Three case studies are presented that assess the post-industrial development of industrial sites in Ukraine. The comparative analysis is based on (1) geographical location territory country (Ivano-Frankivsk, Poltava, Kharkiv), (2) functional transformation buildings (from initial functions to new ones), and (3) impact further urban environment (in planning, economic, environmental social securi...

An approach was developed for the automatic extraction of the rectangular and circular shaped buildings from high resolution satellite imagery using Hough transform. First, the candidate building patches are detected from the imagery using the binary Support Vector Machines (SVM) classification technique. In addition to original image bands, the bands NDVI (Normalized Difference Vegetation Inde...

Cultural architectural heritage is an important urban focus that forms the core of historical environment and houses buildings ancient settlements. The developments in technology Industrial Revolution brought about 18th century increased rapidly until beginning 20th as it took whole world under its influence, production with human power was transferred to machines, factories were started be bui...

energy conservation in buildings plays a vital role for sustainable development of societies and nations. although, newer buildings in developing nations are being constructed using energy conservation approach, existing buildings have higher energy demand to meet the desired comfort. excessive energy demand for cooling the built environment is a major problem over most of the arid climatic zon...

Intentional or accidental large-scale airborne toxic release (e.g. terrorist attacks or industrial accidents) can cause severe harm to nearby communities. Under these circumstances, taking shelter in buildings can be an effective emergency response strategy. Some examples where shelter-in-place was successful at preventing injuries and casualties have been documented [1, 2]. As public education...

The transition from nearly zero-emission building (NZEB) to positive energy (PEB) models is a new trend, justified by the need increase efforts address climate change targets and ambition for clean in construction sector. In line with this scenario, study assumes that PEB may be applied meet promote approaches urban regeneration plans. It focuses on functional of abandoned buildings, considerin...