##  [Design-Operation Interaction](/design-operation-interaction) 

  ##  [Design-Operation Interaction](https://engineering.quantumdictionary.io/design-operation-interaction-0) 

  

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**Engineering & Applied Technologies Dictionary**

 







 

 

 

 



 

 

 

 

Definition

The network of causal feedbacks by which decisions made during the design of a building (geometry, systems selection, control strategies, material choices, and maintainability provisions) affect its operational practices and measured performance over the building’s lifetime, and conversely by which observed operational behaviours and maintenance realities inform subsequent design modifications or