ABSTRACT
This chapter focuses on a longitudinal study that evaluates building performance, considering occupant comfort, health, and dynamic space use within a Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design platinum-rated educational complex in Eugene, Oregon, USA. The complex combines multi-functional spaces of wet and dry labs, classrooms, meeting rooms, and offices. Designed to celebrate the fusion between research, teaching, and community engagement, multi-tasking, multi-performance, and multi-user oriented spaces are integrated within the building complex and are interconnected by un-programmed public spaces as well as a multi-level day-lit and naturally ventilated atrium. Following a two-year post-occupancy monitoring procedure and additional commissioning, results show that the building was not meeting its design goals regarding its resource consumption with a shortage of 10–15% across the various resource categories. A single-performance space is an optimized space, typically designed with limited flexibility to accommodate only common use and pre-set occupancy patterns and functions.
