Yun-Tsui Chang

Yun-Tsui Chang
National Taiwan University | NTU · Department of Civil Engineering

Ph.D. Candidate

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September 2010 - August 2012
National Cheng Kung University
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  • Green Building Project Manager

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Publications (34)
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After realizing the serious environmental problems caused by current linear economic model, designers, researchers and policy makers around the world started to look into the possibilities of a more sustainable model-circular economy. And the construction industry is no exception to this change. In recent years, not only in Europe, circular economy...
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The strength of Building Information Modeling (BIM) in achieving sustainable buildings is well recognized by the global construction industry. However, current understanding of the state-of-the-art green BIM research is still limited. In particular, a focus study on how BIM contribute to green building design through building performance analysis (...
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The building industry is blamed for consuming enormous natural resources and creating massive solid waste worldwide. In response to this, the concept of circular economy (CE) has gained much attention in the sector in recent years. Many pilot building projects that implemented CE concepts started to appear around the world, including Taiwan. Howeve...
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Transforming to a circular built environment creates opportunities to alleviate issues on resource consumption and global greenhouse gas (GHG) emission worldwide. Construction projects have started to integrate circular concepts in the design phase for a better built environment in Taiwan. Building Information Modeling (BIM), which provides qualita...
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Building stocks in cities have consumed a large amount of energy and resources globally, resulting in serious greenhouse gas pollution and environmental problems. As a circular economy has become one of the effective solutions to current environmental problems, energy and material circularity indicators of building stocks in cities become important...
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In the pursuit of net-zero emissions by 2050, Taiwan emphasizes sustainable strategies in the construction sector, responsible for a significant portion of carbon emissions. Despite progress in reducing operational carbon emissions, addressing embodied carbon from existing buildings lags behind. This research presents a conceptual framework to esti...
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This study highlights the importance of the construction cost index (CCI) and the significance of accurate price forecasting in the construction industry. Our proposed approach leverages both Long Short-Term Memory (LSTM) and Transformer models, which are adept at capturing complex patterns and trends in time-series data. By analyzing historical pr...
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This research focuses on “3D building modeling” and “static and dynamic information integration environment” from the perspective of the digital twin. It demonstrates the effective use of the digital twin for visualizing information associated with a 3D environment, such as sunlight exposure and temperature, which are used as comfort indexes. Furth...
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Within the overarching theme of “Managing the Digital Transformation of Construction Industry” the 23rd International Conference on Construction Applications of Virtual Reality (CONVR 2023) presented 123 high-quality contributions on the topics of: Virtual and Augmented Reality (VR/AR), Building Information Modeling (BIM), Simulation and Automation...
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Within the overarching theme of “Managing the Digital Transformation of Construction Industry” the 23rd International Conference on Construction Applications of Virtual Reality (CONVR 2023) presented 123 high-quality contributions on the topics of: Virtual and Augmented Reality (VR/AR), Building Information Modeling (BIM), Simulation and Automation...
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Architecture, Engineering, and Construction (AEC) projects face various opportunities, challenges, and risks when adopting different information management technologies and collaboration strategies among stakeholders. Considerations for adopting new information management technologies go beyond the technical requirements. They are also related to t...
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Climate change is an urgent challenge that significantly threatens the modern world. According to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), a net-zero carbon target must be achieved by 2050 to limit global warming to 1.5°C by the end of the 21st century. As a result, various countries have developed net-zero roadmaps to achieve this goa...
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The increase in renewable energy is critical for countries, cities, and universities to reach their net-zero carbon emissions goal. To achieve this goal, installing solar panels on building rooftops is one key approach in the urban area. At present, increasing research is investigating the potential of solar panel installation on building rooftops...
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Increasing building energy efficiency is critical for countries, cities, and universities worldwide to reach their net-zero carbon emissions goals, including Taiwan and National Taiwan University (NTU). To evaluate building energy efficiency nationwide in an effective manner, the Architecture and Building Research Institute under the Ministry of In...
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Increasing renewable energy supply is critical for countries, cities, and universities worldwide to reach their net-zero carbon emission goals. Utilizing existing parking lot space for solar panel installation has become a popular solution. Nevertheless, the design of a solar parking lot can be challenging. Since the layout and orientation of vehic...
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In the age of globalization, transdisciplinary education helps to break down the professional training that is defined by departments and enables students to acquire new epistemology to face the social complexity. This is especially true for sustainability studies and education, which often involves multiple stakeholders, deals with the intersectio...
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Half of the global population lives in cities, and it is still increasing as people are moving to cities in search of better education, job opportunities, and so on. The existing infrastructures of the cities are being stretched beyond their capacity and requirements for well-organized urban environment and efficient urban management are rising. Ur...
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Timber has long been used in the human building industry. With recent groundbreaking technologies and urgent calls for a lower carbon built environment, timber construction has become more industrial and popular globally. Nevertheless, it still faces many design-related difficulties and project management challenges. Building Information Modeling (...
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Energy consumption by the building sector accounts for a considerable amount globally, and this number is increasing due to more extreme weather events and growing demand for energy services. To analyze and predict the patterns of building energy consumption, researchers have been adopting artificial neural networks in recent years. Weather data ar...
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The construction industry is a big contributor to the world’s natural resource consumption and waste. Circular economy is a model to reduce both the amount of new raw materials used during the construction stage and the waste produced at the building's end of life. This research uses a BIM model of the pilot circular project in Taiwan to evaluate t...
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Circular economy is a concept used to describe an economic system based on the reuse, recycling, recovery, and reduction of materials and products. In Taiwan, Taisugar Circular Village is the first housing project designed to implement the circular economy concept with a strong emphasis on renewable sources of energy. Following this focus, this stu...
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In 2020, 8 research groups from civil engineering, construction management, computer-aided engineering, transportation planning, water conservancy, earthquake prevention, ecological conservation, database management, and urban planning, networked to develop a main project, "Decision Making Support Platform for Digital Governance of Sustainable City...
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Modern people spend approximately up to 90% of their time indoors. Moreover, building operational phase contributes to more environmental impact (e.g. energy use and carbon emission) than other phases. Hence, proper building management is critical to the welfare of human beings and mother nature. And occupant behavior is crucial information for bui...
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This paper proposes a BIM-enabled method that assists in designing green plantation with a more realistic estimation of CO2 capture than the current methods. For example, Taiwan’s building code provides an evaluation method for estimating the CO2 capture of green plants. However, this simple manual calculation does not take two key factors into acc...
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Background Today, the architectural, engineering, construction, and operation (AECO) industry is motivated to employ graduates educated about Building Information Modeling (BIM) tools, techniques, and processes, which help them to better integrate visualizations and data into their projects. In line with today’s AECO industry necessities and govern...
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Design coordination is one of the major challenges in the design phase of an Architecture, Engineering, Construction & Operation (AECO) project life cycle. Improper design coordination may cause construction errors, reworks, material wastage, additional change orders, time, cost overruns and so on. Hence, it is vital to reduce the design warnings a...
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Today, Building Information Modeling (BIM) has been widely explored and embraced in more than sixty countries. Globally, BIM players in policy, technology and process fields are significantly contributing towards BIM research with several directions for improving the building design, construction and operation process. Our study is for critical ass...
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Delivery of green building (GB) is of major importance and has become a great challenge in Taiwan Architectural, Engineering, Construction and Operation (AECO) industry today. However, limited research on adoption of new decision making processes for delivering GB projects causes difficulty for project stakeholders to realize the value of GB. In ad...
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Taiwan Green Building Evaluation System EEWH started in 1999 and included scoring and grading system in 2005,resulting 1687 green building classified certifications till 2011. In order to enhance the rationality and the discrimination of the Green Building Rating System in Taiwan, this study carried further analysis.

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