ABSTRACT
ABSTRACT Invention is essential to address urgent needs in the built environment. As population growth continues and demands on our cities increase, new ideas are constantly needed to address urban planning, architecture, and engineering through creative use of materials, construction techniques, and building operations.
Inspirations from natural growth and human behavior are key to developing ideas that adapt to changing climate and depletion of resources. Awareness is key to solving complex issues and the collaboration between academic study, research, and practice is critical.
New ideas including those already implemented into buildings and others under development will be described. Inventions will focus on increased performance of structures and designing environmentally responsible buildings. Illustrative examples will vary in scale from long-span to tall structures and will consider many different programmatic uses. Ideas will range from components in buildings to entire cities and the work shown will include projects from around the world. This paper will contemplate the use of advanced optimization theories for not only the development of structural systems for tall buildings but for post-tensioned flat slab systems and even concrete core wall systems.
