Usable Buildings: Design intent

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BORDASS W., Onto The Radar: How energy performance certification and benchmarking might work for non domestic buildings in operation, using actual energy consumption
Discussion Paper, The Usable Buildings Trust, London, 2005, 14 pp .
BORDASS W. and LEAMAN A., Building Services in Use: Some Lessons for Briefing, Design and Management
BIFM Annual Conference, 1997, September .
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, Retrofit our buildings, or our brains? Changing Mindsets for the Climate Emergency (PDF)
Association for Studies in the Conservation of Historic Buildings (ASCHB) Conference, St Peter’s, Vauxhall, London April 1, 2022, Lessons from built heritage in the climate emergency. .
BORDASS, Bill, Building Performance in Use, Professionalism and Proportionate Retrofit
Usable Buildings, Presentation to Centre for Alternative Technology, 11 December 2025 Pdf .
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. .
BUNN R., Sustainable Schools: Getting it right
British Council For School Environments (BCSE), 2006 .
FLYVBJERG, Bent, Heuristics for Better Project Leadership: Teasing Out Tacit Knowledge
Project Management Journal, vol 55:6, 2024. Also Reader format .
GRANT N., Eco-minimalism Revisited
Usable Buildings www.usablebuildings.co.uk, March 2008 . Shorter version in Architects' Journal, March 13, 2008 .
LEAMAN A. and BORDASS W., Comfort and Complexity: unmanageable bedfellows?
Workplace Comfort Conference, RIBA, 1995, March 22-23 .
LEAMAN A. and BORDASS W.,, The Dirt Devil: Cleaning and the Culture of Responsiveness
Safety and Health Practitioner, 1994, Feb. .
LEAMAN A., BORDASS W. and CASSELS S., Flexibility and Adaptability in Buildings: the killer variables
London: Usable Buildings, 1998, 18pp. Unfinished draft. .
LEAMAN, A., The Importance of Response Time
Building Services Journal, 20 January 1993 .
LÜLEY, Marek, Ephemeral occupancies: Non-linear approach to adaptable architecture
© 2023 Author. This is an open access article licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-International License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). Published by the Faculty of Architecture and Design, Slovak University of Technology in Bratislava, Slovakia .
NUTT B., The Strategic Design Of Buildings
Long Range Planning, Vol. 21, No. 4, pp. 130 to 140, 1988 . Please contact us .
PENDER R. and LEMIEUX DJ., The Road Not Taken: Building Physics, and Returning to First Principles in Sustainable Design
Atmosphere 2020, 11, 62 Creative Commons open source article. Atmosphere .
PENDER, Robyn, How Energy Availability Influenced Building Form
Online presentation to Traditional Architecture Group, 30 June 2022. Full slide set 40Mb download.. Compressed 15Mb download. Please contact Robyn Pender for slide citation permissions. .
TRICKETT T., Flexibility in Building Design
Buildings in the Age of Paradox, IoAAS, National Power, 1995, pps 21-30 .
WAINWRIGHT, Oliver, The curse of Mies van der Rohe: Berlin’s six-year, £120m fight to fix his dysfunctional, puddle- strewn gallery
The Guardian, 30 Aug 2021 Pdf .
WAINWRIGHT, Oliver, ‘A wild triple-decker sandwich’: world’s first multistorey skatepark lands in Folkestone
The Guardian, 22nd March 2022. Pdf .