The growing capacity of intermittent energy sources causes more frequent system imbalances as well congestion. Demand flexibility is a valuable resource that can be used to resolve these. Unfortunately, also contribute congestion, particularly when balance the grid. Using solve grid problems without creating new ones requires well-designed financial incentives. Congestion management mechanisms ...

The paper describes the immediate need for Construction Process Re-engineering related to asset management. The paper uses the Building Envelope Life Cycle Asset Management (BELCAM) project to describe potential opportunities to improve the efficiency of maintaining constructed assets. BELCAM is a research project employing the following enabling technologies: maintenance management, life cycle...

According to Mine Safety and Health Administration (MSHA) data, during 2008-2012 in the U.S., there were, on average, 65 lost-time accidents per year during routine mining and maintenance activities involving remote-controlled continuous mining machines (CMMs). To address this problem, the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH) is currently investigating the implementatio...

This paper describes how the MTR Corporation of Hong Kong made use of Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Web 2.0 technology to computerize and streamline daily maintenance scheduling. The application is called the Engineering Works and Traffic Information Management System (ETMS), an intelligent workflow system for maintenance scheduling. ETMS oversees over a thousand workers for railway maintena...

this paper presents a new bridge management system (j-bms). it is integrated with a concrete bridge rating expert system that can be used to evaluate the serviceability of existing concrete bridges. the proposed j-bms not only evaluates the performance of bridges, but also offers a rehabilitation strategy based on a combination of maintenance cost minimization and quality maximization. in this ...

Utilising the digital capital of buildings, including building information modelling (BIM), is crucial for owners from perspective high-level maintenance. This case study concerns a company in which models are received as files complying with Industry Foundation Classes (IFC) standard. An analysis content IFC was performed to investigate whether files, were generated construction project using ...