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Civil-Comp Proceedings
ISSN 1759-3433 CCP: 37
INFORMATION PROCESSING IN CIVIL AND STRUCTURAL ENGINEERING DESIGN Edited by: B. Kumar
Paper VI.1
Towards Computational Eco-Analysis of Building Designs A. Mahdavi and R. Ries
Department of Architecture, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, United States of America Full Bibliographic Reference for this paper
A. Mahdavi, R. Ries, "Towards Computational Eco-Analysis of Building Designs", in B. Kumar, (Editor), "Information Processing in Civil and Structural Engineering Design", Civil-Comp Press, Edinburgh, UK, pp 141-150, 1996. doi:10.4203/ccp.37.6.1
Abstract
This paper argues that: a) construction and operation of buildings
is internationally a major cause of resource depletion and
environmental pollution, b) traditional criteria of construction
cost and energy use estimation are insufficient in view of a
comprehensive environmental impact analysis of buildings, c
LCA (life-cycle analysis), "eco-bookkeeping", and "eco-balance"
approaches could be advantageously utilized in concurrence
with more traditional engineering, cost estimation, and
energy simulation to obtain a broader building design evaluation
scheme, d) appropriate IT-based computational tools
could facilitate environmentally informed, integrative decision-
making throughout the building design, construction,
operation, and decommissioning phases.
Toward this end, this paper specifically introduces the
prototypical realization of a computational tool for the integration
of environmental impact modeling approaches within
an object-oriented space-based CAD environment.
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