Natural hazards foster the need for resilience in the built environment, but resilient structures
must not interfere with sustainability. The potential trade-offs are increasingly being …

The digital twin (DT) is a virtual replica of real-world buildings, processes, structures, people,
and systems created and maintained to answer questions about its physical part, the …

A holistic evaluation of a building's environmental impact must include a thorough
accounting of both its operating and embodied energies, inclusive of the influence of hazard …

During their life cycle, engineering systems typically suffer from deterioration due to aging
and exposure to extreme events and harsh environmental conditions. As a result, regular or …

Traditional facade design practices are mostly based on the designers' intuition or a single
performance criterion such as U-and g-values, which only describe a single facade property …

Urban communities are complex systems. According to the holistic perspective of the
systems thinking theory, the “whole is not the sum of its parts, but rather is a product of the …

During their life-cycle, engineering systems typically suffer from deterioration due to regular
operation, and exposure to extreme events and harsh environmental conditions. As a result …

Forum papers are thought-provoking opinion pieces or essays founded in fact, sometimes
containing speculation, on a civil engineering topic of general interest and relevance to the …

In this paper we introduce the Societal Holistic Design Platform (HDP) under uncertainty for
sustainable and resilient building design. The integration of classical Risk Analysis …

During their life-cycle, engineering systems typically suffer from deterioration due to regular
operation and exposure to extreme events and harsh environmental conditions. As a result …