Commercial Building Performance Assessment: Deficiencies and Solutions

This report provides a comprehensive assessment of commercial building performance, focusing on identifying deficiencies and proposing effective rectification measures to enhance energy efficiency. The introduction establishes the importance of commercial buildings and their various components, such as roofing, siding, and sealants. The report then delves into the conditions of existing components, emphasizing the need to minimize operating costs and improve energy efficiency through integrated designs, insulation, and air tightness. It further identifies deficiencies contributing to inefficiencies, including inadequate design, improper execution, and material defects. The report describes measures to rectify these deficiencies, such as improving space efficiency and adopting effective building designs. The report also recommends measures for energy savings, including deploying renewable energy sources, implementing effective lighting controls, and utilizing data center solutions. The conclusion summarizes the key findings, emphasizing the importance of building performance assessment in improving commercial building operations. The report is supported by several references to academic journals and books.

Building Performance
Assessment

Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................1
CONDITIONS OF EXISTING COMPONENTS...........................................................................1
DEFICIENCIES FOUND THAT ARE CONTRIBUTING TO INEFFICIENCIES IN THE
BUILDING ....................................................................................................................................2
DESCRIBE MEASURES THAT COULD BE IMPLEMENTED IN ORDER TO RECTIFY
THESE DEFICIENCIES.................................................................................................................3
RECOMMEND MEASURES WILL CONTRIBUTE TO ENERGY SAVINGS..........................4
CONCLUSION................................................................................................................................5
REFERENCES................................................................................................................................6

INTRODUCTION
Commercial building is considered as the building that is used for commercial purpose
such as office, warehouse, shopping malls etc (Dim, Ezeabasili and Okoro, 2015). Businesses
those are operating commercially requires placing their building in commercial area so that they
could carry out their operations in an effective way. There are different components such as
roofing, siding, sealants etc.
CONDITIONS OF EXISTING COMPONENTS
The different components required of the building envelope of commercial building in
such a way that it is essential for them to minimize long term operating costs and enhance energy
efficiency for commercial buildings. However, one of the main condition for commercial
builders are that they are required to increase building performance and lower down total
operating cost so that quality design is prepared (Dehe, Dengfeng and Yihan, 2013). Another
component that helps in building envelope that affects commercial building performance such as
integrated window and door design, wall and roof insulation and improved air tightness. For
instance, at the time of carrying out commercial construction it requires different components
such as roof and floor trusses, wall panels etc. However, all these components are requires
developing building envelope of commercial building so that incurred cost could be saved and
thus best buildings could build for carrying out commercial business.
Furthermore, it is significant for business to identify effective conditions for existing
components in regard to design commercial buildings. Thus, through assessing the required
components it helps in identifying the conditions for implementing effective components
required for carrying out effective structure of commercial building and conduct the transactions.
All the identified components within commercial building aims to possess certain effective
conditions so that all the assessed conditions could be fulfilled in terms of enhancing the
efficiency of commercial building (Ham and Kim, 2015). Adopting building components
requires carrying out continuous environmental initiatives, programs and regulations so that
energy saving, space efficiency and waste reduction helps in developing sustainable building
design so that commercial construction could be enhanced.
All these conditions of existing components helps in enhancing the performance of
business in market and thus improve its design of building commercial space. Therefore, it could
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be given for rental space and thus carry out the operations in market. Thus, all such conditions
need to be matched with the commercial building space so that needs of owners could be
fulfilled. Also, it is essential for owners to identify the main conditions linked with commercial
property helps in improving the performance of inspection of commercial property (Prasetyo,
2016).
DEFICIENCIES FOUND THAT ARE CONTRIBUTING TO
INEFFICIENCIES IN THE BUILDING
Main function of any building needs to be structurally sound and environmentally
controlled in relation to space, protect occupants and contents. Thus, it is one of the crucial
function of any commercial building. However, if buildings are not able to provide such
components than it results in identifying the deficiencies which results in contributing to the
inefficiency of building (Kim, Yoon and Jeong, 2015). Thus, failure within basic building
function could range from single components such as windows, exterior wall systems and
inability of HVAC systems to properly condition the air. However, the main source of such
deficiency could involve inadequate design, improper execution of work, defective material etc.
Further, there are various other deficiency such as water infiltration, excessive building
movement or premature component failure have become common inefficiencies within the
building. Thus, all such identified deficiencies could contribute towards inefficiency in the
building and therefore, designers of commercial building are required to change roles the design
and construction team so that best building could be developed (LIU and LU, 2014).
Moreover, there are various deficiencies which needs to be identified that contributes to
the inefficiency in the building. Therefore, it is essential for designers of commercial building to
identify the deficiencies faced by building and try to overcome them so that it could not impact
upon the efficiency of firm. However, if it results in creating inefficiency within firm at the time
of contributing to inefficiencies in the building and thus creates issue for the designer of
commercial building so that inefficiencies could be identified. The identified deficiency
contributes to develop inefficiency within building and thus results in affecting the business
functions (Corbin, Henze and May-Ostendorp, 2013). For instance, inappropriate components
within building creates issues for owners therefore, it is essential for them to properly maintain
the building through adopting effective materials and thus overcome the deficiencies which
results in avoiding the inefficiency in building. Thus, proper water sanitation, lighting, space and
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air needs to be managed within building so that construction of building could be done
appropriately.
DESCRIBE MEASURES THAT COULD BE IMPLEMENTED IN ORDER
TO RECTIFY THESE DEFICIENCIES
There are various measures that need to be implemented in regard to rectify the
deficiencies so that commercial building could overcome its problems of space, air and light.
Thus, all such problems could be identified and through adopting effective building design it
could be overcome that results in improving the best performance in market. However, through
adopting effective tactic it results in using energy savings and thus overcome lighting issues so
that deficiencies could be avoided within construction building. Further, improving space
efficiency results in developing better building design so that more space could be developed
within building (Shaikh and et. al., 2014). However, it results in raising the efficiency of
construction building and thus overcome the deficiency. Through improving the space problem it
results in overcoming the deficiency and thus provide more space within commercial building so
that needs of individual could be avoided. Also, it involves a slight development within the
building and results in improving the productivity of firm in market (Zuo and Zhao, 2014).
Furthermore, adopting effective measures helps in implementing the same so that it could
result in rectifying these deficiencies and thus obtain better results. Thus, it is significant for
building designers to undertake effective measures and thus results in improving efficient
performance and thus overcome the deficiency and thus adopt effective results. There are various
deficiencies in relation to building maintenance so that deficiency could be avoided (Dim,
Ezeabasili and Okoro, 2015).
Moreover, it is also effective for building design to develop effective measures so that
identified deficiency could be avoided. Thus, it results in improving the effectiveness and thus
identify deficiencies in building envelope so that it could result in ensuring safety and proper
appearance of facilities (Dehe, Dengfeng and Yihan, 2013). Therefore, it is essential for
developing effective ways through which deficiency could be overcome and results in improving
performance of firm in market. Therefore, through adopting all such measures results in
overcoming the deficiency and thus avoid the deficiency.
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RECOMMEND MEASURES WILL CONTRIBUTE TO ENERGY
SAVINGS
It is essential component within the construction building and thus in such global
environment, businesses are required to undertake initiative is sustainability and thus promote
the same in order to improve energy savings within firm. Through adopting appropriate building
design, sustainability results in minimizing the negative environment and thus impacts the same
upon commercial building so that through raising efficiency and moderation through using
energy, space and materials (Ham and Kim, 2015). However, implementing sustainable building
design involves saving energy, using space efficiently and minimizing waste over the life cycle
of commercial building. Thus, there are different measures that should be adopted in regard to
implement energy savings while designing commercial building through deploying renewable
energy sources such as solar and wind power and thus shifting electricity equipment towards
renewable energy sources. Hence, it is suggested that through adopting effective energy
optimizing performance it results in improving the energy savings so that performance could be
improved.
Further, they should implement effective lighting controls and thus consumers high
electricity and technology that energy saving strategy should be used at the time of designing
building. Further, there are different data center solutions should be developed in regard to
estimate high energy consumption and thus provide better solutions so that effective results
could be attained.
Moreover, it is recommended to building construction that they should identify the need
for energy saving devices and thus improve the energy sources so that renewable solutions could
be implemented in regard to improve the cooling and air movement and thus keep the
functioning properly (Kim, Yoon and Jeong, 2015). Also, it is essential for firm to implement
effective solutions so that management could be adopted in an effective and efficient manner so
that new power distribution should be implemented and thus results in enhancing the business
functions. However, it is the best way through which energy should be adopted effectively and
efficiently so that resources could be utilised effectively and efficiently.
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CONCLUSION
It can be concluded from the report that through building performance assessment it helps
in identifying the components that helps in building envelope of commercial building so that
better results could be attained. Also, evaluating all the deficiency results in overcoming the
issues and provide appropriate measures so that deficiencies could be overcome.
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REFERENCES
Books and Journals
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Dehe, Z., Dengfeng, Z. and Yihan, S., 2013. Mixture Design and Mechanical Properties of
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Dim, N.U., Ezeabasili, A.C.C. and Okoro, B.U., 2015. Application of Sustainability Principle
and Passive Design Strategies to Improve on the Nigerian Commercial Building
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Ham, N.H. and Kim, J.J., 2015. A Case Study on BIM Operating and Performance Measurement
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Kim, H.J., Yoon, D.S. and Jeong, J.W., 2015. Regional Optimum Dedicated Outdoor Air System
and Energy Consumption Characteristics. Journal of the architectural institute of Korea
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LIU, W.J. and LU, Y.Y., 2014. Flexural Behavior of Steel Fiber Reinforced High Strength Self
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Prasetyo, Y.H., 2016. ANALYSIS OF THERMAL AND AERODYNAMICS PERFORMANCE
OF BATAK TOBA TRADITIONAL HOUSE BY IMPLEMENTING DIGITAL
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Shaikh, P.H. and et. al., 2014. A review on optimized control systems for building energy and
comfort management of smart sustainable buildings. Renewable and Sustainable Energy
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Zuo, J. and Zhao, Z.Y., 2014. Green building research–current status and future agenda: A
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