3 resultados para High tech industry
em Universidad de Alicante
Resumo:
La relación dialéctica entre la casa y la ciudad es el tema de este breve discurso, partiendo del modelo clásico, que Alberti formula y describe, y pasando a través de los sucesivos modelos, romántico burgués, moderno y posmoderno, para llegar a definir el sentido, en el entorno actual, de la casa entre medianeras que la limitan jurídica y físicamente. La posibilidad de observar el canon moderno, sin renunciar a una convincente inserción del modelo en la ciudad de ascendencia burguesa, se argumenta por medio de dos ejemplos tomados del mismo arquitecto, Francisco Candel Jiménez, en el ensanche de una ciudad de provincias, Albacete, tratando de demostrar que se puede ser rigurosamente moderno en el lenguaje y, a la vez, obediente a los límites urbanos establecidos. En el primer caso, un edificio de tres plantas para vivienda y estudio de arquitectura en entreplanta, la modestia del entorno no impide que el edificio inscrito en él sea a la vez altamente singular sin sustraerse a las reglas del planeamiento oficial. En el segundo, edificio de viviendas en cinco alturas más ático, y “atendiendo a su carácter urbano y a la actualidad de soluciones técnicas y constructivas”, despliega una amplia ceremonia de cortesía, que, por medio de los recursos propios de una avanzada high-tech, juega con los ritmos de su doble límite, doméstico y urbano, y hace que su modernidad radical eleve la dignidad del vecindario urbano que lo acompaña, sin alzar la voz, pero transmitiendo una lección de arquitectura que hace ciudad.
Resumo:
The construction industry has long been considered as highly fragmented and non-collaborative industry. This fragmentation sprouted from complex and unstructured traditional coordination processes and information exchanges amongst all parties involved in a construction project. This nature coupled with risk and uncertainty has pushed clients and their supply chain to search for new ways of improving their business process to deliver better quality and high performing product. This research will closely investigate the need to implement a Digital Nervous System (DNS), analogous to a biological nervous system, on the flow and management of digital information across the project lifecycle. This will be through direct examination of the key processes and information produced in a construction project and how a DNS can provide a well-integrated flow of digital information throughout the project lifecycle. This research will also investigate how a DNS can create a tight digital feedback loop that enables the organisation to sense, react and adapt to changing project conditions. A Digital Nervous System is a digital infrastructure that provides a well-integrated flow of digital information to the right part of the organisation at the right time. It provides the organisation with the relevant and up-to-date information it needs, for critical project issues, to aid in near real-time decision-making. Previous literature review and survey questionnaires were used in this research to collect and analyse data about information management problems of the industry – e.g. disruption and discontinuity of digital information flow due to interoperability issues, disintegration/fragmentation of the adopted digital solutions and paper-based transactions. Results analysis revealed efficient and effective information management requires the creation and implementation of a DNS.
Resumo:
On a global level the population growth and increase of the middle class lead to a growing demand on material resources. The built environment has an enormous impact on this scarcity. In addition, a surplus of construction and demolition waste is a common problem. The construction industry claims to recycle 95% of this waste but this is in fact mainly downcycling. Towards the circular economy, the quality of reuse becomes of increasing importance. Buildings are material warehouses that can contribute to this high quality reuse. However, several aspects to achieve this are unknown and a need for more insight into the potential for high quality reuse of building materials exists. Therefore an instrument has been developed that determines the circularity of construction waste in order to maximise high quality reuse. The instrument is based on three principles: ‘product and material flows in the end of life phase’, ‘future value of secondary materials and products’ and ‘the success of repetition in a new life cycle’. These principles are further divided into a number of criteria to which values and weighting factors are assigned. A degree of circularity can then be determined as a percentage. A case study for a typical 70s building is carried out. For concrete, the circularity is increased from 25% to 50% by mapping out the potential for high quality reuse. During the development of the instrument it was clarified that some criteria are difficult to measure. Accurate and reliable data are limited and assumptions had to be made. To increase the reliability of the instrument, experts have reviewed the instrument several times. In the long-term, the instrument can be used as a tool for quantitative research to reduce the amount of construction and demolition waste and contribute to the reduction of raw material scarcity.