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Showing 1 to 20 of 35 for “"Design decision-making"”.
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Investigating the dimensions of design decision making through product archaeology
Thesis (M.S.)--Sloan School of Management, 1992 and Thesis (M.S.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Mechanical Engineering, 1992.
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Managing Uncertainty During Organization Design Decision-Making Processes: The Moderating Effects of Different Types of Uncertainty
… (i.e., affiliation with a division undergoing redesign). Implementing fair processes and procedures may be an effective way for organizational leaders to help organizational members address their uncertainty. Uncertainty has been shown to moderate the "fair process effect," such that the positive …
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Credibility of a Person-Centered Design Decision-making Prototype: Spaces for Older Persons with Vision Loss
… of the population requires that buildings be designed with their visual needs in mind. As their field of vision decreases, people find it harder to identify an objects location, distance, and orientation. Elderly people with vision impairments usually find it harder to perform daily activities …
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Improving Design Decision-Making through a Re-Representation Tool for Visual Comfort Consideration in Dynamic Daylit Spaces
Light and architectural design are inseparable. Light plays a significant role in the perception of the place. One of the main reasons a good number of today's buildings are unsuccessful regarding visual conditions and comfort is because they are only focused on function and structure without …
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Data Representation Methods For Environmentally Conscious Product Design
… environmental sustainability considerations with design decision-making requires novel representations for design and sustainability-related data that allow designers to understand correlations among them. Challenges such as (1) lack of suitable data & information models, (2) methods that …
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Computer Design of Reinforced Concrete Structures.
… STRUDL is an acronym for Structural Design Language. It is a subsystem of ICES capable of supplying accurate and comprehensive information for structural design decision making. The IUG version of STRUDL I I was utilized in this thesis.
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Successful streets : performance measures, community engagement, and urban street design
… transportation agencies have increasingly re-designed urban arterials, their cities' major surface streets, to better accommodate a wide range of users. At the same time, a growing number of agencies are using performance measurement, the tracking and reporting of specific …
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An Urban Edge for Innovation & Reservation: create a figurative stage for students to perform their lives
… This thesis attempts to explore approaches to design decision making, as a response to a project's site, its history, and the larger cultural context. The above issues are investigated through the design of a multipurpose building at the east end of the Drillfield on the Virginia Tech campus in …
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Passive solar energy application in townhouse design: a case study
The plan and design of a large housing development project by itself was a difficult task in the past, the energy issue made the options very limited, and the planner and/or engineer deal with the solution more often technically intended with or without considering the energy problem. This study is …
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Enabling energy efficiency for low-income housing in Developing countries using MIT Design Advisor
… housing is the lack of awareness regarding design choices and their associated externalities. Thus to enable better design decision-making, MIT Design Advisor, a rapid and simple building energy simulation tool, has been adapted to make the costs of poor housing energy efficiency more …
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Application of life cycle assessment in process design: case study on SO₂ abatement technologies in the PGM sector
… Technical innovation to improve future plant designs, as well as the development of management policies, guidelines and protocols for efficient operation of process plants has therefore become a strategic priority for the South African platinum industry. The industry has also made an effort to …
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Analyzing the Use of Technological/Engineering Design-Based Biotechnical Learning Pedagogical Approaches to Promote Change in Concept Knowledge of Eighth Grade Mathematics Students
… pedagogical approaches of technology/engineering design-based learning (T/E DBL) were shown to promote change in concept knowledge of eighth grade mathematics students. A mixed method, sequential explanatory multiple embedded case study was used to determine the significance between the T/E DBL …
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Rethinking low-cost green building material selection process in the design of low-impact green housing developments
… established in mainstream, on account that most designers are constrained by their vaguely informed knowledge as to their sustainability impacts during the early stages of the design decision-making process, when most of the important decisions relating to sustainability are made. With the scale …
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Web design discourse and access : a case study of student entry into a web design Discourse in the Multimedia Technology programme at CPUT
… to explore how access opportunities into a web design Discourse can be enhanced. The study is located in the Multimedia Skills subject which is part of the Certificate in Multimedia Technology at Cape Peninsula University of Technology. In describing student entry into a web design environment, …
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Early Design Stage Building Lifecycle Analysis (LCA) of Cost & Carbon Impact
… can analyze conceptual geometries in the early design stage when there is limited information. The first part of the workflow recommends sustainable features of building attributes, and the second part recommends detailed construction schemes. By following the recommended design solutions, the …
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Using Spatial Analysis in an Evidence Informed Approach to Community Engagement in Design
… the researcher’s experience in participatory design practice in India and her subsequent experience in research and practice of the analytical and evidence informed design approaches of Space Syntax in the UK. Urban design is a set of complex relationships between all the elements of built and …
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The role of smell in urban design
The dominance of sight in built environmental design and management is well documented with smell overlooked by built environment professionals, considered of primarily negative influence upon experience and perception. However odour has special characteristics, retained in memory longer than …
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Evaluation activity in the conceptual phase of the engineering design process
… the synthesis and development of a Conceptual Design Evaluation Method (CDEM) that is an amalgam of a number of methods and approaches taken principally from the probability, reliability, and quality domains. Decomposition of design is employed to enable evaluation at design characteristic …
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Detecting Expertise Influence on Teamwork in Sustainable Urban Design Workshops through a System Model
The design of sustainable urban communities near transportation hubs, such as train stations, may play a vital role in enhancing neighborhoods by fostering new jobs, encouraging mixed-use developments, and promoting a cleaner environment. The engagement of experts and non-experts is often promoted …
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Goal Framing to Encourage More Sustainable Engineering Design Decisions for the Built Environment Across Cultures
… potential barriers to more sustainable design and construction practices among professionals in Kuwait. The barriers identified are not technological, but behavioral, related to perceptions of risk and awareness. Behavioral science offers potential solutions to address these barriers …
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