This article describes research conducted to gather empirical evidence on size, character
and content of the option space in building design projects. This option space is the key …

Due to advances in computing and modeling, the Architecture Engineering and Construction
(AEC) industry has arrived at an era of digital empiricism. Computational simulation tools are …

Construction projects are becoming ever more ambitious in terms of the size of structures,
the number of requirements, the number and influence of stakeholders and the extent to …

Railway RAMS is an engineering discipline that integrates reliability, availability,
maintainability and safety characteristics into an inherent design property through systems …

Dans cette thèse, nous nous intéressons au problème de l'interaction des processus
multiples nécessaires à la réalisation d'un projet d'ingénierie. L'approche retenue repose …

Construction projects are facing an increase in requirements since the projects are getting
larger, more technology is integrated into the buildings, and new sustainability and CO 2 …

This article points out a number of key failures of existing practice for building design and
then promotes a new approach based upon advances made in the modelling of complex …

Abstract Systems engineering (SE) is a comprehensive and structured approach for
analyzing, designing, creating, and operating a system in a cost‐effective way. SE concepts …

Buildings have environmental impacts over their entire life cycle, which often exceed 50
years. Today buildings are responsible for 40‐50% of all energy usage and anthropogenic …

A distributed simulation between control systems and building performance applications is
increasingly becoming an important enabler in the analysis of Automated Buildings (ABs) for …