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Energy Efficiency Retrofit of a Multifamily Residential Complex in Utah

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“Energy Efficiency Retrofit of a Multifamily Residential Complex in Utah” discusses the energy-efficiency retrofit of an existing multifamily residential complex in Murray, Utah. Funded by the Department of Energy (DOE), the project included two buildings, each comprised of four residential units. The retrofit primarily focused on improvements to the building enclosure and building systems of […]

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April 8, 2025

Housing for Environmental and Human Health: Intersecting the Living Building Challenge and Cohousing

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“Housing for Environmental and Human Health: Intersecting the Living Building Challenge and Cohousing” presents a research study on environmentally conscious cohousing development in Utah. The state of housing in Utah faces competing challenges–a housing shortage that cannot be ignored as well as the negative impact of the built environment on the state’s natural resources. A […]

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April 8, 2025

Evaluating Building Performance of an Existing Research Laboratory Building: Energy-Efficiency and Indoor Environmental Quality

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“Evaluating Building Performance of an Existing Research Laboratory Building: Energy-Efficiency and Indoor Environmental Quality” presents a comprehensive study on energy-efficient (EE) retrofit strategies for improving building performance and indoor environmental quality (IEQ) in a higher-education research laboratory building. The case study is an existing 12,932m2 (139,200ft2), five-story research laboratory building on the University of Utah […]

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November 21, 2024

Facades Education in the United States: Current State and Recommendations for Improvements

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“Facades Education in the United States: Current State and Recommendations for Improvements” presents the results of a research study, outlining the state of facades education at higher-education institutions across the United States. The objective was to identify coursework focusing on facades (or enclosure systems) and analyze how these courses relate to the overall curricula, educational […]

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October 23, 2024

Design and Energy Analysis: Assessment of Workflows and Simulation Tools

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“Design and Energy Analysis: Assessment of Workflows and Simulation Tools” discusses integration and interoperability between Building Information Modeling (BIM) and Building Energy Modeling (BEM) tools, which pose major challenges for the Architecture, Engineering, and Construction (AEC) industry. BIM to BEM workflow should steer the users towards the design and analysis of energy efficient building shapes, […]

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October 23, 2024

DRS 2024: Editorial on Reimagining Care Through Evidence

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“Reimagining Care through Evidence: Design Research, Patient Centered Solutions, and a Culture of Care for Healthy Societies” outlines a session at the Design Research Society 2024 Conference, exploring  patient-centered evidence-based design in healthcare as a model of recovery, resistance, reflection, and reimagination. We were particularly interested in works of practice, scholarship, and research that put […]

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July 15, 2024

User-Centric Renovation Design Strategies of Traditional Offices for Supporting Hybrid Work: Engaging Employees through Research

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“User-Centric Renovation Design Strategies of Traditional Offices for Supporting Hybrid Work: Engaging Employees through Research” investigated renovation strategies of office spaces to post-pandemic, hybrid working environments with an emphasis on user inclusion in the holistic design process – from pre-design inquiry, design synthesis and development, and final design validation. The goal was to determine renovation strategies […]

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June 30, 2024

Innovations in Architecture: Research, Design and Technology

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“Innovations in Architecture: Research, Design and Technology” is an invited review paper, presented as part of a keynote presentation. Architectural designers are currently faced with many challenges—technological changes, environmental and economic impacts, necessity to innovate and raise the bar in building performance, and the paradigm shift in architecture with the wider adoption of advanced computational […]

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June 20, 2024

Building Information Modeling-Based Building Energy Modeling: Assessment of Workflows and Tools

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“Building Information Modeling-Based Building Energy Modeling: Assessment of Workflows and Tools” investigated interoperability between computational design and energy modeling tools. Integration of Building Information Modeling (BIM) and Building Energy Modeling (BEM) has potential to provide streamlined and accurate building energy predictions, steering architects towards sustainable building design. Yet, integration and interoperability between BIM and BEM […]

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May 25, 2024

Post-pandemic Office Spaces: Considerations and Design Strategies for Hybrid Work Environments

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“Post-pandemic Office Spaces: Considerations and Design Strategies for Hybrid Work Environments” investigated renovation considerations and design strategies for post-pandemic, hybrid office environment within an academic institution. The focus was on two case-study office spaces that are part of the same organization at the University of Utah, where the existing physical space was insufficient for future […]

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December 15, 2023