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Showing 1 to 20 of 20 for “"Building Life Cycle"”.
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The Economics of Building Life Cycle Costing
… alternative investment opportunities 2. Limited life of certain components in a building which may have to be repaired or replaced 3. Comparisons to be made with alternative materials and/or forms of construction 4. The total costs and income generated throughout the effective life of the …
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Improving the quality and transparency of building life cycle assessment
Life cycle assessment, or LCA, is a powerful method for measuring and reducing a building's environmental impacts. Its widespread adoption among designers would allow the environmental component of sustainability to gain more traction in design philosophy and client goals. Currently, the …
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Flexibility for improved design : probabilistic quasi-optimization of building life cycle impacts and costs
In order to design buildings with reduced environmental impacts, it is important to analyze and compare a variety of design alternatives starting at early stages of the design process. This dissertation discusses the development of a probabilistic life cycle assessment (LCA) methodology for …
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Assessing the Intersectional Risks Associated with the Full Life Cycle of the U.S. Housing Stock
… expected damages associated with each individual building in a community with hurricane wind exposure. This method is applied to study the cost burden of expected damages on each individual household. Later, this is integrated into building life cycle assessment (LCA) to incorporate hazard …
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The value of flexible design : real estate investment and development strategy under uncertainty
Utilizing recent research into building life cycle analysis and option valuation theory, this thesis develops an architectural methodology for analyzing buildings' "capacity for change," and economic models for valuing this capacity. Together these can be used to evaluate strategies for the design, …
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Characterizing Building Digital Twins for Facilities Management
… industries in the past decade including the building sector. However digital twins remain ambiguous with various existing definitions and characteristics. While DTs include all life cycle phases, ultimately their goal is optimization of operations during the use phase. Of the building life …
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Sustainable facilities management with the support of building information modelling
The building sector can potentially support the mitigation of the effects of climate change as buildings worldwide have, both directly and indirectly, a major impact on emissions and resources usage. Among all the phases of the building life-cycle, operations have the biggest environmental impact. …
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Life cycle assessment of materials and construction in commercial structures : variability and limitations
Life cycle assessment has become an important tool for determining the environmental impact of materials and products. It is also useful in analyzing the impact a structure has over the course of its life cycle. The International Organization of Standardization's 14040 series specifies how to …
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A New Business Process Model for Enhancing BIM Implementation in Architectural Design
During the past few years, Building Information Modeling (BIM) started to gain acceptance within the AEC industry. But, as with many software products for project management, BIM currently faces significant issues and obstacles that hinder its widespread use. The broad goal of this study is to …
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The Salt House Project : Designing for Death (DfD)
… We work under the false assumption that buildings will last forever. However, the fact is that every building eventually dies. This thesis rethinks the question of death. The Salt House Project is a product of this questioning. It tests radically rapid turnover of the building life cycle …
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Building effectiveness communication ratios (BECs): an integrated ‘life-cycle’ methodology for mitigating energy-use in buildings
Current building regulations are generally prescriptive in nature. It is widely accepted in Europe that this form of building regulation is stifling technological innovation and leading to inadequate energy efficiency in the building stock. This has increased the motivation to move design practices …
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Development of a facilities management framework for sustainable building practices in Nigeria
There is need for sustainable building practice in Nigeria as buildings generally show signs of poor design for ventilation, natural lighting, energy management, water management, waste management and other building services. These buildings under perform in relation to the purpose for which they …
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Performance of confined concrete columns under simulated life cycles
… were developed to model the critical events in a building life cycle: construction, sustained service loading, minor critical events, rehabilitation, and ultimate performance. Varying the order of these events produces a simulated life cycle allowing analysis of the impact of strain history on …
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Development of carbon footprint quantification and reduction (cafquar) assessment tool for selected non-residential buildings
… technology advancement and urbanisation. Building is one of the major factor of these and hence one of the major contributor to global GHG emissions. To ensure sustainable recognition in the building sector, several assessment tools were developed. Some of these tools assessed the …
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Multi-hazard design of mid- to high-rise structures
… that hurricanes and earthquakes can wreak on buildings and infrastructure. Current design codes treat hurricanes and earthquakes as completely independent, which, while true in the physical sense, does not account for the increased risk to structures in regions where both hazards are present. …
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Optimizing the selection of sustainability measures for existing buildings
Buildings in the United States have significant impacts on the natural environment, national economy, and society. According to the U.S. Green Building Council, buildings in the United States account for 41% of energy consumption, 73% of electricity consumption, 38% of carbon dioxide emissions, and …
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Tearing the envelope: from tunnel to tower industrial typology
… factory will be used as this study's existing building to be adapted. Currently the circulation of production and goods is isolated from the circulation of the public which results in the factory creating a black box surrounded by negative space in the city. Prioritising the circulation of …
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Re-defining the Architectural Design Process Through Building a Decision Support Framework for Design with Reused Building Materials and Components
Waste from construction and demolition-building activities is increasing every day. Landfills have almost reached their capacity. When thinking about the negative impact of demolishing activities on the environment it becomes very necessary to think about reusing and recycling building materials in …
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Indoor and Energy quality assessment in buildings
… maintaining a certain level of comfort in the building, as it is prescribed by the standards, means to deal with a rising energy demand. For this reason increasing attention needs to be spent in the envelope and systems building design, as well in the building robustness at the occupants …
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The Next Generation of Residential Construction: Adoption of Green Building Programs, Environmentally Certified Wood Products and the Transparency of Environmental Friendliness
… will influence the next generation of homebuilding. As the housing market continues its recovery, we must seek to understand the real and perceived weaknesses and strengths of the home building industry. Architects, as the visionaries in home design, have played an important role in the …