The CIB Symposium on Integrated Design Solutions (IDS) Workshop II Archive

Performance based design of technical building systems: A rational approach

Professor Godfried Augenbroe
Associate Director, Ph.D. Program
College of Architecture
Georgia Institute of Technology

Professor Godfried Augenbroe has a 25 year track record of research into the modeling and simulation of technical building systems. After spending the first 20 years of his career at TU Delft in The Netherlands, he is since 1997 a Professor at the Georgia Institute of Technology in Atlanta. Augenbroe is associate editor of two scientific journals and on the scientific board of five other international journals.

THE CIB SYMPOSIUM ON INTEGRATED DESIGN SOLUTIONS (IDS) WORKSHOP II

The purpose of this second workshop in Atlanta, held on September 27 and 28, 2006, was to further define the possibilities of IDS within the context of the International Council for Research and Innovation in Building Construction (CIB).  Board members, deans and directors of design schools from around the country, and experts in the design and construction industries from around the world participated in the workshop.  Founded in 1953, CIB is a worldwide network of building and construction experts who improve their day-to-day performance through international cooperation and information exchange with their peers. 

A summary of the proceedings from the Integrated Design Solutions (IDS) Workshop II is available for download as a pdf file. 

Other presentations available from the Workshop are:

• Workshop Opening Remarks by Professor Peter Barrett
• Highlights from IDS Workshop I by Professor Selahattin Önür
• Integrated Design Solutions – A perspective from Hong Kong by Dr. Andrew N. Baldwin, Professor and Dean
• An Assessment of Technologies in Design and Construction and University Research Opportunities by Professor Charles M. Eastman
• IDS: Defining Its Possible Scope within CIB by Dr. Soofia Tahira Elias-Ozkan

Dr. Thomas Galloway, Dean of the College of Architecture at the Georgia Institute of Technology, organized and hosted this second IDS Workshop, which followed the semi-annual board and committee meetings of the CIB.  In addition to the voluntary international cooperation projects in its Task Groups and Working Commissions, CIB operates through the so-called pro-active approach. 

The CIB is currently exploring Integrated Design Solutions (IDS) as a fourth priority theme to complement and unite the three existing themes—Sustainable Construction, Performance Based Building, and Revaluing Construction—and to strengthen the other themes’ link to the working commissions and task groups. For more information about CIB or IDS, please visit http://www.cibworld.nl/website/