Our insight into the benefits of high-performance design shows that architects have an essential role in building our future through sustainable design.
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It is difficult or impossible to control many of the variables that affect building performance. Each building has variations in usage, occupant behavior, and external factors like weather patterns that can change over time. Given the many parameters that influence a building after the build, it is impossible to create designs that anticipate all likely scenarios and truly deliver optimum performance.
Over the past decade, we have had tremendous advances in high-performing materials, technologies, and systems. Rather than designing the perfect building, we could simply equip our buildings with the most advanced technologies so that buildings respond dynamically and adapt over time. Discussions of advancing technologies like AI can convey that architects aren’t as crucial as they used to be when creating high-performance buildings.
