Developing design option assessment methods for high-rise residential building adaptation projects
| dc.contributor.author | Shahi, Sheida | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2021-04-01T15:44:43Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2021-04-01T15:44:43Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2021-04-01 | |
| dc.date.submitted | 2021-03-29 | |
| dc.description.abstract | Adapting existing buildings is complex, but it can reduce the ratio of operating-to-embodied energy and the amount of demolition and construction waste. There has been a growing interest in the adaptation of existing buildings over the past decade as a response to changing environmental conditions and resource depletion. A cohesive perspective on project scope definition, design option assessment, tools and techniques for improving building adaptation is demonstrated. A definition framework is developed first, enabling consistent categorization of building adaptation projects. Then, a decision-making framework is presented for supporting generation, evaluation and selection of multiple conceptually orthogonal design options as a basis for future computational design optimization and detailed design. Lastly, a methodology is developed to improve building adaptation design decision-making by considering multiple environmental and financial parameters, using physics-based simulation tools and decision-making frameworks including multi-attribute utility and interactive multi-objective optimization. The combination of frameworks and methodologies presented in this thesis have been demonstrated to be useful in clarifying building adaptation project scope and definition, and early-stage design and feasibility decision-making. This thesis marks a reference for the future development of interactive and computational tools for improving the proliferation and performance of building adaptation projects. | en |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/10012/16867 | |
| dc.language.iso | en | en |
| dc.pending | false | |
| dc.publisher | University of Waterloo | en |
| dc.subject | building adaptation | en |
| dc.subject | adaptive reuse | en |
| dc.subject | design appraisal | en |
| dc.subject | design optimization | en |
| dc.subject | physics-based simulation tools | en |
| dc.title | Developing design option assessment methods for high-rise residential building adaptation projects | en |
| dc.type | Doctoral Thesis | en |
| uws-etd.degree | Doctor of Philosophy | en |
| uws-etd.degree.department | Civil and Environmental Engineering | en |
| uws-etd.degree.discipline | Civil Engineering | en |
| uws-etd.degree.grantor | University of Waterloo | en |
| uws-etd.embargo.terms | 0 | en |
| uws.contributor.advisor | Haas, Carl | |
| uws.contributor.advisor | Beesley, Philip | |
| uws.contributor.affiliation1 | Faculty of Engineering | en |
| uws.peerReviewStatus | Unreviewed | en |
| uws.published.city | Waterloo | en |
| uws.published.country | Canada | en |
| uws.published.province | Ontario | en |
| uws.scholarLevel | Graduate | en |
| uws.typeOfResource | Text | en |