aTrademark of BSR (USA) Limited signals over the existing house wiring. The user pushes the desired key on a Command Console (Fig . 1) which is plugged into any ordinary domestic electrical outlet . The resulting coded signal is recognized by a selected module (Fig . 1) plugged into another ordinary outlet . (That other outlet may be in the next room, or it may be remotely located in the same h...

Due to the limited land available, and increasingly expensive landed house prices, many new developers are developing vertical housing, one of which is apartments. An apartment a building that can be used as residence by dividing it into several rooms or groups separated partition (boundary). Apartments also most popular types especially among residents DKI Jakarta. Apartment developments built...

I had prepared a long paper to present, but after yesterday's discussions, it was evident that there is so much misunderstanding about the basic facts that I shall deviate from my prepared text and present a historical background to the so-called "Moscow" situation to put the problems in context and in perspective as to what actually occurred. The United States started relations with the Soviet...

Residential buildings consume significant amounts of energy and produce large amount of emissions and waste. However, there is a substantial potential for energy savings in this sector which needs to be evaluated over the life cycle of residential buildings. Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) methodology has been employed to study the primary energy uses and associated environmental impacts of differe...