The balance between adaptability and optimisation in building design.

建议研究的目的是加深业界对钢框架建筑结构适应性和最优化之间的平衡的理解。如果没有对这一主题的研究和明确的指导，执业工程师就不知道，也没有在最优路线上达成一致，以最大限度地减少材料使用，进而减少碳排放，并为他们负责设计的结构的适应性重复使用而进行设计(Orr，2018；随着可持续发展和减少碳排放意识的提高，在国际层面上通过《巴黎协定》(2015)等承诺强制执行，在行业层面上通过工程师声明(2019年)，这项研究将有助于探索实现净零的道路上的一个关键问题(Poole，2020)，这是许多行业代表已经开始自问(结构工程师学会，2018)的一个关键问题。目前正在推进的行业思路是针对现在的使用进行优化，并为未来使用或负载的变化制定适应策略(Watson，2020)。这种心态应该在这项研究中受到质疑和审查，目的是为工业开发同时实现适应性和最优化的解决方案(菲尔德，2020)。

The purpose of the proposed research is to further the industry's understanding on the balance between adaptability and optimisation of steel frame building structures. Without research and clear guidance on this topic, practising engineers are unaware and unaligned on optimal routes to minimising the material usage and, by extension, carbon emissions, and designing for adaptive reuse of the structures they are tasked to design (Orr, 2018; Densley Tingley & Davison, 2011).With a heightened awareness of sustainability and reducing carbon emissions, enforced at an international level with commitments such as the Paris Agreement (2015) and at an industry level with Engineers Declare (2019), this research would help explore a critical question in the road to Net Zero (Poole, 2020), one which many industry representatives have started to ask themselves (Institution of Structural Engineers, 2018).The current industry mentality being pushed forward is to optimise for use now and develop adaptation strategies for future changes in use or loading (Watson, 2020). This mentality should be questioned and reviewed within this research, with an aim to develop solutions for industry that achieve both adaptability and optimisation together (Field, 2020).