The probabilistic approach to the evaluation of fire hazard and the effectiveness of fire-precaution measures enables a rational response to the randomness of fire outbreaks. This article employs the statistical analysis methods to elucidate the causes for the ignition of fire on a random sample of industrial buildings in the Republic of Slovenia. The analyses are based on the Structural Equati...

Abstract It is well known that the thermal performance of a building influenced by solutions define building’s envelope. In case industrial buildings, due to use different envelope (e.g. sandwich panels, prefabricated concrete panels etc.), types bridge details are often in comparison those currently found residential, office and administrative buildings. Thus, several numerical simulations wer...

Abstract—This research focuses on the optimization of glazed surfaces and the assessment of possible solar gains in industrial buildings. Existing window rating methods for single windows were evaluated and a new method for a simple analysis of energy gains and losses by single windows was introduced. Furthermore extensive transient building simulations were carried out to appraise the performa...

An approach is presented for detecting the buildings from high resolution pan-sharpened IKONOS imagery through binary Support Vector Machines (SVM) classification. In addition to original spectral bands, the bands nDSM (normalized Digital Surface Model), NDVI (Normalized Difference Vegetation Index), PC1, PC2, PC3, and PC4 (First, Second, Third, and Fourth Principal Components), are also includ...

There are three “starting” points for the development of intelligent robots: Conventional, stationary industrial robots; mobile, unintelligent platforms (robots) and walking machines. Stationary industrial robots equipped with external sensors are used today for assembly and disassembly operations, fluelling cars, cleaning of buildings and airplanes, humanitarian demining ... and have been the ...

Introduction The reinforced concrete tilt-up building is the most popular form of light industrial and low-rise commercial construction in the Western United States and is a significant portion of new construction nationwide. This popularity is primarily driven by the construction speed and economical nature of tilt-up construction. Architectural acceptance has become more widespread as tilt-up...

The paper supports this hypothesis by presenting a brief look at the emerging results from iSERVcmb (www.iservcmb.info), a European Commission funded IEE project that examines the achieved impact from trialling such an approach in Buildings and Heating, Ventilating and Air Conditioning (HVAC) Systems across the EU Member States. The iSERVcmb project implements a detailed Monitoring, Feedback an...