TABLE OF CONTENTS - The Professional Green Building Council

Theme B: Creating a livable, healthy and environmentally viable citiesmain concerns, including building structure and condition reporting, floor spaceoptimisation, recycling and waste minimisation, and overall project management,and sustainable design and construction. Through a Delphi study process involvingindustry panel experts and subsequent interviews to professionals involved thisrefurbishment projects, a set of Best Practice Guidelines were developed toencapsulate critical issues of refurbishing office buildings into decision modules ofpractical decision making and problem solving. A case study on the use of raisefloor systems for a Melbourne CBD office building refurbishment demonstratesthe innovative construction methods and the use of the Best Practice Guides asassistance to the project team.7. REFERENCESAllehaux, D. and Tessier, P. (2002). “Evaluation of the functional obsolescence ofbuilding services in European office buildings,” Energy and Buildings, 34, pp127-133.Anderson, J. and Mills, K. (2002). Refurbishment of redevelopment of office buildings?Sustainability comparisons, BRE Publications, London.Balaras, C.A. (2004), ‘Decision support software for sustainable building refurbishment’,Ashrae Transactions, 110, 592-601.BRE & dti (2002), Office Score: Refurbishment support tool for office building’www.officescorer.info/ accessed on 12/09/04.Caccavelli, D. et al (2002), ‘TOBUS - a European diagnosis and decision making tool foroffice building upgrading’, Energy and Building, 34, 113-119.CAR (2003), CRC Report to the Energy Saving Trust (EST) titled ‘Refurbish or replace’,UK.Chan, A. P. et al., (2001) ‘Application of Delphi method in selection of procurementsystems for construction projects’, Construction Management and Economics, 19, 699-718.Cox, F. (2004), ‘The Engineering and Management of Retrofit Projects in ProcessIndustries’, ECI, UK.ECI (2003), ‘Workshop on the ‘Engineering and management of retrofit projects’, UK.465