Buildings of the Future Scoping Study: A Framework for Vision Development

Wang, Na¹  Goins, John D.¹ 

[1] Pacific Northwest National Lab. (PNNL), Richland, WA (United States)

关键词: Building;    Vision;    Energy;    Greenhouse Gas Emissions;    Water;    Occupants;    Environment;    Utilities;   

DOI  :  10.2172/1178866
RP-ID  :  PNNL--24126
PID  :  OSTI ID: 1178866
Others  :  Other: BT0304020

美国|英语

来源: SciTech Connect

【 摘 要 】

The Buildings of the Future Scoping Study, funded by the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Building Technologies Office, seeks to develop a vision for what U.S. mainstream commercial and residential buildings could become in 100 years. This effort is not intended to predict the future or develop a specific building design solution. Rather, it will explore future building attributes and offer possible pathways of future development. Whether we achieve a more sustainable built environment depends not just on technologies themselves, but on how effectively we envision the future and integrate these technologies in a balanced way that generates economic, social, and environmental value. A clear, compelling vision of future buildings will attract the right strategies, inspire innovation, and motivate action. This project will create a cross-disciplinary forum of thought leaders to share their views. The collective views will be integrated into a future building vision and published in September 2015. This report presents a research framework for the vision development effort based on a literature survey and gap analysis. This document has four objectives. First, it defines the project scope. Next, it identifies gaps in the existing visions and goals for buildings and discusses the possible reasons why some visions did not work out as hoped. Third, it proposes a framework to address those gaps in the vision development. Finally, it presents a plan for a series of panel discussions and interviews to explore a vision that mitigates problems with past building paradigms while addressing key areas that will affect buildings going forward.