Buildings represent a major part of the world energy requirement. The simulation of combined heat, air and moisture (HAM) and pollutant transfer in this context is important to predict the indoor air quality (IAQ), along with the thermal comfort inside the buildings. Moreover, it is important to have appropriate levels of indoor humidity along with the room temperature as movement of water vapo...

The cartographic generalization prepares and arranges the contents of a map for a given scale and application in order to improve its comprehensibility. In recent years, the data sets for map-like presentations in 3D has become widespread available. Concerning urban areas, the most important objects therein are buildings. Whereas quiet a number of generalization algorithms for 3D data have been...

In the recent years, there has been an increasing academic and industrial interest for analyzing the electrical consumption of commercial buildings. Whilst having similarities with the Non Intrusive Load Monitoring (NILM) tasks for residential buildings, the nature of the signals that are collected from large commercial buildings introduces additional difficulties to the NILM research causing e...

Due to the environmental and economical processes of the world the architectural thinking is started to change radically in the last decades. The danger of the global warming and the climate change motivated us to revalue our activity and its impacts. The concept of sustainability came into being and its role became more and more important in the architecture. It isn‟t visible that the sustaina...

the strategies to reduce the consumption of non-renewable energies in buildings are becoming increasingly important. in the meantime, nature-inspired approaches have emerged as a new strategy to achieve thermal comfort in the interiors. however, the use of these approaches in architecture and buildings requires a proper understanding regarding the features of ecosystems. although acquiring this...

$150 billion/yr. in potential US energy savings, enhanced competitiveness, and reduced CO2 emissions depend on swiftly adopting Diagnostic Benchmarking. Expected savings consist mostly of no-cost Operating and Maintenance (“O&M”) improvements in existing buildings. Early energy audits required that O&M be improved before considering retrofits. But audits didn’t effectively identify O&M opportun...

In 2007, Kaiser Permanente's (KP) Southern California Region designed and implemented a systematic in-reach program, the Proactive Office Encounter (POE), to address the growing needs of its three million patients for preventive care and management of chronic disease. The program sought staff from both primary and specialty care departments to proactively identify gaps in care and to assist phy...

Serviceability of buildings is affected by excessive acceleration experienced at the top floors in wind storms that may cause discomfort to the occupants. To ensure functional performance of tall buildings it is important to keep the frequency of objectionable motion levels below the discomfort threshold. This paper addresses a new approach that facilitates mitigation of wind induced motion of ...

Buildings are the most important objects in urban areas. Thus, building detection using photogrammetry and remote sensing data as well as 3D model of buildings are very useful for many applications such as mobile navigation, tourism, and disaster management. In this paper, an approach has been proposed for detecting buildings by LiDAR data and aerial images, as well as reconstructing 3D model o...