SUSTAINABLE BUILDING DESIGN

Nengmou Wang,Hojjat Adeli

doi:10.3846/13923730.2013.871330

Nengmou Wang, Hojjat Adeli

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https://doi.org/10.3846/13923730.2013.871330

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Abstract

Sustainable building design has become a wide and multidisciplinary research endeavor including mechanical, electrical, electronic, communication, acoustic, architectural, and structural engineering. It involves the participation of owners, contractors, suppliers and building users. There has been a lot of talk about sustainable buildings in the past few years. Most of the published research is concerned with saving energy and water and making the buildings more environmentally friendly by, say, reducing the carbon emissions. In this article, sustainable building design is reviewed from the viewpoint of structural engineering. Different strategies presented in the literature are summarized. Finally, the authors argue that the next big leap in sustainable building design should come from the integration of the smart structure technology including the use of hybrid and semi-active vibration controllers that can result in substantially lighter and more efficient structures.

Highlights

Twelve years ago, the senior author wrote a visionary viewpoint on “Sustainable Infrastructure Systems and Environmentally-Conscious Design – A View for the Decade” (Adeli 2002)
Sustainable building design is reviewed from the viewpoint of structural engineering
This paper presents a state-of-the-art review of sustainable building design towards realization of Adeli’s vision presented 12 years ago

Summary

Introduction

The senior author wrote a visionary viewpoint on “Sustainable Infrastructure Systems and Environmentally-Conscious Design – A View for the Decade” (Adeli 2002). He envisioned “successful creation of sustainable infrastructure systems and environmentally-conscious designs requires a holistic, integrated, and multidisciplinary approach” and described technologies that would help create such systems including intelligent system computing, sensor, and life-cycle cost optimization technologies. He presented a vision for a modern Civil and Environmental Engineering program in the 21st century with a theme of Engineering for Sustainability (Adeli 2009).

Japan Sustainable Building CASBEE

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