Residential property development is inseverable from the growing demand for residential in Surabaya. To meet this demand, high-rise residential was demanded to be able needs of the user. This can be do while the design process. However, the design process is often a measurable failure during construction, and will impact of user satisfaction on the post occupancy. Performance-Based Building Design (PBBD) discusses the building performance that can be determined at the beginning since the building in the phase of design, so this study aims to determine the designer's knowledge of the PBBD concept. With the knowledge of PBBD, the design team can increase innovation by articulating the performance of the building results in fulfiling more effective and efficient performance requirements. In addition, the designer can consider more perspectives, because it involves several of disciplines, and design that are created, translated and integrated according to the needs of end user building. This study used survey method with the questionnaire as data tool collection, which is distributed to designer in Surabaya. From the data collection, 42,65% of designer have known the PBBD concept, 19,12% of the designer don't know about the concept, respondents who know and use it in the design process amount to 22.06% and only 16,18% know the PBBD but have not used it the design process.Kata kunci: properti, residensial bertingkat tinggi, desain bangunan berbasis kinerja.