Weighting and selection of criteria for the sustainable performance assessment of building envelope are onerous process … for building designers, since the process needs to be carefully undertaken in order to adequately assess the sustainable … criteria for the assessment of the building envelope sustainable performance is both challenging and technically complex. A lot …

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 … used with various decision variables and objective goals. This paper is a review of the methods and tools used for the …

optimisation system is designed based on the PAT technology, and includes two objectives (i.e. total pumping rate and average post … remediation are determined by a proxy model, which integrates simulation, inference, and optimisation technologies and is composed …-objective optimisation problem to find optimal solutions. The model is then applied to a petroleum-contaminated aquifer in western Canada …

considerations. Further, this teaching must have regard to the multi-disciplinary and integrated nature of building design and … development of syllabus and curriculum items for construction related courses. The Sustainable Building Network has recently been …