This paper reports the initial results of an analysis of LIDAR data using statistical methods in an attempt to categorise residential and industrial buildings. Two study sites representing these two land uses are identified. 3D models for the study area are constructed using an integrated methodology utilising the building polygons from digital map data and a LIDAR Digital Surface Model (DSM). ...

Abstract Forest fires have affected the Wildland-Urban Interface (WUI) in last years with greater violence, causing damage to houses, industrial and commercial buildings. Businesses face same fire hazard as houses but a much potential due labour interruption, job losses, tax revenue impacts. In Canada, forest oilsand camps 2011 2016, disrupting oil gas production damages of billions Canadian Do...

Urban environment has undergone many transformations in order to function effectively as society changes. Since the Industrial Revolution, cities have provided extensive industrial areas, high-capacity transport, and a huge quantity of housing and offices. However, the development and expansion of urban areas since 18th century have brought about serious environmental problems as well as effici...

The cost of developing and operating control and automation systems is a crucial factor of productivity and competitiveness for a number of applications in manufacturing plants, quality control systems and robotics. This paper has been focused on practical use of technologies that provided significant cost reduction in operating automated systems for a variety of industrial applications and bui...

Along with the success of the second Spanish Industrial Revolution, it was established one of the most important ceramics factories in Europe specialized in high resistance and quality floor tile. The great Royal Families of the moment such as Amadeo de Saboya (king of Spain), Imperial Hohenzollern family, Romanov (Imperial Russian family) and general Prim, came around to its installations for ...

Natural and man-made hazards may affect industrial production sites by both direct losses (due to physical damage to assets and buildings) and indirect losses (production losses). Indirect losses, e.g. from production downtimes, can exceed direct losses multiple times. Thus, the vulnerability of industrial sectors to indirect losses is an important component of risk and its determination is an ...

Very large roof suctions on low-rise buildings occur for isolated buildings during both full-scale experiments and wind tunnel tests performed by many investigators. This paper investigates the sensitivity of these high suctions to the presence of multiple surrounding building configurations. This study uses as a basic building shape the Wind Engineering Research Field Laboratory building (WERF...