Building Technology Program Theses: Recent submissions
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Probing the black box : experiments in design and design education
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2000)Conventional analysis and design methods based on preexisting methods and assumptions preconditions and limits the designer's level of engagement with the specific context that is under investigation. A structural analysis ... -
Improving the quality and transparency of building life cycle assessment
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2011)Life cycle assessment, or LCA, is a powerful method for measuring and reducing a building's environmental impacts. Its widespread adoption among designers would allow the environmental component of sustainability to gain ... -
Lighting a building with a single bulb : toward a system for illumination in the 21st c.; or, A centralized illumination system for the efficient decoupling and recovery of lighting related heat
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1997)Piping light represents the first tenable method for recovery and reutilization of lighting related heat. It can do this by preserving the energy generated at the lamp as radiative, departing from precedent and avoiding ...
