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Topic Name: Advancement in Building Information Modeling in Cross Laminated Timber (CLT) to Identify or Locate More Places in Construction Business Organizations

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Topic Name: Advancement in Building Information Modeling in Cross Laminated Timber (CLT) to Identify or Locate More Places in Construction Business Organizations. (15000 words)
 

Basepaper: Digital transformation in a cross-laminated timber business network

 

Problem statement:

 

Construction field has developed to a large extent over a decade or two. Various advancements in terms of materials, properties to be employed for constructions, interrelation with the technologies in constructions have been made with respect to these enhancements. Timber construction is one such area where there is a large advancement made in recent times. Cross-laminated timber (CLT) is one of the principal materials in mass timber construction and multiple technologies were involved in smooth conduct of such constructions. With the digitization coming into the fore, options are now wide open for technological interventions into the construction industry as well. Industry 4.0 has revolutionized many manufacturing firms and it has an influence on the high for CLT as well. The study presented here basically revolves around  digitalization and its large-scale impact on CLT projects in finland. Digitization proved to be very much evolved in terms of construction industries mainly for CLT projects and the study proved the same.

 

By considering this, we intend to identify the research gap and found that below points can be well addressed in our research study.

 

?             More studies in terms of growth/advancement of digitization in CLT is lacking.

 

?             General findings/understanding was only carried out with the respective target audience. We can target more inputs in terms of digitization effects in CLT projects with respect to identifying the resources or interested audience.

 

?             Identify or locate more places where digitization under CLT are in more advanced stages to provide an impactful conclusion.

 

?             Understanding impactful digital solutions that has evolved tremendously in CLT projects

 

 

 

 

1 What is the Masters Thesis?

The Masters Thesis is a 60 Credits piece of work.

Students submit a proposal by the end of Sem 1; develop a framework in Sem 2 and complete the write up in

Semester 3.

It is a student-driven effort, which in terms of output, complexity and accomplishment, is equivalent to half

of the full Diploma credits. The thesis will be ‘mentored’ by staff, with between 2/3 meetings in Sem 2 and

2/3 final meetings in Sem 3 for a total of 5.

As a complex piece of research, your masters thesis needs to be embedded in the Department’s approach and

view of architecture and the environment. As such, it will be, first and foremost, framed within the CS5

seminar series of Sem 1. Students must use these Seminars as an extra level of guidance throughout the

development of their thesis, making reference to them in their development.

Seminars are themed around staff and guests research and expertise, whilst thesis develop around topics of

personal interest. Still, student projects must make reference to the Seminars, either using them to position

themselves within a certain view and approach, or offering an alternative to it. Seminars are compulsory,

independently from the student thesis topic: they might help directly or indirectly, through their content,

approach, or the discussion that follows them.

The following guidance highlights the nature of the thesis, which is student initiated, led and developed, with

only support by academic staff, which can be in the form of 3 to 5 + 1 final individual or group tutorials.

Whilst there is no professional accreditation linked to the achievement of the Masters, we follow the General

Attributes highlighted by RIBA for its structure and content. We therefore expect that the Master Thesis

demonstrates/is:

• A self-driven, clearly formulated and framed investigation into an area of choice, preferably

following from the themes explored during relevant courses (esp Y4, 5A, CS5);

• based upon a comprehensive literature review of knowledge in such area,

• a clear statement of intentions and an articulated methodology of how to pursue such intentions;

• a comprehensive and clear conclusion in which results are tested against initial intentions, to

critically assess the thoroughness of the work undertaken.

2 Learning Outcomes

The Master will respond to all LOs listed, and in doing so it will be rigorous and rigorously compared to others,

on a comparable scale.

LO1: identify a research problem/hypothesis and gather evidence to justify its validity;

LO2: develop an appropriate approach to address such a problem/hypothesis and, where necessary, test a

range of alternatives;

LO3: produce a conclusive argument/design proposition that explains how the initial problem/research

hypothesis has been satisfied.

LO4: select and deploy the most appropriate medium through which to document, record and communicate

all aspects of the thesis. NB: the overall word count can include a 10% above and below the number indicated

but no more. A 5% penalty will be applied every 1000 words exceeding the 10%.

All LOS will need to be met for a Masters to be awarded; failure to satisfy one, no matter how successful the

others, will determine the failure of the Masters overall.

3 Contents of the Thesis

The essential elements below hold for any thesis:

1. Overview of the context, statement of problem, state of the art on the subject, essential criteria which

will shape the proposal.

22 900 & AB947 Masters Thesis Handbook

2021-22

a. The student will start by explaining the choice of theme, demonstrating its relevance from a

cultural, technological, environmental and/or personal perspective or a combination of

these. This is coupled with a clear set of questions and objectives.

b. He/she will then illustrate the state-of-the-art advancements on the theme referring to

existing literature, thus presenting a comprehensive overview of all positions, debates,

advancements and problems relating to it.

c. From this overview, the student will highlight the key elements characterising the selected

theme, and will use them from now on to define her/his position towards it. Such a position

represents the exploration/investigation framework.

2. Development of a proposal/position supported by case studies, exemplars, shaped on the criteria

identified in 1);

a. On the background gathered in 1, the student will illustrate her/his position in relation to

the topic selected, using existing views, exemplars and cases to corroborate it, and the key

elements identified in ‘c’ to develop such position in detail. Whenever possible, the use of

primary sources together with secondary sources of knowledge would be integrated into

the discussion of the cases and the key elements identified.

3. Conclusions demonstrating how the initial intentions have been met (or not; the requirement is for

the critical assessment of the work done, in relation to the intentions set).

The concluding section reflects on the position developed, testing it against the declared

intentions and read through the key elements identified in 1.c; this concluding section is a

detailed reflective assessment.

4. Thesis presentation (across). The Thesis will be articulated, edited, illustrated, summarised, and

presented in a coherent, cohesive, structured and academically sound format.

The aim of the Masters is to prove the student's ability to identify a complex area of work, research it, argue

a personal take on it, demonstrate it, illustrate it and reflect on it. As such, it is submitted in a written,

documentary form, on a topic of choice by the student.

4 Structure of the thesis

The Thesis will be assessed against 4 Learning Outcomes of equal weight; three referring to its contents, one

to its communication (written and visual).

Therefore, the student should/could decide to roughly structure the Thesis in three roughly equally weighted

(in terms of effort) parts, each demonstrating one of the first 3 LOs as follows:

1. Overview of the context, statement of problem, state of the art on the subject, essential criteria which

will shape the proposal.

We suggest the following split:

1.a. = Background/Research Problem, Questions, Objectives Methodology/Approach to Investigation (LO1) 4000

words.

1.b = Literature Review and Conceptual Framework (LO2) 3,500 words

1.c = concluding summary of Literature review, addressing questions set out in a. (500 words).

2. Development of a proposal/position supported by case studies, exemplars, shaped on the criteria

identified in 1);

We suggest the following split:

2.a = We can call this “Cases / Operationalization and Validation, and implies mapping the cases/design

development against the framework) (LO3) (4000 words)

3. Conclusions demonstrating how the initial intentions have been met (or not; the requirement is for the

critical assessment of the work done, in relation to the intentions set).

22 900 & AB947 Masters Thesis Handbook

2021-22

The concluding section reflects on the position developed, testing it against the declared intentions and

read through the key elements identified in 1.c; this concluding section is a detailed reflective

assessment.

We suggest the following:

This should become part of the Conclusions (1000 words), see below.

4. Thesis presentation (across). The Thesis will be articulated, edited, illustrated, summarised, and presented in a

coherent, cohesive, structured and academically sound format.

Will include::

• Abstract (500 words)

• Introduction (1000 words)

• Conclusion (1000 words)

• Referencing and Images

• Accuracy of presentation (written and visual)

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