building construction challenge, in recent years, is the reduction of social, economical and environmentalimpacts along with economical nature and increasing life quality, as here sustainable construction is important. pre-fabrication and industrialization are referred as a solution of sustainable construction due to some of its main characteristics consisting of many sustainability aspects. du...

Due to the superiority of functional requirements of equipment and systems over human requirements in the field of architectural and environmental design of industrial buildings, users have to adapt themselves to the conditions which might be followed by imposed biological and psychological pressures. The present study examines the components and environmental parameters influenced by building ...

This paper looks at the history of capacity building for using environmental information systems (EIS) in sub-Saharan Africa and the models that have been used over time to carry this out. It points out the current strengths and weaknesses of each of the models and suggests a new model under which co-ordination in capacity building might be achieved using the strengths of each the models alread...

abstract: appealing to the principle of vertical residence and stemming the horizontal expansion of the city, the tehran milad tower is being built on 35000 sm3 site with the total area of 220000 sm3. with a height of over 170m, this 56-story concrete building is in the final stages of construction and would be the highest residential building of iran. since tehran is located in a high-risk ear...

At 100-nanometer length scale, the mesoscopic structure of calcium silicate hydrate (C-S-H) plays a critical role in determining the macroscopic material properties, such as porosity. In order to explore the mesoscopic structure of C-S-H, we employ two effective techniques, nanoindentation test and molecular dynamics simulation. Grid nanoindentation tests find different porosity of C-S-H in cem...

W hen th e S choo l of A rchitecture needed to reno ­ vate their own building, they im m e d ia te ly tu rn e d to P ro fe s s o r T h o m a s G o rdon Smith, chairm an of the school, to design the changes. “T he e n t i r e b u ild in g is essentially being gutted," said Professor Smith, “in order to a llow us to b e s t u tiliz e th e overall structure of the build­ ing.” Professor Smith, alo...

374 Structure and function studies of plant cell wall polysaccharides Peter Albersheim*t$§, Jinhua An*, Glenn Freshour*+, Melvin S. Fuller*+, Rafael Guillen*ll, Kyung-Sik Ham*t, Michael G. Hahn*$, ling Huang*, Malcolm O’Neill*, Andrew Whitcornbe*, Myron V. Williams*, William S. York*t and Alan Darvill*t$ *Complex Carbohydrate Research Center, 220 Riverbend Road, +Department of Biochemistry, Lif...

Both ontology content and ontology building tools evaluations play an important role before using ontologies in Semantic Web applications. In this paper we try to assess ontology evaluation functionalities of the following ontology platforms: OilEd, OntoEdit, Protégé-2000, and WebODE. The goal of this paper is to analyze whether such ontology platforms prevent the ontologist from making knowled...