- Author
- Herron, W. R.
- Title
- Performance Testing - State of the Art.
- Coporate
- National Bureau of Standards, Washington, DC
- Report
- NBS BSS 001, January 1970,
- Book or Conf
- National Bureau of Standards. Performance of Buildings - Concept and Measurement. Proceedings of the 1st Conference in a Series of Conferences on Man and His Shelter. September 23-25, 1968, Gaithersburg, MD, Walton, W. W.; Cadoff, B. C., Editors, 61-63 p., 1970
- Keywords
- building design | housing | planning | performance evaluation | tests | building construction
- Abstract
- "We are standing at the crossroads." You have heard that expression many, many times. It is applicable today in two senses; first, we are at a crossroad this afternoon in the conference. For a day and a half there has been discussion on performance theory; now the subject changes to performance testing - the process for establishing that a product or system will meet user requirements. In the second sense, the building construction industry is at a similar corssroad, since there have been developed a number of general theories for and approaches to building performance, but there still remains to be developed a complete set of performance standards and tests to validate the concept of performance-based specifications for building construction.