Process Management of Spatial Structures to Address Positive Buildings with the Goals of Sustainable Development

In the latest years, the main issues facing the world are environmental challenges such as global warming, ozone depletion, and destruction of natural habitats. Therefore, there is an emergent need for worldwide commitment to prevent and reduce environmental pollution. In this context, spatial structures play an important role in reducing environmental pollution, especially in large projects, because they use new technologies, lightweight constructions and materials, prefabricated systems, scientific and applied concepts in design and execution, while observing seismic safety requirements that are related to the structure durability and stability.The aim of this research is to define parameters evaluating the contribution and limitation of strategies by defining a managerial view of the spatial structure process to optimize energy consumption, pointing out the climatic design as a solution to improve the efficiency as structures with the potential for positive buildings.The research process of Architecture, Engineering, Construction (AEC) in spatial structures is examined in four categories: design, construction, carrying, assembly, and installation. After introducing each category, the goals and results obtained from the effects of climatic design are discussed, and, finally, according to these results, an integrated management diagram to optimize energy consumption and to address positive buildings is presented.This diagram is designed around a systematic axis, and it manages the optimal time, cost, and energy while considering the sustainability to develop a decision model and to strategically adopt spatial structure as a prefabricated and engineered system in the design and construction planning of green facilities. The diagram is divided into four stages: Step 1—metric determination for positive design; Step 2—integrate axiomatic design and detailing; Step 3—integrate design knowledge and environmental impact to develop the concept considering climatic potential; Step 4—result verification by using software tools.KeywordsPositive buildings Process of spatial structures Spatial structures Sustainable developments