Modeling a Decision Support Tool for Buildable and Sustainable Building Envelope Designs

Buildings

Natee Singhaputtangkul¹  Sui Pheng Low² 

[1] School of Engineering and Technology, Central Queensland University, Sydney, NSW 2000, Australia;Department of Building, School of Design and Environment, National University of Singapore, 4 Architecture Drive, Singapore 117566, Singapore; E-Mail:

关键词: building envelope materials and designs;    decision support system;    quality function deployment;    fuzzy set theory;    high-rise residential buildings;   

DOI  :  10.3390/buildings5020521

来源: mdpi

【 摘 要 】

Sustainability and buildability requirements in building envelope design have significantly gained more importance nowadays, yet there is a lack of an appropriate decision support system (DSS) that can help a building design team to incorporate these requirements and manage their tradeoffs at once. The main objective of this study is to build such a tool to facilitate a building design team to take into account sustainability and buildability criteria for assessment of building envelopes of high-rise residential buildings in Singapore. Literature reviews were conducted to investigate a comprehensive set of the sustainability and buildability criteria. This also included development of the tool using a Quality Functional Deployment (QFD) approach combined with fuzzy set theory. A building design team was engaged to test the tool with the aim to evaluate usefulness of the tool in managing the tradeoffs among the sustainability and buildability criteria. The results from a qualitative data analysis suggested that the tool allowed the design team to effectively find a balance between the tradeoffs among the criteria when assessing multiple building envelope design alternatives. Main contributions of using this tool are achievement of a more efficient assessment of the building envelopes and more sustainable and buildable building envelope design.

【 授权许可】

CC BY   
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