briefing, Design and Management
BIFM Annual Conference, 1997, September .
BORDASS W. and LEAMAN A., Design for Manageability
Building Research & Information, 25(3), 148-157 .
BORDASS W. HEASMAN T., LEAMAN A. and PERRY M., Daylight Use in Open Plan Offices: the opportunities and the fantasies
CIBSE Lighting Conference, Cambridge, March 1994 .
BORDASS W., BUNN R., COHEN R. and LEAMAN A., Technical Lessons from Probe 2
Cibse National Conference 1999 .
BORDASS W., BUNN R., COHEN R., STANDEVEN M., and LEAMAN A., Probe: Lessons Learned from the First Eight Buildings
CIBSE National Conference, 1997, Oct .
BORDASS, Bill, Moisture-related risks in roof spaces: principles and effect of modern practices
Historic England, Damp, Timber Decay and Sustainability, Church House, London, 4 May 2021. Companion to 2020 presentation with same title. .
BORDASS, Bill, Retrofit Our Buildings, or Our Brains? Changing Mindsets for the Climate Emergency
Association for Studies in the Conservation of Historic Buildings (ASCHB) Conference, 1 April 2022, Lessons from built heritage in the climate emergency. .
BORDASS, Bill, Insights from Building Performance Evaluation Studies
Usable Buildings, presentation to Oxford Brookes University, 24 Oct 2024. Also covers ground in presentations in 2020, 2022 and 2023. .
BORDASS, Bill, Retrofit: A Sense Of Proportion
Scottish Ecological Design Association (SEDA) Annual Conference 2023, Progressing Retrofit – designing for human factors: comfort, health & affordability, Glasgow 15-16 September 2023 .
Bordass, Bill, Old windows and the science of heat, air and moisture transfer
A Future for Historic Windows, Royal Agricultural University, Cirencester 27-28 June 2024 .
BORDASS, Bill and LEAMAN, Adrian, Post-Occupancy Evaluation: from post-mortem to life support
Presentation to Allies + Morrison, London, 14 November, 2023. .
BORDASS, Bill with LEAMAN, Adrian, Buildings that Work
William Bordass Associates, 2000. Presentation to Association for Environment Conscious Building (AECB) July 2000. Please note: this archived presentation was originally given using overhead projector foils. This version does not include the slides and diagrams which were included in the original. .
Building Use Studies, Briefing Matrix
Building Use Studies, London, 2006 .
BUNN R., Sustainable Schools: Getting it right
British Council For School Environments (BCSE), 2006 .
BURNS P., What it Takes to be an Intelligent Client
Special issue of Strategic Asset Management (SAM) on Post-Occupancy Evaluation, August 24, 2001, Issue 69. AMQ International .
CHATER M. (et al), RIBA Plan for Use Guide
RIBA, London, 2021 RIBA Plan for Use Guide .
DIAMOND S., Inkling and Julie Godefroy Sustainability, Building Performance Evaluation Guide
Good Homes Alliance and The Home Grown Homes Project, February 2021. See also BPE Toolkit. .
EMMANUEL, Rohinton, Urban Microclimate in Temperate Climates: a summary for practitioners
Buildings and Cities, May 2021 .
ENTWISTLE M, WILLIS S., FORDHAM M. and BORDASS W, Avoiding or Minimising the Use of Air-conditioning
BRE Environment Division, 1995. Please note. It should be correctly attributed to the BRE Environment Division with Mike Entwistle as lead author. .
FLYVBJERG, Bent, Heuristics for Better Project Leadership: Teasing Out Tacit Knowledge
Project Management Journal, vol 55:6, 2024. Also Reader format .
GETHING, Bill and BORDASS, Bill, Rapid Assessment Checklist for Sustainable Buildings
Building Research & Information, 34:4, 416-426 Building Research & Information .
GRIFFITHS, Nigel, From Retrofit to Regeneration: a blueprint for post-Covid recovery
STBA, Responsible Retrofit Series November, 2021 STBA .
HALLIDAY S., FOSTER S. and HUTCHINSON K., Resource Efficient Housing for 2020
Gaia Group Ltd for Zero Waste Scotland, October, 2020 .
HEALEY, K. and BEESON B, Reconciling automated and user control of mixed-mode office buildings
Ecolibrium, May 2014, pps 72-80 .
KAMARA J., HEIDRICH O., TAFARO V., MALTESE S., DEJACO M. and RE CECCONI F., Change Factors and the Adaptability of Buildings
Sustainability 2020, 12, Creative Commons open source article. .
LEAMAN A., Productivity Improvement
draft of chapter 19 of BEST R. (et al, eds) Building in Value, Volume III, UTS Sydney, 2003 .
LEAMAN A., What is a Building For?
Building Pathology 91, 18-20 September 1991, Trinity College Oxford .
LEAMAN A., Space Utilisation: intensification and diversification
Building Use Studies, London,1994. .
LEAMAN A., Usability in Buildings: some briefing preliminaries
Building Use Studies, internal, 1999 .
LEAMAN A. and BORDASS W., Flexibility and Adaptability
Chapter for MacMillan, S (ed), Quality and Value in the Built Environment, Taylor and Francis, 2004. .
LEAMAN A. and BORDASS W., Comfort and Complexity: unmanageable bedfellows?
Workplace Comfort Conference, RIBA, 1995, March 22-23 .
LEAMAN A. and BORDASS W., Design for Manageability: Pointers from a decade of Research into Occupied Buildings
Building Use Studies, 1995, April 25 .
LEAMAN A. and BORDASS W.,, The Dirt Devil: Cleaning and the Culture of Responsiveness
Safety and Health Practitioner, 1994, Feb. .
LEAMAN A. and MAY N., UK Moisture in Buildings Survey: Conditions, Actions and Outcomes
UK Centre for Moisture in Buildings, 2019. Appendices Fig 1 Heuristic diagram full version Also available from UKCMB .
LEAMAN A., BORDASS W. and CASSELS S., Flexibility and Adaptability in Buildings: the killer variables
London: Usable Buildings, 1998, 18pp. Unfinished draft. .
LEAMAN A., STEVENSON F and BORDASS, W., Building Evaluation: Practice and Principles
Building Research & Information , Volume 38, 2010 - Issue 5, pp 564-577. August 2010 .
LEAMAN, A., The Importance of Response Time
Building Services Journal, 20 January 1993 .
LEAMAN, Adrian, Integrating Feedback Into Research and Practice
Buildings and Cities, 5th Anniversary Essays, 27 October 2024 .
London Energy Transformation Initiative (LETI), LETI Climate Emergency Design Guide: How new buildings can meet UK climate change targets
https://www.benuk.net/LETI.html .
MARINCIONI, Valentina, JANSSENS, Karl and CAMBRAY, Toby, Moisture properties of insulation materials and their applicability to traditional construction
Sustainable Traditional Buildings Alliance, 2025 Pdf .
MAY N. and GRIFFITHS N., Planning Responsible Retrofit of Traditional Buildings
Sustainable Traditional Buildings Alliance (STBA), August 2015 .
MAY N. and SANDERS C, Moisture in buildings: an integrated approach to risk assessment and guidance
British Standards Institute (BSI), London , 2018 .
McINTYRE D.A., Design Requirements for a Comfortable Environment
Electricity Council Research Centre, Oct 1978, ECRC/M1185 .
NOBLE E., ISAACs N. and LAMB S., The Impact of IEQ Factors on People on the Autism Spectrum
P. Rajagopalan and M.M Andamon (eds.), Engaging Architectural Science: Meeting the Challenges of Higher Density: 52nd International Conference of the Architectural Science Association 2018, pp. 27–33. ©2018, The Architectural Science Association and RMIT University, Australia. .
PENDER R., Making good decisions: avoiding alignment problems and maladaptation in retrofit and construction
Journal of Architectural Conservation, August 2021 As published .
SAYRE N.F., Climate Change, Scale, and Devaluation: The Challenge of Our Built Environment
Washington and Lee Journal of Energy, Climate and the Environment, vol 1, 1 (2010), pp 84-94. Open access under Creative Commons licence Journal of Energy, Climate and the Environment .
WHITTEM V. amd ROETZEL A., Learning From Built Projects: sources of post occupancy feedback used by architects in Victoria, Australia
Intelligent Buildings International , 1-16, 2019 .
Willems S, Saelens D. and Heylighen A., Patient well-being, adaptation of and to indoor conditions, and hospital room design: two mixed methods case studies
Building Research and Information, 30 Dec 2021, Log-in required, paywall. .