In the last decade, biophilic design under the concept of creating strong connections between nature and manmade environments have spread significantly.Because of the rapidly increasing environmental crises and climate change phenomena globally.Consequently, biophilic design has become associated with sustainable applications, the question this research discusses is if this approach contributes to achieve the aspects of sustainability, under the umbrella of the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).This study will investigate biophilic approach contribution to sustainable design through defining aspects of nature that most influence human satisfaction of built environment.Aligned with the European Commission (2015) series actions titled "nature-based solutions" that are inspired by nature systems.During the COVID-19 lockdown, humans had minimal interaction with nature, and access to green public spaces, at the same time, an increasing interest to integrate nature in design, reducing humans impact on nature were recognized in the contemporary built environment.The study adopts William Browning's ( 2014) "14 Patterns of Biophilic Design" framework, that lays out a series of tools experiencing science and nature contribution for promising opportunities creating sustainable built environment design applications.In addition to identifying and analysing the current practices for biophilic design in the built environment and its' impacts on nature and human wellbeing.The results conduct design strategies, and guidelines that integrate biophilic approach as a base, within the 14 patterns framework for better practices creating innovative and responsible built environment.

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Welcome to the WIT Press eLibrary - the home of the Transactions of the Wessex Institute collection, providing on-line access to papers presented at the Institute's prestigious international conferences and from its State-of-the-Art in Science & Engineering publications.

Welcome to the WIT Press eLibrary - the home of the Transactions of the Wessex Institute collection, providing on-line access to papers presented at the Institute's prestigious international conferences and from its State-of-the-Art in Science & Engineering publications.

Since ancient times, in Japan, shrines and temples have been a gathering place for local people to say prayers for their well-being.Also, shrines are commonly used by communities as evacuation centers in the event of a disaster at the present time.However, if the location of the shrine in the evacuation area is vulnerable to disasters, then the ramifications in terms of safety could be very serious.In this study, the author examined the spatial distribution of shrines in low-lying areas of eastern Tokyo.Recently, it was reported that shrines damaged by the tsunami that followed the Great East Japan Earthquake are related to the kind of main deities.In particular, since extensive ground subsidence has occurred in the low lying areas of eastern Tokyo, the author investigated the ground height before ground subsidence occurred based on land subsidence data, and considered the relationship between the ground height and the enshrined main deities at shrines taking into account with the danger of flood damage.The area where the shrine is located is thought to have existed as a town since ancient times.As a result, the area is generally considered to be less affected by floods.The information obtained from this survey will confirm the truth of this tradition, and will be useful for the management of urban planning from the viewpoint of disaster prevention.

Welcome to the WIT Press eLibrary - the home of the Transactions of the Wessex Institute collection, providing on-line access to papers presented at the Institute's prestigious international conferences and from its State-of-the-Art in Science & Engineering publications.

Nowadays, many people suffer within the existing buildings from problems related to human comfort and energy consumption. The poor quality of the internal environment of buildings for instance uneven temperatures, inadequate ventilation, humidity, poor lighting, acoustics, and noise pollution leads people to use methods that harm the environment. The objective has always been in green thought existing from the continue sustainably. By reviewing the literature illustrating the contributions of BIM to sustainability and its applications in achieving indoor environmental quality within public buildings through conserving energy, natural resources and respecting the needs of its users. So, the field of research is How can BIM is applied to accomplish sustainable Public and housing buildings. BIM technology has created significant benefactions firstly in the design phase, then construction stage, finally in the process of operation, and other perspectives of sustainable buildings. This paper aims to understand BIM technology, its relationship to the sustainability of buildings. This is done by conducting a questionnaire on specialized organizations and companies to learn about the dimensions of BIM and the extent of its use. In addition to discussing the positive and negatives of BIM in sustainable design processes and coming up with a working method that can be applied. The consequences of the questionnaire and analysing literature show that the contribution, restrictions, and barriers of applying BIM for developing sustainable buildings have not been precisely analysed and explained yet. The overlap between BIM and building sustainability needs to be demonstrated practically. The application of BIM in a large number of examples is required to show positive results in raising the quality of the indoor environment and energy efficiency. These solutions which BIM introduces help designers increase the performance of buildings, thus maintaining the life cycle of cities and achieving a suitable quality of life for the inhabitants of the 21st century.

Due to growing concern regarding sustainability in the built environment, several green building assessments and rating tools have been established worldwide including Green Building Index (GBI) in Malaysia which was introduced in 2009. However, the current methods of measuring, analysing and documenting the green building design rely on a number of disjointed processes to meet the discrete requirements for various building systems. The development of building information modelling (BIM) together with computational programming has made it easier for complicated building modelling to be digitally constructed, generating required information to support green building design and assessment throughout various project stages. Thereby, the aim of this research is to integrate computational BIM with green building design and assessment in Malaysia, using GBI as a unique case and an office building in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia as a case study. Match-up of BIM (Revit) functionalities and GBI (NRNC) criteria was formulated, then visual programming (Dynamo) was employed to automate the BIM data management process. The findings of this research have developed workflows and templates to assess several criteria, namely energy efficiency (EE), indoor environmental quality (EQ), sustainable site planning and management (SM) and material and resources (MR), which allow a higher level of automation in green building assessment.

In order to achieve multiple benefits of building information modelling (BIM) in the construction project, the BIM methodology should not only be implemented in a project-related manner but also in a fully enterprise-related manner. Thereby model-based costing is one of the most important BIM use cases, which can be found in any project stage and is relevant to all project stakeholders. But the small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) of the architecture, engineering, and construction (AEC) industry in the particular face numerous problems and difficulties in adopting the BIM methodology in their business processes. This research aims to investigate the process of the 5D BIM implementation in small and medium-sized planning, engineering offices, construction companies, and project developers. The main body of the work is based on a review of 24 implementation projects of the model-based costing in SMEs that the authors have carried out as part of their practice as BIM consultants and trainers in Germany. These projects are analysed to develop a concept for a smooth, individually adaptable implementation of 5D BIM in SMEs. The results are summarised in the concept framework for a sustainable 5D BIM implementation approach that illustrate the priority and hierarchy of the main activities in the implementation process. The designed concept can be used by different stakeholders of the AEC industry and provides a solid basis for organisations to make informed decisions in adopting 5D BIM in the body of the organisation structure. Thus, this research is an essential contribution to the knowledge about the enterprise-related implementation of 5D BIM.

The Ministry of Transport of the Russian Federation has announced the possibility of introducing free fare public transport in cities by 2035 and charging car owners for using highways. The experience of other European cities shows that with introduction of free fare public transport, the share of public transport trips increases insignificantly, while the number of trips by individual transport, bicycle and on foot decreases. The paper examines the impact of public transport fare on the transport demand structure. The structure of transport demand is determined using simulation modeling on a transport macro-model of a large city with population of 800,000 people that does not have off-street transport. The paper proposes a criterion for determining generalized costs of travel by different transport systems, which converts monetary costs into time fares. Using the proposed criterion, it is possible to determine the cost of travel by different transport systems (individual transport, taxi, CarSharing, public transport, cycling and walking).