Society’s Blueprint of Architecture: an analytical reading of national building laws as canonical text on the object of architecture

Ponència presentada a: Session 5: Del diseño a la obra / From design until the building processe

RESEARCH WORK ON THE DESIGN PROCESS WITHIN THE IGLC CONFERENCE

ABSTRACT The design process has been widely researched and discussed within the International Group for Lean Construction (IGLC). This paper aims at exploring the research on the design process carried out during the period (1993 to 2013) of annual conferences within the IGLC community. The authors have examined all published work over this period and sorted out those considered to contribute to design process research. The annual number of publications on design process was found to have increased. An overview of all the published work is included and sorted after year according to five categories; Theory, Review, Status report, Implementation and IT-tools. The proposed categories indicate there are more practically oriented than theory based publications on the design process. In light of the findings, future studies ought to be twofold. Firstly, there is a need for further development on how to apply lean principles in design processes. Secondly, more success stories from the early majority will spread the use of the lean principles in design processes. The conclusions of this paper will lay premises for the research questions in an ongoing PhD study

Society’s Blueprint of Architecture: an analytical reading of national building laws as canonical text on the object of architecture

Ponència presentada a: Session 5: Del diseño a la obra / From design until the building processe

Montana Kaimin, February 5, 2003

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Landslide risk reduction through close partnership between research, industry, and public entities in Norway: Pilots and case studies

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Ethics of Climate Change Adaptation -The Case of Torrential Rains in Norway

This article analyses adaptation to climate induced challenges in form of torrential rains hitting urban landscapes in Norway with increased frequency. Specifically, it investigates the influence of the industry structure on ethical challenges when the climate changes. A meta-analysis of the scientific output from a major multi-disciplinary research program is carried out. In addition, the methods include use of expert opinions, literature review and document studies. Climate change adaptation challenges disciplines within civil engineering and natural sciences. Following this, established practices need alteration as specialists face new ethical challenges. Practical climate change adaptation requires the ability to overcome silo mentality among the involved disciplines. Challenges involve acknowledging responsibility, transparency, and information quality. Engineering takes place in an environment of incomplete knowledge. In addition, there is a high degree of decentralised decision-making and directives, and laws and regulations are often lagging after the experienced challenges. Consequently, individual experts experience increased ethical challenges. Systemic circumstances apprehension is necessary for reducing societal risks within climate change adaptation. Both education of engineers and cooperation between specialists from different disciplines is needed to master the altered framework conditions.publishedVersio

The emergence of lean construction in the Norwegian AEC industry

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Surpassing the Limits to Human Cognition? On the Level of Detail in the Norwegian Building Design Guide

The SINTEF Building Research Design Guides are a series of Norwegian building technical recommendations. The design guides are highly reputed and widely used in the Norwegian construction sector, serving as a link between the technical regulations and the design process of the individual construction project. This paper examines the element of risk in the use of multiple design guides to extract information about a topic not explicitly covered by any single guide, using the example of blue-green roofs. The research has been conducted in the form of a document study. While the advice given in the design guides is both valid and coherent, the amount of information presented is likely to be overwhelming for industry professionals. There are great degrees of awareness of quality risk present in the individual design guides, but an overall risk picture is not presented. Input from the fields of project management and psychology can help develop risk awareness strategies. The design guides may benefit from an aggregate level of information, where main technical challenges are grouped into super-level categories.publishedVersio