Life cycle assessment (LCA) is an important content of green design;the major phase of LCA is impact assessment. After classifying the impact factors, with grey-system theory, the evaluating grey-groups and their whit...Life cycle assessment (LCA) is an important content of green design;the major phase of LCA is impact assessment. After classifying the impact factors, with grey-system theory, the evaluating grey-groups and their whitening weighing functions are defined;the grey-cluster analysis of each classified impact is performed;based on analyzing results, the calculating method of classified impact index is given. By range of action, the impact classes are grouped to three groups - global impact, regional impact, and local impact;the calculating methods of grouped and overall impact index are presented. Finally, an application example of comparative choice of a category of products - three materials, steel, aluminum and engineering plastics is given.展开更多
In recent years,with the rapid development of China’s economy and the accelerating process of urbanization,China’s construction industry has advanced by leaps and bounds,driving the building decoration industry into...In recent years,with the rapid development of China’s economy and the accelerating process of urbanization,China’s construction industry has advanced by leaps and bounds,driving the building decoration industry into a golden period.As the key to urban construction and sustainable social development,the green concept has become a key requirement for the living environment of urban and rural residents,and the green concept and green life have become socially conscious.At present,green design has been widely used in the design and construction stage,but there are still many designers do not pay enough attention to it.Therefore,through the application of green design concept in interior design research,it is beneficial to realize the building indoor and outdoor ecological environmental protection as well as energy conservation and emission reduction,so as to fully meet the owner’s green ecological requirements for the indoor environment,and thus promote the healthy development of China’s building decoration industry.展开更多
In this paper, we conduct research on the combination mode of the modern product and the industrial design under the green design background. Our enterprises must set up the industrial design as the basis of the new m...In this paper, we conduct research on the combination mode of the modern product and the industrial design under the green design background. Our enterprises must set up the industrial design as the basis of the new mechanism, treatment of product, enterprise and market to trinity, cannot be indifferent to a certain aspect, to every aspect, to attach importance to technology, hard management talents, on the basis of industrial designers should play the role of soft energetically. Industrial design should have good adhesive property, product, enterprise and market more harmonious, more closely linked, creation of the technical performance, reasonable internal structure, a novel appearance, low production cost, a profound cultural products, for the enterprise to bring the most lucrative business profits, and make the market more prosperous more standardized. Under this background, we propose the novel combination pattern that holds special meaning.展开更多
Green design horizon, explore the hand-painted rendering performance techniques,from conception to take as, composition distribution, global and local processing, local expansion method, the performance of rendering a...Green design horizon, explore the hand-painted rendering performance techniques,from conception to take as, composition distribution, global and local processing, local expansion method, the performance of rendering and other aspects of analysis and propose countermeasures. Accumulation of professional material for designers and nutrients at the same time, raise awareness of the environment, space and natural understanding, To improve the aesthetic horizon, hand-painted rendering green design and students ability to innovate education is of great significance.展开更多
The paper analyze and comprehensive evaluate on the characteristics of the product life cycle in each link of the green product design and the life cycle, has obtained a series of design green design optimization meth...The paper analyze and comprehensive evaluate on the characteristics of the product life cycle in each link of the green product design and the life cycle, has obtained a series of design green design optimization method. In the choice of materials, this paper presented a method for the re-combination of recycled materials. In the recovery of the product it proposes the establishment of recycling system, and expounds the concept upgrade recovery. Design and manufacturing of green products and green recycling industry is the two most important link in green circular economic system, whether or not the coordinated development of the two sectors, is the key to the success or failure of the strategy of sustainable development.展开更多
This article mainly focuses on the concept of green design and modem horticultural product packaging design including elements which used in packaging and technology and craft of packaging.
With the development of modem social productivity improvement, people＇ s material life is more and more abundant. But the social environment is getting more and more bad corresponding, haze, water pollution, dust and...With the development of modem social productivity improvement, people＇ s material life is more and more abundant. But the social environment is getting more and more bad corresponding, haze, water pollution, dust and so on make people＇ s life quality decreased greatly. Therefore, in the design community an advocate for environmental protection design trend has been emerged, namely green design trends. There is a lot of inspiration of the green design trend to the modem city public environment facilities. It advocates the ecological principles of green design are applied to the design of urban public facilities. Insist on a full process control principle, that is, in design of the urban public environment facilities fully consider the use environmental protection material, or reduce the use of raw materials, through the design make the limited resources to achieve the processing, use, scrap, recycling and reuse of a benign cycle, and reduce the impact on the environment from.展开更多
The way of making people like to use the product by emotional and aesthetic design and making product with charm is illustrated. Examples show that to solve the green charm problem and protect environment only by peo...The way of making people like to use the product by emotional and aesthetic design and making product with charm is illustrated. Examples show that to solve the green charm problem and protect environment only by people＇s responsibility and duty is far from enough. The most important is to attract people loving the green product from the bottom of their heart and to realize the harmonious union of the nature and human beings.展开更多
At the present stage, all countries in the world attach great importance to environmental protection. As a pillar industry of China's economic development, steel industry is the backbone of promoting industrializa...At the present stage, all countries in the world attach great importance to environmental protection. As a pillar industry of China's economic development, steel industry is the backbone of promoting industrialization. However, with the vigorous development of iron and steel industry, the problem of environmental pollution has gradually emerged. If a large number of pollution sources such as waste water and waste gas are not treated effectively, they will cause serious pollution to the environment, making metallurgical enterprises the biggest pollutant emission source and high energy consumption enterprises. In the development of modern society, metallurgical engineering plays a supporting role in many industries, and it is also the main industry in the process of industrialization. On this basis, the construction and development of metallurgical engineering must strengthen pollution monitoring in the production process, implement necessary environmental protection measures, realize the coexistence of metallurgical engineering and environmental protection, and realize the sustainable development of metallurgical industry. The application of green management concept in domestic metallurgical machinery enterprises is also deepening day by day. However, as far as the current situation of green development and industrial transformation of domestic metallurgical machinery enterprises is concerned, there is still a certain gap with the international advanced level. Based on this, this paper discusses and analyzes the key technologies of green design and manufacturing in metallurgical machinery industry.展开更多
Parallel with the increasing development of China's social economy,many people are paying attention to the high-level design quality of interior design and the aesthetics and environmental protection of interior d...Parallel with the increasing development of China's social economy,many people are paying attention to the high-level design quality of interior design and the aesthetics and environmental protection of interior design.Therefore,the concept of integrating green design has become the focus of designers in the works of interior design.Based on the overview of green interior design concept,the author introduces the role and principles of green design concept in interior design,and discusses in detail the key applications of green design concept in interior design,hoping to provide reference and guidance for interior design practitioners.展开更多
This article analyzes the implementation of new environmentally friendly design practices in the construction of mountain highways.It covers topics such as green highway design concepts,alignment principles,and green ...This article analyzes the implementation of new environmentally friendly design practices in the construction of mountain highways.It covers topics such as green highway design concepts,alignment principles,and green practices specifically for mountainous highway design.This analysis aims to provide useful insights for creating green mountain highways that meet the demands of modern times.展开更多
Green energy-saving and environment-friendly are the main trends of China's social development in the future. This concept has gradually penetrated into various industries, including Chinese medicine pharmaceutica...Green energy-saving and environment-friendly are the main trends of China's social development in the future. This concept has gradually penetrated into various industries, including Chinese medicine pharmaceutical enterprises. In the production of traditional Chinese medicine, various levels of pollutants such as wastewater are easy to occur. If discharged directly into the natural environment without treatment, it will pose a serious threat to the surrounding ecological environment. Relevant workers have been devoting themselves to the treatment of the pollution problem of traditional Chinese medicine pharmacy for many years, actively responding to the national call for green environmental protection, and exploring many ways to improve the production process of traditional Chinese medicine pharmacy, among which membrane technology is an important new and high technology at present and even in the future, and it is a new and high technology that needs to be popularized and applied urgently. The use of membrane technology can effectively solve some pollution problems in production, which is helpful to promote the long-term development of pharmaceutical enterprises towards green and environmental protection.展开更多
Humans' immoderate exploit of natural resources causes a crisis to their own living environment. Besides the hazards from industry and agriculture production process, a large of garbage produced in people's da...Humans' immoderate exploit of natural resources causes a crisis to their own living environment. Besides the hazards from industry and agriculture production process, a large of garbage produced in people's daily work also destroy the ecological environment. Everyday office supplies consume considerably increasing resources. Green design indicates people's reflection on the worse environment and ecology inflicted by modern technological culture. Therefore, applying green design to office supplies, big resources consumers, has a profound and practical meaning in improving our living environment.展开更多
Over the past century,advancements in chemistry have significantly propelled human innovation,enhancing both industrial and consumer products.However,this rapid progression has resulted in chemical pollution increasin...Over the past century,advancements in chemistry have significantly propelled human innovation,enhancing both industrial and consumer products.However,this rapid progression has resulted in chemical pollution increasingly surpassing planetary boundaries,as production and release rates have outpaced our monitoring capabilities.To catalyze more impactful efforts,this study transitions from traditional chemical assessment to inverse chemical design,introducing a generative graph latent diffusion model aimed at discovering safer alternatives.In a case study on the design of green solvents for cyclohexane/benzene extraction distillation,we constructed a design database encompassing functional,environmental hazards,and process constraints.Virtual screening of previous design dataset revealed distinct trade-off trends between these design requirements.Based on the screening outcomes,an unconstrained generative model was developed,which covered a broader chemical space and demonstrated superior capabilities for structural interpolation and extrapolation.To further optimize molecular generation towards desired properties,a multi-objective latent diffusion method was applied,yielding 19 candidate molecules.Of these,7 were identified in PubChem as the most viable green solvent candidates,while the remaining 12 as potential novel candidates.Overall,this study effectively designed green solvent candidates for safer and more sustainable industrial production,setting a promising precedent for the development of environmentally friendly alternatives in other areas of chemical research.展开更多
Green design and manufacturing is a proactive approach to minimize wastes during a product’s design stage, thus preventing future environmental impacts. Current modular design method mainly focuses on product functio...Green design and manufacturing is a proactive approach to minimize wastes during a product’s design stage, thus preventing future environmental impacts. Current modular design method mainly focuses on product functional and manufacturing issues. In this paper, a theoretical scheme of multi-objective modularity analysis for discrete electromechanical product design was proposed. Product physical architecture was represented by a fuzzy graph, where fuzzy relationships contain environmental objectives and influence module formulation. Finally the optimal product modules combining all objectives can be searched by clustering algorithm.展开更多
The sustainability of the planning and design goals of urban green land and that of its maintenance and management are mutually related and act as an organic whole. For a long time, the independence of the two is more...The sustainability of the planning and design goals of urban green land and that of its maintenance and management are mutually related and act as an organic whole. For a long time, the independence of the two is more prominent than their organic connection. This research has made preliminary considerations from three aspects. First, it concerns infusing the concept of ecology, contemplating and demonstrating space, as well as reducing the incidence of plant diseases and insect pests of urban green land. Second, the arrangement of flowers and trees for the planning and design of urban green land should comply with the biological attributes of flowers and trees to realize the organic unification of biological and scenic attributes of flowers and trees. Third, the planning and design of urban green land should attach importance to the organic unification of biological and scenic attributes of lawn grass seeds and reduce the difficulty of maintaining lawn. This research attempts to reduce the pressure of maintaining urban green land from the beginning, i.e. the planning and design of urban green land. It also tries to reduce the cost of maintenance and management to the realize planning and design goals of urban green land and the sustainability concerning its maintenance and management and arrive at the mutual unification of the planning and design as well as maintenance and management of urban green land.展开更多
Road greenbelt design is one of the important parts in urban road system.Zhangye City's road greenbelt design,relying on the general planning concept,namely,'water leads to green space,green space blends the c...Road greenbelt design is one of the important parts in urban road system.Zhangye City's road greenbelt design,relying on the general planning concept,namely,'water leads to green space,green space blends the city',emphasizes the harmonious relation between the greenbelt and ecological environment.The concept is adopted to guide the green design of the major roads,subsidiary roads,and trunk roads.It will offer some references for the similar engineering design.展开更多
Studies investigating the benefits of green buildings can be approached by the affor-dance theory-the perceived properties of a thing that determine how it could pos-sibly be used.This study focuses on the sustainable...Studies investigating the benefits of green buildings can be approached by the affor-dance theory-the perceived properties of a thing that determine how it could pos-sibly be used.This study focuses on the sustainable communication and education that a green building should provide.By applying the affordance theory,we examined whether a LEED-certified university campus building effectively communicates green design and sustainability to its users and if so,then how?We employed a question-naire survey targeting campus users of a LEED-certified building by examining their awareness of the building’s LEED status and perception of green design elements at multiple spatial scales,as well as their general knowledge on green building topics.We collected 177 questionnaires,of which 153 were qualified for statistical analysis.The results suggested that the building itself can afford to promote awareness among users,but cannot afford to educate users on general green building knowledge.We found that building users perceived green design at different spatial scales,preferring either product or space-related design.Our results indicate that future design should continue promoting the use of educational signage,which was found to be the most effective communicator of sustainability.The communication of green design to users with different spatial preferences remains a future research focus.Further studies on the innovative use of green building design as effective communicators are needed to promote sustainability education among the building users.展开更多
The selection of the project delivery method(PDM)for any project is critical—it establishes the communication,coordination,and contractual interfaces between the owner,contractor,and designer.With an increase in the ...The selection of the project delivery method(PDM)for any project is critical—it establishes the communication,coordination,and contractual interfaces between the owner,contractor,and designer.With an increase in the number of green design projects,understanding the relationship between the PDM and green design is paramount to project and contract management.While it is reasonable to assume that a relationship between green design and design-build(DB)exists since both theoretically are intended to foster an integrated,holistic,team-based collaborative project;it is also appropriate to understand the relationship between green design and other PDMs.This preliminary research examined possible relationships between design-bid-build(DBB),construction management(CM),and DB PDMs and green design with the goal of beginning to identify potential positive correspondence between them.To develop an initial understanding,two main tasks were completed.First,existing published research was evaluated to reveal aspects of projects and PDMs independent of green design.Second,the research collected primarily qualitative information by conducting structured interviews with approximately twenty-five individuals,including owners,contractors,and designers involved in completed green design projects,mainly in the public sector.Upon completion of the structured interviews,responses from the interviews were reviewed for green design project characteristics.Additionally,the interviews provided insight on the initial understanding of the current state of knowledge and experience in green design and PDMs.After the two main tasks were completed,both were evaluated for commonalities.Preliminary results found that seven green design project characteristics emerged that in some cases related to a specific PDM,but in other cases were independent of a PDM.Future research will quantitatively investigate the relationship between green design projects,PDMs,and success factors.展开更多
文摘Life cycle assessment (LCA) is an important content of green design;the major phase of LCA is impact assessment. After classifying the impact factors, with grey-system theory, the evaluating grey-groups and their whitening weighing functions are defined;the grey-cluster analysis of each classified impact is performed;based on analyzing results, the calculating method of classified impact index is given. By range of action, the impact classes are grouped to three groups - global impact, regional impact, and local impact;the calculating methods of grouped and overall impact index are presented. Finally, an application example of comparative choice of a category of products - three materials, steel, aluminum and engineering plastics is given.
文摘In recent years,with the rapid development of China’s economy and the accelerating process of urbanization,China’s construction industry has advanced by leaps and bounds,driving the building decoration industry into a golden period.As the key to urban construction and sustainable social development,the green concept has become a key requirement for the living environment of urban and rural residents,and the green concept and green life have become socially conscious.At present,green design has been widely used in the design and construction stage,but there are still many designers do not pay enough attention to it.Therefore,through the application of green design concept in interior design research,it is beneficial to realize the building indoor and outdoor ecological environmental protection as well as energy conservation and emission reduction,so as to fully meet the owner’s green ecological requirements for the indoor environment,and thus promote the healthy development of China’s building decoration industry.
文摘In this paper, we conduct research on the combination mode of the modern product and the industrial design under the green design background. Our enterprises must set up the industrial design as the basis of the new mechanism, treatment of product, enterprise and market to trinity, cannot be indifferent to a certain aspect, to every aspect, to attach importance to technology, hard management talents, on the basis of industrial designers should play the role of soft energetically. Industrial design should have good adhesive property, product, enterprise and market more harmonious, more closely linked, creation of the technical performance, reasonable internal structure, a novel appearance, low production cost, a profound cultural products, for the enterprise to bring the most lucrative business profits, and make the market more prosperous more standardized. Under this background, we propose the novel combination pattern that holds special meaning.
文摘Green design horizon, explore the hand-painted rendering performance techniques,from conception to take as, composition distribution, global and local processing, local expansion method, the performance of rendering and other aspects of analysis and propose countermeasures. Accumulation of professional material for designers and nutrients at the same time, raise awareness of the environment, space and natural understanding, To improve the aesthetic horizon, hand-painted rendering green design and students ability to innovate education is of great significance.
文摘The paper analyze and comprehensive evaluate on the characteristics of the product life cycle in each link of the green product design and the life cycle, has obtained a series of design green design optimization method. In the choice of materials, this paper presented a method for the re-combination of recycled materials. In the recovery of the product it proposes the establishment of recycling system, and expounds the concept upgrade recovery. Design and manufacturing of green products and green recycling industry is the two most important link in green circular economic system, whether or not the coordinated development of the two sectors, is the key to the success or failure of the strategy of sustainable development.
文摘This article mainly focuses on the concept of green design and modem horticultural product packaging design including elements which used in packaging and technology and craft of packaging.
文摘With the development of modem social productivity improvement, people＇ s material life is more and more abundant. But the social environment is getting more and more bad corresponding, haze, water pollution, dust and so on make people＇ s life quality decreased greatly. Therefore, in the design community an advocate for environmental protection design trend has been emerged, namely green design trends. There is a lot of inspiration of the green design trend to the modem city public environment facilities. It advocates the ecological principles of green design are applied to the design of urban public facilities. Insist on a full process control principle, that is, in design of the urban public environment facilities fully consider the use environmental protection material, or reduce the use of raw materials, through the design make the limited resources to achieve the processing, use, scrap, recycling and reuse of a benign cycle, and reduce the impact on the environment from.
文摘The way of making people like to use the product by emotional and aesthetic design and making product with charm is illustrated. Examples show that to solve the green charm problem and protect environment only by people＇s responsibility and duty is far from enough. The most important is to attract people loving the green product from the bottom of their heart and to realize the harmonious union of the nature and human beings.
文摘At the present stage, all countries in the world attach great importance to environmental protection. As a pillar industry of China's economic development, steel industry is the backbone of promoting industrialization. However, with the vigorous development of iron and steel industry, the problem of environmental pollution has gradually emerged. If a large number of pollution sources such as waste water and waste gas are not treated effectively, they will cause serious pollution to the environment, making metallurgical enterprises the biggest pollutant emission source and high energy consumption enterprises. In the development of modern society, metallurgical engineering plays a supporting role in many industries, and it is also the main industry in the process of industrialization. On this basis, the construction and development of metallurgical engineering must strengthen pollution monitoring in the production process, implement necessary environmental protection measures, realize the coexistence of metallurgical engineering and environmental protection, and realize the sustainable development of metallurgical industry. The application of green management concept in domestic metallurgical machinery enterprises is also deepening day by day. However, as far as the current situation of green development and industrial transformation of domestic metallurgical machinery enterprises is concerned, there is still a certain gap with the international advanced level. Based on this, this paper discusses and analyzes the key technologies of green design and manufacturing in metallurgical machinery industry.
文摘Parallel with the increasing development of China's social economy,many people are paying attention to the high-level design quality of interior design and the aesthetics and environmental protection of interior design.Therefore,the concept of integrating green design has become the focus of designers in the works of interior design.Based on the overview of green interior design concept,the author introduces the role and principles of green design concept in interior design,and discusses in detail the key applications of green design concept in interior design,hoping to provide reference and guidance for interior design practitioners.
文摘This article analyzes the implementation of new environmentally friendly design practices in the construction of mountain highways.It covers topics such as green highway design concepts,alignment principles,and green practices specifically for mountainous highway design.This analysis aims to provide useful insights for creating green mountain highways that meet the demands of modern times.
文摘Green energy-saving and environment-friendly are the main trends of China's social development in the future. This concept has gradually penetrated into various industries, including Chinese medicine pharmaceutical enterprises. In the production of traditional Chinese medicine, various levels of pollutants such as wastewater are easy to occur. If discharged directly into the natural environment without treatment, it will pose a serious threat to the surrounding ecological environment. Relevant workers have been devoting themselves to the treatment of the pollution problem of traditional Chinese medicine pharmacy for many years, actively responding to the national call for green environmental protection, and exploring many ways to improve the production process of traditional Chinese medicine pharmacy, among which membrane technology is an important new and high technology at present and even in the future, and it is a new and high technology that needs to be popularized and applied urgently. The use of membrane technology can effectively solve some pollution problems in production, which is helpful to promote the long-term development of pharmaceutical enterprises towards green and environmental protection.
文摘Humans' immoderate exploit of natural resources causes a crisis to their own living environment. Besides the hazards from industry and agriculture production process, a large of garbage produced in people's daily work also destroy the ecological environment. Everyday office supplies consume considerably increasing resources. Green design indicates people's reflection on the worse environment and ecology inflicted by modern technological culture. Therefore, applying green design to office supplies, big resources consumers, has a profound and practical meaning in improving our living environment.
基金supported by Shanghai Science and Technology Commission Project(No.21DZ1201502)Shanghai Municipal Bureau of Ecology and Environment(Shanghai Environ-mental Science[2023]No.40)+1 种基金the Interdisciplinary Joint Research Project of Tongji University(No.2022-4-YB-12)Shanghai Science and Technology Commission Project(No.22DZ2200200).
文摘Over the past century,advancements in chemistry have significantly propelled human innovation,enhancing both industrial and consumer products.However,this rapid progression has resulted in chemical pollution increasingly surpassing planetary boundaries,as production and release rates have outpaced our monitoring capabilities.To catalyze more impactful efforts,this study transitions from traditional chemical assessment to inverse chemical design,introducing a generative graph latent diffusion model aimed at discovering safer alternatives.In a case study on the design of green solvents for cyclohexane/benzene extraction distillation,we constructed a design database encompassing functional,environmental hazards,and process constraints.Virtual screening of previous design dataset revealed distinct trade-off trends between these design requirements.Based on the screening outcomes,an unconstrained generative model was developed,which covered a broader chemical space and demonstrated superior capabilities for structural interpolation and extrapolation.To further optimize molecular generation towards desired properties,a multi-objective latent diffusion method was applied,yielding 19 candidate molecules.Of these,7 were identified in PubChem as the most viable green solvent candidates,while the remaining 12 as potential novel candidates.Overall,this study effectively designed green solvent candidates for safer and more sustainable industrial production,setting a promising precedent for the development of environmentally friendly alternatives in other areas of chemical research.
基金National Natural Science Foundation ofChina (No.50375086)
文摘Green design and manufacturing is a proactive approach to minimize wastes during a product’s design stage, thus preventing future environmental impacts. Current modular design method mainly focuses on product functional and manufacturing issues. In this paper, a theoretical scheme of multi-objective modularity analysis for discrete electromechanical product design was proposed. Product physical architecture was represented by a fuzzy graph, where fuzzy relationships contain environmental objectives and influence module formulation. Finally the optimal product modules combining all objectives can be searched by clustering algorithm.
基金Sponsored by S & T Development Program(2008)of Suzhou Municipal S&T Bureau:"Study on the Early-warning Standards for the Protection and Monitoring of Ancient Trees in Suzhou Classical Gardens(SS08055)~~
文摘The sustainability of the planning and design goals of urban green land and that of its maintenance and management are mutually related and act as an organic whole. For a long time, the independence of the two is more prominent than their organic connection. This research has made preliminary considerations from three aspects. First, it concerns infusing the concept of ecology, contemplating and demonstrating space, as well as reducing the incidence of plant diseases and insect pests of urban green land. Second, the arrangement of flowers and trees for the planning and design of urban green land should comply with the biological attributes of flowers and trees to realize the organic unification of biological and scenic attributes of flowers and trees. Third, the planning and design of urban green land should attach importance to the organic unification of biological and scenic attributes of lawn grass seeds and reduce the difficulty of maintaining lawn. This research attempts to reduce the pressure of maintaining urban green land from the beginning, i.e. the planning and design of urban green land. It also tries to reduce the cost of maintenance and management to the realize planning and design goals of urban green land and the sustainability concerning its maintenance and management and arrive at the mutual unification of the planning and design as well as maintenance and management of urban green land.
文摘Road greenbelt design is one of the important parts in urban road system.Zhangye City's road greenbelt design,relying on the general planning concept,namely,'water leads to green space,green space blends the city',emphasizes the harmonious relation between the greenbelt and ecological environment.The concept is adopted to guide the green design of the major roads,subsidiary roads,and trunk roads.It will offer some references for the similar engineering design.
基金supported by the Sustainable Energy Program of the National Science Foundation(CHE1230246).
文摘Studies investigating the benefits of green buildings can be approached by the affor-dance theory-the perceived properties of a thing that determine how it could pos-sibly be used.This study focuses on the sustainable communication and education that a green building should provide.By applying the affordance theory,we examined whether a LEED-certified university campus building effectively communicates green design and sustainability to its users and if so,then how?We employed a question-naire survey targeting campus users of a LEED-certified building by examining their awareness of the building’s LEED status and perception of green design elements at multiple spatial scales,as well as their general knowledge on green building topics.We collected 177 questionnaires,of which 153 were qualified for statistical analysis.The results suggested that the building itself can afford to promote awareness among users,but cannot afford to educate users on general green building knowledge.We found that building users perceived green design at different spatial scales,preferring either product or space-related design.Our results indicate that future design should continue promoting the use of educational signage,which was found to be the most effective communicator of sustainability.The communication of green design to users with different spatial preferences remains a future research focus.Further studies on the innovative use of green building design as effective communicators are needed to promote sustainability education among the building users.
文摘The selection of the project delivery method(PDM)for any project is critical—it establishes the communication,coordination,and contractual interfaces between the owner,contractor,and designer.With an increase in the number of green design projects,understanding the relationship between the PDM and green design is paramount to project and contract management.While it is reasonable to assume that a relationship between green design and design-build(DB)exists since both theoretically are intended to foster an integrated,holistic,team-based collaborative project;it is also appropriate to understand the relationship between green design and other PDMs.This preliminary research examined possible relationships between design-bid-build(DBB),construction management(CM),and DB PDMs and green design with the goal of beginning to identify potential positive correspondence between them.To develop an initial understanding,two main tasks were completed.First,existing published research was evaluated to reveal aspects of projects and PDMs independent of green design.Second,the research collected primarily qualitative information by conducting structured interviews with approximately twenty-five individuals,including owners,contractors,and designers involved in completed green design projects,mainly in the public sector.Upon completion of the structured interviews,responses from the interviews were reviewed for green design project characteristics.Additionally,the interviews provided insight on the initial understanding of the current state of knowledge and experience in green design and PDMs.After the two main tasks were completed,both were evaluated for commonalities.Preliminary results found that seven green design project characteristics emerged that in some cases related to a specific PDM,but in other cases were independent of a PDM.Future research will quantitatively investigate the relationship between green design projects,PDMs,and success factors.
