The Solar Envelope is a three dimensional envelope on a site which ensures adjacent neighbors a specified minimum direct solar access time per day throughout the year. The solar envelope was developed as a tool to give buildings in an urban setting the mutual opportunity to employ passive and active solar design strategies. Parametric computeraided-design (CAD) environments significantly ease t...

Throughout the history of El Salvador, construction practices have been influenced by earthquakes happening in that region. One of the most successful attempts, developed by the Salvadorian indigenous population, was bahareque. In fact, a primitive type of bahareque was already used in El Salvador before the Spanish invasion. This first bahareque consisted of small tree branches bonded with cla...

Title Detection and intake assessment of organophosphate flame retardants in house dust in Japanese dwellings Author(s) Tajima, Shuji; Araki, Atsuko; Kawai, Toshio; Tsuboi, Tazuru; Ait Bamai, Yu; Yoshioka, Eiji; Kanazawa, Ayako; Cong, Shi; Kishi, Reiko Citation Science of The Total Environment, 478: 190-199 Issue Date 2014-04-15 Doc URL http://hdl.handle.net/2115/55347 Type article (author vers...

There is growing concern that airtight and well-insulated buildings designed to limit heat loss in temperate cold climates could unintentionally elevate the risk of overheating summers. Existing literature primarily uses dynamic simulation investigate this problem due difficulty obtaining large-scale in-performance data. To address gap, we undertake a meta-analysis indoor air temperature data f...

background: indoor radon gas (222rn) has been recognized as one of the health hazards for human. air radon comes mainly from basement soil and construction materials. saghand region with rich uranium mines lies 180 km from yazd, so the indoor radon concentration can be high. yazd, with population of about 457000, is the biggest city near saghand, thus, indoor gamma background radiation of yazd ...

OBJECTIVE To characterize the exposure to electric fields and magnetic fields of non-ionizing radiation in the electromagnetic spectrum (15 Hz to 100 kHz) in the dwellings of children from the Spanish Environment and Childhood-"INMA" population-based birth cohort. METHODOLOGY The study sample was drawn from the INMA-Granada cohort. Out of 300 boys participating in the 9-10 year follow-up, 123...

Multivariate Adaptive Regression Spline (MARS) is a simple and powerful non-parametric machine learning algorithm that automatizes the selection of non-linear terms in regression models. In this study, we propose using MARS spatial framework to account for potential non-linearities effects Using relatively large data set 17,000 dwellings St. Petersburg (Russia), examine how works. The empirical...

Diao Jiaolou is a typical component of minority housing culture. Strengthening the study hanging foot building to inherit culture traditional residential architecture. By classifying and analyzing architectural characteristics housing, characteristic elements are refined for this architecture industrialized using modern means methods. Based on protecting ethnic heritage, technology uses leave t...