MUSES: Self-Sufficient Urban Buildings

该项目结合了实地和模拟研究，以调查在城市建筑中提供和使用能源和水系统方面实现可持续设计的潜力。实际上，更好的系统可以减轻老化的民用基础设施的负担，降低运营成本，提高可持续性。在智力方面，提高对建筑物作为人类和技术系统结合的理解？在环境、地理、财政和监管背景下运作？将通过测量仪器和分析方法的发展来扩展系统科学。这项工作的具体重点是研究影响城市建筑潜在自给自足的科学，工程和人为因素。与工程性能和人类行为相关的数据将从纽约市的三座城市建筑中收集，所有这些建筑都因其设计和其中存在的社会结构而有所不同。此外，这项工作将利用一个模拟建筑物的数据。 这些对真实的和模拟环境的研究提供了一个直接的联系，与两种方法评估有关可持续性的性质的索赔。这些方法将涉及统计和分析方法以及模拟。 采用这些方法，预计将导致进步的力量，确定建筑设计是否是可持续的理解，但也建议实践中如何考虑外部因素，试图实现可持续的设计。与一个已建立的科学中心合作举办的讲习班和外联活动将使这项工作广泛接触各种受众。

This project combines field- and simulation-based studies to investigate the potential for achieving sustainable design in the provision and use of energy and water systems in urban buildings. In practical terms, better systems can reduce the burden on aging civil infrastructures, reduce operating costs, and enhance sustainability. In intellectual terms, improving understanding of buildings as combined human and technological systems?operating within environmental, geographic, fiscal and regulatory contexts?will extend systems science through the development of measurement instruments and analytic methods. The specific focus of this work is an examination of the scientific, engineering, and human factors affecting potential self-sufficiency of urban buildings. Data associated with engineering performance and human behavior will be collected from three urban buildings in New York City, all of which vary with respect to their design and the social structures that exist within them. In addition, this work will draw upon data from one simulated building. These studies of real and simulated environments provide an immediate link with two methods of assessing the claims about the nature of sustainability. These methods will involve statistical and analytic approaches, as well as simulation. Employing these methods is expected to lead to advances in understanding of the forces that determine whether building designs are sustainable, but also to recommendations for practice on how to account for external factors in trying to achieve sustainable designs. Workshops and outreach conducted in cooperation with an established science center will provide the work with a broad exposure to varied audiences.