sustainable building design problems. A summary of common heuristic optimisation algorithms is given, covering direct search … these methods to different fields of sustainable building design. Key fields are reviewed in detail: envelope design …

Building design is quite a complicated task with the design team trying to counterbalance various antagonistic … building design optimization in an effort to explore the reasoning behind their selection, to present their abilities and …

thermal mass in light weight buildings. Identifying the best design parameters of the PCM wallboard is the main key to apply …

weighting mechanism. Since the weight plays a major role in ranking, assessing and selection of the sustainable envelope design … design. On the basis of the numerical findings, this study concludes that the proposed framework can successfully address the …

focussing on decisions regarding the design and management of the upstream segment of the biomass-for-bioenergy supply chain …. After a general description of the supply chain and the decisions coming along with the design and management, all selected …

areas of design, modeling and cost optimization aspects of power transmission lines. Power transmission utilities in the … construction are significant in achieving much higher savings in capital investments. The design and cost optimization of … cost models involving design parameters affecting the cost are required for modeling and cost optimization studies. The …

decades that addresses technical aspects of biomass stoves, i.e., their design, analysis and testing. Literature on various … design principles, features which determine the stove performance and different methods of performance prediction have been …

A universal systems design process is specified, tested in a case study and evaluated. It links English narratives to …