Integrating Information in Built Environments

Integrating Information in Built Environments

Author: Adriana X Sanchez

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2017-07-20

Total Pages: 330

ISBN-13: 1351783270

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In an increasingly globalised built environment industry, achieving higher levels of integration across organisational and software boundaries can lead to improved economic, social and environmental outcomes. This book is the direct result of a collaborative global network of industry and academic researchers spread across nine countries as part of CIB’s (International Council for Research and Innovation in Building and Construction) Task Group 90 (TG90) Information Integration in Construction (IICON). The book provides a broad view of some of the opportunities and challenges brought by integrating information across organisational and system boundaries in the built environment industry. Chapters cover a large range of topics and are separated into three sections: resources, processes and added value. They provide a much-needed international perspective on a current global evolution in the industry and present leading original research and valuable lessons for researchers, industry practitioners, government clients and policy makers across the industry. Key features include: a broad range of topics that are not covered elsewhere in the literature; contributions from a diverse group of industry research leaders from across the globe; exemplar case studies providing real-world examples of where information integration has been a key factor for success or lack thereof has been at the root cause of failure; an analysis of future priority areas for research and development investment as well as their strategic implications for public and private decision-makers; the book will deliver innovation in best practice methodology for information sharing across disciplines and between the design, construction and asset management sectors.


Integrating Information in Built Environments

Integrating Information in Built Environments

Author: George Thomas

Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform

Published: 2018-07-24

Total Pages: 286

ISBN-13: 9781723547607

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The guide provides a wide view of some of the possibilities and difficulties stemmed from developing details across organisational and system limitations in the built environment market. Sections cover a wide range of subjects and are divided into three sections: sources, procedures and added value. They provide a much-needed worldwide viewpoint on a current worldwide progress on the market and present major unique analysis and useful training for scientists, market experts, government customers and policy creators across the market.This guide is the direct result of a collaborative worldwide network of market and educational scientists distribute across nine nations as part of CIB's (International Authorities for Research and Advancement in Building and Construction) Task Group 90 (TG90) Information Incorporation in Development (IICON).


Integrating Information in Built Environments

Integrating Information in Built Environments

Author: Peter Jones

Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform

Published: 2018-01-10

Total Pages: 286

ISBN-13: 9781719389648

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The book provides a broad view of some of the opportunities and challenges brought by integrating information across organisational and system boundaries in the built environment industry. Chapters cover a large range of topics and are separated into three sections: resources, processes and added value. They provide a much-needed international perspective on a current global evolution in the industry and present leading original research and valuable lessons for researchers, industry practitioners, government clients and policy makers across the industry.


Integration of the Natural and Built Environments

Integration of the Natural and Built Environments

Author: Sarah R. Weiser

Publisher:

Published: 2007

Total Pages: 230

ISBN-13:

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The primary objectives of this project were to understand human connections to the natural environment and their impacts on health and well-being, thereby providing a quantitative basis from which to improve the built environment for human experience. It was assumed that these findings would support and strengthen sustainable design and building methods. Research was focused on theories and studies of physicians, psychologists, ecologists, and geologists. These sources focused on support of the theory of biophilia (innate human connection to the built environment). The theories and supporting studies suggested that through creating positive connection to the exterior environment, designers have the ability to not only positively affect the health of building occupants, but also affect the way in which we perceive, and therefore value, nature and natural resources. Design work focused specifically on the theories pertaining to fostering human well-being within the built environment. The factors of clearly organized circulation and meaningful variety were explored through a building design problem as being the most influential to all well-being factors. Through this design exploration a dialogue between the external environment, built environment, and occupant proved to be the true necessity for well-being within the built environment.


Handbook of Research on Driving Transformational Change in the Digital Built Environment

Handbook of Research on Driving Transformational Change in the Digital Built Environment

Author: Underwood, Jason

Publisher: IGI Global

Published: 2021-05-07

Total Pages: 569

ISBN-13: 1799866025

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The construction industry is amidst a digital transformation that is focused on addressing well-documented issues and calls for significant improvements and changes through increased productivity, whole-life value, client focus, reduction of waste, and being more sustainable. The key aspect to driving change and transformation is the education and upskilling of the required workforce towards developing the required capacities. Various approaches can be taken to embed digital construction within education and through collaborative efforts in order to drive change and facilitate improvements. The Handbook of Research on Driving Transformational Change in the Digital Built Environment focuses on current developments in practice and education towards facilitating transformation in the built environment. This book provides insight, from a practice perspective, in relation to the client’s understanding, digitally enabled collaboration, interoperability and open standards, and maturity/capability. Covering topics that include digital transformation and construction, digitally enabled infrastructure, building information modelling, collaborative digital education, and the digital built environment, this book is an ideal reference source for engineers, professionals, and researchers in the field of digital transformation as well as doctoral scholars, doctoral researchers, professionals, and academicians.


Synergistic Design of Sustainable Built Environments

Synergistic Design of Sustainable Built Environments

Author: Chitrarekha Kabre

Publisher: CRC Press

Published: 2022-06

Total Pages: 402

ISBN-13: 9780367615741

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This book is a practical tool or handbook for architects, building professionals, researchers and students that explains and demonstrates how design wisdom of passive solar architecture can be integrated with the best of modern technological advancement to create sustainable and regenerative designed humane architecture.


Handbook of Research on Building Information Modeling and Construction Informatics: Concepts and Technologies

Handbook of Research on Building Information Modeling and Construction Informatics: Concepts and Technologies

Author: Underwood, Jason

Publisher: IGI Global

Published: 2009-12-31

Total Pages: 757

ISBN-13: 1605669296

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In recent years, building information modeling has become a very active research area of construction informatics with investigation of ICT use within construction industry processes and organizations. The Handbook of Research on Building Information Modeling and Construction Informatics: Concepts and Technologies addresses the problems related to information integration and interoperability throughout the lifecycle of a building, from feasibility and conceptual design through to demolition and recycling stages. Containing research from leading international experts, this Handbook of Research provides comprehensive coverage and definitions of the most important issues, concepts, trends, and technologies within the field.


The Built Environment

The Built Environment

Author: Wendy R. McClure

Publisher: John Wiley & Sons

Published: 2011-09-09

Total Pages: 672

ISBN-13: 1118174151

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This book takes a sweeping view of the ways we build things, beginning at the scale of products and interiors, to that of regions and global systems. In doing so, it answers questions on how we effect and are affected by our environment and explores how components of what we make—from products, buildings, and cities—are interrelated, and why designers and planners must consider these connections.


Microbiomes of the Built Environment

Microbiomes of the Built Environment

Author: National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine

Publisher: National Academies Press

Published: 2017-11-06

Total Pages: 318

ISBN-13: 0309449804

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People's desire to understand the environments in which they live is a natural one. People spend most of their time in spaces and structures designed, built, and managed by humans, and it is estimated that people in developed countries now spend 90 percent of their lives indoors. As people move from homes to workplaces, traveling in cars and on transit systems, microorganisms are continually with and around them. The human-associated microbes that are shed, along with the human behaviors that affect their transport and removal, make significant contributions to the diversity of the indoor microbiome. The characteristics of "healthy" indoor environments cannot yet be defined, nor do microbial, clinical, and building researchers yet understand how to modify features of indoor environmentsâ€"such as building ventilation systems and the chemistry of building materialsâ€"in ways that would have predictable impacts on microbial communities to promote health and prevent disease. The factors that affect the environments within buildings, the ways in which building characteristics influence the composition and function of indoor microbial communities, and the ways in which these microbial communities relate to human health and well-being are extraordinarily complex and can be explored only as a dynamic, interconnected ecosystem by engaging the fields of microbial biology and ecology, chemistry, building science, and human physiology. This report reviews what is known about the intersection of these disciplines, and how new tools may facilitate advances in understanding the ecosystem of built environments, indoor microbiomes, and effects on human health and well-being. It offers a research agenda to generate the information needed so that stakeholders with an interest in understanding the impacts of built environments will be able to make more informed decisions.


Ambient Integrated Robotics

Ambient Integrated Robotics

Author: Thomas Bock

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2019-08-29

Total Pages: 175

ISBN-13: 110707598X

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Guides readers in the new and growing research field of Ambient/Active Assisted Living to understand its multidisciplinary background.