System Engineering For Components And Modules In Green Building Construction

System Test, Evaluation and Validation

Discuss about the System Engineering for Components and Modules.

According to Friedland (2012), the system design is referred to the implementation or the design of demonstrating process of architecture, components, modules, interfaces and the data for a system for satisfying the specified necessities. The major aim of this particular report is to analyse as well as implement the system design by shedding light on the system validation, evaluation and system test as well of the environmentally conscious building construction project. On the other hand, this particular report also illustrates a deepened analysis of the system validation and system testing and the evaluation of this particular green building construction project. Apart from that, the design optimization of this particular project of constructing environmentally conscious buildings is also aimed to be analysed. Besides that, the operations of the system design of the green building construction project are also discussed in terms of reliability and maintainability. This report has paid attention on providing appropriate evidences for establishing the literature quality through the supporting materials. For this report, the content case analysis is also aimed to be portrayed in this report.

Material Testing - While constructing any green building or the environmentally conscious building, the project of such building construction has to do the material testing in terms of detecting defects, analysing features as well as verifying the material characteristics for the application trials and for improving the new materials or conducting fundamental research in the theoretical strength of the materials (Börger and Stärk 2012). Thus, the non-destructive, mechanical as well as physical testing techniques have been utilized for performing the material testing in the project of constructing the green buildings.

Concrete and Aggregate Testing – The aggregate as well as the concrete testing should be implemented in then project of constructing the environmentally conscious or the green buildings. This type of project with the help of this particular testing technique can comply with the relevant regulations as well as the standards of quality (Van Gigch 2013). The aggregate and the concrete have helped this kind of constructional project in order to implement the informed decisions with advice, guidance and the review of the test data. Apart from that, this particular testing technique can also ensure the concrete as well as the aggregate quality of the project.

Certification of the roofing and Insulation materials – the certification of the insulation as well as the roofing material can assure the insulation materials, roofing membranes, roofing elements as well as the fastening systems with all the applicable needs (Obinata and Anderson 2012).

System Testing

Brick as well as Block Testing – Brick as well as block testing can be the elements or the materials that would provide the proper lifetime performance for the project of constructing green buildings as well as ignore the improper applications (Ackermann 2012).

Any particular project’s evaluation refers simply to the systematic process of investigating the merit as well as the worth of a certain object. According to the evaluation of the project of constructing green buildings or the environmentally conscious buildings, this kind of projects can be evaluated as the environmentally sust6ainable buildings (Hays and Singer 2012). On the other hand, it can also be stated that the project of constructing green buildings incorporate the innovative as well as advanced technologies which result in the formation of lowest rate of Carbon dioxide emission.  

While the system validation of the green building construction projects is concerned, few significant as well as importantly points can be considered. These are as follows:

• The green building construction can be able to meet the best practice for the sustainable commercial development associated with various important initiatives like the energy co-generation for the non-potable supply (Schrammel, Melham and Kroening 2013). The green buildings can be able to address the problem the carbon dioxide emission by minimizing it and meet the non-potable water demand through the harvesting rainwater as well.
• The project of constructing the environmentally conscious buildings can easily take maximum advantage of economic as well as environmental performance (Demas, Lau and Elks 2015). This kind of constructional projects can implement the market for the green products as well as service. On the other hand, this project can make an improvement on the occupant productivity.
• One of the most important aspects of the validation of the green building construction project is that this kind of project can be able to enhance the quality of Indoor Environmental Quality (Walker 2015). It is one of the five categories, which was designed for providing productivity, well-being as well comfort of the occupants.

The optimization in the design of the Green Building construction project is the integrated optimizing process of the cost of energy, revenue, determining the advanced machineries for the design of the project as well as the development of the innovative technology of this kind of project. As per Correa et al. (2013), the system design of this project requires that the engineers should consider the trade-offs those are present among the project implementation attributes in the areas of cost, weight, manufacturability, quality as well as performance. Therefore, the system design of such type of project of constructing environmentally-conscious buildings has to be optimized for the performance and efficiency early in the project design cycle and reduce the waste of materials (Pahl and Beitz 2013). In case of this project, the optimization of the successful execution of the green building construction can be evaluated by means of maintainability and reliability. Apart from that, as per the viewpoint of Friedland (2012), the most significant fact of designing system of the environmentally-conscious building project is that the system design optimization of this project can be evaluated through the maintenance and reliability output (Ackermann 2012). The operations of maintainability and reliability as well as the design optimization of the green building construction project consist of the criticality or the importance of the system or equipment, reliability and availability of the inherent system of the green building construction project. Apart from that, the design optimization of the environmentally conscious building construction project is comprised also of the availability projection of the future operation as well as the dsign changes focusing on the cost implications with the help of the cost-benefit analysis.

System Evaluation

While monitoring of the project of constructing developing Green Buildings has implemented the pointy that the moderate reliability was only got there were the situations of extenuation, those can also be explored through designing the system (Hays and Singer 2012). In terms of ensuring the maintainability as well as reliability factors and the system design optimization involved in the project execution, the operation manager and the team of project management should make a conscious move in order to find the new ways to design and construct new buildings (Schrammel, Melham and Kroening 2013). The transferability outcomes of all the technologies used to conduct the whole operations in order to design the system of the green building construction project can be actually achieved through modelling and by using the monitoring studies as the fundamentals for the settings of the parameters or assuring the maintainability and reliability associated with the project.   

The project of the environmentally-conscious building construction should focus on the maintenance strategy implementation in terms of ensuring reliability and maintainability in the system design operation. The system design optimization of this type of environmentally sustainable project can be achieved as a result of ensuring maintainability and reliability. As opined by Demas, Lau and Elks (2015), the maintenance strategy process can help the project in order to ensure that the development team and project management are capable of performing the exact maintenance on the proper equipment with the appropriate resources, at the proper time, in terms of accomplishing the objectives of this particular constructional project (Walker 2015). Thus, in case of this project, the ultimate system design objectives are for ensuring optimization by aligning the maintenance efforts to the business necessities. Apart from that, the maintainability and reliability operations can also be ensured by reducing the damages and loses of the equipment. As a whole, most importantly, the strategy of maintenance ensures the reliability and the maintainability factors of the construction project after the execution of this project.  

It is essential to consider the human elements or the factors in the development stage of the environmentally-conscious building construction in terms of achieving the structure usability and the operational efficiency of the project (Hays and Singer 2012). Thus, the human factors include in the design and the development of the constructional project required for the effective and proper understanding of various factors of the structural design of the green buildings (Chang 2016). Nevertheless, It is the true fact that the architectural designers are one of the most important human elements for the project execution.

System Validation

It is very crucial to derive the distinct human factor requirement in terms of designing the structural element of the green buildings in the early stage of this project. The determination various human elements in the green building development in the process to underpin different job is required to accomplish the construction procedure and the development process as well. As per Ackermann (2012), the effective and the efficient breakdown to the various human factors working on the greening building construction project assisted in the easier maintenance and management of activities. Apart from that, Walker (2015) have demonstrated the fact that the human elements with the project construction was essential to combine both of the tasks and the duties those are allocated to them for the effective accomplishment of the task. The human factor’s responsibilities along with the system include the decision making efficiency, making management, task completion and controlling the task in the environment that is optimized completely.

At the time of the phase of development, the primary or the initial design of the constructional project, it is significant to make the validation of the design of the system and determine the system effectiveness and efficiency (Fong and Lee 2014). Besides that, the dynamic and static elements of the green building constructional project necessary to the efficiently managed and accessed by the engineers, architects, manager and workers who are working on this project. The participating people in the design and development of the environmentally conscious building construction can effectively provide the limitations and requirements of the implemented buildings as well (Hubka 2015). Thus, the designers and the engineers in this particular project can effectively assist in the process of calculating and evaluating the impacts of the stress factors and the external factors of the project (Pahl and Beitz 2013). On the other hand, the appropriateness and the effectiveness of the people who have anticipated in the design of project also assist in terms of accomplishing the objectives behind the construction of the green building projects. It is necessary for keeping available a group of personnel in terms of providing maintenance and safety of the green building after the completion of the development phase of the project along with that.

Conclusion

The structural design and the operational stability analysis of the project constructing environmentally conscious building is mandatory and crucial as well for ensuring reliability, maintainability and the optimization in designing the system of the green building construction project. The maintainability and efficiency in the design and the structural architecture of the green building construction project can be established with the evaluation and the conduction of the system testing and analysis of several elements those are influencing maintainability, reliability and the stability of the green buildings. Nevertheless, environmental sustainability, water sustainability factors and the optimization of several load factors can provide huge and effective stability to the project structure. Moreover, the human factors in the system design or the system development such as the architects, engineers and design team can bring about the stability, efficiency and the safety in the green building architecture.

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