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	Title:	A collaborative platform for sustainable building design based on model integration over the internet
	Author:	Steven Kraines, Michihisa Koyama, Celine Weber, Toshiharu Ikaga, Tomoyuki Chikamoto, David Wallace, Hiroshi Komiyama
	Address:	Department of Chemical System Engineering, The University of Tokyo, 7-3-1 Hongo, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo 113-8656, Japan. ' Department of Applied Chemistry, Tohoku University, Aoba-yama 07, Sendai 980-8579, Japan. ' Ecole polytechnique Federale de Lausanne, LENI-ISE-STI, Bat. ME A2, CH-1015 Lausanne, Switzerland. ' Nikken Sekkei Ltd., 2-18-3 Iidabashi, Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo 102-8117, Japan. ' Department of Architecture and Urban Design, Ritsumei University, Noji Higashi 1-chome, 1-1 Kusatsu, Shiga-ken 525-8577, Japan. ' Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 77 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA. ' Department of Chemical System Engineering, The University of Tokyo, 7-3-1 Hongo, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo 113-8656, Japan
	Journal:	International Journal of Environmental Technology and Management 2005 - Vol. 5, No.2/3  pp. 135 - 161
	Abstract:	Considerable potential exists for reducing life cycle environmental impacts of buildings in Japan. While energy consumption during the operation stage of a building's lifetime is usually dominant, indirect energy use and pollutant emissions associated with production and disposal of building materials during construction and demolition are significant. For sustainable building design, interactions between the performance and dynamics of the building structure and energy systems must be considered. A collaborative platform based on the distributed object-based modelling environment, DOME, and a set of component models for sustainable building design analysis is presented. Integration examples of the component models to study particular building designs are described.
	Keywords:	buildings; collaborative design; building design; sustainable design; collaboration; internet; model integration; simulation; Japan; environmental impact; energy systems; energy use; pollutant emissions; air pollution; greenhouse gas emissions; lifecycle analyisis; LCA; lifecycle modelling; web-based design.
	DOI:	10.1504/IJETM.2005.006847
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