Built environment

Processes of Everyday Resilience: The Reassembling of Informal Vending in Urban Spaces of Malang, Indonesia

Sarasmita, Adnya Punia

This dissertation is part of the larger movement in urbanism scholarship to acknowledge the elements and processes of the ordinary that have been left out from the rational urban planning and policy discourses. Through ...

Place, People, and Health: Korean Apartment Residents' Experiences of Local Social Relationships and Their Effects on Mental Health and Well-being

Gu, Naeun

How can neighborhood environment affect residents’ mental health and well-being? In the broad context of understanding this mechanism, this dissertation focuses on the residents’ social relationships based on the neighborhood ...

Embodied Carbon of Heating, Ventilation, Air Conditioning and Refrigerants (HVAC+R) Systems

Rodriguez, Barbara X

This dissertation expands on preliminary studies of embodied carbon in building systems in commercial office buildings and aims to advance the understanding of the role that heating, ventilation, air conditioning, and ...

ACHIEVING PUBLIC AGENCY GOALS IN PUBLIC-PRIVATE PARTNERSHIPS USING INNOVATIVE PAYMENT MECHANISMS

Shang, Luming

Public-Private Partnership (PPP), as an innovative project delivery method, is increasingly used due to its advantages in relieving the capital pressures on project development and involving more life-cycle considerations ...

Computing Long-term Daylighting Simulations from High Dynamic Range Imagery Using Deep Neural Networks

liu, yue

Practitioners and researchers utilize long-term daylighting analysis to evaluate the luminous environment under a wide range of naturally occurring sky and sun conditions. Annual simulation tools and metrics are commonly ...

Application of Optimization to the Production Planning of Construction Prefabrication Supply Chains

Ho, Chung Thi Thu

Prefabrication and modularization are a growing trend in the construction industry. Efficiencies of the operation of construction prefabrication and modularization (CP&M) supply chains result in benefits for construction ...

CPM Schedule Density: A New Predictor for Productivity Loss

Ottesen, Jeffery

This dissertation addresses construction labor trade stacking, which oftentimes creates adverse labor inefficiencies, delay and cost overruns on construction projects. Present industry practice holds that Critical Path ...

LIFEBUILDINGX Life Building Exchange: Investigating the Intersection of Pro-environmental Behavior, Place Meaning, and High-performance Design.

KRIEGH, JULIE A

The design of the physical environment and people’s relationship with that environment are both important factors related to energy conservation. While social scientists have developed theoretical frameworks to understand ...

Use of Wearable Sensors to Unveil Roles of Task Demands-Personal Resources and Burnout on Performance of Construction Workers

Lee, Wonil

This dissertation examines how task demands and personal resources affect construction workers’ productivity and safety performance. Additionally, the paper investigates the existence of a mediating mechanism of burnout ...

Integrating human health, ecology and built environment design: A TDAR Gardens Intervention case study with an informal slum community in the Peruvian Amazon

Andrews, Leann

This dissertation investigates the intertwined relationship between the built environment and human and ecological health. The project developed and implemented a collaborative action approach to explore the potential for ...

History, Narrative, and Production in the Cheonggyecheon Reconstruction

Kim, Eyun Jennifer

As cities become increasingly de-industrialized and place greater emphasis on building a sustainable future, we have seen an increase in the design of large-scale landscapes that are being incorporated into the urban fabric. ...

Identifying Valued Community Resilience Indicators and Dimensions for King County

Argiroff, Emma Leah

King County, Washington is challenged by a variety of potential shocks, such as earthquakes, and stresses, such as rising income inequality and climate change. It is therefore essential to strengthen community resilience. ...

Re-presenting Antiquity as Distinction: Pre-Arab Pasts in Tunis’ Colonial, Postcolonial and Contemporary Built Environments

Coslett, Daniel Eppes

The rich legacy of Tunisia’s ancient history has played a vital role in the articulation of its identity and its architectural and urban development for centuries. Punctuated with relics of its diverse pasts, Tunisian built ...

Recall A Chinese Traditional Residential Community -- “Hutong”

Jiao, Ang

In the current modern Chinese society, especially in the city of Beijing, the traditional neighborhood development pattern of narrow alleys fronted by courtyard residences, referred to as “hutong” have lost their vitality, ...

Barriers to a Successful and Sustainable Dynamic Car-pooling System

He, Xinchang

With technology developed in recent years, dynamic car-pooling has started to become a phenomenon. Compared to traditional car-pooling, dynamic car-pooling apps allow users to car-pool on-demand with their smartphone, ...

Instance Cities: An Infrastructure of Hope for Berlin's Refugee Populations

Trigueiro, Stephen Nicholas

Ragged tears in walls and roofs caused by bombs and gunfire exist in the memories of refugees. They carry their dead every day, and those fortunate enough to not know the death of a loved one, bear a looming sense of terror ...

Developing a Quantitative Method for the Measurement of Public Life-Supportive Urban Form: Eight Test Sites and Applications in Seattle, WA and Copenhagen, Denmark

Crozier, Ian

Urban design theorists have developed a body of knowledge about the characteristics of places that support public life. More recently, researchers have developed quantitative methods for measuring certain aspects of urban ...