Buildings should be designed to resist moderate ground motion with­ out structural damage and resist intense ground motion with controlled damage. However, most codes do not consider both these requirements explicitly and specify a single design earthquake that generally corresponds to intense ground motion. Investigated in this study is the response of one-story, asymmetric-plan systems design...

The architecture literature acknowledges building adaptability as a means of contributing to sustainability, but falls short in valuation this contribution. paper demonstrates how value sustainability Open Plan (OP) buildings, where is deliberately incorporated the floor plan design with future refurbishment mind. reviewed clarify notion OP form built-in and highlight lack valuationof buildings...

There have been much interest and many efforts to control global warming and reduce greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions throughout the world. Recently, the Republic of Korea has also increased its GHG reduction goal and searched for an implementation plan. In buildings, for example, there have been technology developments and deployment policies to reduce GHG emissions from a life cycle perspective,...

An energy-based approach has been used to investigate the seismic behavior of code-designed asymmetric-plan systems. The systems considered in this investigation had large eccentricities in both directions, were designed for bidirectional earthquake loading, and their responses were computed with both components of ground motion acting simultaneously. The presented results demonstrate that the ...

Structural design of buildings has proven particularly difficult to automate. Parametric templates are too limited to be practicable, and pure AI-based approaches have found little application in design offices. This paper presents ‘Intelligent Ž . Parametric Templates’ IPT for structural design within an Automated Building System. It demonstrates that, for rectangular plan building types, comp...

This paper describes the development and operation of a dual-band time~domain radar system used to measure indoor multipath propagation characteristics in several office buildings and factories. The system operates at 1.3 GHz and 4.0 GHz, and uses 4 ns rms pulses to provide estimates of indoor radio channel impulse responses. The effects of ante.nna diversity, .frequency scaling, and topography...

In this paper we present an approach for the geometric reconstruction of urban areas. It is based on height data from airborne laser scanning and 2D GIS, which provides the ground plan geometry of buildings. Both data sources are used to estimate the type and parameter of basic primitives which in turn are combined to obtain complex building structures. The final output consists of 3D CAD model...