Performance Gap. Background. In recent years, the housebuilding industry and government have grown increasingly concerned over the potential gap between design and as-built energy performance.
The apostrophe (â or ') is a punctuation mark, and sometimes a diacritical mark, in languages that use the Latin alphabet or certain other alphabets.In English, it serves three purposes: 1  The marking of the omission of one or more letters (as in the contraction of do not to don't).he apostrophe (â or ') is a punctuation mark, and sometimes a diacritical mark, in languages that use the Latin alphabet or certain other alphabets. In English, it serves three purposes: 1  The marking of the omission of one or more letters (as in the contraction of do not to don't).
apostrophe in Culture Expand. apostrophe [(uh-pos-truh-fee)] A mark (') used with a noun or pronoun to indicate possession (âthe student's comment,â âthe people's choiceâ) or in a contraction to show where letters have been left out (isn't, don't, we'll).