Design Criteria for Privacy-Sensitive Healthcare Buildings

Privacy Sensitive Location Information Systems in Smart Buildings

Increasing automation of buildings enables rich information streams about the activities of building users to reach networked computer systems. Privacy concerns typically cause this information to be accessible only by building managers and security personnel. However, if appropriate privacy mechanisms can be implemented, then it is possible to deploy location information systems that can contr...

Factors Influencing the Design of Spatial Layouts in Healthcare Buildings

There has been a significant increase in capital building programmes in the National Health Service (NHS) since the publication in 2000 of the Government policy on modernisation of health and care delivery in the UK. With regard to physical capacity, the target was to create over 100 new hospitals by 2010 and 500 new one-stop primary care centres. The initiative was seen as a way to modernise t...

Criteria for Privacy Supporting System

The concern about privacy issues has increased among web store customers. The merchants are trying to convince the public about the level of privacy on their sites by using privacy statements. This is not, however, an easy task, because the very nature of privacy is unclear. It is hard to define the requirements for a system that is capable of protecting the privacy of the users. The approach o...

OPTIMUM DESIGN OF TMD SYSTEM FOR TALL BUILDINGS

High tall buildings are more susceptible to dynamic excitations such as wind and seismic excitations. In this paper, design procedure and some current applications of tuned mass damper (TMD) were studied. TMD was proposed to study response of 20 storey height building to seismic excitations using time history analysis with and without the TMD. The study indicates that the response of structur...

Rating Indicator Criteria for Privacy Policies