A BIM Approach to Evidence-Based Courtroom Design

Over the past decade evidence-based design (EBD) has §emerged as a novel approach to design decision-§making, promising a structured approach to address §key organizational objectives. Issues pertaining to §appropriate representations of evidences, however, §are still being examined. Moreover, an important §source of data buildings-in-use data is not being §tapped owing to several technical and methodological §impediments. Advances in conceptual data modeling §offer a unique strategy to interface post-occupancy §evaluation (POE) data with design decision-making. §This book reports the use of EXPRESS modeling §language to develop a conceptual data structure for §POE data, and integrate POE data with as-built §building descriptions. It describes an improved §way to structure buildings-in-use data to support §EBD. Actual performance data from 26 trial §courtrooms is used in this book to illustrate a §range of decision support scenarios in courtroom §design. This book should be of particular interest §to academics and professionals in the domains of §building information modeling, justice design, §workplace design, and evidence-based design.