Ayo, C. K. and Gbadeyan, J.A. THE ROLE OF TECHNOLOGY IN THE BUILT ENVIRONMENT. In: The Built Environment: Innovation Policy & Sustainable Development. CU Press.
Lately, the built environment has been witnessing a lot of hazards ranging from collapsed buildings and bridges, floods and typhoons, droughts and landslides, as well as fire, tsunamis, hurricanes and earthquakes. Others are hazards launched through technology such as bio-terrorism and cyber-terrorism. Thus, necessity is place on Architecture, Engineering and Construction (AEC) industry to prevent the "sick building" syndrome and make the built environment safe, secure, and healthy for mankind. This paper attempts to examine the immediate and remote causes of fail and sick buildings with a view to proffering solutions through the use of technology. Furthermore, the paper presents the application of the available technologies such as e-construction, Geographical Information System (GIS), Computer Aided Design (CAD) and the Global Positioning System (CPS) to the built environment. An integrated design environment within the AEC industry is proposed to allow for modeling, designing, analyzing, and visualizing structures. Thus, the behaviour of structures can be modeled through "virtual reality", leading to the creation of "smart buildings", which are design concepts for this generation.
|Item Type:||Book Section|
|Subjects:||Q Science > QA Mathematics > QA75 Electronic computers. Computer science|
|Divisions:||Faculty of Engineering, Science and Mathematics > School of Electronics and Computer Science|
|Depositing User:||Mr Adewole Adewumi|
|Date Deposited:||29 Nov 2012 04:09|
|Last Modified:||29 Nov 2012 04:09|
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