I am requesting in writing assistance from your bureau to our school. Turner-Fenton Secondary School is a campus high school fast approaching 2,000 students, operating out of two buildings joined by a common parking lot. We have many ways of access onto our property and into our buildings. The size of our population is such that staff cannot know every student. This allows the problem of intrud...

Energy costs are included in the rent for many US apartments, giving tenants little incentive to conserve. This apparent market failure has two explanations: the tenants value the utility-included rental contracts more than they value the extra energy they consume, or the landlords value the contracts more than the cost of that extra energy. We use the Residential Energy Consumption Survey and ...

Population density and land constraints require the provision of alternative places to live apart from landed house. Not only for people who have excess money, but also bottom. Overcrowding often takes up so that living space becomes limited crowded. Moreover, pedatang community is unstoppable in its presence. There are immigrants a time not short. They even moved as citizens. Big cities must b...

Operating costs are an important, but not much studied, component of apartment financial performance. This paper establishes an economic framework for interpreting operating costs and uses a unique data set to investigate the determinants of operating costs. Empirical results are consistent with theory and indicated that housing quality is a strong driver of operating costs; older properties mu...

This paper demonstrates an experience in the development of a design performance evaluation system that can frequently evaluate building design performance within the design process in a real-time manner. The evaluation system, that we call "Vitruvius Studio," is composed of several modules such as a front-end component-based CAD engine, a knowledge base, and a set of design agents. While a com...

The present paper discusses the heterogeneity of apartment market. For this purpose, we have developed model for mass valuation apartments in Republic Slovenia. construction is based on generalised additive approach. In paper, development presented. experimental part, analysis results two models performed. dependent variable (the price an apartment) distributed according to Gaussian and gamma d...

environmental characteristics, including the quality of green spaces, constitute one of the determinants of buildings (house & apartment) transaction prices. in this research, impact of urban green space on building's transaction prices (rials/m2) in karaj region, district 1 (jahanshahr), was analyzed. therefore, a questionnaire concerning building characteristics and transaction prices wa...