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Implications for design education
Published in Mette Bak-Andersen, Reintroducing Materials for Sustainable Design, 2021
Judging from the website presentations of design schools, it would appear that most institutions that offer product design courses and the like have some degree of workshop facilities. Some schools call their educational spaces that are adapted to work with materials and making ‘workshops’, while others describe them as ‘laboratories’ or simply ‘labs’. The physical spaces that can be seen as part of the Maker Movement are typically called labs – Makerlabs, Fablabs, Biolabs, etc. Naturally a title does not by default define the activity within the space, but it is worth noting that the meaning of the word ‘workshop’ indicates a space for making and manufacturing, whereas ‘laboratory’ suggests a space for experimental practice or testing.
Some aspects of steel building construction of the industrial architecture in the United States (1890–1930)
Published in Ine Wouters, Stephanie Van de Voorde, Inge Bertels, Bernard Espion, Krista De Jonge, Denis Zastavni, Building Knowledge, Constructing Histories, 2018
The repair workshop of the Lehigh Valley Railroad represents a typical steel construction of the first decade of the twentieth century. A new feature was the solid wall plate girders for the crane girders (steel rails). Uniting the concept, the large-scale workshop, the assembly shops, the machine shop and the boilermakers in one building belongs to modern layout planning in terms of this being in accordance with the manufacturing process. The locomotive workshop was rectangular and 110 m × 228.14 m in size. Its length was divided into 30 fields of bays each being 7.32 m in width; a margin of 3.66 m to 4.40 m was left at either end to allow for a possible extension of the plant. While the height of the assembly shop to the bottom edge of the truss construction amounted to 15.25 m, the room height of the machine shop reached 10.47 m. The locomotive workshop was structurally and spatially divided into five areas.
Some aspects of steel building construction of the industrial architecture in the United States (1890–1930)
Published in Ine Wouters, Stephanie Van de Voorde, Inge Bertels, Bernard Espion, Krista De Jonge, Denis Zastavni, Building Knowledge, Constructing Histories, 2018
The repair workshop of the Lehigh Valley Railroad represents a typical steel construction of the first decade of the twentieth century. A new feature was the solid wall plate girders for the crane girders (steel rails). Uniting the concept, the large-scale workshop, the assembly shops, the machine shop and the boilermakers in one building belongs to modern layout planning in terms of this being in accordance with the manufacturing process. The locomotive workshop was rectangular and 110 m × 228.14 m in size. Its length was divided into 30 fields of bays each being 7.32 m in width; a margin of 3.66 m to 4.40 m was left at either end to allow for a possible extension of the plant. While the height of the assembly shop to the bottom edge of the truss construction amounted to 15.25 m, the room height of the machine shop reached 10.47 m. The locomotive workshop was structurally and spatially divided into five areas.
A methodology for weighting indicators of value assessment of historic building using AHP with experts’ priorities
Published in Journal of Asian Architecture and Building Engineering, 2022
Yulan Yang, Beier Yu, Huixin Tai, Li Shen, Fuying Liu, Shaomei Wang
Historic building is precious architectural heritage for a city even for the world. In Chinese context, historic building is defined in “Code of conservation planning for historic cities” GB 50357–2005 as: a building or a structure that has historic and scientific as well as artistic value, reflects the historic townscape of a city and the local features Mohurd (2005). ”Regulation of conservation for historic area and historic building in Hangzhou city” defines historic building as well, historic building is certified by local authority, historic building is not currently officially certified as conserved monument or site, historic building must meet at least one of the following five requirements: 1) The building has artistic and scientific value at the shape, the structure, the material, the construction technology and the engineering technology; 2) The building reflects the townscape and the local features of Hangzhou city; 3) The building is a typical of workshop, storefront, factory, or warehouse throughout history of Hangzhou city; 4) The building is relevant to a significant historic event, or a revolutionary act, or a historic personage; and 5) The building has historic and cultural value, which is not described in above four requirements Hmg (2013).
A case-practice-theory-based method of implementing energy management in a manufacturing factory
Published in International Journal of Computer Integrated Manufacturing, 2021
Shuaiyin Ma, Yingfeng Zhang, Shan Ren, Haidong Yang, Zhenfei Zhu
The practice layer is the energy management system (Zhang et al. 2018), which is the link between the case and theory layers. The energy management system includes four levels, namely, system, factory, workshop and machine. The energy management system can collect, store and analyse the energy consumption data in real time. Data include power, water, gas, diesel, coal and compressed air. Then, energy management is integrated and controlled through energy monitoring, assessment and optimisation analysis. Thus, improving energy efficiency and reducing energy costs are attainable.
User Acceptance of Virtual Reality: An Extended Technology Acceptance Model
Published in International Journal of Human–Computer Interaction, 2020
Camille Sagnier, Emilie Loup-Escande, Domitile Lourdeaux, Indira Thouvenin, Gérard Valléry
The virtual environment used in this study was developed using Unity3D by the Heudiasyc Laboratory (Sorbonne universités, Université de technologie de Compiègne) for aeronautical training purposes (Carpentier & Lourdeaux, 2013). The virtual environment represents an aircraft manufacturing workshop (Figure 2). Participants were asked to perform an assembly task that involved a series of short assembly operations in order to rivet two components. All the subjects, whether assigned to the HMD or the CAVE, performed the task using HTC Vive controllers.