scholarly journals Resilient by design: the case for increasing resilience of buildings and their linked food-energy-water systems

Elem Sci Anth ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 6 ◽  
Author(s):  
Iris Tien
Keyword(s):  
Systems Design ◽  
Building Design ◽  
Business Case ◽  
Water Systems ◽  
Economic Incentives ◽  
Integrated Network ◽  
Design Elements ◽  
Food Energy ◽  
Design Practices ◽  
Resilient Design

The resilience of buildings and food, energy, and water systems (FEWS) to natural or manmade disruptions are closely linked. The resilience of a building goes beyond the safety of its structural elements and must include the resilience of its supporting systems and the services they supply. The resilience of FEWS, in turn, can increase through design elements of a building that affect generation and storage of FEW resources. In this commentary, I discuss increasing the resilience of buildings and their linked FEWS—improving their resistance, absorption, restoration, and adaptive capacities—through new integrated systems design practices. I begin with a discussion of the current state of building design at the FEW nexus. I then use the prior establishment and current use of sustainability design objectives as an analogue to developing and implementing resilience design objectives. I review progress and limitations of specific drivers for increasing resilient design practices, including economic incentives, regulations, extralegal programs and initiatives, and societal incentives. My recommendations for leveraging these drivers to increase resilient design include: for economic incentives, quantify the costs and benefits to make the business case for resilience; for formal regulations, specify increased building requirements with performance-based resilience objectives; for extralegal initiatves, integrate these resilience objectives with existing certification programs and award designs that address FEWS as an integrated network rather than as disparate systems; and for societal incentives, demonstrate public benefit to shift societal perceptions of resilience. Together, these actions will motivate the design of more resilient building and FEW systems to increase their longevity, performance, and robustness.

scholarly journals Interdependencies and Risk to People and Critical Food, Energy, and Water Systems: 2013 Flood, Boulder, Colorado, USA

2018 ◽  
Vol 6 (11) ◽  
pp. 1616-1629 ◽  
Author(s):  
Patricia Romero‐Lankao ◽  
Rachel Norton
Keyword(s):  
Water Systems ◽  
Food Energy

HOW DO GREEN BUILDINGS COMMUNICATE GREEN DESIGN TO BUILDING USERS? A SURVEY STUDY OF A LEED-CERTIFIED BUILDING

2017 ◽  
Vol 12 (3) ◽  
pp. 85-100 ◽  
Author(s):  
Susie Ruqun Wu ◽  
Suk-Kyung Kim ◽  
Hogeun Park ◽  
Peilei Fan ◽  
Arika Ligmann-Zielinska ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Spatial Scales ◽  
Green Building ◽  
Building Design ◽  
Green Buildings ◽  
Green Design ◽  
Survey Study ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Affordance Theory ◽  
Design Elements ◽  
Future Design

Studies investigating the benefits of green buildings can be approached by the affordance theory—the perceived properties of a thing that determine how it could possibly be used. This study focuses on the sustainable communication and education that a green building should provide. By applying the affordance theory, we examined whether a LEED-certified university campus building effectively communicates green design and sustainability to its users and if so, then how? We employed a questionnaire survey targeting campus users of a LEED-certified building by examining their awareness of the building's LEED status and perception of green design elements at multiple spatial scales, as well as their general knowledge on green building topics. We collected 177 questionnaires, of which 153 were qualified for statistical analysis. The results suggested that the building itself can afford to promote awareness among users, but cannot afford to educate users on general green building knowledge. We found that building users perceived green design at different spatial scales, preferring either product or space-related design. Our results indicate that future design should continue promoting the use of educational signage, which was found to be the most effective communicator of sustainability. The communication of green design to users with different spatial preferences remains a future research focus. Further studies on the innovative use of green building design as effective communicators are needed to promote sustainability education among the building users.

Workstation Design Optimization Through a Simulation Model

1981 ◽  
Vol 25 (1) ◽  
pp. 374-378
Author(s):  
Mark S. Hoffman ◽  
Martin L. Cramer
Keyword(s):  
Simulation Model ◽  
Systems Design ◽  
Field Tests ◽  
Cost Effective ◽  
Control Device ◽  
Engineering System ◽  
Human Engineering ◽  
Integrated Network ◽  
Workstation Design ◽  
Marketing Tool

A man-machine systems simulation model was developed as a cost-effective marketing tool for systems design in the retail sales environment. SAINT (Systems Analysis Integrated Network of Tasks) modeling technique was chosen because of its capabilities to simulate complex human engineering system performances. Tasks performed at the workstations ranged from an automated real-time inventory control device requiring a high degree of man-machine interactivity to social interactions between the operator and customer. Network parameters were defined from performances observed both in laboratory and field tests. The model included the capability to mix and simulate multiple workstations within a given environment. Work surface dimensions, operator ability levels, and processing strategies were manipulated to maximize productivity. This approach to workstation design proved to be an effective method of systematically reducing the number of alternative configurations. It also reduces the requirement of elaborate time-consuming laboratory experiments to verify a proposed design concept. A conversational interface was developed to encourage its utilization by the untrained user.

Hydraulic Structure Design Concept and Practice - Tacheng Reservoir Project in Xinjiang as an Example

2012 ◽  
Vol 212-213 ◽  
pp. 805-809
Author(s):  
Xiang Hong Huo ◽  
Ying Jie Chen ◽  
Jun Jing Mu ◽  
Shao Jie Li ◽  
Jian Liu ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Hydraulic Structure ◽  
Building Design ◽  
Structure Design ◽  
Hydraulic Structures ◽  
Material Function ◽  
Design Elements ◽  
Mental Functions ◽  
Water Project ◽  
Project Construction ◽  
Reservoir Project

The hydraulic structure visual forms are both a water project construction component, but also the important contents in the design of hydraulic structures. So that at the same time to satisfy the engineering function, given a certain culture connotation and time spirit, become the material function and mental functions complement each other forms. The article integrates design elements according to parts of Xinjiang reservoir project building design, , puts forward the according design thought and method.

scholarly journals Effects of urbanization on food-energy-water systems in mega-urban regions: a case study of the Bohai MUR, China

2020 ◽  
Vol 15 (4) ◽  
pp. 044014 ◽  
Author(s):  
Caiyun Deng ◽  
Hongrui Wang ◽  
Shuxin Gong ◽  
Jie Zhang ◽  
Bo Yang ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Water Systems ◽  
Food Energy ◽  
Urban Regions

scholarly journals Green Facades and Living Walls—A Review Establishing the Classification of Construction Types and Mapping the Benefits

2019 ◽  
Vol 11 (17) ◽  
pp. 4579 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mina Radić ◽  
Marta Brković Dodig ◽  
Thomas Auer
Keyword(s):  
Human Perception ◽  
Building Design ◽  
Green Roofs ◽  
Research Field ◽  
Research Review ◽  
Empirical Testing ◽  
Nomenclature System ◽  
Design Elements ◽  
Positive Effects ◽  
Construction Type

The green facades and living walls of vertical greenery systems (VGS) are gaining increasing importance as sustainable building design elements because they can improve the environmental impact of a building. The field could benefit from a comprehensive mapping out of VGS types, an improved classification and nomenclature system, and from linking the benefits to a specific construction type. Therefore, this research reviews existing VGS construction types and links associated benefits to them, clearly differentiating empirical from descriptive supporting data. The study adopted a scoping research review used for mapping a specific research field. A systematic literature review based on keywords identified 13 VGS construction types—four types of green facades, nine types of living walls, and ten benefits. Thermal performance, as a benefit of VGS, is the most broadly empirically explored benefit. Yet, further qualitative studies, including human perception of thermal comfort are needed. Improvements in air quality, reduction of noise, positive effects on hydrology, and visual benefits need much further empirical testing, as the current supporting data is mostly descriptive and based on the similarities with green roofs. The educational benefits of VGS has no supporting empirical evidence, while the social benefits have only been empirically evaluated through one identified study. Future progress of the field depends on the adoption of a clear VGS nomenclature system and further qualitative and quantitative empirical testing of VGS benefits, which should be clearly linked to a specific VGS construction type so that cross-comparison of studies is enabled.

scholarly journals Engineering solutions for food-energy-water systems: it is more than engineering

2016 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
pp. 172-182 ◽  
Author(s):  
M. L. Wolfe ◽  
K. C. Ting ◽  
N. Scott ◽  
A. Sharpley ◽  
J. W. Jones ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Water Systems ◽  
Food Energy

Effects of urbanization on food-energy-water systems in mega-urban regions: a case study of the Bohai MUR, China

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Caiyun Deng ◽  
Hongrui Wang ◽  
Shuxin Gong ◽  
Jie Zhang ◽  
Bo Yang ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Urban Areas ◽  
Water System ◽  
Energy System ◽  
Water Systems ◽  
Stress Index ◽  
Food Energy ◽  
Urban Regions ◽  
System Pressure ◽  
Impact Of Urbanization ◽  
The Impact

<p>The security of food-energy-water systems (FEW systems) is an issue of worldwide concern, especially in mega-urban regions (MURs) with high-density populations, industries and carbon emissions. To better understand the hidden linkages between urbanization and FEW systems, the pressure on FEW systems is quantified in a typical rapid urbanizing region—the Bohai MUR. The correlation between urbanization indicators and the pressure on FEW systems is analyzed and the mechanism of the impact of urbanization on FEW systems is further investigated. Results show that approximately 23% of croplands is lost, 61% of which is converted to construction lands and the urban areas expand by 132.2% in the Bohai MUR during 1980-2015. The pressure on FEW systems has an upward trend with the stress index of the pressure on FEW systems (FEW_SI) exhibiting ranging from 80.49 to 134.82% and dominant pressure consisting of that has converted from water system pressure to energy system pressure since 2004. The FEW_SI in the Bohai MUR is enhanced with cropland loss and the increase in urbanization indicators. Additionally, land use, populations, incomes, policies and innovation are the main ways urbanization impacted FEW systems in MURs. This study enhances our understanding of the pressure variation on FEW systems in MURs and the effects of urbanization on FEW systems, which helps stakeholders to enhance the resilience of FEW systems and promote sustainable regional development.</p><p><strong>Keywords:</strong> urbanization, food-energy-water system pressure, linkages, MURs</p>

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