1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910778612003321

Titolo

Sustainable federal facilities [[electronic resource] ] : a guide to integrating value engineering, life-cycle costing, and sustainable development

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Washington, D.C., : National Academy Press, 2001

ISBN

0-309-17104-0

1-280-18512-0

9786610185122

0-309-56360-7

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (144 p.)

Disciplina

352.5/6

Soggetti

Public buildings - United States - Design and construction

Public buildings - Design and construction - Environmental aspects - United States

Sustainable architecture - United States

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

"Federal facilities council technical report no. 142."

Sommario/riassunto

In the late 1990s, several of the sponsor agencies of the Federal Facilities Council began developing and implementing initiatives and policies related to sustainable development. Guidance related to life-cycle costing and value engineering was recognized as being supportive of sustainable development, in particular when used in the conceptual planning and design phases of acquisition, where decisions are made that substantially effect the ultimate performance of a building over its life cycle. However, specific concerns were raised that when federal agencies apply value engineering in the final stages of design or during construction in response to cost overruns, design features that support sustainable development may be eliminated. The primary objective of this study, therefore, was to develop a framework to show how federal agencies can use value engineering and life-cycle costing to support sustainable development for federal facilities and meet the objectives of Executive Order 13123.



2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910299661403321

Autore

Levin Mark Sh

Titolo

Modular System Design and Evaluation / / by Mark Sh. Levin

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Springer, , 2015

ISBN

3-319-09876-4

Edizione

[1st ed. 2015.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (485 p.)

Collana

Decision Engineering, , 1619-5736

Disciplina

005.7

620

658.40301

670

Soggetti

Industrial engineering

Production engineering

Operations research

Decision making

Computers

Industrial and Production Engineering

Operations Research/Decision Theory

Information Systems and Communication Service

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Chapter 1 Modular Systems, Combinatorial Engineering Frameworks -- chapter 2 Methods of Morphological Design (Synthesis) -- chapter 3 Multiset Estimates and Combinatorial Synthesis -- chapter 4 Design of Hierarchical Structure -- chapter 5 System Configuration and Combinatorial Optimization -- chapter 6 System Evaluation -- chapter 7 Detection of System Bottlenecks -- chapter 8 System Improvement/Extension -- chapter 9 Aggregation of Structured Solutions -- chapter 10 Multistage Design -- chapter 11 Combinatorial Evolution and Forecasting -- chapter 12 Composite Strategy for Multicriteria Ranking -- chapter 13 Electronic Shopping of Composite Product -- chapter 14 Web-based Applied System -- chapter 15 Integrated Security System -- chapter 16 Connection of Users and



Access Points -- chapter 17 Telemetry System -- chapter 18 Standard for Multimedia Information Processing -- chapter 19 Wireless Sensor -- chapter 20 Management System for Smart Home -- chapter 21 ZigBee Communication Protocol -- Conclusion -- References -- Index.

Sommario/riassunto

This book examines seven key combinatorial engineering frameworks (composite schemes consisting of algorithms and/or interactive procedures) for hierarchical modular (composite) systems. These frameworks are based on combinatorial optimization problems (e.g., knapsack problem, multiple choice problem, assignment problem, morphological clique problem), with the author’s version of morphological design approach – Hierarchical Morphological Multicritieria Design (HMMD) – providing a conceptual lens with which to elucidate the examples discussed. This approach is based on ordinal estimates of design alternatives for systems parts/components, however, the book also puts forward an original version of HMMD that is based on new interval multiset estimates for the design alternatives with special attention paid to the aggregation of modular solutions (system versions). The second part of ‘Modular System Design and Evaluation’ provides ten information technology case studies that enriches understanding of the design of system design, detection of system bottlenecks and system improvement, amongst others. The book is intended for researchers and scientists, students, and practitioners in many domains of information technology and engineering. The book is also designed to be used as a text for courses in system design, systems engineering and life cycle engineering at the level of undergraduate level, graduate/PhD levels, and for continuing education. The material and methods contained in this book were used over four years in Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology (State University) in the author’s faculty course “System Design”.