BE MUSES: Towards Self-Sustaining High-Rise Buildings: Framework for an Analysis of Materials, Energy, Economic and Social Issues

BE: muse计划拨款将支持旨在推进绿色或可持续建筑研究的活动。可持续建筑实践旨在减少资源消耗、能源消耗、生命周期成本以及污染物和废物的产生，同时提高人类的生产力。理想情况下，自我维持的建筑产生自己的能源，并产生安全、可再生、闭环的建筑和可操作的材料流。这个规划项目的主要目标是开发一个初步的框架，用于分析一个大型的、自给自足的高层建筑，重点是建筑的公用设施。该项目将通过组建一支经验丰富的跨学科团队来实现其目标，该团队围绕土木工程师、城市规划师和建筑师的核心团队进行权衡分析，重点关注投机性、自给自足的高层建筑的公用设施基础设施，举办一个小型跨学科研讨会来审查权衡分析，讨论经济和政策方面的内容，并提交一份完整的提案。调查结果将通过网站和报告分发给从业人员，并作为城市规划和废物管理课程的案例研究。建筑设计的选择对环境有着重要的影响，也极大地影响着使用者的生活质量。该项目将建立一个分析框架，以评估自我维持的高层建筑如何能够自己产生大部分电力并回收大部分水，从而有助于减少材料和能源的使用。该项目将制定方法来评估在什么情况下会有足够的回报，以证明这种自给自足的投资是合理的。该项目将改善建筑设计和公共政策制定的知识基础，从而影响自我维持的建筑实践。该规划奖将由CMS和SBE共同管理和资助。

This BE:MUSES planning grant will support activities directed at advancing research on green or sustainable construction. Sustainable building practices are intended to reduce resource consumption, energy consumption, life-cycle costs and production of pollutants and wastes, while improving human productivity. Ideally, self-sustaining buildings produce their own energy and engender safe, regenerative, closed-loop construction and operational materials flow. The primary objective of this planning project is to develop a preliminary framework for the analysis of a large, self-sustaining, high-rise building with a focus on the building's utilities. This project will achieve its objectives by assembling an experienced, interdisciplinary team around the core team of a civil engineer, an urban planner and an architect, conducting a trade-off analysis with focus on the utility infrastructure for a speculative, self-sustaining, high-rise building, conducting a small, interdisciplinary workshop to review the trade-off analysis and discuss the inclusion of economic and policy aspects, and submitting a full proposal. Findings will be disseminated to practitioners via a web site and presentations and used as case studies in urban planning and waste management classes. Building design choices have important environmental impacts and also dramatically affect users' quality of life. This project will establish an analytical framework for assessing how self-sustaining, high-rise buildings that can generate much of their own electricity and recycle much of their own water can contribute to reduced material and energy use. The project will develop methods to assess under what circumstances there would be sufficient return to justify such investments in self-sufficiency. This project will improve the intellectual basis for building design and for public policymaking that influences self-sustaining building practices.This planning award will be co-managed and co-funded by CMS and SBE.