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Special Mention Tools and Methodologies
Published in H. James Harrington, Sid Ahmed Benraouane, Managing Innovative Projects and Programs, 2023
H. James Harrington, Sid Ahmed Benraouane
Design for Environment aims to create minimal levels of pollution over the product lifecycle. Manufacture, use, and disposal are considered. The idea is to increase growth without increasing the amount of consumable resources. Some considerations include recovery and reuse, disassembly, waste minimization, energy use, material use, and environmental accident prevention. Design for Environment techniques may include lifecycle assessment, technology assessment, sustainable engineering, and sustainable design.
Carbon Reduction Strategies for Buildings
Published in Stephen A. Roosa, Arun G. Jhaveri, Carbon Reduction:, 2020
Stephen A. Roosa, Arun G. Jhaveri
The construction, operation, and maintenance of buildings have proven to be quite significant, in terms of energy use and carbon emissions, throughout human history. The amount of CO2e attributable to buildings surpasses either the industrial or transportation sector. Conspicuously, buildings are complex structures with numerous inputs and outputs that affect the surrounding environment. Buildings are also an integral part of human life; their importance and use spans from a familial, communal, municipal, regional, national, to an international level. As economic development increases and cities expand, so does the threat of carbon emissions. Consequently, there is great opportunity for architects, engineers and building design professionals to incorporate sustainable design practices and appropriate technologies in new construction and existing building improvements.
Future BIM
Published in Jonathan Ingram, Understanding BIM, 2020
Sustainable design is typically long-lived, allowing the world around to endure. A sustainable design complies with the principles of social, economic and ecological sustainability and so such a design is a design that allows the building, its users and the world around it to flourish. In summary: Low impact materials, non-toxic, with low carbon impact in terms of production and transportEnergy efficiencyLongevityReuse of materialsComfortable, inspiring, upliftingPsychologically comfortable including user control, connection to light, boundaries and beauty
A decision-making framework for life-cycle energy and seismic loss assessment of buildings
Published in Structure and Infrastructure Engineering, 2023
Negar Mohammadgholibeyki, Farnaz Nazari, Varusha Venkatraj, Maria Koliou, Wei Yan, Manish Dixit, Petros Sideris
Performance-oriented optimisation in building sector is broadly studied, several of which have been reviewed in (Li, Liu, & Peng, 2020), and all aim to select the optimal design with not just economic but also environmental and safety performance. Codes and standards in this area have also emphasised the life-cycle energy performance of buildings (e.g. BREEAM, 2014; LEED, 2020; Nielsen, Jensen, Larsen, & Nissen, 2016). As discussed earlier, in the era of climate change, sustainability and resilience become the key criteria in terms of building performance for the design of new buildings. The main objective of sustainable design is to reduce the negative impacts of building construction on the environment by attempting to minimise the consumption of critical resources such as energy and material usage (Willard, 2012). Resilient design, on the other hand, focuses on the ability of buildings to withstand the effect of natural hazards on their structural performance and to be restored (bounce back) within an acceptable time for immediate occupancy (PPD-21, 2013). For an ideal building design, one seeks to minimise direct (economic) and indirect (downtime, casualties, injuries) losses as well as adverse energy and environmental impacts (such as carbon emission), while ensuring safety requirements.
Prediction indoor thermal comfort in traditional houses of Shiraz with PMV/PPD model
Published in International Journal of Ambient Energy, 2022
Jalil Shaeri, Mohammadjavad Mahdavinejad
Nowadays, different solutions are used in buildings to alleviate energy consumption, especially for cooling load reduction. Cooling load is an important energy consumption option in areas with hot and dry climates. Now, researchers recommend modern and creative solutions for cooling load reduction. In sustainable design, landscape and factors affecting the building must be considered; moreover, the building should be designed based on its surrounding environment. Furthermore, solar radiation is one of the significant effective factors used for shadow size in optimal form design of building during hot seasons. In addition, a suitable design can reduce the heating load during cold seasons. On the other hand, it is possible to prevent energy loss by consideration of appropriate insulation. Considerable attention is paid to residents’ behaviour and its impact on the energy consumption of building, especially on cooling load reduction. Buildings must be designed based on its function and used to reduce a considerable part of energy. Moreover, the deployment of natural ventilation in interior and exterior spaces of the building is a substantial factor in creating indoor and outdoor thermal comfort in hot–dry climates. Various passive elements, including solar chimney, windbreak, central courtyard, and appropriate building form and orientation are used in hot–dry climates. Furthermore, the earth’s heat capacity can be used to achieve suitable designs for cooling and reducing the energy consumption of the building, including basement space and garden pit.
Integration of DFMA and sustainability - A case study
Published in International Journal of Sustainable Engineering, 2021
Arunkumar Subbaiah, Kishore M. Antony
In the framework of product design, sustainability is the design of products with minimal impact on environment, highest growth of economy and positive benefits on society. The industries must work towards designing products which could be reused, recycled and disposed safely. In addition, they must strive for minimising the intense use of materials, energy, and emissions. Thus, a paradigm shift in the product design approach was observed since from the last two decades. Earlier, product design approach incorporating environmental considerations was referred to as green design. Later the terms like eco-design, that is, environmentally friendly design (widely used in Europe) or DfE (Design for Environment, widely used in U.S.) were used. Both eco-design and DfE are restricted to reducing the environmental impacts. DfE incorporated the environmental issues in one of stage of product’s life cycle while eco-design’s scope is stretched over the entire product’s life cycle. Currently, the term sustainable design is used and accepted all over the world. Sustainable design integrates the environment, economy and societal parameters into the design and development of products (Baumann, Boons, and Bragd 2002).