The use of waste materials in road construction is becoming widely spread due to economic and environmental needs. Construction demolition mining residues have been studied for a long time. However, the fine materials, mainly from mine tailing residue, still complex, as they can be used inert into mix or become reactive agent geopolymer mixes. In present paper, an experimental application basal...

Preliminary layout design of buildings has a substantial effect on the ultimate design of structural components and accordingly influences the construction cost. Exploring structurally efficient forms and shapes during the conceptual design stage of a project can also facilitate the optimum integrated design of buildings. This paper presents an automated method of determining column layout desi...

In my opinion, one of the biggest challenges in evaluating the energy efficiency of radical architectural and microarchitectural research ideas is the lack of a fully integrated flow to enable accurate energy modeling at various levels of abstraction. Traditionally, academic researchers augmented their cycle-level simulators with an ad-hoc combination of Wattch, Cacti, and Orion. Each of these ...

this paper demonstrates a preliminary investigation of geometry, function and its relation to dfx principles, namely dfm (design for manufacturing). this is the starting point for research on the development of an expert system that assesses design goals along dfx principles in a feature-based cad environment. there is a need for a deeper level of understanding of the relationship between geome...

This paper points to seemingly contradicted processes of framing innovation, idea generation and killing ideas. It reports from a yearlong innovation project, where health care professionals explored problems and tested ideas for solutions, regarding a future downsizing of the case hospital. Theories in various ways describe the opening and closing phases of innovation. Exploration and idea gen...