Abstract This study explores the environmental-based design, which is framed into green thinking as input of design process. Five Indonesian architects were selected this study’s subject based on their understanding concept. The qualitative strategy employed with tactic in-depth interviews and content analysis help NVivo software to produce themes patterns regarding discussion. comes two main f...

In 2000, the Governor of the State of California issued an executive order (D-16-00) that seeks to reduce costs and improve environmental performance of state buildings in all phases of construction, operations and maintenance. The California Integrated Waste Management Board (CIWMB) has provided leadership in implementing this order through initiatives such as the Sustainable Building Task For...

An energy simulation tool is a tool to predict the energy consumption of a building. Today there are many energy simulation tools in the market. However, architects find that the existing energy simulation tools do not meet their needs. One thing that does not meet their need is the user interface. In relation to that, we carried out a user interface survey to know which user interface is prefe...

Dealing with non-functional requirements (NFRs) has posed a challenge onto software engineers for many years. Over the years, many methods and techniques have been proposed to improve their elicitation, documentation, and validation. Knowing more about the state of the practice on these topics may benefit both practitioners’ and researchers’ daily work. A few empirical studies have been conduct...

1 This paper is an enhanced version of the paper published as: Fraga, A., Llorens, J. "Training Initiative for New Software/Enterprise Architects: An Ontological Approach," p. 19, The Working IEEE/IFIP Conference on Software Architecture (WICSA'07), 2007. Abstract— This paper describes the importance of new skilled architects in the discipline of Software and Enterprise Architecture. Architects...