The research reported here was funded, in part, by the California Institute for Energy Efficiency (CIEE), a research unit of the University of California. Publication of research results does not imply CIEE endorsement of or agreement with these findings, nor that of any CIEE sponsor. This work was also supported by the Assistant Secretary for Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy, Office of B...

Current assessment of progress in construction projects is a manual task that is often infrequent and error prone. Images of sites are extremely cluttered and rife with shadows, occlusions, equipment, and people making them extremely hard to analyse. We present a first prototype system capable of detecting changes on a building site observed by a fixed camera, and classifying such changes as ei...

Evidence is growing that sustainable buildings provide financial rewards for building owners, operators, and occupants. Sustainable buildings typically have lower annual costs for energy, water, maintenance/repair, churn (reconfiguring space because of changing needs), and other operating expenses. These reduced costs do not have to come at the expense of higher first costs. Through integrated ...

The attenuation of the signal introduced by propagation path between source compromising emanation (the location secured IT equipment) and antenna potential infiltrating system has a direct influence on electromagnetic safety equipment. article presents original analytical relationships necessary to estimate values signal, which correspond most probable locations equipment in relation system. a...

Urban Dynamics modeling needs to implement spatial organization emergence in order to describe the development of services evolution and their usage within spatial centers. In this paper, we propose an extension of the nest building algorithm with multi-center, multi-criteria and adaptive processes. We combine a decentralized approach based on emergent clustering mixed with spatial constraints ...

Traditional lightning protection practices were standardized many years prior to the recent proliferation of modern electrical and electronic equipment installations on building rooftops. This paper presents an isolated down-conductor solution that combines the advantages of the IEC 623051 series or various other national standards regarding isolated and non-isolated lightning protection method...

In order to assist the construction safety risk control of fabricated building, 17 factors were identified from five dimensions man, machine, material, management, and environment. The evaluation index system building stage is constructed based on AHP (Analytic Hierarchy Process). level divided according weight. results show that focus should be on-site staffing, professional ability operators,...

We present a novel resolution-based outlier notion and a nonparametric outlier-mining algorithm, which can efficiently identify top listed outliers from a wide variety of datasets. The algorithm generates reasonable outlier results by taking both local and global features of a dataset into consideration. Experiments are conducted using both synthetic datasets and a real life construction equipm...

The present state of the holographic art has set many stringent parameters on the production of holograms, such as extreme mechanical, temperature, and air stability for long periods of time, and slow film emulsions with extremely high resolution. The Physical Sciences Laboratory of the U.S. Naval Training Device Center has investigated, experimented, and produced many clear high resolution hol...