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Saari, Arto, and Pekka Heikkila. "Building Flexibility Management." Open Construction and Building Technology Journal 2, no. 1 (October 13, 2008): 239–42. http://dx.doi.org/10.2174/1874836800802010239.

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Fallahi, Zahra, and Gregor Henze. "Interactive Buildings: A Review." Sustainability 11, no. 14 (July 23, 2019): 3988. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/su11143988.

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Buildings are widely regarded as potential sources for demand flexibility. The flexibility of thermal and electric load in buildings is a result of their interactive nature and its impact on the building’s performance. In this paper, the interaction of a building with the three interaction counterparts of the physical environment, civil infrastructure networks and other buildings is investigated. The literature review presents a wide variety of pathways of interaction and their associated potential impacts on building performance metrics such as net energy use, emissions, occupant comfort and operational cost. It is demonstrated that all of these counterparts of interaction should be considered to harness the flexibility potential of the buildings while maintaining other buildings performance metrics at a desired level. Juxtaposed with the upside potential for providing demand flexibility, numerous implementation challenges are identified that are associated with the evaluation and financial valuation of the capacity for demand flexibility, the aggregated flexibility potential, as well as the control and communication to facilitate the interactions.

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Mugnini, Alice, Fabio Polonara, and Alessia Arteconi. "Energy flexibility in residential buildings clusters." E3S Web of Conferences 197 (2020): 03002. http://dx.doi.org/10.1051/e3sconf/202019703002.

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The building sector represents one of the most energy-consuming worldwide and a great part of its consumption is accounted for residential demand for space heating and cooling. Although it is necessary to promote the buildings energy efficiency, energy flexibility is also of paramount importance to optimize the balance between demand and supply. In fact, an energy flexible building is defined as able to change, in a planned manner, the shape of its energy demand curve, electrical and thermal, while the comfort of the end-users is still guaranteed. Objective of this work is to exploit the energy demand management ability of different buildings composing a cluster, when their aggregated demand derived from electric heating systems (i.e. heat pumps) is subject to demand response (DR) strategies. Users with different occupancy profile are considered. By supposing to be able to activate the energy flexibility of the single building with thermostatic load control, different scenarios of cluster composition are evaluated in order to provide guidelines to implement optimal strategies for energy flexibility exploitation without drawback effects connected to the event.

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عادل محمد بن ياسين, عادل محمد بن ياسين. "Building Systems and Flexibility: Developing a Conceptual Cost Analysis Framework for Office Buildings." journal of king abdulaziz university environmental design Science 6, no. 1 (January 10, 2009): 137–50. http://dx.doi.org/10.4197/env.6-1.7.

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Flexibility of physical environment in workplaces is an important issue for designers and facility managers in order to understand the implications of any change. This paper develops a conceptual framework for the notion of workplace flexibility. Building systems which represent the physical elements of the workplace are categorized in terms of shell, scenery, services and set. Flexibility is conceptualized in terms of ease to change, and is associated with cost. Most of the research in literature dealt with flexibility in its theoretical concept. This research tried to attach quantitative measures to the concept of flexibility. Three types of change related to cost were developed in association with both performance and time. These are costs of replacement, improvement and movement. The paper claims that through understanding the three types of cost which represent level of flexibility of the physical elements, organizations and designers could select the most appropriate choice of change. Indicators for flexibility and effectiveness were developed. Results of analyzing the three types of change according to the developed framework when applied to air conditioning ducts system in Jaffali office building in Jeddah show variation of flexibility level at different level of change. However, replacement of the whole ducts system are found to be the most expensive choice, whereas improvement of the system is the most effective choice. The paper suggests that such approach could be easily applied to different building systems, as it becomes a helpful tool for designers and managers to resolve the problem of flexibility.

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Liu, Mingzhe, Hicham Johra, Per Kvols Heiselberg, Ivan Kolev, and Kremena Pavlova. "Energy flexibility of office buildings – Potential of different building types." E3S Web of Conferences 111 (2019): 01052. http://dx.doi.org/10.1051/e3sconf/201911101052.

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The objective of this study is to investigate and assess the energy flexibility performance of typical Danish office buildings constructed at different periods. Four building study cases have been compared with different heating demands, structural thermal masses, envelope insulation levels and infiltration rates. All cases are equipped with the same novel two-pipe heating and cooling system. Each case is divided in four subcases with variations of heat gains: people load, lighting load, equipment load, solar gain. Analyses and comparisons have been performed on different parameters, including power load shifting and grid adjustment, comfort level, and economical benefits. All investigated cases are tested with two control strategies: a normal reference control strategy and an energy flexibility control. The flexible controller adjusts the indoor temperature set points for heating and cooling depending on different energy price levels.

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Karatzas, Stylianos K., Athanasios P. Chassiakos, and Anastasios I. Karameros. "Business Processes and Comfort Demand for Energy Flexibility Analysis in Buildings." Energies 13, no. 24 (December 12, 2020): 6561. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/en13246561.

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Occupant behavior and business processes in a building environment constitute an inseparable set of important factors that drives energy consumption. Existing methodologies for building energy management lag behind in addressing these core parameters by focusing explicitly on the building’s structural components. Additional layers of information regarding indoor and outdoor environmental conditions and occupant behavior patterns, mostly driven by everyday business processes (schedules, loads, and specific business activities related to occupancy patterns and building operations), are necessary for the effective and efficient modeling of building energy performance in order to establish a holistic energy efficiency management framework. The aim of this paper was to develop a context-driven framework in which multiple levels of information regarding occupant behavior patterns resulting from everyday business processes were incorporated for efficient energy management in buildings. A preliminary framework evaluation was performed in a multifaceted university building involving a number of spaces, employees, business processes, and data from sensors and metering devices. The results derived by linking operational aspects and environmental conditions (temperature, humidity, and luminance) to occupant behavior underlying business processes and organizational structures indicated the potential energy savings: a max of 7.08% for Heating, ventilation, and air conditioning (HVAC), 19.46% for lighting and a maximum of 6.34% saving related to office appliances.

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Slaughter, E. Sarah. "Design strategies to increase building flexibility." Building Research & Information 29, no. 3 (May 2001): 208–17. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/09613210010027693.

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Das, Ajay. "Towards theory building in manufacturing flexibility." International Journal of Production Research 39, no. 18 (January 2001): 4153–77. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/00207540110072281.

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Homaei, Shabnam, and Mohamed Hamdy. "Quantification of Energy Flexibility and Survivability of All-Electric Buildings with Cost-Effective Battery Size: Methodology and Indexes." Energies 14, no. 10 (May 12, 2021): 2787. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/en14102787.

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All-electric buildings are playing an important role in the electrification plan towards energy-neutral smart cities. Batteries are key components in all-electric buildings that can help the demand-side energy management as a flexibility asset and improve the building survivability in the case of power outages as an active survivability asset. This paper introduces a novel methodology and indexes for determining cost-effective battery sizes. It also explores the possible trade-off between energy flexibility and the survivability of all-electric buildings. The introduced methodology uses IDA-ICE 4.8 as a building performance simulation tool and MATLAB® 2017 as a post-processing calculation tool for quantifying building energy flexibility and survivability indexes. The proposed methodology is applied to a case study of a Norwegian single-family house, where 10 competitive designs, 16 uncertainty scenarios, and 3 dynamic pricing tariffs suggested by the Norwegian regulators are investigated. The methodology provides informative support for different stakeholders to compare various building designs and dynamic pricing tariffs from the flexibility and survivability points of view. Overall, the results indicate that larger cost-effective batteries usually have higher active survivability and lower energy flexibility from cost- effectiveness perspective. For instance, when the time of use tariff is applied, the cost-effective battery size varies between 40 and 65 kWh (daily storage). This is associated with a cost-effective flexibility index of 0.4–0.55%/kWh and an active survivability index of 63–80%.

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Weiß, T. "Energy Flexible Buildings - The impact of building design on energy flexibility." IOP Conference Series: Earth and Environmental Science 323 (September 6, 2019): 012009. http://dx.doi.org/10.1088/1755-1315/323/1/012009.

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Al-Nijaidi, H. R. "Flexibility in the design of buildings." Thesis, Oxford Brookes University, 1985. http://radar.brookes.ac.uk/radar/items/195d4e72-b637-0ed3-3a5b-7d978f9a39c1/1.

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The study investigated the relationship between design and flexibility. Proposals by designers on how to incorporate the ability of buildings to accommodate changes in the requirements of the activities to be housed in buildings over time has led to a diversity of ideas regarding the relationship between suggested design variables and the achieved flexibility. Though a number of studies have been made on specific organisations and buildings, there has been no overall investigation of the general relationship between design and flexibility. To investigate this relationship it was necessary to: 1. Propose a system of measurement by which the extent of incorporation of the design variables in design proposals could be assessed (Chapters II and III). 2. Propose a system of measurement by which the extent of flexibility of buildings in use could be assessed (Chapter IV). 3. Assess the extent of flexibility achieved by the incorporation of design variables in design proposals by a study of actual buildings in use (Chapters V, VI, VII, and VIII). The study has largely achieved these objectives. It provided methods to enable objective comparison to be made between alternative design proposals in terms of the incorporation of design variables. It provided methods to enable objective comparison to be made between buildings in terms of their flexibility in use. It became apparent that the flexibility of buildings in use was related to only certain aspects of design variables or even to only certain parts of buildings. The study demonstrated that the flexibility of buildings in use is largely predictable from knowledge about their design. It showed that current ideas on flexible designs contain many factors that are redundant to flexibility. It recommends that future proposals of designing for flexibility need to be more refined than those at the present and that will enhance the effectiveness of manipulating the potential flexibility of buildings at the design stage. The main area of further research to emerge was concerned with the operationalisation of other design variables and their testing in various building types utilising the methods defined in this study.

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Dhotel, Alexandre. "Molecular Flexibility of Self-Assembled Systems: Effects of Building Block Polarity." Phd thesis, Université de Rouen, 2013. http://tel.archives-ouvertes.fr/tel-00958354.

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L'auto-assemblage moléculaire est désormais considéré comme l'une des approches les plus prometteuses pour la conception de matériaux à nanostructures complexes. Cependant, les récents progrès effectués ont aussi amené la nécessité d'améliorer la compréhension des mécanismes régissant la flexibilité des molécules. Il a ainsi été décidé d'étudier l'effet de la composition des briques moléculaires sur leur processus d'assemblage, et la labilité structurale des systèmes assemblés. De manière à pouvoir comparer rigoureusement les résultats expérimentaux, un seule morphologie de briques moléculaires, en forme de "bâtonnet", a été choisie et trois groupes distincts de molécules ont été sélectionnés : non-polaires, qui ne possèdent pas de dipôle important, monofonctionelles, lesquelles possèdent une terminaison polaire et une seconde non-polaire, et bifonctionelles, constituées d'un groupe polaire à chaque extrémité séparés par une chaine non-polaire Ainsi, l'influence des groupements dipolaires sur la labilité de la nanostructure finale du matériau a pu être explorée. Cette étude permet ainsi de mettre en exergue la remarquable diversité des flexibilités structurales qui peuvent être rencontrées dans les systèmes auto-assemblés. De plus, elle dévoile le potentiel des mouvements moléculaires locaux en tant qu'approche encourageante pour fonctionnaliser des structures auto-assemblées supposées inertes ou contraintes.

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Wolf, Tobias. "Model-based Assessment of Heat Pump Flexibility." Thesis, Uppsala universitet, Fasta tillståndets fysik, 2016. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-284083.

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Today's energy production is changing from scheduled to intermittent generation due to the increasing energy injection from renewable sources. This alteration requires flexibility in energy generation and demand. Electric heat pumps and thermal storages were found to have a large potential to provide demand flexibility which is analysed in this work. A three-fold method is set up to generate thermal load profiles, to simulate heat pump pools and to assess heat pump flexibility. The thermal profile generation based on a combination of physical and behavioural models is successfully validated against measurement data. A randomised system sizing procedure was implemented for the simulation of heat pump pools. The parameter randomisation yields correct seasonal performance factors, full load hours and average operation cycles per day compared to 87 monitored systems. The flexibility assessment analysis the electric load deviation of representative heat pump pool in response to 5 different on / off signals. The flexibility is induced by the capacity of thermal storages and analysed by four parameters. Generally, on signals are more powerful than off signals. A generic assessment by the ambient temperature yield that the flexibility is highest for heating days and the activated additional space heating storage: Superheating of the storage to the maximal temperature provides a flexible energy of more than 400 kWh per 100 heat pumps in a temperature range between -10 and +13 °C.

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Li, Yu-wai Vic. "Explaining the institutional flexibility of the ASEAN Regional Forum : a rationalist first-cut /." View the Table of Contents & Abstract, 2007. http://sunzi.lib.hku.hk/hkuto/record/B37121236.

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Péan, Thibault Q. "Heat pump controls to exploit the energy flexibility of building thermal loads." Doctoral thesis, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, 2020. http://hdl.handle.net/10803/669805.

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Smart controls for heat pumps are required to harness the full energy flexibility potential of building thermal loads. A literature review revealed that most strategies used for this purpose can be classified in two categories: simpler rule-based control (RBC), and model predictive control (MPC), a more complex strategy based on optimization and requiring a prior model of the systems. Both RBC and MPC can use external penalty signals to prompt their actions. The price of electricity is most often used for this purpose, leading to strategies of cost reduction. As an alternative penalty signal, a novel marginal CO2 emissions signals was also conceived. In this thesis, both an RBC and an MPC controllers were developed as supervisory controls for an air-to-water heat pump supplying the heating and cooling needs of a residential building type from the Mediterranean area of Spain. The RBC strategy modulates the temperature set-points, while the MPC strategy minimizes the overall summed penalties (costs or emissions) due to the heat pump use, while balancing with comfort constraints and a proper operation of the systems. The MPC controller in particular required the development of a simplified model of the building envelope and of the heat pump performance, both adjusted differently for heating or cooling. The MPC included several novelties, such as the mixed-integer formulation, the heat pump simplified model based on experimental data and the consideration of its computational delay. The developed controllers were then tested, firstly in an experimental “hardware-in-the-loop” setup, with a real heat pump installed in the laboratory facilities, and connected to thermal benches that emulated the loads from a building model. Implementing the control strategies on a real heat pump enabled to highlight some practical challenges such as model mismatch in the MPC, communication issues, interfacing and control conflicts with the heat pump local controller. Secondly, a simulation-only framework was developed to test other configurations of the controllers, with TRNSYS as the main dynamic building simulation tool, coupled with MATLAB for the MPC controller. In that case, the real heat pump was replaced by a detailed model which was specially developed for this purpose. It is based on static tests performed in the laboratory, and therefore reproduces the dynamic behavior of the heat pump with high fidelity. The results from experimental and simulation studies revealed the ability of both types of controllers to shift the building loads towards periods of cheaper or less CO2-emitting electricity, these two objectives being in fact contradictory. In the cases where the reference control presented a large margin for improvements, the RBC and MPC controllers performed equally and provided important savings: around 15% emissions savings in heating mode, and 30% cost savings in cooling mode. In the cases where the reference control already performed close to optimally, the RBC controller failed to provide improvements, while the MPC benefitted from its stronger optimization and prediction features, reaching 5% cost savings in heating mode and 10% emissions savings in cooling mode. The research carried out in this thesis covered many aspects of energy flexibility in buildings: creation of input penalty signals, graphical representation of flexibility, development of controllers, performance in realistic experimental setup, fitting of appropriate models and compared performance in heating and cooling. The development efforts and barriers hindering the deployment of MPC controllers at large scale for building climate control have additionally been discussed. The performance of the developed controllers was evidenced in the thesis, proving their potential for load-shifting incentivized by different penalty signals: they could become a strong asset to unlock demand-side flexibility and in fine, help integrating a larger share of RES in the grid.
Para aprovechar todo el potencial de flexibilidad energética de las cargas térmicas en los edificios equipados con bombas de calor se requiere de sistemas de control inteligente. Una revisión bibliográfica ha revelado que la mayoría de las estrategias de gestión utilizadas para esta finalidad pueden ser clasificadas en dos categorías: control en base a reglas (RBC en inglés) o predictivo (MPC en inglés), basado en optimización y en el uso de modelos. Tanto RBC como MPC pueden utilizar señales externas de penalización para fundamentar sus decisiones. El precio de la electricidad es utilizado a este fin de forma habitual en estrategias de reducción de coste. Una nueva señal de emisiones marginales de CO2 fue también creada como alternativa. Se han desarrollado un controlador RBC y un MPC para sistemas de bombas de calor aire-agua que cubren las demandas de climatización y agua caliente en el ámbito residencial. El RBC modula las consignas de temperatura, y el MPC minimiza las penalizaciones totales del sistema, al mismo tiempo que se consideran restricciones operativas y de confort. En particular, el MPC ha requerido el desarrollo de nuevos modelos simplificados, para predecir la demanda del edificio y el rendimiento de la bomba de calor, tanto en modo calefacción como en modo refrigeración. Otras novedades añadidas en la configuración del MPC son la formulación entera mixta, y la consideración del retraso debido al tiempo de cómputo. Los controladores fueron testeados, primeramente, en un entorno experimental -hardware-in-the-loop-, con una bomba de calor real instalada en el laboratorio y conectada a unos bancos térmicos que emulan las cargas térmicas del edificio. El entorno experimental ha permitido poner de manifiesto algunos retos prácticos tales como la discrepancia en el modelo del MPC y conflictos de conexión con el controlador local de la bomba de calor. En segundo lugar, un entorno de simulación ha sido creado para testear diversas configuraciones, usando TRNSYS acoplado con MATLAB. Para ello, se ha desarrollado un modelo detallado de la bomba de calor, basado en ensayos realizados en laboratorio, que reproduce el comportamiento dinámico de la bomba de calor con alta fidelidad. Tanto los resultados experimentales como los simulados han revelado la capacidad de los dos tipos de control de desplazar las cargas del edificio hacia periodos donde la electricidad era más barata o había menos emisiones de CO2, estos dos objetivos presentando de hecho impactos contradictorios. En los casos donde el control de referencia presentaba un amplio margen de mejora, los controladores RBC y MPC han demostrado la capacidad de actuar eficientemente y proveer ahorros importantes: alrededor de un 15% de emisiones en modo calefacción, y de un 30% de coste en modo frío. En aquellos casos en el que el control de referencia actuaba de forma cercana a la óptima, los controladores RBC no han sido capaces de aportar mejoras significativas, mientras que el MPC ha demostrado la capacidad de conseguir ahorros de un 5% de coste en modo calefacción y de un 10% de emisiones en modo frío. La investigación realizada en esta tesis ha abarcado amplios aspectos de la flexibilidad energética en los edificios: la generación de señales de penalización, la representación gráfica del potencial de flexibilidad, el ajuste de modelos simplificados, el desarrollo de controladores, el ensayo en entorno experimental y de simulación, con la consecuente evaluación de su rendimiento comparado en periodos de invierno y de verano, así como una discusión de las barreras que dificultan la implementación de controladores MPC y RBC a gran escala. Finalmente, la tesis ha evidenciado el rendimiento de los controladores desarrollados si se formulan de forma adecuada, demostrando su potencial para el desplazamiento del consumo eléctrico en la edificación residencial con sistemas de bomba de calor respondiendo a diferentes señales de penalización. En conclusión, los sistemas propuestos pueden ser elementos muy valiosos para favorecer la necesaria flexibilidad de la demanda térmica en la edificación y posibilitar la integración de sistemas de generación renovables en la red

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Kintingu, Simion Hosea. "Design of interlocking bricks for enhanced wall construction, flexibility, alignment accuracy and load bearing." Thesis, University of Warwick, 2009. http://wrap.warwick.ac.uk/2768/.

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The worldwide housing shortage has stimulated a search for appropriate, easy, fast and cost-effective new ways of wall construction. Among many technologies found to have promise is mortarless technology using dry-stack interlocking bricks/blocks. This thesis is about such mortarless walling technology and in particular: how to improve wall-construction flexibility, the effects of brick irregularities on wall alignment accuracy and wall behaviour (stiffness, strength) when subject to lateral forces. The flexibility of mortarless technology (MT) has been enhanced by the development of new bricks (centre-half bat and tee brick): the introduction of closer bricks led to the formation of two new bonds (patterns) namely Shokse and Lijuja bonds. It is now possible to construct more than half-brick-thick walls, to attach more than half-brickwide piers (buttresses) onto walls, and, using special bricks, to construct polygonal and curved walls using interlocking bricks. Three methods (theoretical modeling, physical experiments and computer simulation) were used to analyze the effects of brick imperfections on wall alignment accuracy. Theoretical analysis confirmed that brick moulders should concentrate on achieving parallel top and bottom faces rather than achieving true square-ness. Physical column assembly compared three brick-laying strategies namely: “random”, “reversing” and “replace”. The columns assembled using the “reversing” and “replace” strategies realized alignment improvement factors of 1.6 and 2.9 respectively over “random” strategy. The research also revealed that grooving, to prevent bricks making contact near their centre lines, improved column alignment by factor 2.13 and stiffness by factor 2.0, thus allowing construction of longer and higher walls without strengthening measures. In order to attain alignment accuracy in accordance with BS 5628-3:2005 in a dry-stack mortarless wall, this research recommends using full bricks with top and bottom surface irregularities not exceeding ±0.5mm for un-grooved bricks, and up-to ±0.9mm for grooved bricks. Further analysis was undertaken with respect to resource-use implications (cement, water, soil) of employing MT. Using MT will save 50% of wall construction cost and 50% cement consumption, which ultimately will reduce 40% of carbon emissions.

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Li, Yu-wai Vic, and 李裕維. "Explaining the institutional flexibility of the ASEAN Regional Forum: a rationalist first-cut." Thesis, The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong), 2007. http://hub.hku.hk/bib/B38319299.

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Galko, Amber Elizabeth. "Integrating Flexibility and Sustainability to Define a New Net-Zero Apartment Building Prototype." Thesis, The University of Arizona, 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/347179.

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Two key architectural concepts that must be taken into account in every design are sustainability and flexibility. These two ideas are inherently tied to one another. Sustainability refers to ideas and processes that provide solutions meant to better our built environment by using renewable resources, and reducing the amount of energy used in order to ensure our planets well-being for future generations. Flexibility refers to the capability of adaptation in order to accommodate different situations and circumstances. Users will always change through time, while a structure remains the same. The goal of flexibility is to allow a building to evolve as its users do in both long and short term. Rooms can be added or removed, exterior connections can change, and uses of rooms can change throughout the day as spaces are used differently. Flexibility will extend a building's entire life cycle and reducing the need for expensive renovations by making every space multi-use. Each building's entire life cycle should be taken into account during the design phase, and no building should serve as a single use, this idea will also make them more sustainable. These two concepts will also have very important social and economical implications for the users.

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Galko, Amber E. "Integrating Flexibility and Sustainability to Define a New Net-Zero Apartment Building Prototype." Thesis, The University of Arizona, 2015. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=1583760.

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Two key architectural concepts that must be taken into account in every design are sustainability and flexibility. These two ideas are inherently tied to one another. Sustainability refers to ideas and processes that provide solutions meant to better our built environment by using renewable resources, and reducing the amount of energy used in order to ensure our planets well-being for future generations. Flexibility refers to the capability of adaptation in order to accommodate different situations and circumstances. Users will always change through time, while a structure remains the same. The goal of flexibility is to allow a building to evolve as its users do in both long and short term. Rooms can be added or removed, exterior connections can change, and uses of rooms can change through out the day as spaces are used differently. Flexibility will extend a building's entire life cycle and reducing the need for expensive renovations by making every space multi-use. Each building's entire life cycle should be taken into account during the design phase, and no building should serve as a single use, this idea will also make them more sustainable. These two concepts will also have very important social and economical implications for the users.

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DiMaio, Christopher Michael. "Interstitial Building Space and its Relationship to Evidence Based Design." Thesis, Virginia Tech, 2019. http://hdl.handle.net/10919/89901.

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Healthcare facilities are dynamic, long-term investments that must be able to respond to change in order to avoid obsolescence. Flexibility is a response used in healthcare facility design and construction to counter uncertainties, such as changing medical technologies, medical science and regulations. Flexible infrastructure design offers healthcare facilities the opportunity to combat obsolescence stemming from uncertainties. Interstitial Building Space (IBS) is one of many flexible infrastructure design options that assists with both mid-range and long-term flexibility. IBS is an unfinished and unoccupied horizontal space between a building's floors, fully accessible to people for the purpose of service and maintenance. The advent of Evidence Based Design (EBD) introduced a new dimension to the already dynamic healthcare facility. "EBD represents a body of science that links elements of the built environment with patient, staff and resource outcomes" (Malone et al. 2007 p.5). The incorporation of EBD increases the complexity for the design and construction of healthcare facilities. A framework was developed that articulates the dependent relationships between flexibility, IBS and EBD. The framework is comprised of three key elements: 1) a comprehensive "IBS Spectrum of Benefits" matrix resulting from a systematic literature review 2) a "Flexibility-EBD Conceptual Model" illustrating the relationship between flexibility and EBD, while identifying a continuum of flexibility enabled by this relationship; and 3) a "IBS-EBD Component Mapping Framework" articulating direct matches between the "IBS Spectrum of Benefits" and EBD components. The framework and the key elements within provide a foundational resource for stakeholders and researchers alike, navigating the interrelated intricacies associated with flexibility, EBD and IBS.
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Healthcare facilities are dynamic, long-term investments that must be able to respond to change in order to avoid obsolescence. Flexibility is one response which enables facilities to combat changes and/ or uncertainties. This thesis explores the relationships between flexibility, Interstitial Building Space and Evidence Based Design, documents each relationship, and depicts their interrelated nature with the establishment of an overarching framework.

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Books on the topic "Flexibility of the building"

Pedersen, Stephanie. Vitamin C: Building flexibility & fighting infection. New York: Dorling Kindersley Pub., 2000.

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Brown, Bonnie M. Unexpected wealth: A fire drill for building strength and flexibility in families. Eugene, OR: TDI Press, 2003.

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Brown, Bonnie M. Sudden death: A fire drill for building strength and flexibility in families. Eugene, OR: TDI Press, 2003.

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Péan, Thibault. Heat Pump Controls to Exploit the Energy Flexibility of Building Thermal Loads. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-63429-2.

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The runner's guide to yoga: A practical approach to building strength and flexibility for better running. Boulder, Colo: VeloPress, 2012.

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Morrow, Valerie. Flexibility. Vermilion, Alta: Wavel Ventures, 2001.

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Paul, Mason. Improving flexibility. New York: Rosen Pub. Group, 2011.

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McNaught-Davis, Paul. Developing flexibility. Leeds: National Coaching Foundation, 1986.

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Great Britain. Work Research Unit. Craft flexibility. London: Work Research Unit, 1985.

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Gerber, Jochen, Hanjo Arms, Mathias Wiecher, and Christian Danner. Leveraging Flexibility. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 2014. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-54362-3.

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Book chapters on the topic "Flexibility of the building"

Graves, Stephen C. "Flexibility Principles." In Building Intuition, 33–49. Boston, MA: Springer US, 2008. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-73699-0_3.

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Hamdi, Nabeel. "3. Flexibility and building." In Housing without Houses, 49–74. Rugby, Warwickshire, United Kingdom: Practical Action Publishing, 1995. http://dx.doi.org/10.3362/9781780442341.003.

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De Meyer, Arnoud, and Jovina Ang. "Flexibility and quality in implementation." In Building Excellence in Higher Education, 109–25. London: Routledge, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9781003083719-10.

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Petit, Marjorie M., Robert E. Laird, Matthew F. Wyneken, Frances R. Huntoon, Mary D. Abele-Austin, and Jean D. Sequeira. "Percents—Building Understanding, Flexibility and Fluency." In A Focus on Ratios and Proportions, 189–216. New York, NY : Routledge, 2020.: Routledge, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9780429353611-9.

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Kalberg, Christopher S. "Building Flexibility for the Undergraduate Chemistry Laboratory." In Innovations and Renovations: Designing the Teaching Laboratory, 127–40. Washington, DC: American Chemical Society, 2013. http://dx.doi.org/10.1021/bk-2013-1146.ch009.

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Atkins, Sandra L. "Building Precision and Flexibility in Using Mathematical Language." In Creating a Language-Rich Math Class, 101–6. 2nd ed. New York: Routledge, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9781003175698-10.

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Häusermann, Silja, and Hanna Schwander. "Switzerland: Building a Multi-Pillar Pension System for a Flexible Labour Market." In Labour Market Flexibility and Pension Reforms, 155–81. London: Palgrave Macmillan UK, 2012. http://dx.doi.org/10.1057/9780230307605_6.

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Péan, Thibault. "Development of Controllers for Energy Flexibility." In Heat Pump Controls to Exploit the Energy Flexibility of Building Thermal Loads, 111–31. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-63429-2_4.

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Deepa, S., I. R. Mithanthaya, and S. V. Venkatesh. "Performance-Based Evaluation of Building With and Without Soil Flexibility." In Lecture Notes in Civil Engineering, 625–35. Singapore: Springer Singapore, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-981-15-0890-5_52.

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Prins, M., M. F. Th Bax, J. C. Carp, and H. Tempelmans Plat. "A Design Decision Support System for Building Flexibility and Costs." In Design and Decision Support Systems in Architecture, 147–63. Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands, 1993. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-94-017-1229-3_12.

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Conference papers on the topic "Flexibility of the building"

Hall, P., and G. Eccleston. "Building flexibility & sustainabilitv into plants." In IET 3rd Annual Seminar on Power Generation Control. Building Flexibility & Sustainability into Plants. IEE, 2008. http://dx.doi.org/10.1049/ic.2008.0679.

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Li, Rongling, Andong Wang, Carsten Rode, and Shi You. "Energy Flexibility of Building Cluster – Part I: Occupancy Modelling." In 7th International Building Physics Conference. Syracuse, New York: International Association of Building Physics (IABP), 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.14305/ibpc.2018.hf-3.01.

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Le Dréau, Jérôme, and Johann Meulemans. ""Characterisation of the flexibility potential from space heating in French residential buildings"." In 7th International Building Physics Conference. Syracuse, New York: International Association of Building Physics (IABP), 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.14305/ibpc.2018.ep-1.01.

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Mocanu, Elena, Phuong H. Nguyen, and Madeleine Gibescu. "Energy disaggregation for real-time building flexibility detection." In 2016 IEEE Power and Energy Society General Meeting (PESGM). IEEE, 2016. http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/pesgm.2016.7741966.

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Bhuiyan, Mohammad T., and Roberto T. Leon. "Effect of Diaphragm Flexibility on Tall Building Responses." In Structures Congress 2013. Reston, VA: American Society of Civil Engineers, 2013. http://dx.doi.org/10.1061/9780784412848.200.

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Schenk, Sigrid A. "Valuation of flexibility for public investments." In 2008 First International Conference on Infrastructure Systems and Services: Building Networks for a Brighter Future (INFRA). IEEE, 2008. http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/infra.2008.5439689.

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Lichnowski, A. "Alarm systems internal buy-in & design." In IET 3rd Annual Seminar on Power Generation Control. Building Flexibility & Sustainability into Plants. IEE, 2008. http://dx.doi.org/10.1049/ic.2008.0676.

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Sedgwick, M. "Issues facing the power generation industry." In IET 3rd Annual Seminar on Power Generation Control. Building Flexibility & Sustainability into Plants. IEE, 2008. http://dx.doi.org/10.1049/ic.2008.0674.

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Wyman, P. "The approach to legacy systems within the non-nuclear power station sector." In IET 3rd Annual Seminar on Power Generation Control. Building Flexibility & Sustainability into Plants. IEE, 2008. http://dx.doi.org/10.1049/ic.2008.0675.

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Hitchen, I., and C. de Salis. "Segregated integration - the paradox." In IET 3rd Annual Seminar on Power Generation Control. Building Flexibility & Sustainability into Plants. IEE, 2008. http://dx.doi.org/10.1049/ic.2008.0677.

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Reports on the topic "Flexibility of the building"

Harris, Chioke. Opaque Envelopes: Pathway to Building Energy Efficiency and Demand Flexibility: Key to a Low-Carbon, Sustainable Future. Office of Scientific and Technical Information (OSTI), September 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.2172/1821413.

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Eckman, Tom, Lisa Schwartz, and Greg Leventis. Determining Utility System Value of Demand Flexibility From Grid-interactive Efficient Buildings. Office of Scientific and Technical Information (OSTI), April 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.2172/1619177.

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Schiller, Steven, Lisa Schwartz, and Sean Murphy. Performance Assessments of Demand Flexibility from Grid-Interactive Efficient Buildings: Issues and Considerations. Office of Scientific and Technical Information (OSTI), July 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.2172/1644287.

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Amador, Manuel, Ivan Werning, and George-Marios Angeletos. Commitment Vs. Flexibility. Cambridge, MA: National Bureau of Economic Research, December 2003. http://dx.doi.org/10.3386/w10151.

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none,. Industrial Fuel Flexibility Workshop. Office of Scientific and Technical Information (OSTI), September 2006. http://dx.doi.org/10.2172/1218736.

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Deshmukh, Abhijit, Barry Boehm, Tom Housel, David Jacques, Supannika Koolmanojwong, Jo Ann Lane, Alan Levin, Brandon Pope, Erin Ryan, and Martin Wortman. Valuing Flexibility. Phase 2. Fort Belvoir, VA: Defense Technical Information Center, October 2012. http://dx.doi.org/10.21236/ada604983.

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Deshmukh, Abhijit, Barry Boehm, Tom Housel, Dave Jacques, Supannika Koolmanojwong, Jo Ann Lane, Alan Levin, Brandon Pope, Erin Ryan, and Martin Wortman. Valuing Flexibility Phase 2. Fort Belvoir, VA: Defense Technical Information Center, October 2012. http://dx.doi.org/10.21236/ada590057.

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Bertola, Giuseppe. Flexibility, Investment, and Growth. Cambridge, MA: National Bureau of Economic Research, October 1991. http://dx.doi.org/10.3386/w3864.

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Hayes, Caroline, and Saif Benjaafar. Quantifying Flexibility in Sequential Decision Making: Helping Commanders Assess Flexibility in Planning. Fort Belvoir, VA: Defense Technical Information Center, January 2006. http://dx.doi.org/10.21236/ada456591.

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Caballlero, Ricardo, Eduardo Engel, and Alejandro Micco. Microeconomic Flexibility in Latin America. Cambridge, MA: National Bureau of Economic Research, March 2004. http://dx.doi.org/10.3386/w10398.

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