The Optimization of Building Deconstruction for Department of Defense Facilities: Ft. McClellan Deconstruction Project

Modeling Semantics for Building Deconstruction

In this paper we discuss the motivation, the technology, the design and the use-model of a novel web service for quantity surveyors, aiming to exploit virtual and augmented reality methods to implement a “zero waste” model, i.e. a new design paradigm where the waste materials from demolition become resources for reconstruction. The goal of this project is to provide virtual/augmented reality to...

Materialism : Matters of Definition , Defense , and Deconstruction

How should the metaphysical hypothesis of materialism be formulated? What strategies look promising for defending this hypothesis? How good are the prospects for its successful defense, especially in light of the infamous ‘‘hard problem’’ of phenomenal consciousness? I will say something about each of these questions. 1. FORMULATING MATERIALISM In seeking a satisfactory formulation of materiali...

Improving the Feasibility of Building Deconstruction and Adaptability

Design for Adaptability and Deconstruction (DfAD) is an emerging trend in the construction industry that focuses on the end-of-life aspect of buildings. It is based on the concept that the life of a building or building component ends because it is unable to adapt to change. With proper implementation, DfAD is an important tool to achieve sustainable design for buildings, as it ideally may form...

Caring for Deconstruction

The deconstruction of constructivism.

June/July 2002 • American Psychologist vites the replacement of one with the other. PDP connectionism provides a synthetic perspective on the dialectical tension created by this play of apparent opposites by centering inquiry on constructivist network principles that govern the emergence of mind from brain. Connectionism brings postmodernist constructive assumptions to bear regarding how percep...