Building Technology Program: Recent submissions

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    • Structural analysis and assessment of Guastavino vaulting 

      Reese, Megan L (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2008)
      This thesis studies the behavior and pathologies of the masonry tile structures built by the R. Guastavino Company in order to provide recommendations on their analysis and assessment. Structural analyses of two specific ...

    • RISK COMPLEX : preparing the body for new hardware 

      Voiland, Luke (Luke A.) (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2008)
      Today's citizen navigates a vast society engaged in the explicit of wealth and implicit creation of risks. Each transaction inhere es both wealth and risk within the system. In 1986 Utrich Beck explanation for this emerging ...

    • Modeling the resource consumption of Housing in New Orleans using System Dynamics 

      Quinn, David James, Ph. D. Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2008)
      This work uses Systems Dynamics as a methodology to analyze the resource requirements of New Orleans as it recovers from Hurricane Katrina. It examines the behavior of the city as a system of stocks, flows and time delays ...