Research Example 3:

The title of this peer reviewed journal is called “Construction Management and Economics”. The article within this journal is called “Integral Sustainable Design”.

This article talks about how sustainability is a trendy area in many different jobs. It starts by discussing different ways of implementing sustainable design into jobs. An integral approach to sustainable design needs to be a mix of beauty (art+design), ethics of design and science of design. In order to do this, there needs to be perspectives on design. Four key perspectives named in this article are system perspectives, behavior perspectives, experience perspectives and cultures perspectives. These four “perspectives” are imperative for people to know, if they are thinking about using sustainable design in their lines of work.

The topic of this article is sustainable design. The question posed in this article is, “what do people using sustainable design in their line of work needs to know about sustainability?”. In order to answer this question, you would need expert knowledge.  In order to gather this data, you would collect surveys and do in depth interviews with engineers and experts in the field of sustainability. You would need to ask them what they believe is most important points in their field.

I think this research was very interesting. It is very modern and a new way to look at the future with sustainability. I like how it helped narrow down the most important aspects of sustainable design and gave suggestions on how to make if more affective.

I think my classmates would find it interesting that “sustainability” has become more popular, because it is seen specifically as a way to improve people’s relationship with nature. People feel as though pure nature no longer exists, and that people need to be reminded how to interact with it once again.

This is a secondary source because it uses data that already existed.

Citation: Soibelman, L. (2013). Integral Sustainable Design. Construction Management and Economics, 31(2), 202–203. doi:10.1080/01446193.2012.735368