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You can now add details for your project here and contribute to our greater understanding of the performance of new homes and their evaluation.  The map was originally created for the BPN research project, State of the nation review: Performance evaluation of new homes.  More about that on the research pages.
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The inaugural research report of the Building Performance Network is here! Providing a digest of existing research programmes of new homes testing and monitoring, and a guide to all sorts of building performance evaluation, this is an invaluable document for anyone wishing to understand the performance of domestic buildings in the
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Tuesday, 3rd March, BPN will be at Futurebuild to launch the findings of our first research project, State of the Nation: Performance Evalulation of New Housing.  See details of the event here and look out for the full report coming for download from our website.
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BPN has had a busy and exciting week. At CIBSE’s Build2Perform, BPN announced its campaign for a joint industry position on disclosure and performance commitments.  Our statement has been jointly signed by CIBSE, Good Homes Alliance, LETI, RIBA and UKGBC.  We are delighted to launch this collaborative response to the performance
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Building Performance Network will be at Build2Perform on Wednesday 27th November, 8:45-10:00. We are looking forward to hearing from @wilfredsouth, Ioanna Mytilinaiou (Greater London Authority), Simon Cross of @BRE_Group, @alex_tait and @JulieG_Sust. Find us bright and early, 8:45 in main theatre with coffee! Details of our session, Performance Declares! are
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Building Performance Network will be at Build2Perform on Wednesday 27th November, 8:45-10:00. Details of our session, Performance Declares! are here. It is free to register for Build2Perform.  Do so here.
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Following discussions at a BPN event, the BPN undertook to write to the Committee on Climate Change (CCC).  We asked the CCC to press for changes to the Building Regulations such that they test for building performance in operation and ensure that our built environment contributes positively to this country
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George Martin expresses our thanks to Mike Ormesher as he steps down as Chair of the Building Performance Network. “Mike Ormesher has been a founding member of the BPN since 2016 and was instrumental in setting up the governance, structure, strategy, marketing and membership activities for the future of the
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July 3, 2:00pm – 5:30pm, The Jam Factory, Oxford Come to Oxford to for an update on our research project, policy insight from our colleagues are CIBSE, as well as an introduction to their new benchmarks, plus case studies from exemplar BPE projects in housing and insight from a forthcoming
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Presentations at Futurebuild 2019 were recorded.  Those from the BPN seminar Ensuring quality and performance in new homes can currently (as of 04/06/19) be found following these links.  These will work if you are first logged in not the Colab website, which is free to register for. Introduction by George Martin Prof
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