A revolutionary, collaborative approach to design and construction project delivery
Integrating Project Delivery is the first book-length discussion of IPD, the emergent project …

In pursuit of including energy performance as feedback for architects' early stage design
decision making, this research presents the theoretical foundation of a designer oriented …

Current development in digital design, combined with the growing awareness of the
importance of building performance, had drawn attention to performance-based design …

Early collaboration is crucial if the final design is to be clash-free, and automation processes
through Building Information Modelling (BIM) have the capacity to reduce clashes through …

Performance-driven architectural design emphasizes on integrated and comprehensive
optimization of various quantifiable performances of buildings. As the leading profession of a …

Architecture, Engineering, and Construction (AEC) professionals typically generate and
analyze very few design alternatives during the conceptual stage of a project. One primary …

This work assesses the impact of blockchain and smart contracts on the visibility of
construction supply chain and in the context of payments (intersection of cash and product …

This paper describes ThermalOpt—a methodology for automated BIM-based
multidisciplinary thermal simulation intended for use in multidisciplinary design optimization …

Parameters Tell the Design Story: Ideation and Abstraction in Design Optimization Page 1
SimAUD 2014 Symposium on Simulation for Architecture and Urban Design Tampa, Florida …

While the overall performance of buildings has been established to be heavily impacted by
design decisions made during the early stages of the design process, design professionals …