visibility is an important factor of environmental quality that has various influences on the quality of neighborhood. this paper aimed to find the relationship between urban form and visual quality. a public space with a spatial configuration in one of bushehr city's neighborhoods was selected as the case study. bushehr city is surrounded by urban development and the sea. compact urban sp...

Energy consumption is a very important topic these days especially regarding air conditioning in residential buildings, since this takes the biggest amount of energy in buildings total consumption, residential buildings constitute the biggest percentage of energy consumption in Bahrain. This research reflects on the effects of shading percentage in different solar orientations on the energy con...

When hydrogen gas is used or stored within a building, as with a hydrogen-powered vehicle parked in a residential garage, any leakage of unignited H2 will mix with indoor air and may form a flammable mixture. One approach to safety engineering relies on buoyancy-driven, passive ventilation of H2 from the building through vents to the outside. To discover relationships between design variables, ...

Geospatial distribution of population at a scale of individual buildings is needed for analysis of people’s interactionwith their local socio-economic and physical environments. High resolution aerial images are capable of capturing urban complexities and considered as a potential source formapping urban features at this fine scale. This paper studies population mapping for individual buildings...

The South Korean government announced its goals of reducing the country’s CO2 emissions by up to 30% below the business as usual (BAU) projections by 2020 in 2009 and 37% below BAU projections by 2030 in 2015. This paper explores the potential energy savings and reduction in CO2 emissions offered by residential building energy efficiency policies and plans in South Korea. The current and future...

in recent years, the issue of energy consumption modeling techniques in the building sector has been widely considered by researchers and managers. researches indicate that energy consumption in residential sector is one of the main parts of the total consumption. moreover, the urban residence is supposed as a significant consumer of energy in every country and therefore a focus for energy cons...