Northeast China Electric Power Group(NEPG) has outstanding achievements in thesurvey, design, construction and regulationof power plants and power transmissionproject, the management of hydropowerProject, the construc...Northeast China Electric Power Group(NEPG) has outstanding achievements in thesurvey, design, construction and regulationof power plants and power transmissionproject, the management of hydropowerProject, the construction and maintenance ofnuclear power project. The constructioncontingents 0f it have great strength intechnical equipment, project quality andscientific payoffs. They are very experiencedin integral management 0f the design’construction and the adjustment of thepr0ject and in the international cooperationand also they have good internationalcooperation examples.展开更多
Sustainable development of refinery is an important problem that refining industry faces in the21st Century. The situation and challenges in front of refining industry are analyzed and illustrated byexamples in this p...Sustainable development of refinery is an important problem that refining industry faces in the21st Century. The situation and challenges in front of refining industry are analyzed and illustrated byexamples in this paper. It is also recognized that large-scale, clean, light-oriented and integrated refinery isthe mode of development in future, and also an important measure for the sustainable development ofpetroleum resource.展开更多
INTRODUCTION Community Housing Partners(CHP)is a 501(c)(3)community development corporation that serves the needs of low-income and low-wealth individuals and families in the southeast.CHP’s mission is to create affo...INTRODUCTION Community Housing Partners(CHP)is a 501(c)(3)community development corporation that serves the needs of low-income and low-wealth individuals and families in the southeast.CHP’s mission is to create affordable,green,sustainable housing opportunities and services for the people and communities they serve.Since 1975,CHP has served over 206,000 people,including the elderly,women and children in transition,formerly homeless people,single female heads-of-household.展开更多
Design is a goal-oriented planning activity for creating products,processes,and systems with desired functions through specifications.It is a decision-making exploration:the design outcome may vary greatly depending o...Design is a goal-oriented planning activity for creating products,processes,and systems with desired functions through specifications.It is a decision-making exploration:the design outcome may vary greatly depending on the designer’s knowledge and philosophy.Integrated design is one type of design philosophy that takes an interdisciplinary and holistic approach.In civil engineering,structural design is such an activity for creating buildings and infrastructures.Recently,structural design in many countries has emphasized a performance-based philosophy that simultaneously considers a structure’s safety,durability,serviceability,and sustainability.Consequently,integrated design in civil engineering has become more popular,useful,and important.Material-oriented integrated design and construction of structures(MIDCS)combine materials engineering and structural engineering in the design stage:it fully utilizes the strengths of materials by selecting the most suitable structural forms and construction methodologies.This paper will explore real-world examples of MIDCS,including the realization of MIDCS in timber seismic-resistant structures,masonry arch structures,long-span steel bridges,prefabricated/on-site extruded light-weight steel structures,fiber-reinforced cementitious composites structures,and fiber-reinforced polymer bridge decks.Additionally,advanced material design methods such as bioinspired design and structure construction technology of additive manufacturing are briefly reviewed and discussed to demonstrate how MIDCS can combine materials and structures.A unified strengthdurability design theory is also introduced,which is a human-centric,interdisciplinary,and holistic approach to the description and development of any civil infrastructure and includes all processes directly involved in the life cycle of the infrastructure.Finally,this paper lays out future research directions for further development in the field.展开更多
For the past 50 years,the Sydney Opera House has been the subject of a prodigious hagiography of the personalities involved in its realization and their legendary querelles.Yet it remains paradoxically unexplored when...For the past 50 years,the Sydney Opera House has been the subject of a prodigious hagiography of the personalities involved in its realization and their legendary querelles.Yet it remains paradoxically unexplored when it comes to its operative construction decisions,particularly those that relate to the erection of its renowned superstructure.Through the analysis of a newly discovered set of shop drawings prepared for the innovative formwork system of the iconic roof sails,the paper contributes to the construction history of the building whilst shedding light on the hitherto unacknowledged role of the general contractor in the design process.In doing so,it questions the validity of conventional assumptions about the technical division of labour in complex projects,where construction and project management tend to be kept separate from architectural and structural design,furthermore suggesting the need for broader design exegeses,combining project-based and production-based concerns.In reflecting on its import for contemporary practice,the study suggests that the revealing picture of the Sydney Opera House project,as it emerged from the cumbersome archive-based crossanalysis of the manual documentation produced for it,is in principle much easier and perhaps important to obtain today.This is due,on the one side,to availability and diffusion of digital project collaborative platforms;on the other side,to the merging and the blurring of professional and non-professional design contributions.展开更多
文摘Northeast China Electric Power Group(NEPG) has outstanding achievements in thesurvey, design, construction and regulationof power plants and power transmissionproject, the management of hydropowerProject, the construction and maintenance ofnuclear power project. The constructioncontingents 0f it have great strength intechnical equipment, project quality andscientific payoffs. They are very experiencedin integral management 0f the design’construction and the adjustment of thepr0ject and in the international cooperationand also they have good internationalcooperation examples.
文摘Sustainable development of refinery is an important problem that refining industry faces in the21st Century. The situation and challenges in front of refining industry are analyzed and illustrated byexamples in this paper. It is also recognized that large-scale, clean, light-oriented and integrated refinery isthe mode of development in future, and also an important measure for the sustainable development ofpetroleum resource.
文摘INTRODUCTION Community Housing Partners(CHP)is a 501(c)(3)community development corporation that serves the needs of low-income and low-wealth individuals and families in the southeast.CHP’s mission is to create affordable,green,sustainable housing opportunities and services for the people and communities they serve.Since 1975,CHP has served over 206,000 people,including the elderly,women and children in transition,formerly homeless people,single female heads-of-household.
基金This work was supported by the Science and Technology Development Fund,Macao SAR(0083/2018/A2)Multi-Year Research Grant(MYRG2019-00135-IAPME)Research&Development Grant for Chair Professor(CPG2020-00002-IAPME).
文摘Design is a goal-oriented planning activity for creating products,processes,and systems with desired functions through specifications.It is a decision-making exploration:the design outcome may vary greatly depending on the designer’s knowledge and philosophy.Integrated design is one type of design philosophy that takes an interdisciplinary and holistic approach.In civil engineering,structural design is such an activity for creating buildings and infrastructures.Recently,structural design in many countries has emphasized a performance-based philosophy that simultaneously considers a structure’s safety,durability,serviceability,and sustainability.Consequently,integrated design in civil engineering has become more popular,useful,and important.Material-oriented integrated design and construction of structures(MIDCS)combine materials engineering and structural engineering in the design stage:it fully utilizes the strengths of materials by selecting the most suitable structural forms and construction methodologies.This paper will explore real-world examples of MIDCS,including the realization of MIDCS in timber seismic-resistant structures,masonry arch structures,long-span steel bridges,prefabricated/on-site extruded light-weight steel structures,fiber-reinforced cementitious composites structures,and fiber-reinforced polymer bridge decks.Additionally,advanced material design methods such as bioinspired design and structure construction technology of additive manufacturing are briefly reviewed and discussed to demonstrate how MIDCS can combine materials and structures.A unified strengthdurability design theory is also introduced,which is a human-centric,interdisciplinary,and holistic approach to the description and development of any civil infrastructure and includes all processes directly involved in the life cycle of the infrastructure.Finally,this paper lays out future research directions for further development in the field.
文摘For the past 50 years,the Sydney Opera House has been the subject of a prodigious hagiography of the personalities involved in its realization and their legendary querelles.Yet it remains paradoxically unexplored when it comes to its operative construction decisions,particularly those that relate to the erection of its renowned superstructure.Through the analysis of a newly discovered set of shop drawings prepared for the innovative formwork system of the iconic roof sails,the paper contributes to the construction history of the building whilst shedding light on the hitherto unacknowledged role of the general contractor in the design process.In doing so,it questions the validity of conventional assumptions about the technical division of labour in complex projects,where construction and project management tend to be kept separate from architectural and structural design,furthermore suggesting the need for broader design exegeses,combining project-based and production-based concerns.In reflecting on its import for contemporary practice,the study suggests that the revealing picture of the Sydney Opera House project,as it emerged from the cumbersome archive-based crossanalysis of the manual documentation produced for it,is in principle much easier and perhaps important to obtain today.This is due,on the one side,to availability and diffusion of digital project collaborative platforms;on the other side,to the merging and the blurring of professional and non-professional design contributions.
