Building Technology Program: Recent submissions

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    • Free4orm framing : high-performance bending-active strip construction 

      Aeck, Richard Hull (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2017)
      This thesis re-thinks conventional light frame and panelized construction methodologies employed in residential and general medium-scale construction. To do so, it investigates the flexural geometry, the structural ...

    • Modeling urban energy supply schemes 

      Tran, Bradley J (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2017)
      Rapid urbanization places increased pressure on governments and cities to use economical, low-carbon energy supply strategies. This manuscript details efforts to develop an integrated energy supply and demand analysis tool ...

    • Low carbon pathways for structural design : embodied life cycle impacts of building structures 

      De Wolf, Catherine (Catherine Elvire Lieve) (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2017)
      Whole life cycle emissions of buildings include not only operational carbon due to their use phase, but also embodied carbon due to the rest of their life cycle: material extraction, transport to the site, construction, ...