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Whole Life Performance Bid Evaluation in the Korean Public Sector

  • Park, Kenneth Sungho;Lim, Hyoung-Chul
    • Journal of the Korea Institute of Building Construction
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    • v.12 no.6
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    • pp.682-700
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    • 2012
  • Over the last several years, Korea has increasingly adopted design-build for public construction projects. There is a much greater awareness of the need to change to a system based on 'Value for Money', which is high on the government's agenda. A whole life performance bid evaluation model is proposed to aid decision makers in the selection of a design-builder. This is based on the integration of a framework using an analytic hierarchy process, as the bid awarding system is being changed from one based on the lowest price to one based on best value over the life-cycle. Key criteria such as whole life cost, service life planning and design quality are important through the key stages of the evaluation process. The model uses a systematic and holistic approach, which enables the public sector client to make better decisions in design-builder selection, which will deliver whole life benefits based on long-term cost-effectiveness.

The Hierarchy of Images according to Construction Factors of the Flared Skirts

  • Lee, Jung-Soon;Han, Gyung-Hee
    • Journal of Fashion Business
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    • v.13 no.6
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    • pp.137-146
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    • 2009
  • This study analyzed hierarchy of image for visual evaluation of flare skirt. This study analyzed expression words about flare skirt with frequency data of image expression words with different length and volume of flare. Stimuli for the study were set to be 4 different volume of flare ($90^{\circ}$, $180^{\circ}$, $270^{\circ}$, $360^{\circ}$) and 3 different length of skirt(48cm, 58cm, 68cm). Stimuli were made by using I-Designer which is Virtual Sewing System. From simulation of flare skirt, the subjects were asked to write down suggested adjective freely and selected 210 adjectives. With this, we chose total 38 adjectives considering frequencies in the pre-study. And we analyzed the combination process of expression words according to construction factor of flare skirt and hierarchy of image from dendrogram which was resulted by hierarchical cluster analysis. 'Feminine' got high score in all 12 flare skirt. When the skirt was short, it was vivid, and as the skirt got longer, ordinary and pure image showed. Also, as the volume of flare got larger, the average of visual effect was higher than visual image. Visual hierarchy construction according to construction factors of flare skirt could be divided into visual image and visual effect, and visual image was shown to be form 'A type - large volume of flare and short skirt length', 'H type-small volume of flare and short skirt length' and 'X type - large volume of flare and long skirt length'.

The Conceptual Design of Semi-submersible Type Mobile Harbor Using Axiomatic Design Principles (공리설계를 이용한 반잠수식 모바일하버의 개념설계)

  • Lee, Joo-Hee;Yoon, Seong-Jin;Chung, Hyun;Lee, Phill-Seung
    • Korean Journal of Computational Design and Engineering
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    • v.15 no.3
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    • pp.189-203
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    • 2010
  • The axiomatic design principles are applied to the conceptual design of semi-submersible type mobile harbor (B1). The process of how the design of mobile harbor is elaborated, evaluated and improved from the very beginning is presented in this paper. The concept of mobile harbor is a functional harbor, which can move to a container ship anchoring out of ports in the deep water to load/unload containers on sea and transfer them to their destination ports. This floating system will innovate the maritime transport and distribution since it will greatly enhance the accessibility of super-sized container ships to existing harbors and harbors without enough infrastructures. Designing a mobile system which can perform the functions of traditional harbors on the floating system requires innovative ideas as well as rigorous validations of each sub systems. In order to enhance the chance of design success, we try to satisfy the design axioms in early stage of conceptual design. We use the zigzagging process for defining Functional Requirements (FR)-Design Parameters (DP) hierarchy due to the complexity of the system. In other words, we decomposed the complexity of the design by FR-DP hierarchy and reduced coupled design logically and systematically. This paper shows applicability of the axiomatic design principles to the field of ocean systems engineering.

Japanese Aesthetics on Furniture of George Nakashima (조지 나카시마 가구에 나타난 일본의 미학적 특성)

  • Kim-Lee, Seonga
    • Journal of the Korea Furniture Society
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    • v.29 no.1
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    • pp.24-30
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    • 2018
  • George Nakashima (1905-1990) is a second-generation Japanese American who was one of the pioneers of the American Studio Furniture movement. Known for the use of natural timber shape of furniture design, Nakashima's furniture shows the aesthetic characteristics of Japan, which distinguishes it from the furniture of other American studio designers. But Nakashima has been regarded as simply a studio furniture designer, designing furniture that takes its natural form. Therefore, research is needed from a more diverse point of view, and the process of interpreting the cultural backgrounds of a designer becoming a design may be an important subject of study. Thus, this study attempts to interpret the hierarchy of design cultures belonging to a studio designer and to identify cultural characteristics that are not apparent. Therefore, through a process of studying from visible to invisible levels of cultural hierarchy, the study analyzed the aesthetic characteristics of the Nakashima's furniture, his personal experience of Japanese culture, and philosophical background.

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Consumer's Psychological Response on Rhythm of Product Design According to Price level & Brand Hierarchy (가격수준과 브랜드 위계에 따른 제품디자인의 율동감에 대한 소비자의 심리적 반응에 관한 연구)

  • Jin-Ryeol Lee;Jung-Pyo Hong;Kazuo Sugiyama
    • Science of Emotion and Sensibility
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    • v.7 no.1
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    • pp.29-40
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    • 2004
  • Even though rhythm is considered theoretically and practically as a form element influencing consumer's aesthetic response on product design, researches on it relatively less performed than other product aesthetic elements. And also existing researches have only suggested rhythm as one of aesthetic elements in product design but they haven't suggested overall insight on how to apply rhythm into product design. This study tested how rhythm expression in product design affects consumer's aesthetic response according to price level and brand hierarchy. The result shows that rhythm is clearly one of aesthetic elements. And rhythm expression increase consumer's aesthetic response in low priced product condition regardless of brand hierarchy. But in high priced product condition, rhythm expression decreases consumer's aesthetic response because of perceived risk. Only when in high prestige brand condition, consumer's aesthetic response remains high because of trade-off relationship between perceived risk and brand equity. The result of this study enables designers to understand characteristics of rhythm. Also, the result can give companies the useful way on how to use rhythm element as a strategic tool if they consider their brand equity level and product's price level.

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Analysis of a Mount Type HVAC Control System Using Axiomatic Design (공리적 설계를 이용한 매립형 공기조화시스템의 분석)

  • Lee, Se-Jung;Hong, Eul-Pyo;Kim, Dae-Whan;Kim, Su-Ok;Park, Gyung-Jin
    • Proceedings of the KSME Conference
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    • 2008.11a
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    • pp.1028-1033
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    • 2008
  • The mount type HVAC control system is a type of an HVAC control system which is installed between a ceiling and ceiling boards of a room to control room temperature. Although the device is quite popular, design is conducted by a conventional way where engineering intuition and experiences are utilized. It is found that the design process is fairly inefficient and time-consuming because there are a lot of feedbacks. The axiomatic approach is used to investigate the design characteristics of the mount type HAVC control system and the Independence Axiom is utilized for the investigation. The Overall hierarchy is established up to the level of parts. It is found that the current design has many coupled and redundant aspects. The hierarchy is reorganized based on the Independence Axiom and a new design process is found. To exploit the new design process in practice, a design manual is made.

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A Study on the Application of AHP to Design Decision Model on Fuzzy System (퍼지시스템을 토대로한 디자인 결정모델에서 AHP 적용에 관한 연구)

  • Woo Se-Jin
    • Journal of the Korean Institute of Intelligent Systems
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    • v.16 no.3
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    • pp.309-314
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    • 2006
  • As a part of study to develop a building design support system for architectural designer's design decision process, the drawbacks of fuzzy system-based design decision model suggested in the previous study have been made up for. A method of logically taking the characteristic and impact of design elements into designing HVAC type was suggested. For purpose of mirroring HAVC designer's working process, a model was developed using AHP, a way of decision making process in the inference process of optimum design values.

A Study on the Development of Proposal Evaluation Index for the Overseas Weapon System Purchasing Projects using Axiomatic Design/AHP (공리적설계/AHP를 이용한 해외무기체계 구매사업 제안서 평가지표 개발에 관한 연구)

  • Cho, Hyun-Ki;Kim, Woo-Je
    • Journal of the Korea Institute of Military Science and Technology
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    • v.14 no.3
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    • pp.441-457
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    • 2011
  • In this study, the axiomatic design(AD) method is applied to construct the hierarchical structure of evaluation criteria and the AHP method is used to calculate the weights of criteria in order to develop the proposal evaluation index for the overseas weapon system purchasing projects. The common evaluation items as main categories are selected through the review of evaluation criteria from the previous works and projects, relevant regulations and defense policy, and the design matrix using fuzzy concept is established and evaluated by the expert group in each design phase to determine the independency, that is the satisfaction of decoupled or uncoupled design, for each criteria in the same hierarchy when they are derived from the main categories. The establishment of decoupled or uncoupled design matrix provides mutually exclusiveness of how small number of DPs can be accounted for FRs within the same hierarchy. The proposal evaluation index developed in this study will be used as a general proposal evaluation index for the overseas weapon system purchasing projects which there are no systematically established evaluation tools.