Building Technology Program Theses: Recent submissions

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    • Regionalism and the design of low-rise building envelope systems 

      Tapia, Jason W. (Jason Wilfredo) (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2010)
      This investigation proposes the use of a three-pronged approach to evaluating building envelopes for low-rise affordable housing in urban contexts: construction cost estimating, building performance modeling, and cradle ...

    • Complete drawing prototypes for urban complete streets 

      Winder, James Ira (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2010)
      A study was performed to determine how drawings for streets may be tailored to a broad range of viewers and agendas, yet still be viewed as a credible design tool for architects. With a growing number of cities designing ...

    • Unique airflow visualization techniques for the design and validation of above-plenum data center CFD models 

      Lloyd, Michael David, S.M. Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2010)
      One cause for the substantial amount of energy used for data center cooling is poor airflow effects such as hot-aisle to cold-aisle air recirculation. To correct these and to investigate innovative designs that will notably ...