Thesis
A human factors' approach to mega yaght concept design
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- Awarding institution
- University of Strathclyde
- Date of award
- 2013
- Thesis identifier
- T13443
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- Abstract
- Surviving in the mega yacht shipbuilding industry as a shipbuilder is notoriously difficult. The yacht owner usually demands a high degree of comfort and luxury without compromise of other complex requirements. In many cases, conflicts arise in the late stages of the building process. There are many shocking examples of costly rework that the shipyards had to do because the ship owner changed his/her mind about the interior design or layout upon inspecting the almost finished ship. In other cases, the ship owner simply ended up with a product that was not as comfortable as initially envisaged. This thesis explores the hypothesis that disappointing interior layout and design is a result of yacht builders primarily acting as ship builders, focussing mainly on exterior design, exterior aesthetics and performance of the yacht. As a consequence, interior design and human comfort considerations are not taken into account until the very final stages of the design process. This means that many compromises have to be taken with these very important issues that determine the experience of owning and being on board the ship. The aim of this work is to demonstrate that there is an absence of prioritising the importance of implementing the human comfort factors into the preliminary mega yacht design stage in its place of the final design stage. Prioritising human comfort factors contribute to a reduced risk of conflicts between the different domains; yacht owners, naval architects, interior and exterior designers, amongst others. An important part of this demonstration is identifying the comfort factors by researching the design approach to human comfort taken by various sectors. These sectors are transport, aviation, hospitality and merchant ship design. This thesis demonstrates and suggests a new approach to concept mega yacht design by presenting a framework of how these identified human comfort factors can be implemented as early as possible within existing classical process of mega yacht preliminary ship design.
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- Strathclyde theses - ask staff. Thesis no. : T13443
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- Date Created
- 2013
- Former identifier
- 991115
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