Exemplary Project Research Articles

Enhancing high-rise residential construction through design for manufacture and assembly – a UK case study

Buildings forms are often complex and a result of end user needs, local surroundings and aesthetic aspirations. The individuality of buildings has therefore posed challenges with respect to harnessing the desired mass production and standardisation linked with off-site manufacture. However, through design for manufacture and assembly (DfMA), construction can be linked with industrial processes and deliver projects that are safer, cleaner and more efficient. Furthermore, successful DfMA projects minimise disruption within the local environment while delivering not only improved quality, cost and programme certainty, but also a more sustainable form of construction. The Two Fifty One project is a 40-storey mixed-use development in central London, UK, that has successfully embraced the principles of DfMA across all engineering disciplines. As a result, the delivery team has developed effective off-site construction solutions for superstructure, facades, bathrooms and mechanical and electrical services. All have been designed, coordinated and facilitated through advanced digital engineering and building information modelling techniques. Overall, the project has been delivered with reduced programme and cost, while simultaneously improving safety, quality and reliability in a more sustainable way through reduced vehicle movements and greater efficiency in site logistics. This case study describes this exemplary project and the design delivery model.

The last ten years of research at Tarquinia

The Centro di Ricerca Coordinata ‘ProgettoTarquinia’ of the Universita degli Studi di Milano is a LERU (League of European Research Universities) exemplary interdisciplinary research project that involves groups from the Universita Statale di Milano (Archaeology, Information and Communication Technologies, Geoarchaeology, Palaeoanthropology), the Politecnico di Milano (Architecture and Topography) and bridges the gap between soft and hard sciences. This project stems from the ‘Progetto Tarquinia’ conceived by Maria Bonghi Jovino in 1982. During the last ten years, our integrated system of tools and services, supported by ICTs (ArchMatrix), through which multidisciplinary domain experts can examine all the typologies of data of a given culture, has made it possible to concentrate on the links between data-sources focusing on the recurrence of association rates within different aspects of material evidence and phenomena. The fields of application of our methodology in the domain of archaeology and epigraphy are multifaceted as regards the inside and outside connections of the Tarquinian heritage, whose necropolis with the famous painted tombs is a UNESCO World Heritage Site. Research includes areas of the Civita plateau: the ‘monumental complex’, the Ara della Regina sanctuary, fortifications, and archaeological sites previously explored. In the past ten years, research in the necropolis (roughly 6,000 tombs, of which 400 are painted) and in the surrounding territory has also been implemented and has produced the complete corpus of the painted tombs of Tarquinia. Our holistic approach encompasses archaeological analysis of small (mobile finds), medium (archaeological contexts) and large scale (territory and landscape) architectural analysis and applications for integrated solutions for the cultural heritage, including the first bilingual Virtual Museum dedicated to an Etruscan city.

A Journey to Armenia: Visual Reminders of Genocide and Oppression

A Journey to Armenia: Visual Reminders of Genocide and Oppression

Linked Open Models: Extending Linked Open Data with conceptual model information

As the uptake of the Semantic Web vision has been relatively slow, a strategy based on pragmatic steps is being deployed in order to setup enablers and to stimulate acceptance. "Linked Open Data" refers to one of these early steps, benefiting from an available technological space (RDF, HTTP). The paper proposes "Linked Open Models" as a possible additional step, whose aim is to enable users to externalize knowledge in the form of diagrammatic models – a type of content that is human-readable, as well as linkable in the way promoted by the Linked Data paradigm. Consequently, diagrams become user-generated content that semantically enriches Linked Data, thus allowing richer constraints or connections in queries. The vision emerged from the context and use cases provided by the ComVantage FP7 research project, where linking benefits for conceptual diagrammatic models have been investigated. However the paper also discusses the vision’s degree of generality, beyond the scope of the exemplary project use cases. Feasibility was demonstrated with a vocabulary and a prototype mechanism for exposing the models created with a hybrid, domain-specific modeling method in a Linked Data-driven collaboration environment.

Social Housing in the 60s in São Paulo

The 60s was a decade of profound change in Brazil. The federal capital was transferred to Brasília, which represented the realization of the ideal of the modern city envisaged at CIAM IV. Modern architecture, which in its Brazilian version, was characterized by the Escola Carioca (Rio de Janeiro School), gave way to the São Paulo avant-garde, concerned with truth to materials and social aspirations. In politics we saw the shift from a democratic government to a military dictatorship, which sought to legitimize itself through the creation of a state funding system to solve the nation’s housing deficit. These factors created the conditions for the development of a series of housing projects, including the exemplary project discussed in this paper.

Studying Online Activism: The Effects of Sampling Design on Findings

Social movement scholars are increasingly interested in Internet activism but have struggled to find robust methods for identifying cases, particularly representative samples of online protest content, given that no population list exists. This article reviews early approaches to this problem, focusing on three recent case sampling designs that attempt to address this problem. The first approach purposively samples from an organizationally based sampling frame. The second approach randomly samples from a SMO-based sampling frame. The third approach mimics user routines to identify populations of "reachable" websites on a given topic, which are then randomly sampled. For each approach, I examine the sampling frame and sampling method to understand how cases were selected, outline the assumptions built into the overall sampling design, and discuss an exemplary research project employing each design. Comparisons of findings from these exemplar studies indicate that sampling designs are extremely consequential. I close by recommending best practices.

The “Greenest Department Competition”: an exemplary student-led project

Purpose – A student-led department greening competition brought significant change to certain departments at the Budapest University of Technology and Economics, Hungary. The purpose of the paper is to help sustainability groups at other tertiary education institutions to organize similar competitions. Design/methodology/approach – First, the approach and methodology of the competition are explained in detail. Second, results of the competition in the first three years are summarized. Third, opportunities for improvement are discussed. Fourth, potentials and limitations are reviewed. Finally, the most important success criteria are listed. Findings – Eight weeks of assisted learning and two audit-based assessments are appropriate to facilitate the greening process of departments. To successfully organize a competition, a reliable team with a core group of at least five to six experienced members is needed. Maximal effectiveness can only be achieved if local environmental leaders at departments are activated. Practical implications – If local environmental leaders act as internal project managers, environmental practices can change significantly. Improvements can affect material and energy use, transportation behavior and external outreach activities. Originality/value – The project description shows a structure for how to engage in greening departments. A consistent rubric was applied across multiple departments over a span of three years, which allows for drawing general conclusions. Insights can facilitate similarly effective projects elsewhere.

Spanning boundaries and disciplines: Linked, open and cloud-based community metadata

Metadata is an important component of trans-disciplinary research and is increasingly important in digital scholarship in which linked, open and cloud-based communities operate. These communities regularly access and create linked, open and cloud-based data and as such require metadata systems and structures that fit their unique communities. The vast and growing world of digital assets provide a tremendous resource for generating metadata through automated and crowd-sourced means. Likewise, metadata are increasingly being used to help connect disciplines and foster cross-collection discovery. The five panelists in this session represent a diverse and multidisciplinary view of metadata creation and use and the research represented in this panel includes explorations of metadata in science-based, humanities, library and cultural heritage institutions. Likewise, the research presented employs a variety of methods including computational, survey, and content analysis techniques. Each panel member therefore represents a unique view in metadata research. Drs. Erik Mitchell, Jane Greenberg, Kanti Srikantaiah, Heather Lea Moulaison and Susan Rathbun-Grubb will discuss their current research streams, speaking to the above issues via an exemplary project they have chosen to describe. Interactivity between the panelists and among the audience members will be encouraged after the panelists have presented their projects for discussion. This panel has the endorsement and the support of the Special Interest Group for Classification Research (SIG-CR).

Emerging trends in metadata research

AbstractMetadata can be used in a variety of environments, from library catalogs and research databases to data archives, proprietary knowledge bases, and the open web. Multiple sources for metadata creation exist, with metadata being generated by professionals, through automated techniques, and by the public at large. Information professionals are eager to share and leverage data sources to create new knowledge and feed the demand for new interoperable applications. There is great potential for improving discovery by weaving together traditional library metadata with social cataloging metadata to create a new scheme for representing information in library catalogs, institutional repositories, or digital libraries. Each of the researchers on this panel represents a unique perspective on the ways in which metadata research is unfolding and will continue to progress over the next few years. Drs. Erik Mitchell, Jane Greenberg, Eva Méndez Rodríguez, June Abbas, Alenka Šauperl, and Kathryn La Barre will discuss their current research streams, speaking to the above issues via an exemplary project they have chosen to describe. Interactivity between the panelists and among the audience members will be encouraged after the panelists have presented their projects for discussion.

Exploring an early medieval harbour and settlement dynamics at Stavnsager, Denmark: a geo-archaeological dialogue

In this neat investigation of a harbour site, the authors show how much can be learnt by site survey — and by surface plotting and remote mapping in particular. Here the excavations are used to pilot the geophysics, rather than the other way round, and ground-penetrating radar is employed to show not just where features are, but their sequence and their current vulnerability. This exemplary project demonstrates how, in modern approaches to fieldwork, sites are to be studied rather than excavated, comprehended rather than stripped.

CONSIDERATION AND RESEARCH ON THE"DIGITAL JIANGSU

The "Digital Jiangsu"is an important project in Jiangsu's 21st century informationalization construction. This paper first emphasizes the importance and the feasibility of the "Digital Jiangsu", then puts forward the objectives and main contents of the "Digital Jiangsu", with special stress on the construction of the application exemplary project. With the reality of Jiangsu in mind, this paper advances the main guarantees and measures in the"Digital Jiangsu"construction.

A generalised framework to compass and to support complex product engineering processes

Today, companies are required to boost their productivity with product and process innovation. However, product engineering has become more and more complex, as there are multiple interrelated elements with high dynamic and variance as well as socio-technical aspects to be considered. To support both the work of designers and of managers, various methodologies have been proposed in the literature. In this paper, we highlight key issues of product engineering and derive requirements on a modelling framework that addresses contemporary challenges of rising complexity. With the help of the description of an exemplary project, we introduce and illustrate an approach to meet these requirements ? the Integrated Product Engineering Model (iPeM).

Contemporary Fieldwork Aesthetics in Art and Anthropology: Experiments in Collaboration and Intervention

This essay suggests affinities between contemporary changes in classic research practices of anthropological ethnography and forms of research built into projects of conceptual, performance and installation art. The scene of fieldwork encounter is transformed by the challenges of new objects and conditions of research in anthropology. These challenges are thought through the description of an exemplary conceptual art project produced at the Tate Modern Museum, while allowing for the differences between the aims and ethics of anthropology and those of art.

Exemplary project of green cave dwellings in Loess Plateau

The total annual energy consumption of people in rural areas in China is about 190 million tons of standard coal, and is still growing rapidly with the improvement of living standards. The reduction of this energy consumption is a key issue in China’s sustainable development. Focusing on the energy conservation of cave dwellings in the Loess Plateau, this paper aims to create a new prototype of cave dwelling that not only satisfies the requirements of the modern life of the residents but also inherits the energy-efficiency of traditional cave dwellings. For this purpose, a model cave dwelling is built at Zaoyuan Village, a cave-dwelling community in Yan’an, Shaanxi Province. In this cave dwelling, modern building energy efficiency principles and strategies such as natural ventilation, natural lighting, passive solar heating and earth cooling method are adopted. From the testing and subjective survey, it can be concluded that the new cave dwelling inherits the advantages of the traditional ones and has excellent performance in energy-efficiency, thermal comfort, and natural lighting.

Teacher Research: Who Is It For and What Is The Point?

This paper was written by a teacher educator and five of her former students who completed a research project as part of a graduate course. Each of the students produced an exemplary project and spoke about the benefits of teacher research at the conclusion of the course. One year after completing the graduate course, none of the teachers continued conducting teacher research. In email reflections, these teachers described teacher research as beneficial and explained why they are no longer conducting research. Their comments challenge teacher educators to examine the goals of teacher research courses and the sustainability of teacher research for classroom teachers.

Sustainable capital projects: leapfrogging the first cost barrier

Multitudinous strategies, technologies, and best practices exist to improve the sustainability of a capital project, but comparatively few of these tactics have been successfully applied in green building projects without increasing first cost. Given typically constrained budgets available for capital projects, the challenge to project managers, designers, and other project stakeholders is to identify and justify the use of cost-neutral or cost-saving sustainability features that can be included on their projects to meet increasingly stringent sustainability goals set by project owners. The objective of this paper is to identify and describe a set of techniques for finding cost effective sustainability strategies for capital projects. The paper includes a case study of an exemplary capital project from the US to illustrate a set of techniques for identifying cost-neutral or cost-saving project options. These techniques include effective problem framing, identification and exploitation of cost discontinuities through integrated design and right-sizing, dematerialisation, leveraging of free resources, and holistic cost management. The paper includes an overview of each technique and recommendations for applying that technique in project planning, design, and implementation.

Social Sciences

Chair: Martin Manalansan Committee members: Miliann Kang, Grace Kao Winner: Chineseness Across Borders by Andrea Louie Honorable Mentions: Mobilizing an Asian American Community by Linda Võ Ethnic Routes to Becoming American by Sharmila Rudrappa We have unanimously voted to award the prize to Andrea Louie's Chineseness Across Borders for her innovative and path-breaking ethnography of second- and third-generation Chinese American youth and their re-making of Chinese [End Page 207] identity in the Roots Study program. This program provides these youth with opportunities to explore their ancestral culture. In doing so, Louie has elegantly placed the complex negotiations between ancestral and birth homelands as ways to configure Chineseness, which is always in process. This is clearly an exemplary project that brings into sharp relief the intricacies of multi-sited and transnational ethnography and the multifaceted notions of Asian Americaness. We also voted to award honorable mention prizes to two books: Linda Võ 's Mobilizing an Asian American Community and Sharmila Rudrappa's Ethnic Routes to Becoming American. Linda Võ 's trenchant exploration of community politics in Southern California brings ethnographic richness to the idea of "panethnic" identity formation. Sharmila Rudrappa's examination of South Asian lives in Chicago delineates the various nodes of immigrant lives that exceed normative formations such as family and community and extends the analysis to such spaces as women's shelters.

Subsurface Geology of a Prograding Carbonate Platform Margin, Great Bahama Bank: Results of the Bahamas Drilling Project

SEPM Special Publication Series No. 70, Robert N. Ginsburg (Editor), 2001, SEPM (Society for Sedimentary Geology), Tulsa, OK, 271 p. ($65 non-members, $40 members) ISBN: 1-56576-077-8. The present volume summarizes the scientific results of the Bahamas Drilling Project, the fruit of an idea born in Robert Ginsburg's Comparative Sedimentology Laboratory at the University of Miami. Two continuous core holes named Unda and Clino were drilled on the western margin of the famous Bahamas carbonate platform to depths of 454 m and 677 m, respectively, and subsequently analyzed by a large team of geoscientists from different institutions that were brought together to participate in an exemplary project in carbonate geology. The volume contains a preface by the editor and 12 papers grouped into five categories: (1) background, (2) lithostratigraphy and chronostratigraphy, (3) diagenesis and geochemistry, (4) petrophysics, and (5) sequence stratigraphy. The volume includes a total of 163 figures, 35 tables, and a 1.2 m2 fold-out in a pocket in the back cover of the book. The comprehensive index lists 235 topics. Robert Ginsburg provides an introductory overview of the scientific background of the Bahamas Drilling Project, and describes log acquisition and project operations in the first main division of the volume. Fundamental questions of carbonate platform progradation are listed along with previous research in the Bahamas as background to the listed objectives of the project. These objectives include: (1) testing the earlier interpretation of some 30 km of platform progradation based on seismic interpretation (Eberli and Ginsburg, 1987, 1989); (2) evaluating the influence of sea level change on platform facies and architecture; (3) seeking lithologic reasons for seismic sequence boundaries; and (4) characterizing depositional facies, diagenesis, and timing. The drilling was accomplished between April and June 1990, and operations are described briefly and illustrated by photos. Following the …

Software for line control in profile extrusion

Using the visualization software ProTool/Pro from Siemens AG as the central man/machine interface, Hutchinson GmbH,Aachen, was able to significantly improve the product quality as well as the productivity of an existing extrusion line for producing steel tape-reinforced seals for automotive applications. At the same time, a convenient link between the manufacturing and the office environments was forged. The automation technology for this exemplary project was supervised by Tiskens Steuerungs- und Antriebstechnik GmbH & Co. KG, Wegberg.

Structural Change and Regional Development Coalitions in South-Eastern Lower Saxony

New approaches to securing jobs and dealing with structural transformation are being taken in Southeast Lower Saxony. The two companies that predominate in the region — Volkswagen AG and Salzgitter AG — have founded their own personnel development and training companies. A regional development agency has been set up with the participation of the trade unions. These new approaches can be understood both as internal company objectives and as a contribution to overall responsibility for a given location. Some exemplary project initiatives are presented here in the form of regional strategies for innovation and development concepts, business start-up networks and collaboration between business and universities.