one  of  the  fundamental needs  for  the  human  is  to  have  a  workplace in  which  they  can  do  their  workappropriately. worldwide energy crisis necessitated the construction of official buildings with smaller space and less air ventilation. this led to the reduction in air conditioning, accumulation of the contaminants in indoor, increased exposure, health threat concerning the staff i...

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...

Even in the absence of major disturbances (e.g., cyclones, bleaching), corals are subject to high levels of partial or whole-colony mortality, often caused by chronic and small-scale disturbances. Depending on levels of background mortality, these chronic disturbances may undermine individual fitness and have significant consequences on the ability of colonies to withstand subsequent acute dist...

With the fast development of information technology and increasingly prominent environmental problems, building comfort and energy management become the major tasks for an intelligent residential building system. According to statistical studies, people spend 80% of their lives in buildings. Hence it is not surprising that they constantly seek to improve comfort in their living spaces. This pap...

Title of Document: RFID SENSOR-DRIVEN STRUCTURAL CONDITION MONITORING IN INTEGRATED BUILDING INFORMATION MODELING ENVIRONMENT Linjia Bai, Doctor of Philosophy, 2013 Directed By: Yunfeng Zhang, Associate Professor Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering Steel structures are very popular structural forms for both buildings and bridges. Under extreme loading such as strong earthquakes or...

Building maintenance plays an important role among other activities in building operation. Building defect and damages are part of the building maintenance ‘bread and butter’ as their input indicated in the building inspection is very much justified, particularly as to determine the building performance. There will be no escape route or short cut from building maintenance work. This study attem...

This paper introduces the concept of a BIM-based life-cycle management system for reinforced concrete buildings. The system allows one to compute a prognosis of the building’s condition taking into account the material properties of individual components, the environmental load as well as measurement data from current inspections. This prognosis then forms foundations for scheduled maintenance ...

We consider the notion of a uniformly concave function, using it to characterize those Lorentz spaces Lw,1 that have the weak-star uniform Kadec-Klee property as precisely those for which the antiderivative φ of w is uniformly concave; building on recent work of Dilworth and Hsu. We also derive a quite general sufficient condition for a twice-differentiable φ to be uniformly concave; and explor...

In the paper, the question of eeective automated version selection is tackled. It is an important part of a method for building a software connguration. The paper concentrates on the method for version selection which allows specifying requirements which refer to properties of versions. It is controlled by knowledge in form of heuristic functions serving as necessary condition and suitability c...

Submitted: Jun 21, 2013; Accepted: Jul 19, 2013; Published: Jul 25, 2013 Abstract: The article considers the possibility of using acoustic methods for non-destructive testing of strength and composition of building structures. Screening of multiple structures or structures with large geometrical dimensions (long tunnels, large area roofs, etc.) at first stage of testing the directly defined aco...