Innovative engineering approach for material, carbon and cost efficiency of steel buildings

研究表明，通过结构钢框架的高效设计可以显著节省温室气体排放，然而，这将对项目成本产生影响--最大限度地减少项目成本往往是建设项目的主要驱动力。因此，这个创新项目旨在了解钢框架设计和制造的成本和碳效率之间的权衡，同时还调查这种优化对整个使用寿命性能方面的连锁反应，如坚固性、振动性能、运行能量、可解构性和材料重复使用。该项目将使财团合作伙伴能够提供优化钢框架成本和碳的强化服务，促进客户采购对整个生命周期影响最小的建筑。这项研究在社会、经济和环境因素方面有广泛的好处，随着这项工作应用于商业项目，这些好处可能在这两个项目结束时开始显现。

Research has shown that there are significant greenhouse gas emissions to be saved through the efficient design of structural steel frames, however, this will have implications on project costs - the minimisation of which is often the primary driver of construction projects. This innovative project thus seeks to understand the trade-offs between the cost and carbon efficiency of the design and fabrication of steel frames, whilst also investigating the knock-on effects this optimisation has on whole life performance aspects, such as robustness, vibration performance, operational energy, deconstructability and material reuse.This project will enable the consortium partners to offer an enhanced service that optimises the cost and carbon of steel frames, facilitating client procurement of buildings with minimised whole life impacts. There are wide ranging benefits of the study across social, economic and environmental factors, and these could start to be seen by the end of this two project as the work is applied to commercial projects.