I am working with Mariano Amisial on this project. The
title is Green Building Vs Intelligent Building. We will explore the similarity
and difference between green and intelligent building. We choose this topic,
because we are interested in the development and application of these two
buildings. Through doing this project, we want to clearly distinguish these two
types of building and we will focus on their impacts on environment in multiple
areas and how intelligent building technologies can be used to develop the
green building.
We will start by explaining the definition and concept
of both building. Although intelligent technologies can often be used in developing
a green building, they are not very similar. From our research, green building
is considered as ecological and sustainable building. It requires to consider
the water use, electric use and indoor environment quality in plan, design,
construction and operation processes. Intelligent building is to use
technologies and building process to reduce the environment impacts, to
increase employee productivity and to convenient the building’s owner. Then, we
will discuss the advantage and disadvantage of these two buildings. Through our
research, we found some buildings that are both intelligent and green. We will
use two recently built buildings as example for illustration. There are many
intelligent technologies such as LEED and building information system are used
in the intelligent building. These technologies can also be used in green
building. We will analyze the advantage and disadvantage of applying these
technologies on the green building. In addition, we will discuss both building’s
impact on the environment. As we all know, green building is built in green
standard, which has less impact on the environment. Therefore, we will try to find
out what impacts might have during the construction process. For intelligent
building, it might have higher impacts on the environment because of the technologies
used. Intelligent building can be very smart and luxury that do not use ecofriendly
materials for construction. These are problems we will analyze in the research.
The most challenge of this project is to find appropriate
evident to support our thesis. There are many areas can be explored in this
topic. We should avoid too vague or too broad exploration. It is important for
us to focus on one or two areas to have a deep analysis.
Source Cited:
A.H. Buckman, M. Mayfield, Stephen B.M. Beck, (2014)
"What is a Smart Building?", Smart and Sustainable Built Environment,
Vol. 3 Issue: 2, pp.92-109, https://doi.org/10.1108/SASBE-01-2014-0003
Sarah Hollis Comments:
Sarah,
Your ideas of the advancement of BIM in workflow is
very interesting. With the development of BIM, the computer or system technologies
will perform important roles in a project. I think you can focus on how develop
in BIM will affect the workflow currently and in the future. In addition, their
application in engineering and architecture areas can be analyzed.
Luciana Tangari Comments:
Luciana,
Your project seems very interesting. I am also doing
the comparison between green and intelligent building on my project. I will
focus on how intelligent technologies can develop the green building. I agree
with you that the distinguish of the concept is very important because these two
buildings look similar. If concept is not clear, it will hard to find
appropriate evident to support the thesis.
Cody Johnson Comments:
Cody,
Your project of 3D scanning seems very interesting. I agree
that the develop of 3D scanning can create the model that help constructor and
designer to better measure the site. It is like Revit and AutoCAD. Your can
have a better understand of site through the 3D model compare to the 2D
drawing. But one concern I have is that the cost of 3D scanning might be higher.
Contractors might not want to spend extra money.
I notice that our topics are very similar. I like how you have emphasized that you are going to use newer buildings in your assessment since we know how fast technologies have been evolving recently. I am curious to see how you distinguish properties as either "smart" or "green" and which properties you might consider to fall under both classifications.
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