Re^3 glass a reduce/reuse/recycle strategy

The applicability of glass in structures is continuously ascending, as the transparency and high compressive strength of the material render it the optimum choice for realizing diaphanous structural components that allow for light transmittance and space continuity. The fabrication boundaries of the material are constantly stretching: visible...

Systemic view on reuse potential of building elements, components and systems: comprehensive framework for assessing reuse potential of building elements

The physical impact of the increasing building mass in industrial and developing parts of the world is undeniable. In Europe, the building industry accounts for 38 percent of the total waste production, 40 percent of the CO2 emissions and 50 percent of all natural resources used within the building sector. (EIB 2015) Such negative impact of the...

Design Support for revisable buildings with focus on visualizing and simulating transformation capacity during initial design phase

Instead of designing buildings as static structures with one end of life option (demolition) circular buildings should be open upgradable platforms, transformable structures that can accommodate changing use and technical requirements across their whole Life Cycle. Rather than destroying buildings while adapting them to fit into new requirements...

Implementation of innovation: The inertia of implementing the open building concept in practice

The Open Building concept has been developed half a century ago. Despite the relative potential advantages to society, this concept of Open Building has not been widely implemented in the construction industry. Consequently, it did not lead to a general new approach of designing structures. Why does the construction industry use the Open...

Performance based design and management of healthcare facilities

Subject/Research problem<br/>Healthcare is in need of methods and sound research data to provide a better fit between supply and demand with regard to functionality, serviceability, architectural and perceptual qualities, technical aspects, economical issues and sustainability. This paper presents a research programme in progress of the Faculty...

A Fuzzy-Neural Tree Knowledge Model for the Assessment of Building’s Transformation

One building is more flexible in terms of use than the other and to determine how much a building ‘X’ is more flexible than a building ‘Y’ is a rather complex task. This research focuses on houses for the elderly in terms of future use, since the requirements have changed and many of the existing buildings do not meet new requirements. To asses...

Knowledge modeling for performance measurement of built environment

Transformable building structures: Design for dissassembly as a way to introduce sustainable engineering to building design & construction

Perception Aspects in Underground Spaces using Intelligent Knowledge Modeling

On the classification enhancement of radial basis function networks

Artificial neural networks are powerfultools for analysing information expressed as data sets, which contain complex nonlinear relationships to be identified and classified. In particular radial basis function (RBF) neural networks have outstanding features for this. However, due to far reaching implications of the basis functions in the...

Soft Computing in Construction Information Technology

The last decade, civil engineering has exercised a rapidly growing interest in the application of neurally inspired computing techniques. The motive for this interest was the promises of certain information processing characteristics, which are similar to some extend, to those of human brain. The immediate examples of these include an ability to...

Knowledge management by information mining

Quantifying the Qualitative Design Aspects

Multi-objective design for space layout topology

Architectural pattern generation by discrete wavelet transform and utilisation in structural design

Since computers were introduced in architectural design as a valuable tool, there was a growing need to develop tools that would support the designer from the initial phase of the design till the detailing. In a computer aided architectural design environment it is feasible to stimulate the spatial design ideas and create alternatives in an...

Pattern Grammar within the Language of Architecture

The next generation of architecture within computer sciences