carrie bradshaw: When a girl gets backed up against a wall she can’t afford, she has to consider renting others (sniffing through open window). Do . . . Do I smell curry? realtor: There’s an Indian restaurant downstairs. cb: Delia, I ask you, how can this apartment be $2,800 a month? I pay $750 for something that’s twice the size and it don’t smell like takeout. realtor: You have a rent-control...

In this paper, an economic study of solar heat pumps and an investigation of differences between solar heat pumps and conventional heat pumps—based on their performances and energy consumption—are conducted for a residential apartment located in Austin, Texas, USA. Heating in the apartment is provided via a solar heat pump during the cold months of a year. Solar collectors are used to meet the ...

The aims of this s tudy is to analyse the planning and design process, basic principles and thechange-transformation process of the apartment type residential buildings in Turkey, Gaziantep city based on his torical background. The scope of the research consis ts of residential buildings built in the city of Gaziantep, which were built in the pos t-Republican period. In addition, s tate-b...

People reason about real-estate prices both in terms of general rules and in terms of analogies to similar cases. We propose to examine empirically which mode of reasoning fits the data better. To this end, we develop the statistical techniques required for the estimation of the case-based model. It is hypothesized that case-based reasoning will have relatively more explanatory power in databas...

Spatial data lies at the heart of GIS research. The great strength of the spatial data is to query about the location and direction of spatial objects. This paper is to explore the possibilities and advantages of geo-spatial data to improve online apartment services. In order to support spatial querying in nature, a simple fuzzy query model is presented in the paper. An online spatial informati...

design of the new apartment buildings in iran, has been faced to a decline of quality of local life and an improper interaction between inside-outside of residential spaces. this interaction can be affected by the quality of in-between spaces in different scales of apartment buildings in residential developments. in-between spaces of apartment houses refer to a hierarchy of the main entrance, o...

Occupants’ use of windows can influence the building energy demand, thermal conditions and indoor air quality. Researchers have made substantial efforts to develop probabilistic models predict window open/closed state. However, hierarchical data structure heterogeneity in occupant behaviour been generally neglected previous modelling efforts. Multilevel provide an appropriate framework handle t...

Sustainability has been an absolute condition since the recent decades. To achieve sustainable building, one often struggle to reuse natural resources, minimize artificial energy, optimize natural energy, or else likewise. These efforts are in order to increase the building lifespan, as therefore construction waste can be eliminated. This paper is a part of PhD research work entitled:”Functiona...