Essays on Building Design

Sustainable Built Environment

Introduction It seems that building development would present an impressive opportunity to reduce energy demand and also reduce carbon emissions effectively with combining current knowledge and expertise (Diakaki, & Kolokotsa, 2009). The highest cost-effectively feasible mitigation prospective is recommended to be found within the residential as well as the commercial sector. This is suggested to be producing a reduction of 29% in respect to the probable emission baseline for the year 2020. Life Cycle Assessment is also known as (LCA) is a technique for evaluating environmental pack of processes as well as products in their life cycle. It attempts to ...

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Introduction

Structures such as large buildings can create its own unique internal environment that can significantly impact the comfort and health of its occupants. After many years of investigating and studying building infrastructures, engineers and designers have increased their understanding and knowledge on the environmental conditions that exists within the building in relation to its physical properties. For the same reason, a solid background in building physics is an integral part of a building’s design, particularly in this modern era wherein green buildings are the rising trend. Most modern buildings integrate building physics prior to construction ...

Introduction

Projects have increasingly become an important component of many organisations today. In this sense, the project management occupies a progressive master role in the success of many organisations (Shenhar & Dvir, 2007). This means that the fruitful and appropriate delivery of the projects promotes the progress and the development of the humanity from the global perspective. This paper is about the analysis of the automated baggage system built by the BAE Automated System incorporated into a project at the Denver International Airport (Neufville, 2004). Ideally, the project was designed to cater for the teaming air passengers at the airport. While ...

In the recent past, governments through the health department have been calling for the increase in outpatient services among health care facilities considering that payers have come up with incentives as a way of reducing hospitalization charges in addition to the length of stay. As a result, a new shift oriented towards payment for performance and accountability in health care provision has emerged in addition to health organizations concentrating on medicine for preventive health, educating of patients, and care changes. Today, the most affordable medical therapy is offered in ambulatory care setting, yet the outcomes of adverse drug events ...

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Bauhaudin, Elias, and Saifudin define the green building as an edifice that has the capacity to “reduce the undesirable human impacts on the natural surroundings, building materials, building assets, and enhances human health and the natural environment” (Bauhaudin et al. 2). In other words, a green or sustainable building is designed with the intention of allowing human beings to co-exist harmoniously with the environment by creating an edifice that is environmentally friendly. However, it should be noted that “the perception of what is a sustainable building is changing over time and depending on the location” ( ...

INTRODUCTION

My research will examine techniques that optimize financial, environmental, quality, and energy aspects of contemporary architecture. The work of Norman Foster and Partners will be considered in detail. This award-winning firm has many high-profile projects concerned with energy efficacy. I will examine Foster designed buildings in order to better understand strategies for maximizing savings and encasing ecological conservation through passive solar design.

Principles of Passive Solar Building Design

Passive Heating is designed with Solar Geometry; solar geometry uses the natural path of the sun across the sky in both the summer and the winter to reduce the need for cooling by air conditioning, the provide ...

The Effects of Climate Change on Allergies and Asthma Cases

Since the discovery of global warming or climate change, scientists have been warning the public of the possible implications this phenomenon could bring. They highlight erratic and severe weather patterns, changing ecosystems and the persistence of diseases that cannot easily be treated. While skeptics remain ignorant over these warnings and governments trying to make amends over their national policies, statistics show that these warnings should be taken seriously especially with regards to respiratory diseases such as asthma and allergies. However, it is a question as to what impacts climate change has towards the prevalence on allergies and asthma cases ...