Usable Buildings

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BANNISTER P., Commitment Agreements UK Feasibility Review Report
Usable Buildings Trust, May 2016 .
BENNETTS R and BORDASS W., Keep it simple and do it well
Sustainability supplement to Building magazine, 28 September 2007, Digging beneath the greenwash, pps 8-11. .
BLACKMAN, David, Ten Challenging Years
CIBSE Journal, Feb 2019, 21-22. Interview with Quinten Babcock and Blll Bordass .
BORDASS W, LEAMAN A. and ELEY J., A Guide to Feedback and Post-Occupancy Evaluation
Usable Buildings Trust, 2006. © The Usable Buildings Trust 2006 .
BORDASS W., Flying Blind
The Association for the Conservation of Energy and the Oxfordshire Energy Advice Centre, October 2001 .
BORDASS W., Learning More From What We Build
A slightly revised version of this paper was published as Chapter 3 of S Macmillan (ed), Designing Better Buildings, London: Spon (2003), pages 21-32). .
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., Cost and value: Fact and fiction
Building Reseach and Information, 28, 5/6, pps 338-352, 2000 .
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 Performance Evaluation in the UK: So many false dawns
A shorter version is chapter 15 of Wolfgang F.E. Preiser, Aaron T. Davis, Ashraf M. Salama, and Andrea Hardy (Editors), Architecture Beyond Criticism, Routledge, 2015, pps160-170. .
BORDASS W. and LEAMAN A., Environmental Quality: the new agenda
BIFM Annual Conference, Queens College, Cambridge, UK, 22 September 1998 OHP foils .
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., Probe: How it happened, what it found and did it get us anywhere?
conference paper prepared for Closing The Loop: Post-Occupancy Evaluation: the Next Steps, Windsor UK, 29 April - 2 May, 2004 .
BORDASS W. and LEAMAN A., From Feedback to Strategy
First presented to Buildings in Use '97, Commonwealth Institute, London, February 25, 1997 .
BORDASS W. and LEAMAN A., Design for Manageability
Building Research & Information, 25(3), 148-157 .
BORDASS W. COHEN R. and FIELD J., Energy Performance of Non-Domestic Buildings: Closing the Credibility Gap
Building Performance Congress, Frankfurt, April 19-24, 2004 .
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., 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., BUNN R., COHEN R. and LEAMAN A., Technical Lessons from Probe 2
Cibse National Conference 1999 .
BORDASS W., COHEN R AND STANDEVEN M., Probe 9: Energy and Engineering Technical Review
BSJ, 37-41 (April 1997) .
BORDASS W., COHEN R. and BANNISTER P., Design for Performance. UK Commitment Agreements: Making measured energy in-use the objective for new office buildings.
UK Feasibility Review Report, May 2016 .
BORDASS W., LEAMAN A. and COHEN R., Walking the Tightrope. The Probe team's response to comments in BR&I
Building Research and Information journal (BR&I) carried rejoinder papers to the Probe Special Issue (March/April 2001). For copyright reasons we cannot include the rejoinder papers themselves (by Baird, Fisk, Whyte and Gann, Markus, Preiser, Roberts, Szigeti and Davis and Cordy). To see these you will have to refer to the BR&I Dec 2001 and Jan-Feb 2002 issues. We can, though, include our response to them. .
BORDASS W., LEAMAN A., RUYSSEVELT P., Assessing Building Performance in Use 5; Conclusions and Implications
Building Research and Information, Spring 2001 .
BUNN R., Sustainable Schools: Getting it right
British Council For School Environments (BCSE), 2006 .
BUNN R., Probe 19: Designer feedback
BSJ 35-38 (March 1999) .
CHAPMAN J., Data Accuracy and Model Reliability
BEPAC Conference, Canterbury, UK, 1991 .
COHEN R. and BORDASS W., Property Needs Sustainability
Building Services Journal, September 2003, pps 6-8 .
COHEN R.,, RUYSSEVELT P., STANDEVEN M., BORDASS W and LEAMAN A., Building intelligence in use: lessons from the Probe project
BRE Watford, UK, 1998, October 6-8 .
COHEN, R., BANNISTER P. and BORDASS W., Nearly Zero Energy Buildings in reality, not just theory
REHVA Journal, May 2016, pp 56-59 .
DE DECKER, Kris, LOW-TECH MAGAZINE Doubts on progress and technology
Online journal which 'questions the blind belief in technological progress' .
DE DECKER, Kris, NO TECH MAGAZINE
No Tech Magazine has shorter posts, links and updates from Low-Tech Magazine. "We refuse to assume that every problem has a high-tech solution." .
DERBYSHIRE A., Architecture, Science and Feedback
Keynote conference paper prepared for Closing The Loop: Post-Occupancy Evaluation: the Next Steps, Windsor UK, 29 April - 2 May, 2004. Sir Andrew Derbyshire, 1923-2016, was a passionate supporter of the Usable Buildings Trust. This paper has the essence .
GRANT N., Eco-minimalism Revisited
Usable Buildings www.usablebuildings.co.uk, March 2008 . Shorter version in Architects' Journal, March 13, 2008 .
ISAACS, Nigel, Contributions to BUILD magazine.
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LEAMAN A., Calling The Tune
Building Services Journal, November, 2000 .
LEAMAN A., Window Design for Natural Ventilation
Notes for BRE seminar, 17 May, 1993. Originally prepared as background for the evaluation of the Lansdown Window System (1992) .
LEAMAN A., What is a Building For?
Building Pathology 91, 18-20 September 1991, Trinity College Oxford .
LEAMAN A., The Productive Workplace: themes and variations
Building Services Journal, November, 2000. .
LEAMAN A., Space Utilisation: intensification and diversification
Building Use Studies, London,1994. .
LEAMAN A., The Logistical City
in WORTHINGTON J, (ed), Reinventing the Workplace, Butterworth-Heinemann, 1997, pp. 10-22 Second edition 2005 .
LEAMAN A. and BORDASS W., Building Design, Complexity and Manageability
Building Use Studies, 1994 .
LEAMAN A. and BORDASS W., Buildings in the Age of Paradox
in LEAMAN, A. (ed), Buildings in the Age of Paradox, IoAAS, University of York, 1996, pp. 3-14 .
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., Productivity in Buildings: The killer variables twenty years on
draft for chapter 19 of Clemence-Croome D. (ed)., Creating the Production Workplace, Routledge, third edition, 2017 .
LEAMAN A. and BORDASS W., Strategies For Better Occupant Satisfaction
Fifth Indoor Air Quality Conference, Thursday 10 July 1997, British Library, London. .
LEAMAN A. and BORDASS W., Flexibility and Adaptability
chapter 13 of MACMILLAN S. (ed)., Designing Better Buildings, Taylor & Francis 2003. .
LEAMAN A. and BORDASS W., Lessons from Feedback
chapter 10 of Cole R. and Lorch R. (eds), Buildings, Culture and Environment Information: informing local and global practices, Blackwell Publishing, 2002 .
LEAMAN A., BORDASS W. and CASSELS S., Flexibility and Adaptability in Buildings: the killer variables
London: Usable Buildings, 1998, 18pp. Unfinished draft. .
LEAMAN A., BORDASS W. and RUYSSEVELT P., Probe Final Report 4: Strategic Conclusions: Get Real About Building Performance
Final Report to DETR .
LEAMAN, A., The Importance of Response Time
Building Services Journal, 20 January 1993 .
MAY N., and RYE C., Responsible Retrofit of Traditional Buildings
Sustainable Traditional Buildings Alliance (SBTA), 2012. .
MEADOWS D., Leverage Points: places to intervene in a system
The Donella Meadows Project .

original version, Whole Earth Winter, 1997

Norbert Lechner, Zero Energy Buildings are Solar Responsive Buildings that Work
Auburn University, July 2019. See also Heliodons .
OLIVIER D., Building In Ignorance. Demolishing complacency: improving the energy performance of 21st century homes.
Association for the Conservation of Energy, October 2001 .
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] .
SHORT CA, COOK M and LOMAS KJ,, Delivery and performance of a low-energy ventilation and cooling strategy
Building Research & Information, Volume 37, Issue 1 January 2009 , pages 1 - 3. .
SKLAIR L., Sleepwalking Through The Anthropocene
British Journal of Sociology, Volume 68, Issue 4 .
STEVENSON F., and BORDASS W., Even Bad News Can Be Beneficial
D&A, Autumn 2011, Issue 16, pps 109-115. .
STEVENSON F., and LEAMAN A., Evaluating Housing Performance in relation to human behaviour: new challenges
Editorial for special issue of Building Research and Information, 2010, 38(5), pps 437-441. .
THOMAS P.C. and RAO G.S., Surpassing expectations: an integrated approach to design, delivery, commissioning and post occupancy evaluation
Ecolibrium, Dec 2009, 26-35 .
TROWSDALE S., GABE J. and VALE R. , Water Balance of A Green Building
SB07, paper 4671, 9pp. Landcare Research , Private Bag 92 170, Auckland, NZ. .
USABLE BUILDINGS TRUST, Soft Landings: Getting Started
Usable Buildings Trust, 2009 .
WAY M., BORDASS W., LEAMAN A. and BUNN R.,, The Soft Landings Framework: for better briefing, design, handover and building performance in-use
Usable Buildings Trust, 2014 edition, authorised version by original authors. .