Technology, Design and Process Innovation in the Built Environment / Edition 1

by Peter Newton, Keith Hampson, Robin Drogemuller

Overview

Buildings and infrastructure represent principal assets of any national economy as well as prime sources of environmental degradation. Making them more sustainable represents a key challenge for the construction, planning and design industries and governments at all levels; and the rapid urbanisation of the 21^st century has turned this into a global challenge.

This book embodies the results of a major research programme by members of the Australia Co-operative Research Centre for Construction Innovation and its global partners, presented for an international audience of construction researchers, senior professionals and advanced students. It covers four themes, applied to regeneration as well as to new build, and within the overall theme of Innovation:

• Sustainable Materials and Manufactures, focusing on building material products, their manufacture and assembly – and the reduction of their ecological ‘fingerprints’, the extension of their service lives, and their re-use and recyclability. It also explores the prospects for applying the principles of the assembly line.

• Virtual Design, Construction and Management, viewed as increasing sustainable development through automation, enhanced collaboration (such as virtual design teams), real time BL performance assessment during design, simulation of the construction process, life-cycle management of project information (zero information loss) risk minimisation, and increased potential for innovation and value adding.

• Integrating Design, Construction and Facility Management over the Project Life Cycle, by converging ICT, design science engineering and sustainability science.

• Integration across spatial scales, enabling building–infrastructure synergies (such as water and energy efficiency). Convergences between IT and design and operational processes are also viewed as a key platform increased sustainability.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781138988538
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	11/18/2016
Series:	Spon Research
Pages:	576
Product dimensions:	6.12(w) x 9.19(h) x (d)

About the Author

Peter Newton is Professor at Swinburne University and Director of the Sustainable Built Assets Program for CRC for Construction Innovation

Keith Hampson is Professor at Queensland University of Technology and CEO of the CRC for Construction Innovation

Robin Drogemuller is Professor of Digital Design at Queensland University of Technology

Table of Contents

1. Introduction 2. Materials 3. Design 4. Construction 5. Facility Management and Re-Lifeing 6. Innovation – Capture and Implementation