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ItemDigitization of Construction Claim Management: The Case of Additional Cost Claims(Deakin University, 2021)Claims management is recognized as a complex phenomenon that often leads to disputes between contracting parties. A contractor can claim for many reasons including additional cost. Additional cost claims allow the contractor to recover cost occurred due to several reasons such as delays and/or disruptions, variations and escalations, which evidently result from events beyond the conditions of contract and control of contractors. However, the submission and evaluation of such claims is a challenging task for construction stakeholders because of the existing issues in the management of these claims using traditional approaches. Hence, there is a need realized by industry practitioners for shifting the traditional claim management process of these claims to a digital environment. This need can be fulfilled by a forthcoming Information and Communications Technology (ICT) platform such as Building Information Modeling (BIM). Therefore, in this research effort has been made to utilize BIM for effective management of claims for an additional cost that frequently occur in construction projects. To start with, issues in traditional claims management process of construction cost claims are identified, which is followed by development of a framework for a new system named as BIM - Based Cost Claims Management System (B-CCMS). Grounded on the Application Programming Interface (API) provided by one of the BIM software (Autodesk Revit), a plugin named B-CCMS is proposed for working of the developed system. The proposed system is expected to solve the identified issues in the management of additional cost claims, especially those related to documentation, time, resources, cost, presentation and impact. This will result in quick and transparent settlement of additional cost claims making it less prone to disputes between contracting parties.
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ItemSAHANZ: The Last 15 Years, 2004-2019(SAHANZ, 2021)This paper investigates the writing of architectural history in Australia and New Zealand promoted by SAHANZ over the last fifteen years. In 2004, the Society celebrated its twentieth anniversary. To mark the occasion, Julia Gatley was commissioned to write “SAHANZ: The First 20 Years, 1984-2004,” an historical account of the formation of the Society, its conferences and journal Fabrications. Also, from 2004 are two papers presented at “LIMITS”: the 21st Annual Conference (Melbourne), which were reprinted as the last two papers included in the coedited anthology Shifting Views: Selected Essays on the Architectural History of Australia and New Zealand. The two endeavours were in a way the result of a growing concern regarding the potential loss of the Society’s early legacy, and prompted the collection/digitisation of minutes, records, and printed conference proceedings and issues of Fabrications. If the first twenty years of the Society are those of the establishment and development of concerns and priorities, the following fifteen have entailed a certain expansion. On the one hand, expansion of the audience, with SAHANZ themes and researchers featuring in international events and publications of partner scholarly institutions. On the other, expansion of themes, with an increase in the attention paid to the broader Australasian, Pacific, and Asia-Pacific regions. The research undertaken by members of the Society since 2004 not only evidences an explicit transnational focus on Australasia and the Pacific region, but also positions Australia and New Zealand in the recent discussions on global architectural histories.
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ItemTargeted urban heat mitigation strategies using urban morphology databases and micro-climate modelling to examine the urban heat profile(Copernicus, 2020)Strategies for urban heat mitigation often make broad and non-specific recommendations (i.e. plant more trees) without accounting for local context. As a result, resources might be allocated to areas of lesser need over those where more urgent interventions are needed. Also, these interventions might return less than optimal results if local conditions are not considered. This project aims to assist with these interventions by providing a method to examine the urban heat profile of a city through an automated systematic approach. Using urban morphology information from databases such as WUDAPT, areas of cities are clustered into representative local climate zones (LCZs) and modelled at a micro-scale using localised features and properties. This bottom up modelling approach, using the VTUF-3D, UMEP, and TARGET models, allows these areas to be assessed in detail for their human thermal comfort performance and provide a city-wide heat map of thermal comfort. It also allows mitigation scenarios to be tested and targeted for each cluster type. A case study performed using this method for Melbourne is presented.
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ItemNo Preview AvailableMFR 2021: Masked Face Recognition Competition(IEEE, 2021)
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ItemTowards swarm construction(The Association for Computer-Aided Architectural Design Research in Asia, 2021-01-01)Swarm intelligence has primarily been explored in architecture as a form-finding technique with resulting material articulation using advanced 3d-printing technology. Researchers in engineering have developed swarm robotics for construction and fabrication, typically constraints to small scale prototypes as the technology matures within the field. However, a few research explores the implication of swarm robotics for construction on the building or urban scale. This paper presents a novel swarm robotics construction method using mole-like digging technology to construct new architectural language using machine intelligence. The research discusses the role of swarm intelligence behaviours in design and synthesis such behaviour with machine logics. The paper addresses the conference theme through the speculative projection of future construction methodology and reflects on how automation can impact the future of construct and design.
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ItemA liveability framework for Health Impact Assessment - Case study: Upfield Level Crossing Removal Project(RMIT University, 2021)Major infrastructure projects are intended to alter the built ecology for the better and should produce public health benefits that are commensurate with their scale, particularly when they are publicly funded. Health impact assessment (HIA) is an underutilized method of evaluating projects using a determinants of health equity lens. Simultaneously, there is increased interest in ‘livability’, yet the concept is contested. We introduce and test an evidence-based, exhaustive framework of eleven liveability domains for HIA by scoping a Level Crossing Removal project in Melbourne. We then present an empirical assessment of one domain, ‘social cohesion and local democracy’. Results showed that the government’s broader social licence permitted tokenistic local consultation, with implications for community mental health. Nevertheless, some positive health benefits were attributed to community activism and thence, social cohesion, in opposition to the project. The potential of using ‘liveability’ to activate and realise the benefits of HIA is discussed.
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ItemWine and User Experience Design(ASSOC COMPUTING MACHINERY, 2020)Wine is an experience. It engages all of our senses. Before we even taste wine we hold the bottle, admire the label, listen to it being poured in the glass, assess the colour and texture of the wine, swirl it around the glass, smell it and finally taste it. However, human pleasure in the experience can be designed to go far beyond the value of simply drinking the wine. What about the journey the wine has taken to reach you? Who made it, and why? Who else is drinking it now? Why does it taste the way it does? The social, cultural and scientific aspects of wine making, marketing and drinking offer opportunities for designers and HCI researchers to enhance the user experience of wine. This workshop offers academics and practitioners interested in designing wine futures, to chance to envision new experiences, products and services. Through participative design activities we will explore ways for design and technology to push our knowledge and craft into this unexplored applied research area.
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ItemThe Home as a Work-life Hub: A Policy (and Design) Blackspot(CIB, 2021)There is a complex relationship between home and work for people with a disability that is not reflected in the many policies and legislative frameworks that apply to housing in Australia. These include Commonwealth housing policy (largely financial in nature), the Building Code of Australia, and Home Modification Schemes run through the National Disability Insurance Scheme. Much current policy settings assume housing as a passive economic generator – a financial asset that appreciates and gains value over time. However, for many people with disability, the home is a place of active economic activity, both by the person with disability (working from home) and for them, as external workers come into the home to provide services that support their activities of daily life. This complicates the spaces within dwellings, particularly in terms of public and private space, which effects personal and professional places. The policy and legislative disconnect is reflected in housing design which manifests in a structural inequality – homes are not accessible, and a social inequality – homes do not support work or socializing. This paper reviews the policy and legislation used to support appropriate design recognising the role of the home as a location that blends elements of privacy, work, and socialising, while also providing the physical support so people can work and socialize in the community as full citizens. The aim of the ongoing research is to show how change and innovation to the legislative frameworks and the role that AECM consultants can play in improving the wellbeing of people who live with disability.
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ItemDesigning for neurodiversity: Reimagining the home for a covid normal life( 2021-01-01)As cities went into lockdown in response to COVID-19, for many, the role of the home in everyday life expanded. Activities that would normally occur at another venue, including work, study, recreation, and health appointments, were reconfigured to be done in the home. Among the legacies from this experience is a clearer understanding of the spatial and phenomenological quality of the spaces in which we live. Housing design already assigns private and public areas within dwellings, such as bedrooms and living rooms, but these are often rigidly defined and largely inflexible for alternative uses. Research on designing housing suitable for people with cognitive disabilities, including autism spectrum disorder (ASD), (such as a 'sensory design' approach, where it is necessary to move beyond public vs private, and recognise other dicotisms, light/ dark, warm/cool, loud/quiet, hard/soft, work/rest, and so on, and the transition between modes), may provide lessons for more general COVID-normal housing design. This study analyses three case studies of residential accommodation for people with ASD as opportunities for developing more responsive housing that can adapt to the demand for a greater range of activities to be fulfilled in the home.
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ItemTowards a comprehensive framework for integrating embodied environmental flow assessment into the structural design of tall buildings(ANZAScA, 2021)Urgent changes are needed in the construction industry to meet short term mitigation goals for climate change. Traditionally, operational environmental flows have been the primary focus of regulations and current attempts to improve the environmental performance of buildings. However, studies have revealed that embodied environmental flows are often underestimated and rarely considered. Embodied environmental flows are particularly significant in the structural systems of tall buildings due to the substantial influence of wind and earthquake loads on structural material requirements.