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Design added value : how design increases value for architects and engineers /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Akin, Ömer
Corporate Author: ProQuest (Firm)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Cham : Springer, [2022]
Subjects:
Engineering design > Economic aspects.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • Intro
  • Foreword
  • Foreword
  • Preface
  • Acknowledgments
  • Contents
  • List of Figures
  • List of Tables
  • About the Author
  • Part I: Introduction to Design Added Value
  • Chapter 1: Introduction
  • Relevance of Economics
  • Architecture, Engineering, Construction (AEC)
  • Value-Based Design (VBD): Combining Economics and AEC
  • Chapter 2: Capital Projects and Building Assessment
  • Capital Projects
  • Evaluation in the AEC Sector
  • Post-Occupancy Evaluation (POE)
  • Facility Performance Evaluation
  • Building Feasibility Analysis
  • Simulation-Based Evaluation
  • Building Commissioning
  • Current Challenges and Opportunities in the AEC Sector
  • Performance Emphasis
  • Stakeholder Savvy
  • Integration of Design and Operations of Capital Projects
  • BIM: The Emerging Digital Platform of Capital Project Delivery
  • Digital Information Advances
  • Exercise 1
  • Chapter 3: Fallingwater: A Celebrated Case of DAV Analysis
  • In the Early Years
  • Moisture Penetration
  • Structural Problems
  • A Retrospective Analysis
  • VBD Features of Fallingwater and Their "Spin" and "Buzz"
  • Stakeholders and the VBD Analysis of Fallingwater
  • Fallingwater's Costs and Benefits with Risk
  • Benchmarking the Costs and Benefits of Fallingwater's Design Features with Risk
  • Exercise 2
  • Chapter 4: Value-Based Design
  • Real-Estate Economics
  • Qualitative Estimates of Investment Value
  • Qualitative Estimates of Building Investment Value
  • A Quantitative Example of Investment Value
  • Qualitative Estimate of Value Added Investment
  • Use Value Versus Exchange Value
  • Pre Facto Versus Post Facto Analysis
  • Exercise 3
  • Part II: DAV Analysis Methods
  • Chapter 5: Cost-Benefit with Risk Analysis
  • Cost-Benefit Analysis in the DAV
  • Soft Costs
  • Construction and Operating Costs
  • Other Costs
  • Benefits
  • VBD Elicitation Methods
  • Exercise 4
  • Chapter 6: Elicitation Methods
  • Structured Interview
  • Brainstorming
  • Prototyping
  • Cognitive Walkthrough
  • Ethnographic Observation
  • Exercise 5.1
  • Exercise 5.2
  • Chapter 7: Pre facto and Post facto Analysis
  • Pre facto Analysis: (De-)value Engineering
  • What Is Function?
  • What Is Cost?
  • A Summary Approach to Value Engineering in DAV
  • Pre Facto Analysis: Carry-Over of Estimates from Precedents
  • Post facto Analysis: Archival Documentation of Parameters
  • Documenting the Features
  • Documenting the Stakeholders
  • Document Costs at Three Levels of Impact
  • Document Benefit at Three Levels of Impact
  • Exercise 6
  • Chapter 8: Quantitative DAV Analysis Methods
  • Scaling Ordinal Values
  • Sensitivity Analysis of Parameters
  • Risk Analysis
  • Bayesian Probability Estimates
  • Optimization with Graphics Methods
  • Optimization by Methods of Calculus
  • Optimization by Simplex Methods
  • Exercise 7.1
  • Exercise 7.2
  • Exercise 7.3
  • Chapter 9: Expertise, Innovation, and Creativity in Support of DAV
  • Innovation by eXtreme Design
  • Creativity