The balance between adaptability and optimisation in building design.

本研究的目的是进一步加深业界对钢框架建筑结构适应性和优化之间平衡的理解。如果没有对这一主题的研究和明确的指导，实践工程师就不知道和不一致的最佳路线，以最大限度地减少材料使用，进而减少碳排放，并设计他们设计的结构的适应性再利用（Orr, 2018; Densley Tingley & Davison, 2011）。随着对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年）和《工程师宣言》（2019年）等承诺来实施，这项研究将有助于探索实现净零排放道路上的一个关键问题（Poole， 2020年），许多行业代表已经开始问自己这个问题（结构工程师学会，2018年）。目前正在推进的行业心态是优化现在的使用，并制定适应策略，以适应未来的使用或负载变化（Watson, 2020）。这种心态应该在本研究中受到质疑和审查，目的是为行业开发既能实现适应性又能实现优化的解决方案（Field, 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).