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Showing 1 to 20 of 26 for “"green design"”.
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Perception and implementation of sustainable/green design in India
… study explored awareness and perceptions of green/sustainable (G/S) design in India’s design community. Architects in the five geographic regions were interviewed. All were familiar with S/G design and said knowledge was “very important.” However, none felt “well-versed.” They believed lack …
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Green Design of a Cellulosic Bio-butanol Supply Chain Network with Life Cycle Assessment
… supply chain network and the optimization of a green supply chain network for cellulosic bio-butanol. To develop the physical supply chain network, the production process, material flow, physical supply chain participants, and supply chain logistics activities of cellulosic bio-butanol were …
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Power to the people : a framework for enhancing environmental stewardship through community design
… actions are most commonly addressed through "green" design strategies that utilize largely technological solutions to increase the resource efficiency of the built environment. However, "green" design as currently comprised is insufficient; while it effectively reduces the amount of resources …
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A Framework for Identifying Key Decision Makers for Institutional Owner Capital Projects
… optimize their investment in their portfolios. Green design offers a way for owners to accomplish this. Part of the definition used by the General Services Administration (GSA) for sustainable or green design is minimizing the total life-cycle ownership cost of a facility. Many tools, such as …
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A Place of Worship: An Architecture Celebrating the Interconnectedness of God, Nature, and Man
… programme. A site was sought in which green design could be implemented for passive solar and water usage. It became apparent that a more important understanding was to be gained: How does an architect touch a site that already has amazing beauty and spiritual voice? Through this work, …
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Drawing the Analogy: Nature as Idea, Architecture as Response
This thesis attempts to establish a first design philosophy by proposing nature and architecture as mutually interactive conceits within the scope of the design process. Positing that our conceptions of "green" design are rightfully influenced by the various and often highly metaphorical social …
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An authentic sustainable future : a case study of the Bullitt Center
… largest commercial building to achieve this green rating system. The findings from this study ultimately point to a system thinking approach and regenerative methods. This understanding leads to a true definition of a sustainable future. This study seeks to challenge the field of green design …
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Green Building Design 300H Street NE, Washington DC
How to understand the concept of GREEN in an architectural perspective is the aim of my thesis. Aside from the basic concepts of sustainable building design, such as climate responsive layout, natural systems from daylight to fresh air providing a superior environment for the occupants as well as a …
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Ecodesign - Present Attitudes and Future Directions: Studies of UK company and design consultancy practice
… awareness and action of those involved with design and development. This project provides an overview of designers' current attitudes to environmentally responsible design and investigates design that is perceived to be more environmentally responsible. The research was exploratory and …
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Cost and benefit of energy efficient buildings
… this report strives to show that building green is cost-effective and does make financial sense today. Though green buildings typically have a higher upfront cost compared to conventional constructions, they do offer benefits that simply built-to-code projects lack. These benefits include …
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The education of undergraduate product designers in the principles and practice of sustainable design.
There is a growing recognition that product designers have a responsibility to ensure that their designs are intrinsically sustainable and do not add to the growing pressures on the environment. Developing sustainable products requires designers to be aware of the conflicting issues and constraints …
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An integrated approach to environmentally conscious design and manufacturing
… was to develop an approach for the simultaneous green design of products and associated manufacturing processes including demanufacturing concerns. We propose a generic approach called Integrated Environmentally Conscious Design and Manufacturing (IECDM) which can be applied to address problems …
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Diospi Suyana Building Hope in the Andes
How to design with empathy? "The very essence of architecture consists of a variety and development reminiscent of natural organic life. This is the only true style in architecture." Alvar Aalto For me architecture has the power to enhance human's lives. Our beautiful world needs a fine and …
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Greening Architecture Design Education: A Proposed Framework for Saudi Arabia
… has become more complicated because the design process now depends on a large number of different disciplines. Now more than ever, building owners and users have many requirements—informed by developments in knowledge, technology, and science. These stakeholders are asking architects to …
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Sustainability of Residential Hot Water Infrastructure: Public Health, Environmental Impacts, and Consumer Drivers
… and electrical costs. Thus, in the context of “green” design, RECIRC systems provide a convenience to consumers in the form of nearly instant hot water, at a cost of higher capital, operating and overall energy costs.
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In Life's Likeness: Biomimicry and the Imitation of Nature
… with economic potential in “human-centered design,” consultants who name themselves “biomimics” valorize nature, specifically “life,” as a site of technological innovation. In their folk epistemology of biology, 3.8 billion years of evolution have designed “adaptations” to the environment …
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Green supply chain management in the pharmaceutical sector: an investigation in the UK context
The key focus of this thesis is to explore Green Supply Chain Management concepts (e.g., green practices, green drivers, green barriers and green performance measures) in the pharmaceutical sector. It considers a synthesized understanding of Green Supply Chain Management practices in terms of …
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Green supply chain management: an investigation on the construction sector
… negative environmental impacts of the sector or greening the construction sector, therefore, has become critical. Unfortunately, any limited efforts to date to address these concerns have been less fruitful as most of these efforts have been largely fragmented and disjoint, addressing issues in …
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From efficiency to sufficiency: Socio-technical analysis of the role of design, marketing, and users in shaping domestic comfort practices and Air Conditioning use in Jordan
… escalated, the need for domestic energy demand. Design, marketing, and user practices are analysed. Drawing from interviews, archive research and participatory video diaries, the research asks: Where do aspirations and ‘needs’ for certain design decisions originate from within design practices? …
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