Reduce Energy Consumption Through Integrated Design: How Do Engineers Translate and Teams Synthesize Energy Modeling in Successful High Performance Building Design?

这项研究项目的目的是帮助科学家和从业者了解工程师、建筑师和建筑商团队如何设计出具有更好的能源性能和更宜居的建筑。以一个医疗保健项目为测试案例，这项研究试图解释工程师在什么条件下最好地将潜在能源性能的技术分析转化为支持决策，从而导致更高性能的建筑。这项研究结合了对一个医疗保健项目的设计分析和决策的观察，对50名专家的采访，以及对50个已完成项目的评估。该项目将通过研讨会与业界伙伴合作，传播研究中发现的最佳做法。该项目还将开发课程，通过基于问题的协作学习培养代表性不足的参与者，并培训美国工程学学生翻译和合成，以便他们可能成为更好的行业领导者，能够跨工程学科进行合作。这项研究将促进我们对协作的理解，特别是在使用能源建模软件的新的跨学科和迭代设计过程中。这个项目将增进对人-软件-组织交互的了解，并对建筑、工程设计和管理、沟通和组织行为等领域做出贡献。医院和诊所等医疗基础设施消耗的能源占美国总能源消耗的5%以上。节能建筑需要综合设计，而目前的分析是由不同的工程专业单独进行的。通过更好地利用分析模型和组织创新，该项目寻求改善建筑过程，最大限度地提高建筑的生态效率。

The objective of this research project is to help scientists and practitioners understand how teams of engineers, architects and builders can design buildings that have better energy performance and are more habitable. Using a healthcare project as a test case, this research seeks to explain under what conditions engineers best translate technical analysis of potential energy performance to support decision making that leads to higher performance buildings. The research combines observation of design analytics and decision-making in one healthcare project, interviews with 50 experts, and assessment of 50 completed projects. Working with industry partners, via workshops, this project will disseminate best practices found in the research. The project will also develop curriculum to foster underrepresented participation through problem based collaborative learning and train US engineering students in translation and synthesis so that they may become better industry leaders who are able to collaborate across engineering disciplines. This research will advance our understanding of collaboration, especially in the new interdisciplinary and iterative design processes that use energy modeling software. This project will advance knowledge of human-software-organizational interaction and contribute to the fields of architecture, engineering design and management, communication, and organizational behavior. Healthcare infrastructure such as hospitals and clinics consumes more than 5 percent of the total energy used in the US. Energy conserving buildings require integrated design, whereas today analysis is done separately by different engineering specialties. By better use of analytical modeling and organizational innovation, this project seeks to improve the building process and maximize the ecological efficiency of buildings.