From afterthought to precondition: re-engaging design ethics from technology, sustainability, and responsibility

Proceedings of DRS 2016, Design Research Society 50th Anniversary Conference. Brighton, UK, 27–30 June 201

Cable-Stayed Bridges: The Düsseldorf Bridge Family

The heart of the famous Düsseldorf Bridge Family are the three cable-stayed bridges built between the late 50s and early 70s of the last century. They mark the beginning of the development of Modern cable-stayed bridges, but not only from a technological point of view. Instead they develop the aesthetical potential once the new structural type has become favorable all over the world

FOUNDATION OF THE NEW RAILWAY BRIDGE OVER THE NOSICKÁ DAM ON THE RIVER VÁH

The new railway bridge over the Nosická dam is a part of the complex modernization of the railway corridor from Púchov to Žilina. Our company participated on the project using a wide variety of special foundation techniques on artificial islands for piers P6, P5, P4 and P3 and the pillar foundations. We applied the many years of experience gained by our company through working on projects involving water. Bored piles, as well as vibrated sheet piles, welding and assemblage work have all been carried out from a floating pontoon platform and also there was jet grouting applied to stabilize embankments. At the same time we provided active assistance with temporary floating bridges and platforms for the kind of transfer on water required by our client

Sustainable Architecture Design: Environmental and Economic Benefits

This thesis examines the movement of environmentalism, and its impact on architecture and construction. During an interview with a professional architect, a basis for research of sustainable design was devised, when he explained that “good” architecture attempts to holistically integrate the external and built environment. Presently, the main measurement for sustainability is energy efficiency. Therefore, architects constantly implement new technology in an attempt to unify both the external and built environment in an energy efficient manner. Furthermore, this thesis provides an environmental and financial cost analysis of implementing sustainable design and build. Research shows that the life cycle and up-front costs are the most important considerations for the construction industry. If the operational costs and up-front costs can be decreased, sustainable build may become a more attractive business venture. In conclusion, expectations would be that as sustainable construction technology continues to be refined, the momentum of the environmental movement and economies of scale will cause sustainable construction to become more attainable

Construction Safety Ontology Development and Alignment with Industry Foundation Classes (IFC)

A pronounced gap often exists between expected and actual safety performance in the construction industry. The multifaceted causes of this performance gap are resulting from the misalignment between design assumptions and actual construction processes that take place on-site. In general, critical factors are rooted in the lack of interoperability around the building and work-environment information due to its heterogeneous nature. To overcome the interoperability challenge in safety management, this paper represents the development of an ontological model consisting of terms and relationships between these terms, creating a conceptual information model for construction safety management and linking that ontology to IfcOWL. The developed ontology, named Safety and Health Exchange (SHE), comprises eight concepts and their relationships required to identify and manage safety risks in the design and planning stages. The main concepts of the developed ontology are identified based on reviewing accident cases from 165 Reporting of Injuries, Diseases and Dangerous Occurrences Regulations (RIDDOR) and 31 Press Releases from the database of the Health and Safety Executive (HSE) in the United Kingdom. Consequently, a semantic mapping between the developed ontology and IfcOWL (the most popular ontology and schema for interoperability in the AEC sector) is proposed. Then several SPARQL queries were developed and implemented to evaluate the semantic consistency of the developed ontology and the cross-mapping. The proposed ontology and cross-mapping gained recognition for its innovation in utilising OpenBIM and won the BuildingSMART professional research award 2020. This work could facilitate developing a knowledge-based system in the BIM environment to assist designers in addressing health and safety issues during the design and planning phases in the construction sector

The relationship between sustainability and contemporary fashion design: an analysis of the segment jeanswear

Fashion is one of the reflexes that best expresses the dynamics of contemporary, and sustainability is one of the questioner agents of the concept and approach of fashion and fashion design, this way, the purpose of this paper is to present a critical analysis of the relationship between fashion and sustainability, with the aim of comparing and verifying the discourses of advocated by jeanswear segment companies and the development of its garments, called “sustainable”. The reasoning begins from literature review of these areas added to field research with structured interviews, application of questionnaires and later analysis of companies