scholarly journals Mobile ‘green’ design knowledge: institutions, bricolage and the relational production of embedded sustainable building designs

2012 ◽  
Vol 38 (2) ◽  
pp. 339-353 ◽  
Author(s):  
James Faulconbridge
Keyword(s):  
Green Design ◽  
Design Knowledge ◽  
Sustainable Building ◽  
Building Designs

scholarly journals Numerical analysis of the thermal behavior of building integrated hybrid solar wall

2019 ◽  
Vol 23 (1) ◽  
pp. 144-149
Author(s):  
Djelaili Abdelbaki ◽  
Korti Abdel Ilah Nabil
Keyword(s):  
Indoor Air ◽  
Three Dimensional ◽  
Building Design ◽  
3D Analysis ◽  
Three Dimensional Model ◽  
Sustainable Building ◽  
Proposed Model ◽  
Trombe Wall ◽  
Solar Wall ◽  
Building Designs

Abstract Building designers have to think about new strategies to achieve the best sustainable building designs. Well-planned passive solar heating strategies in building design may reduce a building’s energy consumption significantly. In this paper, a proposed design of the south façade of a room by integrating a hybrid solar wall and a window to passively heat a room is studied. The simulations for the three-dimensional model of BIPV Trombe wall system were carried out for December 10th, 2015. The temperature and velocity distribution of indoor air in different positions inside the room are obtained from the simulation results. The obtained results show that the temperature difference between the inlet and the outlet of the solar wall can reach 9°C. The 3D analysis of the proposed model clearly shows that the window’s thermal effect on the passive heating cannot be neglected. Meanwhile, the simulation’s daily electrical efficiency conversion and average indoor air temperature of this system can reach 18% and 28° C, respectively for maximum solar radiation of 470 W/m2.

scholarly journals An Article on Green Firefighting Equipment in Taiwan

2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (22) ◽  
pp. 12421
Author(s):  
Yu-Hsiang Huang ◽  
Tzu-Sheng Shen
Keyword(s):  
Fire Safety ◽  
Green Building ◽  
Green Buildings ◽  
Sprinkler System ◽  
Green Design ◽  
Vulnerable Groups ◽  
Potential Hazard ◽  
Sustainable Building ◽  
Design Elements ◽  
High Degree

This paper discusses the relationship between green buildings and fire safety from a higher perspective including the traditional fire factors, fire resilience, sustainable building SAFR, social, ecological, and economic fields. There is no need to sacrifice fire safety in the name of sustainability. There is no direct report of fire incidents with green design elements. However, indirectly from the characteristics of residents, green buildings have a high degree of intersection with vulnerable groups, which directly affects the life safety of green building fires. The gray water recycling design of sustainable buildings (green buildings) combined with a simple waterway-connected sprinkler system will be an excellent cooperation example between green (Green Design) and red (Fire Safety). Taiwan’s photovoltaic development plan is expected to reach the 500 MW in 2025, which is equivalent to 2.5% of the government’s promotion target of 20 GW. Whether a PV fire occurs during the day or night, photovoltaic modules will generate lethal electricity, which is a potential hazard to first responders and rescue team.

Sustainable Post-Occupancy Evaluation Survey (SPOES): An Approach to Human Factors in Minnesota State-funded Buildings

2020 ◽  
Vol 64 (1) ◽  
pp. 1120-1124
Keyword(s):  
Interior Design ◽  
Residence Hall ◽  
Employee Health ◽  
Indoor Environmental Quality ◽  
University Of Minnesota ◽  
Sustainable Building ◽  
Post Occupancy Evaluation ◽  
Health And Wellbeing ◽  
Building Designs ◽  
Evaluation Survey

An interdisciplinary team from the Interior Design (ID) and the Center for Sustainable Building Research (CSBR), University of Minnesota developed a tool to inform sustainable design practices in state-funded buildings. The internet-based questionnaire called Sustainable Post Occupancy Evaluation (SPOES) provides both quantitative and qualitative analysis of building occupants’ satisfaction, health, and wellbeing via 12 indoor environmental quality (IEQ) categories. Since 2009, SPOES has provided business and building owners, architects, interior designers, facility managers of 60 state-funded workplace, classroom and residence hall buildings IEQ scores of occupants’ satisfaction to help them better engage building occupants and bring employee health and wellbeing to the forefront of their practices. This presentation will cover the SPOES questionnaire and report formats, results from workplace, classroom, residence hall buildings, and implications for evaluating the impacts of building designs on occupants’ health and wellbeing.

A study of practice based design research models from knowledge integration perspective

2019 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Honghai LI ◽  
Jun CAI
Keyword(s):  
Knowledge Production ◽  
Theoretical Basis ◽  
Knowledge Integration ◽  
Design Research ◽  
Research Process ◽  
Two Dimensions ◽  
Design Knowledge ◽  
Research Projects ◽  
Proposed Model ◽  
Design Innovation

The transformation of China's design innovation industry has highlighted the importance of design research. The design research process in practice can be regarded as the process of knowledge production. The design 3.0 mode based on knowledge production MODE2 has been shown in the Chinese design innovation industry. On this cognition, this paper establishes a map with two dimensions of how knowledge integration occurs in practice based design research, which are the design knowledge transfer and contextual transformation of design knowledge. We use this map to carry out the analysis of design research cases. Through the analysis, we define four typical practice based design research models from the viewpoint of knowledge integration. This method and the proposed model can provide a theoretical basis and a path for better management design research projects.

Insulating Composites Made from Sulfur, Canola Oil, and Wool

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Israa Bu Najmah ◽  
Nicholas Lundquist ◽  
Melissa K. Stanfield ◽  
Filip Stojcevski ◽  
Jonathan A. Campbell ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Tensile Strength ◽  
Canola Oil ◽  
Building Blocks ◽  
Atom Economy ◽  
Flame Resistance ◽  
Sustainable Building ◽  
Second Stage ◽  
Wool Fibers ◽  
Insulating Properties ◽  
Polysulfide Polymer

An insulating composite was made from the sustainable building blocks wool, sulfur, and canola oil. In the first stage of the synthesis, inverse vulcanization was used to make a polysulfide polymer from the canola oil triglyceride and sulfur. This polymerization benefits from complete atom economy. In the second stage, the powdered polymer is mixed with wool, coating the fibers through electrostatic attraction. The polymer and wool mixture is then compressed with mild heating to provoke S-S metathesis in the polymer, which locks the wool in the polymer matrix. The wool fibers impart tensile strength, insulating properties, and flame resistance to the composite. All building blocks are sustainable or derived from waste and the composite is a promising lead on next-generation insulation for energy conservation.

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