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ACHIEVING PUBLIC AGENCY GOALS IN PUBLIC-PRIVATE PARTNERSHIPS USING INNOVATIVE PAYMENT MECHANISMS
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
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 ... -
The Black Spatial Imaginary in Urban Design Practice: Lessons for Creating Black-affirming Public Spaces
University of Washington Abstract The Black Spatial Imaginary in Urban Design Practice: Lessons for Creating Black-affirming Public Spaces Chair of the Supervisory Committee: Rachel Berney Urban Design & Planning The spatial ... -
X-Maps: A Computational Method for Space Planning Using Multi-Variate Occupant Comfort
The indoor experience can be affected by several environmental conditions, including visual, thermal and acoustic comfort, air quality, biophilia, layout, and aesthetic. There are physical metrics for each aspect that are ... -
soilcraft | a necessary fiction
This thesis employs design fiction as a practice to suspend belief and present alternative urban soil futures. A recent expansion of classification by soil scientists to better describe and qualify industrial soil types ... -
Application of Optimization to the Production Planning of Construction Prefabrication Supply Chains
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
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.
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
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
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
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
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
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”
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
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
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
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 ... -
Assessing the Technology Used by UAVs in Data Acquisition on Construction Sites
The question this thesis intends to answer is whether General Contractors (GCs) can indeed benefit from the use of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) in the construction process. With the technology of UAVs, cameras, ... -
Becoming an Architect: Narratives of Architectural Education
This dissertation examines the personal narratives of several aspiring architects to investigate the emergence of “occupational identities”—or how individuals navigate their education to construct a sense of themselves ... -
A Feasibility Analysis of Parcel B-4-24 Development Project in Huaihua City, China
This study examines the potential feasibility of the proposed development for the Parcel B-4-24 in Huaihua City, Hunan Province, China. This study reviews and compares academic real estate development principles, previous ...
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