How can we leverage past design experience to design better for the future?
Last fall at Greenbuild, Andrea Love, alongside Jim Hanford (The Miller Hull Partnership), Z Smith (Eskew+Dumez+Ripple) and Lois Vitt Sale (Wight & Company), examined the gap between predicted and measured performance. They demonstrated that it is possible to achieve performance exceeding prediction, but it requires working in new ways and staying engaged with buildings long after they’re ‘done’. Paula Melton followed-up these core ideas with her article “Why Post-Occupancy Review Is the Future of Design (And How It can Serve you Now)” in BuildingGreen.com.
In the article Andrea shared some of PAYETTE’s experiences with post occupancy engagement as well as a few post occupancy related research projects, like a multi-building post-occupancy study on how users engage with common areas. Research is an integral part of how we inform our practice and POEs are an on-going part of that.
Read the full article on BuildingGreen.com.
Related:
The Importance of Shadow Studies
Process and Purpose of Post Occupancy Evaluations
Research Project: Shadow Studies
We are honored to share PAYETTE has received two 2026 Green Good Design Awards from The European Centre for Architecture Art Design and Urban Studies—Land’s Sake Farm and The Ragon Institute of Mass General, MIT, and Harvard.
“Green GOOD DESIGN identifies and emphasizes the world’s most important examples of sustainable design and works to develop a public awareness program that informs the general public about which global companies are doing the best job in ecological and sustainable design for our world. Architecture, landscape architecture, urban planning projects, as well as product, packaging, and graphic design projects from over 30 nations were honored with the 2026 Green GOOD DESIGN Award.”
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