As the construction industry transitions from the industrial era to the performance paradigm, opportunities will abound for fabricators to innovate — to expand in the application of BIM and pre-fabrication. Your future success should be based on producing products and systems that measurably increase the productivity of the building process. The Performance Building Institute anticipates the growth of prefabricated building assemblies that will help raise quality and productivity, which will then enable greater investment in sustainability.
You may learn more about the performance paradigm through research articles (aka white papers) and a Performance Building Blog . The introductory paper, "Performance Building" describes the five key transitions pushing the industry towards the performance paradigm:(1) Performance standards and measures, (2) Function-based computing, (3) Completed operating building focus, (4) Integrated innovation, and finally (5) Integrated optimization. The result of these transitions is a transformation from conventional “gray” and “green” buildings to high performance “green” buildings.
The Performance Building Institute presents a comprehensive set of technologies and strategies for accomplishing construction's transition into the performance paradigm. If this interests you, please contact the Institute by email info@performancebuilding.org.