Total Building Performance Evaluation (Cases of Selected Buildings Within Federal College of Education, Akinmorin, Oyo State)

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This project studies building performance evaluation with cases of selected buildings within Federal College of Education, Akinmorin, Oyo State.

INTRODUCTION

1.1 BACKGROUND OF THE STUDY

Architects, designers and building occupants (and/or users) and other

professionals involved in building construction over the years have generated series of

controversies in the design, planning, use, and maintenance of buildings (and its

environs) and the level of satisfaction they provide. A comfortable indoor environment

is an important parameter in the productivity, happiness and satisfaction of building

occupants. As such, building on completion should perform its functions in the manner

that will ensure desirable satisfaction to its occupants, therefore, the design and

implementation of buildings should be given careful thoughts and considerations.

Regular maintenance programs conducted after the building has been occupied also

ensure that a building functions well at all times. Natasha Khalil (2000) said that by the

execution of these maintenance programs, the occupants will be able to use and utilize

the facilities as the provision of facilities supports the business operations by the building

occupants. In short, the building facilities and services must be fit for the purpose of the

users. It should however be noted that there are some instances where irrespective of the

level of maintenance executed, once a building does not fit into the environmental

fabrics at inception, it may be difficult for such a building to meet the required comfort

for utmost productivity of its occupants.

Again, emphasis on resource management, in particular energy and economic

resources, has put a new stress on the building industry in addition to the traditional

building demands of health, safety, and welfare. This abrupt emphasis of a single

building requirement has in turn triggered a series of measurable building failure For

example, a demand for air tightness has raised questions of air quality and building

inadequacies regarding human health. It is not the focus on energy conservation or other

resource management efforts that is at fault for building failures, but the lack of

transdisciplinary understanding of the impact of each building performance mandate has

on the other performance areas. It is therefore the challenge of the 1980s and 1990s to

understand the critical balance needed to simultaneously ensure the fulfilment of all

building performance mandates. The importance of understanding the total performance

of a building in a holistic sense is undeniable. In many instances, building evaluation is

a first priority as it is imperative to know the status quo of the building before one can

effectively predict future building performance (ASCE).

The concept of overall performance, Total Building Performance (TBP),

emerged in the last decades of 20

century, provides a tool for assessing the quality of a

building, in terms of the extent to which all the requirements of performance are satisfied

(Cortana & Goretti, 2007; Roulet, 2004). In order for buildings to achieve its purpose of

providing desirable satisfaction to its occupants, its design process, planning,

construction and management are based on statutory standards and specifications

established by governments, professionals and experts who are supposed to have

adequate knowledge of users’ needs and expectations (Eziyi Offia Ibem, Akunnaya P.

Opoko, Albert B.Adeboye, Dolapo Amole). Studies according to Kaitilla, 1993, Ukoha

and Beamish, 1997; Zeiler and Boxem, 2008; Meir (2009) et al have however shown

that sometimes these standards and specifications do not conform to the chang

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Total Building Performance Evaluation (Cases of Selected Buildings Within Federal College of Education, Akinmorin, Oyo State)

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