Sarah Hollis was the first to present in our team. We learned about the history of automated design. It was enlightening to learn about the world before Autocad and Revit existed. She walked us through the way Autocad broke into the world of draftsmen and eventually evolved into a comprehensive, 3D model. Before Autocad, she said that designers would try NOT to change designs because it would simply take too long for the draftsmen to propagate the changes throughout the drawing sets!
Dung Tran presented about his Revit model of the Glass House, where he modeled with immense detail each of the systems within his building. Dung explored some extensions of Revit such as the structural analysis that we had never seen before. He was also very thorough in modeling subsystems such as the plumbing!
Brad DiGiovanni and Cody Johnson gave a super interesting presentation on laser scanning and BIM. They gave an overview of the applications of 3D scanning and the benefit of generating a point cloud. It was crazy to see how 3D scanning can survey, in one day, a space that would have otherwise taken multiple weeks to survey. The point cloud is super accurate - and they were discussing the future potential of putting 3D scanners on drones.
Zac and myself presented on our interdisciplinary model that we constructed in Revit based on our AE 391 design. Building a Revit model as we progressed through the design phases helped to visualize how the various systems interacted in 3D, and definitely helped to identify conflicts as they arose.
Overall, all the groups walked away with a better understanding of modeling processes. We received the whole gamut of knowledge about modeling. We started with the origins of Autocad and Revit, saw two projects utilizing the interdisciplinary capabilities of Revit, and also learned the ways that 3D scanning can be integrated with BIM to incorporate detailed, field information.
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Tuesday, February 6, 2018
Building Type & Intelligence (Deutsch & Tufano)
I am working with Sarina Tufano on this term project and our topic is Building Type and Intelligence. We have opted for the research paper version of this assignment and since we are both structural concentration we have taken "type" to mean materials and structural aspects. To do this we are picking to work with a single family home and design it with the newest smart and green techniques available and adequately researched thus far. The house will not only have smart qualities but will incorporate these starting at the structures very core. It is known that scientists keep developing better and more effective versions of the common materials used in construction. These will be used within the small family home to help keep the structure more self sustaining, extend its life cycle estimate and decrease its impact on the environment while also making it more user friendly.
When it comes to smart and green methods, the terms are sometimes used interchangeably even though they are somewhat different. While discussing the smart materials to be used in the structural design of this home, there will be tables/graphs/figures demonstrating which are just to be considered "smart" which are to be considered "green" and which properties might overlap within those two categories. The structure will take advantage of smart/green facade designs, smart steel/concrete, smart sealant techniques and produce much if not all of its own energy so that it may become LEED, Green Globe, or Live Building Challenge certified as well. It will source other materials needed locally, make an effort to reuse materials that were unused at its previous locations, and attempt maintain little to no waste outputs.
While the International Building Code clarifies different categories of building per "type", we are aiming to take the family home to the next level of what is mandatory in its structural design components. To do this much research will be conducted and definitions of what green and smart mean within a building and how it relates to the overall intelligence will be discussed as well. To demonstrate the materials used, models will be created if time allows. Costs will not be assessed since the main objective of this report is the creation of an optimized intelligent and green structure. However, this does not mean that the efforts to use the best and most "intelligent" materials will not pay out over the first few years of the building's existence. In order to make the building type as smart as possible the structure will maintain manageability so that as technologies improve, the building can also improve.
Jianfeng Xiao:
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.
Sarah Hollis:
I find the history of BIM to be a really interesting topic. I think that reading about how its history has made it become what it is now will definitely lend you a hand in predicting what might be to come in the future. I see that you say BIM allows for fluidity but are you worried that if it becomes too renound and user friendly that people in some fields may lose jobs due to being replaced by any of the programs included in a "BIM Environment"? If you do, which do you think they might be?
Chris Thatch:
Intelligent appliances are such an integral part of what can help make a building more user adaptive and intelligent. I really like how you are going to research and see how many smart versions of appliances are available on the market today because I feel as though much of society is not adequately taught when it comes to better environmental practices. Even with the addition of so many improved products on the market now, many people assume that making a more intelligent or green building will cost so much more and isn't worth it. Little do they know that the returns can start in as little as one year! Your topic is such a good representation of this.
Sensors and Controls for HVAC Systems
Group Members: Shuyuan Zhang & Shaden Dahroug
The following project was selected to research
based on the interest and knowledge of the importance of HVAC systems within a
building since it’s one of the main contributing factors of energy consumption
within a building, whether during the summer or winter season or even spring
since an HVAC system is required all year around to maintain the building’s
condition to achieve comfort of occupants within a building, while maintaining
indoor air quality. As sensors may be used to increase energy efficiency, it’s
also important for maintenance of the required indoor condition as non-efficient
sensors may lead a building to overheat or overcool, leading occupants of the building
to feel uncomfortable and that may impact their productivity within a work environment.
Sensors and controls for HVAC systems is
believed to be an important aspect of an intelligent buildings, because of its
technological features that doesn’t require manual control from humans in order
to maintain its requirements, where it’s control is achieved through sensors
that only require implementing the program of the sensors with the building requirements
to do its job of maintaining the buildings indoor air condition for occupant’s
comfort.
The research will be focused on how sensors
collect data for an HVAC system, and how the equipment or system process the
data to control the indoor air conditions. In addition to exploring the advantage
and disadvantage of each sensor to determine which would be the most relevant
for an intelligent building to achieve maximum comfort of occupants and energy
efficiency. In addition to determining what effects the performance of a given
sensor.
The following sensors listed below are the
sensor that will be researched for this project, while other parameters that
will be put into consideration for the following project will be trying to
understand the initial and maintenance cost of the following sensors as those
are influential factors for an owner when selecting most component within a building.
o
Carbon-dioxide emission sensor
o
Occupancy sensor (movement)
o
Radiation sensor (heat)
o
Traditional temperature / humidity
sensor
A model will also be created for research purposes
to determine the relevance of our findings for the research, and that will be
achieved through using eQuest for energy analysis to have a closer look at
which sensor may truly be more energy efficient compared to the other sensors
selected for research.
The process of determining the relevance of
our findings for the project will be a challenge as eQuest may not be enough for
this evaluation, and that may lead to requiring database expertise in order to
create a database to determine the relevance of the findings of the project.
Comments:
Dung
Tran,
A life on mars sounds interesting, and your
project is very interesting but it leads me thinking how many spaceships and
trips will this require for building one place “let’s say a house” and what are
the environmental impacts of those spaceship as they leave earth and go into space,
and since automated construction will definitely increase the traffic in space,
I wonder if that will have an impact on the environment in space. I would also
like to comment about your problem statement it shows that you have thoroughly thought
the challenges that may come with your project.
Best of Luck on
your project.
Malik
Anibab,
I
find the scope of your project interesting because it questions whether a
building can be green and intelligent or just intelligent or just green. Probably
increasing a building’s intelligence may be increasing a building’s energy
consumption in some sort of way, but there is probably methods of using plants
for energy production, where a building feeds energy of itself.
The
following links below are articles about the BIQ building which is located in
Hamburg, Germany. The building is interesting because it has double skin to
make the building green, where the second skin is made out of a bioreactor. Thought
of sharing since this may be helpful with your research.
Best of Luck on
your project.
Term Project
Description
Zac
Arnold,
It’s
intelligent of you and Mark to take advantage of the project and choose Revit
as a project to increase your familiarity with its use and try to determine its
flaws through experimenting it yourselves which is an important thing to do,
because you only get better by practicing using the software more and more. In addition,
how you considered the scope of construction business as whole when it comes to
general contractors, subcontractors, owners, etc.
Best of Luck on
your project.
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