5 Warm climates pose challenges to building energy consumption and pedestrian comfort. 6 Knowledge of the wind flow around buildings can help address these issues through 7 improving natural ventilation, energy use and outdoor thermal comfort. Computational Fluid 8 Dynamics (CFD) simulations are widely used to predict wind flow around buildings, despite 9 Researcher, Singapore-ETH Centre, Futur...

This study presents a new Database-Enabled Design Model for High-Rise buildings driven by Pressure datasets, DEDM-HRP, which seamlessly combines synchronous pressure measurement databases with a rigorous computational framework to offer convenient estimation of wind load effects on high-rise buildings for their preliminary design. To respond to the need for practical applications, DEDM-HRP empl...

The study aimed at a critical assessment of the environmentalism components introduced in the civil engineering curriculum in India polytechnic colleges (state of Tamilnadu) and associate degree level Technical Institutions in Iran .The objective of study was to compare technical education curriculum in civil engineering with respect to environmentalism. Both qualitative and quantitative techni...

Beni Lew, Lolita Trachtengertz, Shany Ratsin, Gideon Oron and Amos Bick* 1 Department of Civil Engineering, Ariel University, Ariel, Israel 2 Agriculture Research Organization Volcani Center, Institute of Agricultural Engineering, Bet Dagan, Israel 3 The Department of Chemical Engineering, Shenkar College of Engineering and Design, Ramat-Gan, Israel 4 Department of Environment Water Resources, ...

Information and communication technologies (ICT) have altered the balance of cost between activities within a firm and activities between firms. Easier co-operation allows companies to focus on their core strengths, while forming relations with other firms to supply the other needed skills to bring a product to market. Design, in one firm or in a consortium, is iterative and does require change...

1 Department of Civil Engineering, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM, United States, 2 Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM, United States, 3 Department of Bridge and Tunnel Engineering, School of Transportation Science and Engineering, Harbin Institute of Technology, Harbin, China, 4 School of Civil Engineering, Harbin Institute o...

The US National Science Foundation has established a program to create a National Science, Mathematics, Engineering and Technology Education Digital Library (NSDL). One of the subsidiary NSDL libraries under development is the National Civil Engineering Educational Resources Library (NCERL). The first phase of NCERL is the creation and collection of digital resources in three areas of civil eng...

BIM is a complex technology. Although its potential benefits are clear, its integration in structural engineering firms requires leadership and persistence as well as careful planning. Sophisticated threedimensional parametric modelling software for precast concrete structures has been commercially available since 2005. Early adopters have gained sufficient experience with precast concrete buil...

This paper presents a simulation model, which was incorporated into a Geographic Information System (GIS), in order to calculate the maximum intensity of urban heat islands based on urban geometry data. The methodology of this study stands on a theoretical-numerical basis (Oke’s model), followed by the study and selection of existing GIS tools, the design of the calculation model, the incorpora...

In parallel with China’s growing construction market, there has been an influx of foreign architectural and engineering design firms into the Chinese construction market. Those firms generally form partnerships with local Chinese firms or institutions to overcome various complications in the country. Adding to the complexity, relatively recent technologies such as Building Information Modelling...