Performance-Based Building Design: From Below Grade to Floors, Walls, Roofs, and Windows to Finishes (incl. ebook as PDF)

This third book in a series on building physics and its application discusses the impact of a performance-based approach on building design and construction, including materials, site preparation, structural systems, and finishes. It covers heat, air, moisture, structural integrity, durability, fire safety, acoustics, maintenance, sustainability, and buildability, with a focus on risks and deficiencies. The content has been updated and revised based on extensive research and experience.

Format: Paperback / softback
Length: 592 pages
Publication date: 06 March 2024
Publisher: Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH

This third book in a series of three dealing with building physics and its application, looks to the impact a performance requirements linked approach has on building design and construction. It starts with a resumption of what is expected from buildings, followed by discussing a range of materials needed to guarantee a correct heat, air, moisture response. Then, it looks to preparing the building site, the excavations needed, the foundations, the below-grade parts and spaces, the structural systems commonly used, the floors, different types of outer walls, different types of roof assemblies, inside walls, the glazing, windows, outer doors, glass façades, balconies, all kinds of shafts, chimneys, stairs, timber-frame construction, wall, floor and ceiling finishes. Each time again, not only the heat, air, moisture related metrics but also structural integrity, durability, fire safety, acoustics, maintenance, sustainability and buildability are discussed. The whole ends with looking to the risks deficiencies may cause.

To do so, beside years of teaching, research and curing damage cases due to failing performance, a bunch of national and international sources and literature has been consulted, which is why each chapter ends with an extended has read list.

Mayor changes compared to the first edition is that the two volumes form one now, whereby combining, reshuffling, extending and redrafting was done where appropriate and necessary, so reducing the number of chapters from 28 to 20. Excavations and foundations now form a joint chapter, while the requirements for outer walls and roofs are considered uniformly and are now available in eight chapters on the building envelope, five of which are on outer walls and three on roof structures. Then come the inside walls and other specific parts, followed by on.

Weight: 1134g
Dimension: 244 x 170 x 30 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9783433034408
Edition number: 2 ed