performance-based building codes and standards

Prescriptive approach: describes an acceptable solution, straight forward for builders and designer to follow, but is a barrier for innovation, make it difficult to cost-optimize building construction..

performance approach: describes the required performance

"The introduction of performance codes forces the realisation that there is so much about the performance of prescribed items which we do not actually understand, so creating a need for more research,.. " -- Duncan, J. R., Hui, S. C. M., Hui, S. C. M., 1999, An International Agenda for Research

See journal "Automation in Construction" Volume 8, Issue 4, April 1999 for a special issue on performance-based standard and designs

ICC: International Code Council

IRCC

CCBFC: Canadian Commission on Building and Fire Codes

The National Building Code of Canada (NBC), the National Fire Code of Canada (NFC), the National Plumbing Code of Canada, the National Housing Code of Canada and the National Farm Building Code of Canada are prepared and maintained by the Canadian Commission on Building and Fire Codes (CCBFC) and are published by the National Research Council (NRC).

CIB: http://www.cibworld.nl/

ASTM

"provides a global forum for the development and publication of voluntary consensus standards for materials, products, systems, and services"




BS online

British Standard




ISO: International Standards Organization

"a worldwide federation of national standards bodies from more than 140 countries, one from each country. to promote the development of standardization and related activities in the world with a view to facilitating the international exchange of goods and services, and to developing cooperation in the spheres of intellectual, scientific, technological and economic activity."

importance and reason of performance basis

An International Agenda for Research, by Duncan, J. R., Hui, S. C. M., Hui, S. C. M., 1999

changes

Building codes obstacle or opportunity?, by Goetzl, A. and D. B.McKeever, 1999

alternative construction

Dealing with alternative construction methods through performance based building codes, by Benge, C., 1999

very good overview and references

Developments in performance-based building codes and standards, by Foliente, G. C., 2000

summary

Final report of CIB task group 11 performance-based building codes, by Oleszkiewicz, I. (ed), 1997

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Fungal defacement in buildings: a performance related approach, by Hens, H., 2000

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Guidelines for the introduction of performance-based building regulations (discussion paper), by IRCC, 1998

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ICC performance code for buildings and facilities, by ICC, 2000

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Objectively speaking, by Archer, J. W. and J. Gallagher, 2001

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Performance indicators as a tool for decisions in the building process, by Yver?s, V., 2002

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Performance-based building regulation: current situation and future needs, by Meacham, B., Bowen, R., Traw, J. and Moore, A., 2005

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Performance-based codes: impact on international trade, by Deroukakis, E., 2001

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Research and development needs for better implementation of the performance concept in building , by Becker, R., 1999

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Research and Development Needs for Structural Performance of Light-frame Residential Construction - Workshop Report, by Affordable Housing Research and Technology, 2002

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Using performance-based approach in building energy standards and codes, by Hui, S. C. M., 2002