Semiotics in information systems engineering
Semiotics in information systems engineering
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Environmental concerns and the continual drive for energy efficiency in buildings, has led industry to look more closely at sustainable development and the sustainability of existing buildings. The majority of building environmental performance assessment methods developed today, involve a building meeting, or satisfying, pre-defined standards and requirements. Improvements to a building's environmental performance are usually ascertained by first benchmarking the current set up. In order to do this it is necessary to identify and understand specific building key performance indicators (KPIs). Selecting the most suitable KPIs, particularly when building systems are intelligently managed, can be both challenging and critical to the assessment of a building's environmental performance. This paper assesses some of the current practices and advances in building environmental performance assessment. It also considers how benchmarking and semiotics approaches may be integrated with current environmental assessment methods to more accurately measure the impact of users and building use.