Abstract: Parametric optimization techniques allow building designers to pursue multiple performance objectives, which can benefit the overall design. However, the strategies used by architecture and engineering graduate students ...

Abstract: Factors such as carbon storage potential, short construction schedules, prefabrication, and aesthetics are making mass timber a sought-after structural solution. For mass timber, fire design requirements can both drive and ...

Abstract: In many buildings, structural concrete systems have a large impact on the building’s overall weight, embodied energy, and embodied carbon. Efficient structural components could result in building weight reductions, leading ...