Usable Buildings: Methods

Methods ⁶¹

ABLER, Ronald., ADAMS, John, and GOULD, Peter , Spatial Organization: the geographer's view of the world
Prentice-Hall, 1970. [21 Mb pdf download] Scanned version sourced from Penn State University This is a classic of its era. More's the pity that "geographer's" is in the title, because others might shy from it .
BORDASS W, LEAMAN A. and ELEY J., A Guide to Feedback and Post-Occupancy Evaluation
The Usable Buildings Trust 2006 .
BORDASS W., Metrics for energy performance in operation: the fallacy of single indicators
Buildings and Cities, 1(1), 260–276, July 2020. Open access with downloadable PDF and XML versions also available. .
BORDASS W. and HART D, Can Data Mining Improve Energy Efficiency in Buildings?
Usable Buildings Trust, 2005 (first drafted February 2002). .
BORDASS W. and LEAMAN A.,, Making feedback and post-occupancy evaluation routine 1: A portfolio of feedback techniques
Building Research & Information (2005) 33(4), 347 352 .
BORDASS W. and LEAMAN A.,, Making feedback and post-occupancy evaluation routine 3: Case studies of the use of techniques in the feedback portfolio
Building Research & Information (2005) 33(4), 361 375 .
BORDASS W., and LEAMAN A., Making feedback and post-occupancy evaluation routine 1: A portfolio of feedback techniques
Building Research and Information, 2005, vol 33 no 4, 361-375 .
BORDASS W., COHEN R AND STANDEVEN M., Probe 9: Energy and Engineering Technical Review
BSJ, 37-41 (April 1997) .
BORDASS W., DERBYSHIRE A., ELEY J. and LEAMAN A., Beyond Probe: Making Feedback Routine
conference paper prepared for Closing The Loop: Post-Occupancy Evaluation: the Next Steps, Windsor UK, 29 April - 2 May, 2004 .
BORDASS W., LEAMAN A., RUYSSEVELT P., Assessing Building Performance in Use 5; Conclusions and Implications
Building Research and Information, Spring 2001 .
BORDASS, Bill, Insights from Building Performance Evaluation Studies
Usable Buildings, presentation to Oxford Brookes University. This covers ground in presentations to OBU from 2014. .
BORDASS, Bill, Beyond Space Heating and Cooling: changing mindsets in a climatic and environmental emergency
Usable Buildings for PowerEx Live Conference, London, 8 December, 2022. Pdf .
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, Building Performance Evaluation and Post-Occupancy Evaluation Past, Present and Future
Usable Buildings, presentation, University College London, 22 January 2026 Pdf .
BORDASS, Bill, Changed Priorities Ahead
Construction and Infrastructure: Fit for purpose in our climate environmental emergency? , University of Westminster, 8 April 2026. .
BORDASS, Bill and LEAMAN, Adrian, Building Performance Evaluation and POE: Past, Present and Future
Heriot-Watt University, 8 February 2023 .
BORDASS, Bill and LEAMAN, Adrian, Post-Occupancy Evaluation: from post-mortem to life support
Presentation to Allies + Morrison, London, 14 November, 2023. .
BREIMAN, Leo., Statistical Modelling: The Two Cultures
Statistical Science, 2001, 16.3, 199-231 .
BUNN, Roderic, Longitudinal occupant satisfaction studies and their potential for managing the comfort carrying-capacity of buildings
Usable Buildings, April 2022, 30pp, High resolution copy 20.3 Mb. Creative Commons open access .
CHAPMAN J., Data Accuracy and Model Reliability
BEPAC Conference, Canterbury, UK, 1991 .
CHATER M. (et al), RIBA Plan for Use Guide
RIBA, London, 2021 RIBA Plan for Use Guide .
CHEUNG T., SCHIAVON S., PARKINSON T., PLI P., and BRAGER G., Analysis of the accuracy on PMV – PPD model using the ASHRAE Global Thermal Comfort Database II
Building and Environment􏰂􏰁􏰅􏰍􏰆􏰂􏰐􏰊􏰂􏰈, 153, 15 Apr 2019. Open source under Creative Commons Licence. .
CLARKE J., Why Tools for Buildings and Cities Performance Simulation Need to Evolve
Commentary https://www.buildingsandcities.org Jan 14 2020 .
COHEN R., STANDEVEN M., BORDASS W. and LEAMAN A., Probe Final Report 1: Review of the Probe Process
Final Report to DETR .
DAVID BARTHOLOMEW ASSOCIATES, Spreading the Word
Aedas Case Study, DBA, June 2005 .
DE DEAR, Richard (et al), Progress in thermal comfort research over the last twenty years
Indoor Air 2013; 23: 442–461. Full list of authors : R.J. de Dear, T. Akimoto, E.A. Arens, G. Brager, C. Candido, K.W.D. Cheong, B. Li, N. Nishihara, S.C. Sekhar,S. Tanabe, J. Toftum, H. Zhang, Y. Zhu .
DE DOMENICO, Maniio and SAYAMA, Hiroki (co-odinators), What is Complexity Science?
#ComplexityExplained, 15 contributors (see Credits) .
DIAMOND Susie., INKLING and Julie GODEFROY , Building Performance Evaluation Guide
Good Homes Alliance and The Home Grown Homes Project, February 2021. See also BPE Toolkit. .
DONN M., SELKOVITZ S. and BORDASS W., The Building Performance Sketch
Building Research and Information, Issue 2, 2012, pps 187-208. This paper is behind a paywall. .
FEWSON K. and LEAMAN A., Travel Exhaustion
Delta T, BSRIA, June 2008 .
FEWSON K. and LEAMAN A., Travel Exhaustion Assumptions Appendix
Delta T, BSRIA, June 2008 .
FIELDSON R.and SODAGER B., Understanding User Satisfaction Evaluation in Low Occupancy Sustainable Workplaces
Sustainability 2017, 9, 18pp. Open access article .
FISHER, Ronald, Statistical Methods for Research Workers
Edinburgh, Oliver and Boyd, 1925. This version GREEN, Christopher D., Classics in the History of Psychology, York University, Toronto, Canada. Online since 1997 ".. the full texts of historically significant public domain documents from the scholarly literature of psychology and allied disciplines..." Reader version Index by Topic .
FLYVBJERG, Bent, Five misunderstandings about case study research
Qualitative Inquiry, 12(2), 219–245, 2006. Sage .
FLYVBJERG, Bent, Heuristics for Better Project Leadership: Teasing Out Tacit Knowledge
Project Management Journal, vol 55:6, 2024. Also Reader format .
FOO, G., BANNISTER P. and COHEN R, Design for Performance: Lessons from the NABERS UK Independent Design Review Process
CIBSE Technical Symposium, UK April 2022 .
FOO, Grace, Design for Performance: Lessons from the Nabers Independent Design Review (IDR) UK
CIBSE Technical Symposium, UK April 2022 .
GETHING, Bill and BORDASS, Bill, Rapid Assessment Checklist for Sustainable Buildings
Building Research & Information, 34:4, 416-426 Building Research & Information .
HEINBERG R with MEADOWS D., Dennis Meadows on the 50th anniversary of the publication of The Limits to Growth
Resilience.org blog, Feb 22, 2022, Transcript .
HOSSENFELDER, Sabine, No one in physics dares say so, but the race to invent new particles is pointless
Guardian, 26 September, 2002. Pdf .
HUEBNER, G, Research rigour, transparency, and reproducibility in energy research
CREDS blog post .
JOHANSSON, Jan, User Involvement: Effective Performance in Sustainable Social Housing
European Journal of Social Sciences, Vol 5, no 1, Jan-June 2022 .
KNUTH, Donald, Algorithms, Complexity, Life, and The Art of Computer Programming
Inside HPC blog linked to video. 30 December, 2019 .
LEAMAN A, Post-Occupancy Evaluation
Prepared for: Gaia Research Sustainable Construction Continuing Professional Development (CPD) seminars.Also chapter in: Roaf S. (ed), Benchmarking Sustainable Building Performance, RIBA Publications, 2003 .
LEAMAN A. and BORDASS W.,, Streamlining Survey Techniques
conference paper prepared for Closing The Loop: Post-Occupancy Evaluation: the Next Steps, Windsor UK, 29 April - 2 May, 2004 .
LEAMAN A., BORDASS W. COHEN R. and STANDEVEN M.,, Probe Final Report 3: Occupant Surveys
Final Report to DETR .
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 .
LEESON, Adala, Heritage and the Circular Economy
Association for Studies in the Conservation of Historic Buildings (ASCHB) Conference, 1 April 2022, Lessons from built heritage in the climate emergency. .
LÜTZKENDORF T. (ed), Carbon Metrics: Assessing & Controlling GHG Emissions Across Scales
Buildings and Cities journal, Special Issue, September 24, 2020. Link goes to Buildings and Cities website. Creative commons open access. .
McINTYRE D.A., Design Requirements for a Comfortable Environment
Electricity Council Research Centre, Oct 1978, ECRC/M1185 .
NERLICH, Bridgette, Tools for thinking about an increasingly complex world..
Original post, 2013 Blog post based on CH Waddington's 'Tools for Thought: How to understand and apply the latest scientific techniques of problem solving', Paladin, 1977 .
RABENECK A., A Sketch-Plan for Construction of Built Environment Theory
Building Research and Information, 2008, 36(3), 269 279. This innovative paper proposes a sketch-plan for applied research based on the headings "Desired Performance", "Regulated Performance" and "Delivered Performance". [This link takes you to the Taylor & Frances website] .
RAPER, Simon, Turning Points: Fisher's Random Idea
Royal Statistical Society, February 2019 Pdf in Reader format .
RICHARDSON, Miles, Biodiversity Stripes – A Journey from Green to Grey
Finding Nature blog, August 10, 2022. Pdf. See also The Living Planet Report 2020: Understanding the Living Planet Index Sourced from Just Two Things blog 11 Aug 2022 .
SLAUGHTER, R.A., Mapping the Future: Creating a Structural Overview of the Next 20 Years
Journal of Futures Studies 1, 1, 1996, 5-27. For similar interpretative framework see The Logistical City .
Usable Buildings Trust, Post-occupancy Evaluation (POE): Getting Started
The Usable Buildings Trust, August 2006. .
WAY M. and BORDASS W., Making feedback and post occupancy evaluation routine 2: Soft Landings - involving design and building teams in improving performance
Building Research and Information, 2005, vol 33 no 4, 353-360. .
WESTON D., Use The Correct Data In The Right Way
Foresight: Climate And Energy, 17th June, 2021, About Foresight: Climate and Energy .
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 .
WISE, Freya, Reducing Carbon while Retaining Heritage: retrofitting approaches for vernacular buildings and their residents
PhD thesis The Open University. 2022. 38MB pdf .