TY - GEN
T1 - Exploring the synergy between building design and human values
T2 - 6th CSCE-CRC International Construction Specialty Conference 2017 - Held as Part of the Canadian Society for Civil Engineering Annual Conference and General Meeting 2017
AU - Zhang, Lu
AU - El-Gohary, Nora
N1 - The authors would like to thank the National Science Foundation (NSF). This paper is based upon work supported by NSF under Grant No. 1254679. Any opinions, findings, and conclusions or recommendations expressed in this material are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the views of NSF.
PY - 2017
Y1 - 2017
N2 - T h e fundamental goal of any building is to deliver value to its stakeholders. However, without a quantitative analysis of what human values (e.g., energy conservation, fire safety, cost saving) the building fulfills - and to what extent - and how that is aligned with the personal value systems of the stakeholders, the process of value delivery is uncertain. There is still a lack of quantitative understanding and analysis of the value of a building based on multidimensional human values. To address this gap, this paper presents a study on human value analysis of buildings for supporting value-adding and stakeholder-centered decision making in building design. T h e paper focuses on the analysis of an educational building to study the impacts of alternative design decisions on the value the building brings to different stakeholders. T h e analysis w a s conducted using a building information modeling (BIM)-integrated prototype system for automated human value analysis of buildings, which includes a stakeholder input capturing module, a building information extraction module, and a value analysis module. A set of stakeholders were invited to participate in the study. T h e stakeholders' systems of value priorities were first captured through the stakeholder input capturing module. T h e value-specific design information w a s then extracted from the BIM model of the building through the building information extraction module. B a s e d on the stakeholders' systems of value priorities and the extracted design information, the value of the building w a s then quantified using the value analysis module. T h e results indicate that, in order to deliver high-value buildings to the stakeholders, decision makers should not only enhance the design to fulfill individual stakeholder values, but also take the stakeholders' systems of value priorities into account and seek to create a high level of synergy between the value created by the building and the value systems of the stakeholders.
AB - T h e fundamental goal of any building is to deliver value to its stakeholders. However, without a quantitative analysis of what human values (e.g., energy conservation, fire safety, cost saving) the building fulfills - and to what extent - and how that is aligned with the personal value systems of the stakeholders, the process of value delivery is uncertain. There is still a lack of quantitative understanding and analysis of the value of a building based on multidimensional human values. To address this gap, this paper presents a study on human value analysis of buildings for supporting value-adding and stakeholder-centered decision making in building design. T h e paper focuses on the analysis of an educational building to study the impacts of alternative design decisions on the value the building brings to different stakeholders. T h e analysis w a s conducted using a building information modeling (BIM)-integrated prototype system for automated human value analysis of buildings, which includes a stakeholder input capturing module, a building information extraction module, and a value analysis module. A set of stakeholders were invited to participate in the study. T h e stakeholders' systems of value priorities were first captured through the stakeholder input capturing module. T h e value-specific design information w a s then extracted from the BIM model of the building through the building information extraction module. B a s e d on the stakeholders' systems of value priorities and the extracted design information, the value of the building w a s then quantified using the value analysis module. T h e results indicate that, in order to deliver high-value buildings to the stakeholders, decision makers should not only enhance the design to fulfill individual stakeholder values, but also take the stakeholders' systems of value priorities into account and seek to create a high level of synergy between the value created by the building and the value systems of the stakeholders.
KW - Building design
KW - Building information modeling
KW - Human values
KW - Value analysis
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M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:85065072720
SN - 9781510878419
T3 - 6th CSCE-CRC International Construction Specialty Conference 2017 - Held as Part of the Canadian Society for Civil Engineering Annual Conference and General Meeting 2017
SP - 689
EP - 696
BT - 6th CSCE-CRC International Construction Specialty Conference 2017 - Held as Part of the Canadian Society for Civil Engineering Annual Conference and General Meeting 2017
PB - Canadian Society for Civil Engineering
Y2 - 31 May 2017 through 3 June 2017
ER -