This work presents a method for retrieving 3D building contours usable in facade retrofitting projects, which uses parametric modeling workflow that utilizes point-cloud slicing to retrieve such contours. Since current commitments by European governments seek reduce energy consumption as means carbon emissions from stock 2050, appears an alternative addressing operational and embedded emissions...

Abstract With the growing effects of climate change, it has become great importance to reduce emissions from building stock. Climate friendly retrofitting dwellings emerged as an important role since then. Based on a case study in Netherlands and scientific research associated processes, is concluded that state current process not productive enough meet European goals. To satisfy increasing nee...

In this paper, we combine two apparently disparate techniques for word representation: (a) word embeddings, which learn vectors from co-occurency statistics on large corpora (b) word associations, which capture mental representation of language. Existing literature has mainly considered these representations distinctly while proving that they respectively perform better at (a) similarity and (b...

In the fall of 1998, the Federal Highway Administration of the U.S. Department of Transportation initiated a series of studies related to the seismic performance of the U.S. national highway system. The research conducted under this study is intended to provide improved tools for evaluating and assessing the social costs and impacts of earthquakes on highway systems and bridges, and to reduce t...