scholarly journals Implementing Regenerative Design Principles: A Refurbishment Case Study of the First Regenerative Building in Spain

2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (4) ◽  
pp. 2411
Author(s):  
Aleksandar Petrovski ◽  
Emmanuel Pauwels ◽  
Aránzazu Galán González
Keyword(s):  
Construction Industry ◽  
Residential Building ◽  
Building Design ◽  
Valuable Insight ◽  
Living Building Challenge ◽  
Regenerative Design ◽  
A Site ◽  
Detrimental Impact ◽  
Design And Construction

The conventional building design and construction have detrimental impact onto the environment. With the current pace of development of the contemporary society, these issues cannot be fully addressed with the concept of sustainable design and construction, which is based on causing less harm to the environment. Thus, the regenerative concept is gaining relevance, as it is changing the construction paradigm toward the delivery of a human-centric environment, which, when coupled with the circular economy, aims to enable the natural environment to evolve. In order to have a more frequent delivery of regenerative buildings, it is necessary to broaden the knowledge on regenerative design, which is the objective of this paper. The aim is to investigate the design process, strategies, and technologies that are applied during the design and construction of a refurbished residential building, which is intended to be the first regenerative building in Spain, and is currently in the process of certification as per the Living Building Challenge (LBC) standard. Therefore, a literature review was performed, followed by a site visit of the case-study building. The research is organized according to the seven categories (petals) of the Living Building Challenge standard, and all 20 imperatives of the LBC are discussed. Additionally, the aspects of costs and project management are investigated. The findings point out the main design features and challenges toward the realization of regenerative refurbishment, in order to fully adhere to the demands of the LBC, and discusses their potential for a broader application in rural as well as urban settings. The analysis of the case-study design and construction can serve as a valuable insight to deliver future regenerative buildings and accelerate their implementation in the construction industry. This article is based upon the work of COST Action RESTORE CA16114, supported by COST (European Cooperation in Science and Technology).

scholarly journals Bioclimatic and Regenerative Design Guidelines for a Circular University Campus in India

2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (15) ◽  
pp. 8238
Author(s):  
Noemi Bakos ◽  
Rosa Schiano-Phan
Keyword(s):  
Construction Industry ◽  
Assessment Tool ◽  
Economic Benefits ◽  
Design Guidelines ◽  
University Campus ◽  
Design Strategies ◽  
Regenerative Design ◽  
Governmental Institutions ◽  
Social Environmental

To transform the negative impacts of buildings on the environment into a positive footprint, a radical shift from the current, linear ‘make-use-dispose’ practice to a closed-loop ‘make-use-return’ system, associated with a circular economy, is necessary. This research aims to demonstrate the possible shift to a circular construction industry by developing the first practical framework with tangible benchmarks for a ‘Circular University Campus’ based on an exemplary case study project, which is a real project development in India. As a first step, a thorough literature review was undertaken to demonstrate the social, environmental and economic benefits of a circular construction industry. As next step, the guideline for a ‘Circular University Campus’ was developed, and its applicability tested on the case study. As final step, the evolved principles were used to establish ‘Project Specific Circular Building Indicators’ for a student residential block and enhance the proposed design through bioclimatic and regenerative design strategies. The building’s performance was evaluated through computational simulations, whole-life carbon analysis and a circular building assessment tool. The results demonstrated the benefits and feasibility of bioclimatic, regenerative building and neighbourhood design and provided practical prototypical case study and guidelines which can be adapted by architects, planners and governmental institutions to other projects, thereby enabling the shift to a restorative, circular construction industry.

Modeling of LSF Technology in Building Design and Construction Case-Study: Parand Residential Complex, Iran

2011 ◽  
Vol 341-342 ◽  
pp. 447-451 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mohammadjavad Mahdavinejad ◽  
Mina Hajian ◽  
Amene Doroodgar
Keyword(s):  
Mass Production ◽  
Building Design ◽  
Industrial Building ◽  
Combined Model ◽  
Advantages And Disadvantages ◽  
Steel Framing ◽  
Building Systems ◽  
Optimized Model ◽  
Design And Construction

The adopted strategy to overcome the housing shortage crisis in Iran is the mass production. The way forward to accelerate the mass production, is adopting the industrial building systems with the increased prefabrication. One of the most optimal new building systems is Lightweight Steel Framing (LSF) Technology. Parand Residential Complex as the first serious project to industrialize the construction processes in Iran is facing the various problems during the processes of manufacture and execution of LSF components. The research aim is to offer an optimized model for manufacturing and execution processes of LSF Technology in the constructive projects which in it the deficiencies are compensated and strengths are intensified. So, case-studies and combined strategies has adopted as research method and based on it, the manufacture and execution processes of LSF technology in the case-study, were taken into consideration to recognize the existing advantages and disadvantages. The results of the research show that disadvantages of the manufacture and execution processes can be improved into one combined model. Finally, with offering four strategies to compensate the deficiencies and three strategies to intensify the strengths, the paper develops a model to coordinate the processes of manufacturing and execution in LSF technology in building design and construction.

scholarly journals Bioclimatic practices in modern residential building design and construction in South-Eastern Nigeria

2020 ◽  
Vol 3 (3) ◽  
pp. 158-178
Author(s):  
Peter Uchenna Okoye ◽  
Obinna George Ogbuagu ◽  
Christian Ifeanyi Ohaedeghasi ◽  
Chukwuemeka Ngwu
Keyword(s):  
Residential Building ◽  
Building Design ◽  
South Eastern ◽  
Design And Construction

An integrated optimisation method for residential building design: A case study in Spain

2014 ◽  
Vol 80 ◽  
pp. 158-168 ◽  
Author(s):  
Pablo Aparicio Ruiz ◽  
José Guadix Martín ◽  
José Manuel Salmerón Lissén ◽  
Francisco José Sánchez de la Flor
Keyword(s):  
Residential Building ◽  
Building Design

scholarly journals Categorization of Construction Waste

10.29007/919j ◽  
2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Parth Raval ◽  
Jaydev Bhavsar ◽  
Dharmesh Oza
Keyword(s):  
Construction Industry ◽  
Construction Projects ◽  
Value Added ◽  
Residential Building ◽  
Research Projects ◽  
Cost Overruns ◽  
Construction Waste ◽  
The World ◽  
Building Project

Waste in the construction industry has been the theme of several research projects around the world in recent years. Researchers implement different methods to reduce the amount of waste in the construction industry. In the construction industry, contractors only consider physical waste which leads the project to cost overruns. i.e. material waste. Construction industry is also affected by time overrun. Impact of time overrun on the construction projects is considerably high and requires special attention in addition to physical waste. In the present study, construction waste is categorized in mainly of two types: value added waste and non-value added waste. This categorization includes both-material waste as well as time waste, which are main causes of occurrence of waste. A case study was also carried out at a residential building project in Ahmedabad, Gujarat to get the idea about the percentage of waste occurs in a construction project.

scholarly journals Intelligent Data Mining of Computer-Aided Extension Residential Building Design Based on Algorithm Library

Complexity ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 2021 ◽  
pp. 1-9
Author(s):  
Gao Zhihui ◽  
Zou Guangtian
Keyword(s):  
Data Mining ◽  
Construction Industry ◽  
Market Competition ◽  
Residential Building ◽  
Building Design ◽  
Design System ◽  
Mathematical Algorithm ◽  
Computer Aided ◽  
Output System ◽  
Knowledge Representation System

In recent years, with the development of construction industry, more scientific, systematic, fast, and intelligent calculation methods are needed to coordinate urban development and fierce market competition, and mathematical algorithm library plays an important role in artificial intelligence. Therefore, the author uses computer mathematical algorithm and extension theory to study and analyze the residential building design and intelligent data mining. It is found that the research of the computer-aided expression method of extension building planning is mainly the expression of the input and output system of extension building planning. It includes knowledge representation, system outline design, system flow, and interface expression based on the mathematical database.

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