scholarly journals An Integrated Approach to Information Modeling for the Sustainable Design of Products

2014 ◽  
Vol 14 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Douglas Eddy ◽  
Sundar Krishnamurty ◽  
Ian Grosse ◽  
Paul Witherell ◽  
Jack Wileden ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Design Process ◽  
Sustainable Design ◽  
Integrated Approach ◽  
Information Modeling ◽  
Sustainable Products ◽  
Conflicting Objectives ◽  
Standards And Regulations ◽  
Sustainability Standards ◽  
Ontological Framework

The design of more sustainable products can be best accomplished in a tradeoff-based design process that methodically handles conflicting objectives. Such conflicts are often seen between, environmental impact, cost, and product performance. To support such a process, this paper proposes the development of an environment where sustainability considerations are explicitly introduced early into the design process. This explicitness is provided by integrating the requirements information of sustainability standards and regulations directly into the design process. The emergence of the semantic web provides an interoperable environment in which the context and meaning of knowledge about the relationships among various domains can be shared. This work presents an ontological framework designed to represent both the objectives that pertain to sustainable design and the applicable sustainability standards and regulations. This integrated approach not only can ease the adoption of the standards and regulations during a design process but can also influence a design toward sustainability considerations. The usefulness of this model integration is demonstrated by an illustrative brake disk rotor and pads case study. The results show that both the standards and criteria may be considered at early design stages by using this methodology. Furthermore, it can be used to capture, reveal, and propagate the design intent transparently to all design participants.

scholarly journals An Integrated Approach to Information Modeling for the Sustainable Design of Products

2013 ◽  
Author(s):  
Douglas Eddy ◽  
Sundar Krishnamurty ◽  
Ian Grosse ◽  
Jack Wileden ◽  
Paul Witherell ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Design Process ◽  
Sustainable Design ◽  
Integrated Approach ◽  
Information Modeling ◽  
Sustainable Products ◽  
Conflicting Objectives ◽  
Standards And Regulations ◽  
Sustainability Standards ◽  
Ontological Framework

The design of more sustainable products can be best accomplished in a tradeoff-based design process that methodically handles conflicting objectives. Such conflicts are often seen between, environmental impact, cost, and product performance. To support such a process, we propose the development of an environment where sustainability considerations are explicitly introduced early into the design process. This explicitness is provided by integrating the requirements information of sustainability standards and regulations directly into the design process. The emergence of the semantic web provides an interoperable environment in which the context and meaning of knowledge about the relationships among various domains can be shared. This work presents an ontological framework designed to represent both the objectives that pertain to sustainable design and the applicable sustainability standards and regulations. This integrated approach not only can ease the adoption of the standards and regulations during a design process but can also influence a design toward sustainability considerations. The usefulness of this model integration is demonstrated by an illustrative brake disk rotor and pads case study. The results show that both the standards and criteria may be considered at early design stages by using this methodology. Furthermore, it can be used to capture, reveal, and propagate the design intent transparently to all design participants.

scholarly journals Co-design as a strategy to improve ecological awareness of communities

2021 ◽  
Vol 905 (1) ◽  
pp. 012015
Author(s):  
A Setiawan
Keyword(s):  
Design Process ◽  
Environmental Quality ◽  
Sustainable Design ◽  
Case Study Research ◽  
Ideal Model ◽  
Ecological Awareness ◽  
Study Research ◽  
Important Object

Abstract One strategy of communities to easily embrace ecological awareness is by involving directly in the improvement of their environmental quality. This paper discusses the case study research of the co-design process of the neighborhood regeneration project in Kampung Tongkol at the Ciliwung riverbank, Jakarta. This project is carried out collaboratively involving residents of the area and facilitated by ASF (Architecture Sans Frontières) Indonesia. The main important object of this regeneration project is the construction of a self-supporting sample house. This house aims as an ideal model which another neighborhood can replicate. Residents are directly involved in the organizing, the design process, to the construction stage. The primary purpose of regeneration is to improve the quality of the residential environment. The principles of sustainable design are employed as the main guidance from the beginning of the process. This study concludes that the final achievement of this project not only results in a higher quality environment but also raises the ecological awareness of the residents of the neighborhood.

Early Design Modeling and Simulation of Behaviors: Case Study of Mobile Work Machine

2009 ◽  
Author(s):  
William Brace ◽  
Eric Coatane´a ◽  
Heikki Kauranne ◽  
Matti Heiska
Keyword(s):  
Design Process ◽  
Simulation Models ◽  
Integrated Approach ◽  
Simulation Framework ◽  
Early Design ◽  
Early Evaluation ◽  
Design Structure ◽  
Qualitative Physics ◽  
Early Design Phase

The early evaluation of a proposed function structure for a product and also, the possibility to expose the potential failures related to this provides that the design process can be modeled in its entirety. However, so far there are no existed suitable models for the early phase of design process. This article presents an integrated approach aimed to explore the behaviors of concept designs in the early design phase. The approach is founded on a combination of Petri net, π-numbers, qualitative physics principles and Design Structure Matrix. The final aim is to implement this method on the SysML modeling language to integrate a simulation approach that is initially not standardized in the language. A second interest of the approach is to provide a coherent simulation framework that can be used as a reference to verify the coherency of other simulation models further in the design process.

An Information Modeling Methodology for Sustainability Standards

2011 ◽  
Author(s):  
Anantha Narayanan ◽  
Jae Hyun Lee ◽  
Paul Witherell ◽  
Prabir Sarkar ◽  
Sudarsan Rachuri
Keyword(s):  
Enterprise Architecture ◽  
Electronic Equipment ◽  
Information Modeling ◽  
Hazardous Substances ◽  
Clear Understanding ◽  
Modeling Methodology ◽  
Information Models ◽  
Computer Aided ◽  
Standards And Regulations ◽  
Sustainability Standards

Standards and regulations are developed and introduced in the market to meet the needs of specific domains. As standards are usually developed by experts within a particular domain, the modeling requirements necessary to represent the information associated with these standards are often not well understood. The lack of clear understanding of information requirements creates an environment where information models can become difficult to produce from standards, and the criteria for complying with these standards may be obscure. The variety of challenges encountered in codifying standards using information models necessitates a carefully devised methodology that takes all areas of the whole enterprise into consideration. This paper presents a methodology for the development of information models to complement and support standards based on the Zachman framework for enterprise architecture. In this paper, we will discuss some of the challenges encountered in modeling information for standards and regulations related to sustainability, and subsequently describe how our approach can be used to address these challenges. We will illustrate our approach by developing an example information model to support RoHS (Directive on the restriction of the use of certain hazardous substances in electrical and electronic equipment). This work could lead to the development of software tools and environments for computer aided standards development. Finally, we discuss the advantages and drawbacks of our methodology.

A Case Study in “Total Beauty” Design: An Experience Through Sustainable Product Design

2010 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alejandro Flores-Caldero´n ◽  
Vicente Borja ◽  
Marcelo Lo´pez-Parra ◽  
Alejandro Rami´rez-Reivich
Keyword(s):  
Design Process ◽  
Product Development Process ◽  
Design Stage ◽  
Original Design ◽  
Human Environment ◽  
Sustainable Products ◽  
Core Concepts ◽  
Sustainable Product ◽  
Health Concepts

Recent research on ‘engineering design’ is expanding to consider methods, tools and frameworks aimed at assisting designers in the process of developing sustainable products. Some of these new approaches highlight the importance and advantages of applying biology, chemistry and human-environment health, concepts and principles at the design stage of the product development process. The successful application of these approaches also requires overcoming a number of challenges. Two particular issues currently being investigated are: 1) the contradictory and sometimes misleading use of concepts regarding what a sustainable product is; and 2) the lack of sustainable parameters to evaluate how sustainable a product is. This paper presents a synthesis of the Total-Beauty theoretical framework, based on the study reported in a previous paper. Then, a process to redesign products using BioThinking, is proposed followed by its application in the redesign of a product. The process is original because it shows how the core concepts are considered in all the steps of a design process and not just in the specification and evaluation steps. The redesign is used as a case study to show its utility. The paper includes the synthesis of evaluation parameters based on BioThinking to both assess the sustainability of products, and compare the redesigned product against the original design. In the end of the paper, a discussion of the design process and the results of the case study will be presented.

scholarly journals An Advanced Process of Condensation Performance Evaluation by BIM Application

2017 ◽  
Vol 2017 ◽  
pp. 1-8 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jooyung Hong ◽  
Daegil Kim ◽  
Myungdo Lee ◽  
Jinup Eom ◽  
Chang-Ho Choi
Keyword(s):  
Performance Evaluation ◽  
Major Part ◽  
Building Information Modeling ◽  
Sustainable Design ◽  
Evaluation Process ◽  
Information Modeling ◽  
Automatic Process ◽  
Building Information ◽  
Traditional Process

There is increasing interest in sustainable design for saving energy and improving living conditions. In particular, condensation performance evaluation is a major part of the design phase in which condensation defects in apartment housing are considered. The aim of this work is to propose an advanced process for improving the efficiency and accuracy of evaluations of condensation performance. For this aim, an analysis of the traditional process was performed. The results support a proposed advanced evaluation process, which was then applied to develop a building information modeling (BIM) application. The proposed process can be an alternative to the current evaluation process through the use of a BIM application for the automatic process. A case study showed that the advanced process of condensation performance evaluation could save 75.8% of the time compared with the current process. Additionally, from interviews with professionals, it is expected that the proposed process offers a practical means of increasing the efficiency and accuracy of the whole evaluation process.

scholarly journals Improving the Efficiency of Maritime Infrastructures through a BIM-Based Building Energy Modelling Approach: A Case Study in Naples, Italy

Energies ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 14 (16) ◽  
pp. 4854
Author(s):  
Giovanni Barone ◽  
Annamaria Buonomano ◽  
Cesare Forzano ◽  
Giovanni Francesco Giuzio ◽  
Adolfo Palombo
Keyword(s):  
Energy Savings ◽  
Building Energy ◽  
Optimal Level ◽  
Primary Energy ◽  
Information Modeling ◽  
Maritime Industry ◽  
Existing Building ◽  
Building Information ◽  
Sustainability Standards

Worldwide, the design, renovation, and sustainable management of port buildings play a crucial role for sustainability. In this framework, a computer simulation of a building’s thermal behaviour is an almost mandatory tool for making informed decisions. However, the development of a building energy model is a challenging task that could discourage its adoption. A possible solution would be to exploit an existing Building Information Modeling (BIM) model to automatically generate an accurate and flexible Building Energy Modeling (BEM) one. Such a method, which can substantially improve decision-making processes, still presents some issues and needs to be further investigated, as also detectable from the literature on the topic. In this framework, a novel workflow to extrapolate BIM data for energy simulation is proposed and analysed in this paper. Here, the BIM to BEM approach was tested as a useful tool for the maritime industry to improve the implementation of effective energy-saving measures. Specifically, in order to prove the capabilities of the proposed method, a maritime passenger station in Naples was chosen as case study and investigated by comparing different strategies to reduce the annual primary energy consumption. The optimal level of modelling detail required by a trustable building energy assessment was also investigated. By the proposed method, interesting primary energy savings (ranging from 24 to 41%) are achieved and CO2 emissions avoided (ranging from 16 to 34 tons CO2/year) for the investigated building, proving the potential of this approach. Definitely, this paper proves the validity of the proposed methodology and emphasizes its numerous benefits towards the achievements of the most modern sustainability standards.

Conservation of Agriculture Landscape through Greenway Planning and Design: A Case Study of the Wax Gourd Production Base of Xiaolou Town, Zengcheng (Guangdong)

2013 ◽  
Vol 869-870 ◽  
pp. 235-238
Author(s):  
Juan Yu Wu
Keyword(s):  
Design Process ◽  
Integrated Approach ◽  
Ecological Knowledge ◽  
Ecological Planning ◽  
Natural Areas ◽  
Systematic Procedure ◽  
Planning And Design ◽  
Wax Gourd

Major approaches to greenway planning and design were reviewed and compared. The framework incorporated ecological knowledge related also to the planning and design process. This study has introduced a procedure to facilitate the protection and development of farmland areas. It provides a systematic procedure for facilitating the protection, ecological enhancement, and linkage of present and potential natural areas in farmland region. The framework of the agricultural greenway, has been described in detail and applied to the Wax Gourd Production Base in Xiaolou Town, Zengcheng (Guangdong, China). The framework is not case-specific and its main value is to provide an integrated approach to the ecological planning and design of the agricultural greenways.

Developing design literacy through brand-based artefacts

2019 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Catarina LELIS
Keyword(s):  
Empirical Study ◽  
Focus Groups ◽  
Design Process ◽  
Basic Design ◽  
Willingness To Participate ◽  
Socially Responsible ◽  
Interaction Structure ◽  
Functional Prototype ◽  
High Willingness

The brand is a powerful representational and identification-led asset that can be used to engage staff in creative, sustainable and developmental activities. Being a brand the result of, foremost, a design exercise, it is fair to suppose that it can be a relevant resource for the advancement of design literacy within organisational contexts. The main objective of this paper was to test and validate an interaction structure for an informed co-design process on visual brand artefacts. To carry on the empirical study, a university was chosen as case study as these contexts are generally rich in employee diversity. A non-functional prototype was designed, and walkthroughs were performed in five focus groups held with staff. The latter evidenced a need/wish to engage with basic design principles and high willingness to participate in the creation of brand design artefacts, mostly with the purposeof increasing its consistent use and innovate in its representation possibilities, whilst augmenting the brand’s socially responsible values.

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