Integrated building engineering design at early stages

与过去由NSERC资助的研究一样，拟议的研究计划涉及建筑设计的整合，即在建筑交付过程的早期阶段发展一种促进沟通和协调的方法。该研究计划旨在发展对建筑工程设计过程的更基本的理解，特别是在早期阶段进行的跨学科活动，以在整个生命周期内生产更好的建筑。建议的研究将涵盖三个互补的层面，即理论、以电脑为基础的途径和实际的建筑物设计应用，以帮助建造更好的建筑物。我们希望，与建筑设计师直接相关的软件将从这些实际应用中出现，就像过去我们的一些nserc资助的研究项目一样。多年来，世界各地的建筑行业已经认识到，开发综合方法进行建筑设计的必要性，尽管这种认识并不均衡。然而，在加拿大，很少有研究小组活跃在这一领域。此外，一些已经在这个方向上采取步骤的实践小组受到特定硬件和商业软件组合的限制，这严重限制了他们有效地跨学科集成信息的能力。我们的计划将导致一个综合的设计方法，能够考虑到广泛的信息-从不同的领域，如结构，供暖，通风和空调-以产生整体最佳的建筑设计解决方案。

In continuity with past research funded by NSERC, the proposed research program is concerned with integration in building design, i.e. the development of an approach that promotes communication and co-ordination at the early stages of the building delivery process.  The research program aims at developing a more fundamental understanding of the building engineering design process, particularly as an interdisciplinary activity carried out at the early stages, to produce better buildings over the entire life-span.  The proposed research will cover three complementary levels, i.e. theoretical, computer-based avenues and actual building design applications to help produce better buildings.  It is hoped that software of immediate relevance to building designers will emerge from these practical applications, as indeed has been the case in the past for some of our NSERC-funded research projects. The necessity of developing integrated approaches for building design has been recognized for a number of years, albeit unevenly, as a top priority by the building industry throughout the world.  However very few research teams are active in this area in Canada.  Also several groups from the practice that have taken steps in this direction are constrained to specific hardware and commercial software combinations that severely limit their ability to integrate information effectively across disciplines.  Our program will lead to an integrated design approach capable of taking into account a wide range of information - from fields as diverse as structures and heating, ventilation and air-conditioning - in order to produce overall best building design solutions.