Creativity and Innovation in Building Systems and Construction Methods

The future of civil engineering is being shaped by practices which are redefining the way buildings are designed and built. Although relationships between architects, engineers, contractors, fabricators and material scientists have always been implicit in the architectural process, these relationships are becoming much more direct with less division of labor between disciplines. The language barrier between building systems and architects stems primarily from the different design paradigms or philosophies that dominate each discipline. The purpose of this paper is to explore the application of how the various types of building systems presently or prospectively available worldwide can help the engineers. The redefinition of the process used to create architecture, as well as the shifts in the relationships between disciplines involved, is the focus of architects and engineers now a days. A building system that can respond to changing living patterns will be considered flexible . Flexible systems generate user friendly buildings: freedom of choice for the first-use users, opportunity to modify the layout for successive users, evolution of the layout over space and time, individualization and elimination of renovation waste. Production becomes part of the design process by working with assemblers from the outset, designer’s picture how things are made, their sequence of assembly, and their joining systems.

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Civil engineering , Creativity , Building systems , Construction methods