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).
Many writers incorrectly use apostrophes to indicate both plural and possessive forms, while many writers for whom English is not their first language omit the apostrophe entirely because their native language does not use it.