Transitions Towards Sustainable Construction

在建筑业面临的众多挑战中，最大的挑战是面对气候变化需要过渡到低碳的未来。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)改变我们评估建筑性能和对气候变化的贡献的方式，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，使它们能够通过使它们更具适应性，更好地为可持续解决方案做出贡献。 这项研究的一个主要载体将是设计和建造两座新建筑，以容纳维多利亚大学的新土木工程项目(可适应再生建筑研究中心)，该中心将作为这项工作的活实验室。 第一个重点是改变我们衡量和核算建筑性能和可持续性影响的方式。目前，可持续性问题主要是通过LEED等认证体系在建筑行业内解决的。这些系统主要基于建筑物的设计，而不是它们的实际运行性能。在衡量实际绩效时，计划绩效和实际绩效之间往往存在很大差距。与设计阶段认证相对应的是使用后评估(PoE)。我们与一个名为可持续建筑环境国际倡议(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，开发用于处理PoE信息的信息系统平台，并在ARC项目和其他建筑上试验这些新技术。 第二个重点是改变我们的管理和设计做法。这项工作审查了私营和公共组织的最佳做法，这些组织在使项目更可持续方面承担着越来越多的责任。它将确定以可持续发展为中心的工程设计的做法并将其正规化，并将建筑行业内的可持续发展管理做法作为基准。 第三个焦点是不断变化的建筑技术。这项工作旨在推进一套设计和施工技术(主要以适应性强的、模块化的、木制的、净零或更好的结构为中心)，以帮助实现所需的高性能、低碳建筑。它将通过创新的ARC项目的详细案例研究来探讨这一主题，并为新的适应性模块化建筑实验室奠定基础。 这项工作将影响代码和行业实践，并将在HQP队列中培养广泛的理解、技能和专业知识，这些人将处于有利地位，领导行业度过这些具有挑战性的过渡，迈向低碳的未来。

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 CenterARCfor 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.