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<span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";mso-ascii-theme-font:minor-latin;mso-hansi-theme-font:minor-latin">I am happy to announce the publication of my latest book:
<strong><span style="mso-ascii-theme-font:minor-latin;mso-hansi-theme-font:minor-latin">Building Performance Basics</span></strong>. This is published via Kindle Direct Publishing (KDP) and available via Amazon.<o:p> </o:p></span></p>
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<span style="color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.9); font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif"; font-size: var(--artdeco-reset-base-font-size-hundred-percent); margin: var(--artdeco-reset-base-margin-zero); padding: var(--artdeco-reset-base-padding-zero); border: var(--artdeco-reset-base-border-zero); vertical-align: var(--artdeco-reset-base-vertical-align-baseline); background: var(--artdeco-reset-base-background-transparent); outline: var(--artdeco-reset-base-outline-zero); font-weight: var(--artdeco-reset-typography-font-weight-bold);"><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";mso-ascii-theme-font:minor-latin;mso-hansi-theme-font:minor-latin;font-weight:normal;mso-bidi-font-weight:bold">Building
Performance Basics </span></span><span style="color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.9); font-size: var(--font-size-large); font-family: Calibri, "sans-serif";">is a short book that complements my earlier major book
<strong><span style="mso-ascii-theme-font:minor-latin;mso-hansi-theme-font:minor-latin;font-weight:normal;mso-bidi-font-weight:bold">Building Performance Analysis</span></strong>, which I published with Wiley in 2018. The new book is an introductory text/reader
that aims to introduce building performance to students at BSc and MSc level. It also serves as a primer for those entering the industry, and as refresher for those who are already in practice but want to sharpen their view. As the book with Wiley is rather
encyclopedic and a bit heavy for some, t<span style="color:black">he new book has been designed to have a different tone and set-up: short and cheerful, published with Amazon KDP in order to be quick to market, brief and to the point, and more persuasive in
order to champion the importance and role of building performance.</span><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
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<strong><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";mso-ascii-theme-font:minor-latin;mso-hansi-theme-font:minor-latin;font-weight:normal;mso-bidi-font-weight:bold">Building Performance Basics
</span></strong><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";mso-ascii-theme-font:minor-latin;mso-hansi-theme-font:minor-latin">deals with core questions about building performance:
<strong><span style="mso-ascii-theme-font:minor-latin;mso-hansi-theme-font:minor-latin">Why</span></strong><strong><span style="mso-ascii-theme-font:minor-latin;mso-hansi-theme-font:minor-latin;font-weight:normal;mso-bidi-font-weight:bold"> i</span></strong>s
it important? <strong><span style="mso-ascii-theme-font:minor-latin;mso-hansi-theme-font:minor-latin">What </span></strong><strong><span style="mso-ascii-theme-font:minor-latin;mso-hansi-theme-font:minor-latin;font-weight:normal;mso-bidi-font-weight:bold"></span></strong>exactly
is it? <strong><span style="mso-ascii-theme-font:minor-latin;mso-hansi-theme-font:minor-latin">Where </span></strong><strong><span style="mso-ascii-theme-font:minor-latin;mso-hansi-theme-font:minor-latin;font-weight:normal;mso-bidi-font-weight:bold"></span></strong>does
it play a role? <strong><span style="mso-ascii-theme-font:minor-latin;mso-hansi-theme-font:minor-latin">When </span></strong><strong><span style="mso-ascii-theme-font:minor-latin;mso-hansi-theme-font:minor-latin;font-weight:normal;mso-bidi-font-weight:bold"></span></strong>are
there opportunities? <strong><span style="mso-ascii-theme-font:minor-latin;mso-hansi-theme-font:minor-latin">Who</span></strong><strong><span style="mso-ascii-theme-font:minor-latin;mso-hansi-theme-font:minor-latin;font-weight:normal;mso-bidi-font-weight:bold">
s</span></strong>hould champion building performance? <b>H<strong><span style="mso-ascii-theme-font:minor-latin;mso-hansi-theme-font:minor-latin">ow</span></strong></b><strong><span style="mso-ascii-theme-font:minor-latin;mso-hansi-theme-font:minor-latin;font-weight:normal;mso-bidi-font-weight:bold">
d</span></strong>o we quantify it? And <strong><span style="mso-ascii-theme-font:minor-latin;mso-hansi-theme-font:minor-latin">How much </span></strong><strong><span style="mso-ascii-theme-font:minor-latin;mso-hansi-theme-font:minor-latin;font-weight:normal;mso-bidi-font-weight:bold"></span></strong>performance
should we aim for?<o:p> </o:p></span></p>
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<strong style="font-size: 12pt; font-style: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit;"><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";mso-ascii-theme-font:minor-latin;mso-hansi-theme-font:minor-latin;font-weight:normal;mso-bidi-font-weight:bold">Building
Performance Basics </span></strong><span style="font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Calibri, "sans-serif";">aims to provide a solid foundation for further professional development and learning about building performance, and for claiming leadership
about building performance in practice. In academic courses, I hope that <strong>
<span style="mso-ascii-theme-font:minor-latin;mso-hansi-theme-font:minor-latin;font-weight:normal;mso-bidi-font-weight:bold">building performance basics will be</span></strong> a good companion guide to provide context to modules that introduce students to
hands-on performance quantification efforts using simulation, measurement and occupant surveys. In
<strong><span style="mso-ascii-theme-font:minor-latin;mso-hansi-theme-font:minor-latin;font-weight:normal;mso-bidi-font-weight:bold">industry</span></strong>, this book can be used at any time where there is a wish to refresh a role as building performance
champion.<o:p> </o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri, "sans-serif";">As Building Performance Basics is published via KDP, the revision cycle is short. So I am very keen to hear any feedback and suggestions. I’m also keen to hear from anyone who is adapting this for their courses
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