As the industry continues to face the reality of the performance gap by investigating why our most energy efficient and sustainable designs are still missing their design intents, CEW ran a seminar this week to help frame discussions.

At our Building Better Buildings seminar we heard from Rob Pannell, Dr John Littlewood and Piers Sadler about the InnovateUK’s recent Building Performance Evaluation project. The speakers, all brave enough to set out how the construction industry is failing to deliver for clients also fielded questions from a diverse range of professions in during the Q&A session.

Through the Building Performance Evaluation project 100 sites participated with energy data has been collected from a variety of buildings, design teams have been reformed to investigate the building, occupants have been involved and their feedback provided, and procurement methods have been reviewed. With a project duration of four years the breadth of building types, procurement models and the duration of data collection means there is much to learn from. We encourage you to take a look and the project’s findings to see what your profession can contribute to tackling the performance gap and poor delivery.

Constructing Excellence in Wales are keen to promote debate on the performance gap and get all professions discussing this together are pleased to have received excellent feedback from the event in Cardiff.   

If you want to find out more you can access the presentations from our Building Better Building workshop. We hope to continue with further workshops on the performance gap later this year. Should you have any comments on this topic, please do get in touch by emailing: info@cewales.org.uk