This study estimates and interprets the effects of macroeconomic and local housing market conditions on rents and occupancies in different segments of the multifamily rental housing market. The research uses longitudinal data from a nationally representative sample of apartments drawn from the American Housing Survey to determine whether apartments of different quality grades are differentially...

This paper proposes a Smartphone-Assisted Localization Algorithm (SALA) for the localization of Internet of Things (IoT) devices that are placed in indoor environments (e.g., smart home, smart office, smart mall, and smart factory). This SALA allows a smartphone to visually display the positions of IoT devices in indoor environments for the easy management of IoT devices, such as remote-control...

The authors evaluate indoor air quality in apartments built according to the South Korean Clean-Healthy House construction standard. The evaluation includes three types of residential units with differing gross floor areas. Indoor air was analyzed for formaldehyde (observed range 52.0–99.2 ug/m), acetaldehyde (14.6–61.0 ug/m), benzene (0.6–1.3 ug/m), toluene (161.8–371.0 ug/m) ethylbenzene (6.5...

In modern times, when climate change is getting more and more drastic and issues like CO2 emission and energy efficiency are becoming more and more important, it is necessary to find possible energy savings in every area. To achieve these possible savings also in the residential area it is essential to establish Intelligent Building Automation in residential buildings. Therefore, within the fra...

This paper presents a user study of Video Mediated Communication (VMC) involving six persons with mild intellectual disabilities. It took place at the “comHOME”, a full-scale model of an “apartment of the future”, showing innovative architectural and technical design with regard to the integration of VMC into the domestic environment. The design concept of the apartment is based on the creation...

INTRODUCTION AND OBJECTIVES Coal exploitation technology could have affected the deformation of ground under a housing estate in the Upper Silesia agglomeration. The 10-storey apartment building began to deviate from the vertical. These factors affected the housing conditions of inhabitants in the block of flats. From 1991-2001, coal-mine surveyors monitored the vertical deviation. The inhabita...

The prevention and control of legionellosis in water supply systems involves environmental comprehensive sampling. Our aim was to investigate occurrence of Legionella spp. in water supply systems in different administrative districts of Riga, and to find out if there exists a correlation between Legionella spp. positive cases and water source, type of sample, sampling point and temperature of h...

A. Outline of the Facts A 19-year old juvenile delinquent drank alcohol in large quantities during his part-time job at a club where male companions entertain women. He finished work and left his job in a drunken state, with memory loss, and went to an apartment complex after that. He defecated by squatting down in the parking lot, went up the stairs of the apartment, and took off the clothing ...

People’s tendency towards living in apartment houses is increasing in a densely populated country. However, some residents living in apartment houses are bothered by noise coming from the houses above. In order to reduce noise pollution, the communities are increasingly imposing a bylaw, including the limitation of floor impact sound, minimum thickness of floors, and floor soundproofing solutio...