Article history: Received 26 June 2015 Received in revised form 16 October 2015 Accepted 5 December 2015 Available online 23 December 2015 The overall energy efficiency of existing buildings has to be significantly improved to complywith emerging regulations and to contribute to overcoming current environmental challenges. Many policies aim at accelerating the renovation rate. The effectiveness...

by the end of next June to fund both projects. The renovation of the two outmoded Plex dorms, Hamilton and Marshall, is part of the College's Strategic Plan, a document endorsed last October by President Fainstein, that assesses the College's current values and priorities and where it hopes to move as it approaches its centennial anniversary. Vice President for Administration, Ulysses Hammond, ...

Due to the inherent discrete nature of sensing, interpolation is a key activity in sensing. Interpolation in urban computing faces an unprecedented inference issue that was not present in large scale traditional sensing environments. Obstacles such as buildings and walls are prevalent in urban sensing, and it is important to consider them in urban sensing interpolation. This paper introduces an...

We aimed to identify the characteristics of changes in buildings and alleyways Yeonnam-dong, Seoul, where low-rise, residential are being renovated or repurposed into commercial buildings, as well investigate their renovations, repurposes, sociocultural implications. Thus, we surveyed classified 149 investigated perceptions ambiance area using a trade analysis interviews with visitors store own...

High-rise buildings in cold regions have a requirement of ecological improvement due to the continuous response climate change throughout year. This study evaluates wind environment, light thermal and energy consumption environment using Phoenics, Ecotect, DesignBuilder tools, utilizing high-rise residential building an intensely place as example. With goal repairing buildings, green energy-sav...

We transpose a conservative extension theorem from structural operational semantics to conditional term rewriting. The result is useful for the development of software renovation factories, and for modular speciication of abstract data types.

The historic buildings represent an important part of the built environment. The possibility to reuse spaces that represent the local cultural heritage plays an important role in maintaining the identity of a population and its traditions. The steps to be faced for smart renovation of historic buildings and recent constructions are not the same, as in the first case artistic and architectural c...