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System Control for Sustainability: Application to Building Design

In: Complex Systems, Sustainability and Innovation

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  • Kazutoshi Fujihira

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In order to meet environmental, social and economic sustainability objectives, an immediate transformation needs to occur in housing design. We have been investigating a methodology for sustainable home design by applying control science because it can be applied to all of goal-oriented tasks. Our first study has shown the basic control system for sustainability. After that, regarding home as the complex of material and spatial elements, we have identified each element's variables and their desired values that lead to sustainability. Utilizing these schemes, we have composed the "control system for promoting sustainable home design" in which the "sustainable design guidelines" and "sustainability checklist" are incorporated. Following this control system, we have actually designed a home and constructed it. The results of this study indicate that if system users closely follow the methodology, they can design comprehensively sustainable and sufficiently energy-saving homes. Furthermore, the studies imply that this methodology is superior in user-friendliness as well as adaptable to regional differences and changes over time.

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  • Kazutoshi Fujihira, 2016. "System Control for Sustainability: Application to Building Design," Chapters, in: Ciza Thomas (ed.), Complex Systems, Sustainability and Innovation, IntechOpen.
    • Handle: RePEc:ito:pchaps:106360
    DOI: 10.5772/65875
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    Keywords

    control system; sustainable housing; climate change; adaptation; ageing population; material elements; spatial elements;
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    JEL classification:

    • Q57 - Agricultural and Natural Resource Economics; Environmental and Ecological Economics - - Environmental Economics - - - Ecological Economics

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