RELATIONAL STUDY BETWEEN BUILDABILITY AND THE TOTAL BUILDING PERFORMANCE MANDATES OF THERMAL PERFORMANCE AND BUILDING INTEGRITY PERFORMANCE
LIM KENG HONG JOHN
LIM KENG HONG JOHN
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Total building performance (TBP) has been increasingly gaining awareness and more people
are beginning to accept it. However, it is has been observed that where buildability is
concerned, the TBP mandates are seldom taken into consideration, especially in Singapore. In
this research, the focus is to study the relationship between buildability and the TBP mandates
when they are incorporated together.
In order to carry out this study, a model adopted from a workers’ dormitories development
project located in the western part of Singapore was used as a control point. The breakdown of
the buildability scores in the code was observed. Thereafter, the TBP mandates’ guidelines,
namely, thermal performance and building integrity performance were incorporated into the
base model and the recomputed buildability score was reassessed.
After the incorporation of the TBP guidelines, it was found that the thermal performance
mandate yielded a negative relationship whereas for the building integrity performance
mandate, it yielded a positive result. The different relationships occurred due to the different
aspects of the model that needed to be changed to adhere to the guidelines. Ultimately, it goes
to show that the incorporation of certain guidelines for any one of the six TBP mandates will
yield different results depending on the situation.
In conclusion, it appears that there is no strong statistical evidence from the analysis to suggest
that the TBP concept has a significant relationship with buildability.
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Building, Low Sui Pheng, 2007/2008 Bu, Building integrity performance, Buildability, TBP, Thermal performance
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2010-11-03
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