Architects need to design more energy efficient buildings. The best way to achieve this is to incorporate building performance simulation in the design process to estimate how they will behave. However, practitioners rarely make use of such tools. According to recent inquiries on the needs to improve these kind of programs, it can be concluded that they are non user-friendly, demand detailed building specificat...
The drafting of floor plans is mostly hand made in today’s architectural design process. The use of computerized floor planning techniques may enhance the practitioner’s range of solutions and expedite the design process. However, despite the research work that has been carried out, the results obtained from these techniques do not convince many practitioners to accept them as part of their design methods. The ...
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