Category: Theses and Dissertations
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Informing decision-making in single-objective, mixed-variable design problems
Data-driven decision-making in mixed-variable design problems presents a variety of challenges and opportunities, especially in the increasingly data-rich field of emissions in architectural and structural design. Designers can benefit from an underlying knowledge about, for example, whether material choice (discrete) or span (continuous) have more important consequences on structural emissions. This intuition need not be built…
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System-level design of low-carbon structures
“What is more likely to be associated with a reduction in emissions: switching from concrete to timber, or shortening the spans throughout the building?” While such insights are valuable for mitigating emissions from structural systems during early stages of design, it is difficult to answer these types of questions in current paradigms of performance-driven design.…
Structural Futures Lab 