The construction master plan (contgenplan) is the general of site, which shows all existing and planned permanent buildings structures, as well temporary necessary for assembly works. purpose budget to organize industry on would ensure creation production living conditions workers, reception delivery materials, semi-finished products structures workplace, normal operation machines mechanized in...

field observations of the incurred damages to the buildings and bridges due to earthquakes in near field show there are various failure modes which are in relation to the forces caused by vertical component. while vertical component of earthquake for ordinary buildings in most seismic regulations and standards is not considered. therefore, in the current study the effects of vertical and horizo...

W hat goes inside a Maya building is just as signif icant in determining its function as a building's architectural plan and external appearance. Structures are not alike in their contents. Some hold in-terments and caches; some contain earlier buildings; others are single or multiple construction efforts with no contents other than f ill. Artifacts are found littered on the f loors of some bui...

This paper gives an overview of a new risk-sensitive, continuous plan executive called p-Sulu, as well as its full-horizon variant, the p-Sulu Planner. p-Sulu and the p-Sulu Planner provide two capabilities: 1) goaldirected planning in a continuous domain and 2) risksensitive planning that respects a user-specified upper bound on the probability of constraint violations. They both take as an in...

We developed a mathematical model to compare 2 indoor remediation strategies in the aftermath of an outdoor release of 1.5 kg of anthrax spores in lower Manhattan. The 2 strategies are the fumigation approach used after the 2001 postal anthrax attack and a HEPA/vaccine plan, which relies on HEPA vacuuming, HEPA air cleaners, and vaccination of reoccupants. The HEPA/vaccine approach leads to few...

Digesting the data hose that cities are constantly producing is complex; data is usually structured with different criteria, which makes comparative analysis of multiple cities challenging. However, the publicly available data from the Spanish cadaster contains urban information in a documented format with common semantics for the whole territory, which makes these analyses possible. This paper...

This paper presents a case-based design (CBD) focusing on the segmentation of building models and the synthesis of new compositions. Our TRAMMA (Topology Recognition and Aggregation of Mesh Models of Architecture) program is developed as an application of the method. The segmentation includes the recognition of floors, stairs, and walls out of the mesh models. The aggregation process recombines...

Static force procedures of most building codes require that the lateral earthquake force at each floor level of an asymmetric-plan building be applied eccentrically from the centers of rigidity. To implement such procedures, it seemed necessary in the past to determine the locations of the centers of rigidity, an often confusing and cumbersome process. This paper presents a new approach for cod...