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Record Nr.

UNINA9910557659003321

Autore

Plebankiewicz Edyta

Titolo

Probabilistic and Fuzzy Approaches for Estimating the Life Cycle Costs of Buildings

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Basel, Switzerland, : MDPI - Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute, 2021

Descrizione fisica

1 electronic resource (220 p.)

Soggetti

Technology: general issues

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Sommario/riassunto

The Life cycle cost (LCC) method makes it possible for the whole life performance of buildings and other structures to be optimized. The introduction of the idea of thinking in terms of a building life cycle resulted in the need to use appropriate tools and techniques for assessing and analyzing costs throughout the life cycle of the building. Traditionally, estimates of LCC have been calculated based on historical analysis of data and have used deterministic models. The concepts of probability theory can also be applied to life cycle costing, treating the costs and timings as a stochastic process. If any subjectivity is introduced into the estimates, then the uncertainty cannot be handled using the probability theory alone. The theory of fuzzy sets is a valuable tool for handling such uncertainties. In this Special Issue, a collection of 11 contributions provide an updated overview of the approaches for estimating the life cycle cost of buildings.



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Record Nr.

UNINA9910827199603321

Autore

Heiti Warren <1979->

Titolo

Attending : an ethical art / / Warren Heiti

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Montréal, Québec ; ; Chicago, Illinois : , : McGill-Queen's University Press, , [2021]

©2021

ISBN

0-2280-0740-2

0-2280-0739-9

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (361 pages)

Collana

McGill-Queen's Studies in the History of Ideas ; ; v.82

Classificazione

cci1icc

Disciplina

170

Soggetti

Ethics

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Cover -- Copyright -- Contents -- Figures -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Reflections on an Ethics of Attending -- 3 Further Reflections on an Ethics of Attending -- 4 Attending -- 5 Reading and Character -- 6 Prudence or Phronesis -- 7 Virtue Is Knowledge, Character Is Fate -- 8 The Dance of Perception -- 9 Integrative and Disintegrative Perspectives -- 10 Lyric Details and Ecological Integrity -- 11 Exodos -- Acknowledgements -- Bibliography -- Index.

Sommario/riassunto

Moral theory has been agonized by dualism - motivation is analyzed into beliefs and desires, descriptions of facts and dissatisfactions with them, while action is represented as an effort to lessen dissatisfaction by altering the empirical world. In Attending Warren Heiti traces an alternative genealogy of ethics, drawing from the Platonism recovered by Simone Weil and developed in the work of Iris Murdoch, John McDowell, and Jan Zwicky.