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Surveying the environmental life-cycle performance assessments: Practice and context at early building design stages

Marilyne Andersen, Thomas Bernard Paul Jusselme

The international greenhouse gas agreements call for mitigations in the building industry. Thus, the number of scientific publications about life-cycle performance assessment (LCPA) follows an exponential trend since the 2000s. However, previous surveys hi ...

2020

HOUSE 1 Protostructure: Enhancement of Spatial Imagination and Craftsmanship Between the Digital and the Analogical

Dieter Dietz, Julien Lafontaine Carboni, Agathe Claire Estelle Mignon, Darío Negueruela Del Castillo

Conceived around the concept of protostructure, HOUSE 1 deploys a strategy to answer a daring but simple question: How could we design a house between almost 300 people? The unique pedagogical framework of ALICE, first year Architectural Design course, pro ...

Springer2019

A methodology for measurement-system design combining information from static and dynamic excitations for bridge load testing

Ian Smith, Numa Joy Bertola

Managing infrastructure assets is challenging for developed countries because of demand for increases in capacity, the scarcity of economic and environmental resources as well as ageing. Due to conservative approaches to construction design and practice, i ...

2019

Detecting trends and further development potential of contemporary façade design for workspaces

Marilyne Andersen, Luisa Pastore

Façade design is claimed to fulfil a number of requirements in workplaces, ranging from privacy to safety and from comfort to aesthetics. For future R&D efforts in façade design, identifying the key drivers that should shape contemporary facades in office ...

2019

Design of Truss Structures Through Reuse

Corentin Jean Dominique Fivet, Gennaro Senatore, Jan Friedrich Georg Brütting, Joseph Jean François Desruelle

This paper presents structural optimization techniques to design truss structures that make best use of a given stock of structural components. Still little explored, the reuse of structural components over multiple service lives has the potential to signi ...

2019

How will we plan and build in 25 years and how will this process be regulated?

Julien Gamerro

Constraints and regulations related to new buildings are constantly evolving and all these changes, in our ways of thinking and producing, will have an impact on standards. For the policy field, contractual relationships, risk-allocation models and procedu ...

2018

An integrative approach for embodied energy: Towards an LCA-based data-driven design method

Marilyne Andersen, Thomas Bernard Paul Jusselme

The built environment is one of the major contributors of greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. To tackle climate change, global targets have been set for this sector. Although life-cycle assessment (LCA) methods are typically used to evaluate a building project ...

2018

Three methodological contributions towards modelling endogenous policy-emergence in societal transitions

Reinier Verhoog

Today we are facing many politically driven sustainability transitions in complex sociotechnical systems. Sustainability transition scholars look at these transitions with their own theoretical lenses, often paying too little attention to the interactions ...

EPFL2018

Guastavino design of the 1909 thin brick dome of the Cathedral of St John the Divine.

Corentin Jean Dominique Fivet

In 1909, Rafael Guastavino Jr. designed the 93-foot-wide dome of the Cathedral of St John the Divine, Harlem, NY. As the thinnest brick shell in the world, the dome is also a clear example of construction efficiency and material optimization. This paper re ...

Construction History Soc2017

Smart Living Building Research Program - Executive Summary

Marilyne Andersen, Didier Albert Simon Vuarnoz, Vanda Carla Costa Grisel, Thomas Bernard Paul Jusselme, Endrit Hoxha, Arianna Brambilla, Stefano Cozza, Cédric Liardet, Amélie Zizou Gisèle Renée Poncety

The smart living lab project is a pioneering, inter-disciplinary and inter-institutional platform that combines several fields of research related to construction technologies. It aims to be a center of national scope, recognized on an international level ...

2017

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