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A Method for Evaluating the Architectural Quality of Storefronts Using Statistical Methods
Due to the complexity and long-life cycle of architectural projects, the evaluation of architectural performance is an irreplaceable part of design. Existing systematic building evaluation methods mainly focus on structural, ... -
A Quantitative Analysis of the Impact of Integrating Digital Technology for Formwork Fabrication on Human Factors Perspectives
With the current advancements in artificially intelligent machines and robotic systems, the use of digital fabrication tools has become the mainstream of construction industrialization. Digital fabrication facilitates the ... -
Accessing the Alternative Food Movement: Considerations towards Disability Justice
The alternative food movement makes claims to seek a more just food system, andinterdisciplinary scholarship has investigated the consequences of different facets of the movement to its transformative potential. In this ... -
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 ... -
Aligning Contractual, Technological, and Organizational Elements to Achieve Higher Performance buildings: A Qualitative Comparative Analysis Approach
High Performance (HP) buildings are rapidly growing phenomena in Architecture Engineering and Construction industry, addressing many criteria affecting the buildings’ design and construction such as sustainability, ... -
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 ... -
Assessing Resilience in the Spatial Patterns and Socio-ecological Functions of the Chengdu Plain
With the rapid process of urbanization, many traditional rural landscapes in the world have shrunk or even disappeared. As a special type of rural landscape, the linpan landscapes interwoven with the scattered market towns ... -
Augmented Light: Advancing Window & Lighting Technology
Light has an innate ability to impact the physiological state of human beings. Although, modern day architecture hasmade immense strides in lighting design, little has been done to leverage this unique characteristic of ... -
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 ... -
Building watershed narratives: two case studies of urban streams in Seattle, Washington
(2007)My research responds to calls from both practitioners and theorists to broaden the approaches for identifying and addressing the problems inherent within urban streams and rivers by utilizing a narrative-based, case study ... -
CARESCAPES: TRANSNATIONAL URBAN REDEVELOPMENT OF THE POST-COLONIAL HONG KONG
(2013-04-17)Drawing upon the massive redevelopment catalyzed by the government-led urban renewal in Hong Kong in the past two decades, this research pays attention to how biased normalization of care and dependency contributes to a ... -
Clean Energy Justice: Clean Energy Access and Vulnerable Communities toward Just Energy Transition
This dissertation proposes clean energy justice that links energy justice to clean energy access and vulnerable communities in terms of geographic distribution (distributional justice) and community attributes with respect ... -
Coming Home to the Land: Natural Farming as Therapeutic Landscape Experience in Chengdu Plain, China
This ethnographic-phenomenological research aims to explore the phenomenon of peri-urban farming, rural-urban integration, and community building that are crystallized in Chengdu Plain, China in recent years. Through the ... -
A Community-Based Grassroots Organization in the South Bronx as a Catalyst for Youth Organizing and Activism: Analyzing the Dynamics of a Transformative Youth Program
(2014-02-24)A transformative youth program is an approach to youth development that is focused on engaging youth in understanding and changing unjust conditions in their lives, thereby transforming themselves and the communities in ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
Creating Flexibility from Rigidity: A New Way of Looking at the Mass Timber Panel
Using mass timber panels in the built environment in any capacity requires offsite prefabrication and frequently involves preassembly in a factory. On site construction and assembly is then much faster, cleaner, quieter, ... -
Cultural Resilience in Asia: A Comparative Study of Heritage Conservation in Lijiang and Bagan
The practices of historic preservation have long been highly influenced by the UNESCO's international guidelines that classify the significance of local living heritage into tangible and intangible categories. This approach ... -
Density and Built Environments on Suicide Rates: Improving Urban Planning for Mental Health and Well-being
This thesis examines the relationship between the Built Environment and suicide mortality rates, focusing on improving urban planning standards and practices to promote mental health and well-being in communities. The ... -
Design for a Reconfigurable Mass Timber Building System
Mass timber products like glulam and cross-laminated timber(CLT) can store / sequester carbon in building stocks for as long as the building components remain in use. For this carbon reduction to have a significant impact, ...