Efficiency-focused building designs reduce the use of materials and energy in building construction and operation. Planning for efficiency can help save money and improve building performance. This publication discusses several ways to improve the efficiency of agricultural buildings and provides further references for implementing those strategies. Topics covered include suiting a building to ...

Various factors play a part in the energy consumption of a building : its physical properties, the equipment installed for its functioning (the heating, ventilation and air-conditioning system, auxiliary production of electricity or hot water), the outdoor environment and the behaviour of its occupants. While software tool designers have made great progress in the simulation of the first three ...

Measurement of the heat loss from equipment in buildings is necessary in order to make accurate assessments of its impact on cooling loads. Recent advances in the design of buildings and improvement of the thermal characteristics of insulation materials and building envelope systems have significantly reduced the cooling load from external sources; however, the addition of various types of offi...

The problem of reorganization, as many types rearrangement in the dyad ‘man-equipment’ (‘operator-equipment’ transport; ‘worker-equipment’ mechanical engineering; ‘tenant-building’ construction and housing communal services), is constantly relevant a developing society. Modeling ways forms solving this problem, study different reorganization ‘man-equipment’, rationing their characteristics iden...

Transformation of equipment manufacturers to become providers of industrial services is a trend that involves deep transformation of companies. Equipment manufactures can potentially provide services significantly more efficiently and effectively by utilizing information about their installed base. We aim to recognise decision support functionality and required information contents for a system...