Acoustical archeology aims to study previous acoustical stages in buildings or rooms or to recover old rooms, environments or buildings that has been lost. This part of the acoustic science also tries to analyze the historic acoustic evolution of emblematic buildings of our Cultural Heritage. The main aim of this paper is to make a virtual acoustic rehabilitation of a ruined church, according t...

Overview Both the technologies and design concepts exist for a new generation of low-energy buildings that outperform today’s typical high-performance buildings. Cultural barriers, however, are a primary inhibitor of the widespread construction of these buildings. This paper first gives examples of existing technologies and design concepts exceeding today’s best practice, followed by successful...

Residential and commercial buildings accounted for about 68% of the total U.S. electricity consumption in 2002. Improving the energy efficiency of buildings can save energy, reduce cost, and protect the global environment. In this research, artificial neural network is employed to model and predict the facility power usage of campus buildings. The prediction is based on the building and the wea...

Latest European Union programs related to energy efficiency underline the need for retrofitting existing buildings, which are responsible for 40% of EU final energy consumption. Although new buildings can be constructed with high performance levels, the majority of the building stock, characterized by a low energy performance, still needs renovation. Thanks to its potential to deliver high ener...

modeling of relationship between ventilation rate of buildings and sick building syndrome symptoms hosseinpoor s , gholamiborujeni f *, mohammadian y received: 22 aug, 2013 accepted: 23 oct , 2013 abstract background & aims: indoor air pollution with microbilal, chemical and physical pollutants lead to sick building syndrome (sbs). suitable ventilation of buildings, is one of the best methods t...

$150 billion/yr. in potential US energy savings, enhanced competitiveness, and reduced CO2 emissions depend on swiftly adopting Diagnostic Benchmarking. Expected savings consist mostly of no-cost Operating and Maintenance (“O&M”) improvements in existing buildings. Early energy audits required that O&M be improved before considering retrofits. But audits didn’t effectively identify O&M opportun...

Agriculture has been a widespread activity in Kashan since a long time ago which has developed traditions and local skills. The said traditions and skills of earning living from farming has created a system which could be recognized as an agricultural heritage due to its values. This heritage possesses significant structural dimensions; as the form and feature of farms as well as their location...

Evacuation drills are conducted periodically with the intent of practicing smooth evacuations from buildings, and for practicing rescue operations at emergency sites. An agentbased evacuation simulation with information diffusion provides a platform for simulating human evacuation behavior during emergencies that can be affected by various social and human factors. TENDENKO aims to conduct evac...

We prove two generalizations of results appearing in [4] involving metrical completeness and R–buildings. Firstly, we give a generalization of the Bruhat–Tits fixed point theorem also valid for non-complete R–buildings, but with the added condition that the group is finitely generated. Secondly, we generalize a criterion which reduces the problem of completeness to the wall trees of the R–build...