CIBSE has launched a project to encourage the industry to come together and reimagine building engineering, in particular how the public realm can better respond to the climate change and sustainability challenges it faces.
The Building Performance Reimagined project has been commissioned by CIBSE and researched by Arup.
It is aiming to build on the central theme of CIBSE’s new president Fiona Cousins who, in her recent presidential address, emphasised the importance of embracing future-focused approaches and reimagining building performance to meet evolving societal and environmental needs.
The latest report makes the case for using four pivotal performance metrics to guide the industry towards enhanced health and resilience. These are:
- Variety. Optimising building services to promote space efficiency, adaptability and user diversity.
- Readiness. Enhancing building services to anticipate and mitigate risks, ensuring resilience against unforeseen threats.
- Connectedness: Integrating building services with local and wider systems, enhancing responsiveness to the environment and its contents.
- Emergence: Enabling building services to contribute positively over time, learning and adapting as structures age.
The institute is urging industry professionals to get involved on what it is calling “this transformative journey”, in particular emphasising collective social value and, as it puts it, “multi-species stakeholder interests”.
The Building Performance Reimagined report is available for free download at https://www.cibse.org/policy-insight/key-policy-areas/building-performance-reimagined.
