Building elements, especially partitions, floors and external walls significantly affect indoor acoustic comfort. Their ability to reduce noise transmission from neighbouring rooms or outdoors depends on the element composition building materials used. In Central Europe, heavyweight masonry concrete slabs are typical elements both for family residential buildings. However, increasing popularity...

Within the GIS world, LIDAR becomes an important and convenient data source. Many researchers are developing algorithms to extract a bare-earth model and building boundaries from LIDAR data. This paper presents two different methods for building reconstruction using LIDAR data. The first is a traditional method using filtered LIDAR data and combining cadastral building boundaries data (for exam...

Digital libraries, to fulfil their true potential, must display features and exploit skills more readily associated with traditional library service. To an extent this has already happened: collection management has become the process of Internet resource discovery, while document cataloguing skills have been applied to the creation of Internet resource metadata repositories. This paper argues ...