Housing Fit For Purpose

Name: Housing Fit For Purpose
Brand: Taylor & Francis
SKU: 9781859468241
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Performance, Feedback and Learning

By Fionn Stevenson

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Housing Fit for Purpose presents a research-based perspective on the challenges of designing, constructing, and managing housing. It highlights the importance of incorporating continuous feedback throughout the housing project lifecycle to enhance outcomes for residents. The author draws on original research in housing performance evaluation to show how participatory design and occupancy feedback can inform better housing development.
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This book is ideal for built environment professionals, researchers, and policymakers interested in improving housing design and management through evidence-based approaches and occupant feedback.

This book uses original research by the author on housing performance evaluation and distils it for built environment professionals, arguing that learning from feedback should be taking place at every stage of the housing project lifecycle, improving outcomes for end users.

Description

Housing Fit for Purpose sets out a research-focused approach to addressing the challenges facing the built environment in the design, construction, and management of housing. The book uses original research by the author on housing performance evaluation, distilling it for built environment professionals. It argues that learning from feedback should occur at every stage of the housing project lifecycle, improving outcomes for end users.

Drawing on active research, this book illustrates why and how the design, construction, and management of housing can be linked to feedback and actual evidence of how people choose and learn to use their homes. It examines the key concepts underlying participatory design, occupancy feedback, and learning, and includes a practical primer on how to undertake housing occupancy feedback.

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INFORMATION

ISBN: 9781859468241

Publisher: RIBA Publishing

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 01 September 2019

Country: United Kingdom

Imprint: RIBA Publishing

Audience: Professional and scholarly

DIMENSIONS

Width: 167.0mm

Height: 240.0mm

Weight: 250g

Pages: 240

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Arts & Culture Fionn Stevenson Non-Fiction

About the Author

Fionn Stevenson holds a Chair in Sustainable Design and is the Head of the University of Sheffield School of Architecture. Her research and consultancy work focuses on developing innovative methods of building performance evaluation in relation to occupancy feedback and social learning in order to improve building design. She is particularly interested in the use of environmental controls by people in buildings from a holistic perspective which includes resource use in its widest dimension. Her focus is on housing. She advises various government bodies and NGOs, and has over 100 publications to date.