Dive Brief:

• The U.S. General Services Administration has issued a revised version of the design standard widely known as P-100, and it is now performance-based.
• The standard is for use in contracting with the GSA's Public Buildings Service for new construction or alterations at federal properties.
• The standard adopts a professional trend toward basing design rules on goals instead of methods for achieving the goals.

Dive Insight:

The agency is taking the new tack, an engineer who helped write the standard said, "to identify what you really want to do in the end without stating the way you are going to get there."