Assessing “green” and “resilient” building features using a purposeful systems approach

Hewitt, Elizabeth; Oberg, Angela; Coronado, Carla A.; Andrews, Clinton J.

doi:10.1016/j.scs.2019.101546

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“…Studies have indicated that if LIDs are designed to take account J o u r n a l P r e -p r o o f of rainfall characteristics projected for future climate change scenarios, they can effectively reduce urban flooding resulting from a changing climate. Several studies have pointed out some challenges (Shafique and Kim, 2017;Hewitt et al, 2019;Sohn et al, 2019;Hua et al, 2019). Other studies have indicated that while LIDs are effective for small rainfall events, they are less able to control floods resulting from extreme rainfall occurrences (Sun et al, 2014).…”

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“…LIDs also limit the damage to structures from flood events. Hewitt et al (2019) provided evidence that LIDs helped to reduce building damage from Hurricane Sandy The objective of this study is to advance our understanding of the climate change challenges in respect to urban flooding events and to assess the mitigation potential for LIDs in regards warming-induced urban floods. This will also include their possible limitations.…”

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confidence: 99%

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Low impact development techniques to mitigate the impacts of climate-change-induced urban floods: Current trends, issues and challenges

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Section: Effectiveness Of Different Lids In Flood Mitigationmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Low impact development techniques to mitigate the impacts of climate-change-induced urban floods: Current trends, issues and challenges

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Wahab

Shahid

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“…A study differentiates occupant behavior in downtown high-rises from that in suburban low-rise residential buildings [41]. The behaviors are also different between conventional and green buildings [62] and between hot and cold climates [63]. Location characteristics are also strongly related to infrastructural investments and policies of the authorizing administration on energy use in buildings [13].…”

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An ontology to represent synthetic building occupant characteristics and behavior

Putra

Hong

Andrews

2021

Automation in Construction

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Since the introduction of the occupant behavior Drivers-Needs-Actions-Systems (DNAS) framework in 2013, researchers have used the framework or further developed it based on their case studies, which include efforts to collect new data on occupant behaviors. The effort is often costly for the relatively few new data points added. Problems emerge when the already collected data do not meet the modelers' interoperability requirements. Previous studies addressed this issue by developing more sophisticated ontologies that enable integration with other datasets and synthetic data methodologies that would meet unique research applications. This paper presents an extension of the DNAS framework for the representation of synthetic occupant data to support various applications and use cases across the building life cycle. An agent-based modeling application is one of our motivations that requires more elaborate characteristics of an occupantagent or a group-of-agent. The extension, built upon a review of the literature, introduces new elements to the framework that fall into five categories, including socio-economic, geographical location, activities, subjective values, and individual and collective adaptive actions. On-going research includes identifying occupant datasets and developing data fusion methods to generate synthetic occupants, as well as to demonstrate its applications in agent-based modeling coupled with building performance simulation.

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“…Looking at WBBK, it barely provides any adaptable, flexible, and self-sufficient design strategies that can overcome the demands of a changing world. One of the strategies in design that can contribute to the resilience of a building is the use of passive features that can optimize thermal comfort and reduce the dependence of the building on external supply systems [29]. However, although the WBBK building uses solar panels to generate electricity, it only provides 7% of the building's energy consumption which is insignificant.…”

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Defining Sustainability in Afghanistan’s Built Environment: A Case Study of World Bank Building in Kabul and Comparative Analysis of Prominent Literature

Khatibi¹,

Khaidzir²,

Rashid³

2021

IJDNE

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The built environment is one of the critical areas of intervention for sustainable development. This study aims to investigate the sustainable and appropriate ways of designing Afghanistan’s built environment. To put forward a reliable mechanism of research, the study develops and uses three approaches. The first is to review the sustainable strategies applied in the design of the country’s first LEED-certified building, the World Bank Building in Kabul (WBBK). Secondly to understand the main concepts involved in the practice of designing for sustainability by analyzing five of the most influential books in the realm of design and sustainability. Finally, the findings from the review of the five books are reinforced with more literature associated with design and sustainability to analyze and evaluate the sustainable strategies of the WBBK. The study posits that although the building can promote the idea of a sustainable built environment in the country but there are several issues. Among the issues are, (1) Its high dependence on eco-technologies to reduce environmental impact rather than designing in relation to social and ecological systems, (2) Its insufficiency in providing a resilient design that is self-sufficient, flexible, and adaptive, and (3) Its lack of creating aesthetic experiences and cultural meaning for its occupants which are required for future designs and development. Furthermore, based on the findings and upon inquiring into the sustainable design of WBBK, the paper concluded with a set of recommendations to contribute towards the design of a sustainable built environment in Afghanistan.

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Assessing “green” and “resilient” building features using a purposeful systems approach

Cited by 20 publications

References 44 publications

Low impact development techniques to mitigate the impacts of climate-change-induced urban floods: Current trends, issues and challenges

Low impact development techniques to mitigate the impacts of climate-change-induced urban floods: Current trends, issues and challenges

An ontology to represent synthetic building occupant characteristics and behavior

Defining Sustainability in Afghanistan’s Built Environment: A Case Study of World Bank Building in Kabul and Comparative Analysis of Prominent Literature

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