The paper presents a new 3D semantic building model dedicated to urban development. It provides the following special semantic features: storeys, passages, opening objects, and building variants, modelling different levels of detail and design respectively temporal variants. The model also includes a parametric part supporting easy generation of buildings and building variants in the urban desi...

Investigations have been made into the influence of building attributes on the cost per square metre for construction. In the case of flats, the data was too sparse for good results, but relationships were found by neural networks. In the case of schools and office, the work shows that even when few attributes are available, useful patterns can be found in data. In particular, it has been found...

Performance-based seismic codes ensure proper inelastic behaviour of reinforced concrete frames through capacity design, among others. This strategy relies not only on avoiding brittle failures and providing ductility to plastic hinges but also in their distribution within the frame aimed at a greater number storeys involved eventual collapse mechanism. Although are generally agreement some bas...

I begin by congratulating the Storeys on their splendid achievement. They have managed to write an eminently readable account of a “conversation” among four complex French thinkers. As reader learns from footnotes, presentation unfolding argument is based enormous amount scholarly research, but they never let scholarship interfere with smooth flow prose.

In the past few years, there have been an increasing number of Impulse Systems installed in car parks, especially in Northern Europe. Unfortunately, no design method has been described openly in the public domain. This places Authorities Having Jurisdiction (AHJs, or Approving Authorities) in a difficult position when faced with a proposal. The present paper is intended to develop calculation p...

The robot automates the operation painting on exterior walls of high-rise buildings. The robot is designed to ensure safety during work at high elevations, assure the quality of the coating, enhances efficiency and maintain the privacy of guests in the building. At the Shinjuku Center Building (54 above-ground storeys, 220 m in height, 100,000 m' of coating) one of Tokyo's high-rise buildings, ...