Transitions Towards Sustainable Construction

在建筑业面临的诸多挑战中，最大的挑战是面对气候变化，需要向低碳未来过渡。该研究计划的目标是在三个建筑行业主题领域推动这一变化：1）改变我们评估建筑物性能和对气候变化影响的方式，2）改变我们的设计和项目管理实践，使其更加以可持续发展为中心，以及3）改变我们设计和建造建筑的方式，使它们能够更好地为可持续解决方案做出贡献，使它们更具适应性。这项研究的一个主要工具将是设计和建造两座新建筑，以容纳维多利亚大学（建筑研究适应性再生中心ARC）的新土木工程项目，该项目将作为这项工作的生活实验室。第一个重点是改变我们衡量和解释建筑性能和可持续性影响的方式。目前，可持续性问题主要通过LEED等认证系统在建筑行业内解决。这些系统主要基于建筑物的设计，而不是它们的实际持续性能。在衡量实际业绩时，计划业绩和实际业绩之间往往存在很大差距。设计阶段认证的对应点是使用后评估（POE）。我们与一个名为国际可持续建筑环境倡议（iiSBE）的组织合作，开发和应用POE协议。拟议的工作将推进这些POE协议，开发一个用于处理POE信息的信息系统平台，并在ARC项目和其他建筑物上试用这些新技术。第二个重点是改变我们的管理和设计实践。这项工作审查了私营和公共组织的最佳做法，这些组织正在承担越来越多的责任，使项目更具可持续性。它将确定和正式确定以可持续性为中心的工程设计做法，并为建筑业的可持续发展管理做法设定基准。第三个重点是改变建筑技术。这项工作旨在推进一套设计和施工技术（主要集中在适应性强、模块化、木质、净零或更好的结构上），以帮助实现所需的高性能、低碳建筑。它将通过对创新ARC项目的详细案例研究以及为新的适应性模块化建筑实验室奠定基础来探讨这一主题。 这项工作将影响规范和行业实践，并将在一批HQP中发展广泛的理解，技能和专业知识，这些HQP将能够领导行业通过这些具有挑战性的过渡，走向低碳未来。

Among many challenges facing the construction industry, the largest is the need to transition to a low carbon future in the face of climate change. The objective of this research program is to drive this change in three construction-industry theme areas: 1) changing the way that we assess buildings' performance and contribution to climate change, 2) changing our design and project management practices to become more sustainability-centric, and 3) changing the way that we design and construct buildings so that they can better contribute to sustainable solutions by making them more adaptable. A major vehicle for this research will be the design and construction of two new buildings to house the new Civil Engineering program at the University of Victoria (the Adaptable Regenerative Center-ARC-for Building Research), which will serve as a living laboratory for this work. The first focus relates to changing the way that we measure and account for building's performance and sustainability impacts. At present, sustainability issues are mainly addressed within the building construction industry through certification systems such as LEED. These systems are predominately based on buildings' design, not their actual ongoing performance. When actual performance is measured, there is often a significant gap between planned performance and actual performance. The counterpoint to design-phase certification is Post Occupancy Evaluation (POE). We have collaborated with an organization called the International Initiative for Sustainable Built Environment, iiSBE, to develop and apply POE protocols. The proposed work will advance these POE protocols, develop an information systems platform for working with POE information, and pilot these new techniques on the ARC project and other buildings. The second focus centres on changing our management and design practices. This work examines the best practices of private and public organizations that are taking on ever-increasing responsibilities for making projects more sustainable. It will identify and formalize practices for sustainability-centred engineering design, and benchmark sustainable development management practices within the construction industry. The third focus looks at changing building technologies. This work seeks to advance a set of design and construction techniques (largely centred on adaptable, modular, wooden, net zero or better structures) that can help achieve the required high-performance, low carbon buildings. It will approach this topic through detailed case studies of the innovative ARC project and by establishing the foundations for a new adaptable modular construction laboratory. The work will impact codes and industry practices and will develop a broad range of understanding, skills, and expertise in a cohort of HQP that will be well-positioned to lead the industry through these challenging transitions towards a low-carbon future.