Building Performance Toolkit™ Series
Building Performance KPI Library
Volume 1A — Airside HVAC Fundamentals
A professional HVAC performance reference manual featuring KPI dashboards, BAS trend analysis, root-cause diagnostics, engineering graphics, and practical performance optimization guidance.
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Better Building Guides
An independent technical publisher of practical building-performance references. Our flagship series, the Building Performance Toolkit™ Series, helps engineers and operators understand and improve how building systems perform.
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Comparison
Why this publication is different
Built to bridge the gap between textbook theory and day-to-day building operations.
Typical HVAC textbook
- Theory focused
- Limited BAS examples
- Minimal troubleshooting guidance
- Difficult to apply in daily operations
Generic KPI lists
- Metrics without context
- No diagnostic workflow
- No engineering examples
- No performance framework
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Building Performance Toolkit™
- KPI dashboards
- BAS trend examples
- Root-cause decision trees
- Findings-generator language
- Savings calculations
- Field investigation checklists
- Engineering case studies
Inside Volume 1A
Seven foundational airside KPIs
Each topic is covered as an educational reference — a plain-language definition, an example green / yellow / red threshold band, and whether higher (↑) or lower (↓) is generally better. Threshold values are illustrative examples.
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Preview Volume 1A
The cover plus representative pages — a KPI dashboard, the quick-reference sheet, and a root-cause decision tree. Select any page to enlarge it. No sign-up required.
Built for building professionals
A focused engineering reference
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The Building Performance Toolkit™ Series
A growing technical reference library — one building system at a time. Volume 1A is available now.
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Educational support materials
Worksheets, examples, and reference tools to use alongside the publications — organizational and learning aids you fill in with your own information.
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Educational companion products in development to support the publication series — supporting learning resources, not software or services.
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Building Performance Toolkit™ Series
A professional series of educational reference guides covering building performance, KPIs, and operational understanding — one building system at a time.
Building Performance Toolkit™ Series · Available now
Volume 1A
Airside HVAC Fundamentals
A professional reference manual for understanding, measuring, and improving airside HVAC performance — seven foundational KPIs supported by dashboards, BAS trend examples, root-cause decision trees, and engineering reference tools.
Overview
What this publication covers
Volume 1A introduces the seven airside KPIs that describe how an air-handling system is performing. Each is presented as a reference sheet — definition, how it's calculated, example thresholds, and what good and poor performance look like.
What's included
Inside the guide
Sample pages
A look inside
Representative page layouts from the reference guide.
Dashboard examples
See how performance is read
Every KPI in the guide is paired with an example dashboard that shows the green / yellow / red method in action — so the numbers turn into something you can interpret at a glance.
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What you'll take away
Who should read this
Written for
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Companion resources
Worksheets & reference tools
Educational support materials to use alongside the publications. These are organizational and learning tools — structures you fill in with your own information.
Learning center
Article library
Plain-language explainers on the metrics, methods, and concepts behind building performance.
Publication roadmap
The Building Performance Toolkit™ Series
A growing technical reference library, released one building system at a time.
About
Education, professional development, and knowledge sharing
BBG
Better Building Guides
Independent Technical Publisher
20+Years HVAC
BPT™Toolkit Series
Better Building Guides is an independent technical publisher led by a building systems professional with more than 20 years of HVAC industry experience — the author of the Building Performance Toolkit™ Series. It was built to help building professionals access practical educational resources developed from decades of hands-on work with HVAC systems, facilities operations, maintenance programs, commissioning activities, and building performance concepts.
The knowledge that helps a building run well often lives in a few experienced heads and rarely gets written down in a way a whole team can learn from. Better Building Guides exists to change that — to turn practical know-how into clear, organized references and learning resources.
The work centers on four things — education, technical publishing, professional development, and knowledge sharing — delivered through reference publications, templates, and learning materials. Better Building Guides is an educational publisher, not a consulting or engineering-services practice.
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Education first
Concepts explained in plain language, built for self-study and team learning.
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Field-grounded
Drawn from real experience with how building systems actually behave.
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Clear & organized
Consistent reference formats that make information easy to find and apply.
Preview
Preview Volume 1A
A look inside the publication — the cover, a KPI dashboard, the quick-reference sheet, and a root-cause decision tree. Select any page to enlarge it. No sign-up required.
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