Agriculture has been a widespread activity in Kashan since a long time ago which has developed traditions and local skills. The said traditions and skills of earning living from farming has created a system which could be recognized as an agricultural heritage due to its values. This heritage possesses significant structural dimensions; as the form and feature of farms as well as their location...

there have been few longitudinal studies on sick building syndrome (sbs), which include headache, fatigue, and runny nose. we considered effect of sick building syndrome with illnesses like headache, fatigue and runny nose. thus, we designed a questionnaire and asked from male of dormitory residence. questions of the questionnaire were more about known symptoms of buildings (headache, fatigue, ...

Disastrous accidents (fire, chemical releases, earthquake, terrorist attacks, etc) in large public and residential buildings (discotheques, cafes, trade and industrial buildings) usually result in tragic consequences for people and environments. Such accidents have clearly showed that need for reliable systems supporting rescue operations is urgently appealing. Amongst all, giving appropriate i...

This paper focused on energy consumption and carbon emission for heating and cooling during a building’s operation stage, and examined the energy effects of using Cross Laminated Timber (CLT) as an alternative building material to reinforced concrete (RC) in China’s 31 key cities located in different climate zones. The authors designed two seven-story residential buildings, which were construct...

Defects in buildings harm the reputation of the construction industry and the amount of defects is believed to represent a loss in economy. The purpose is to study whether the buildability concept could serve as an efficient tool for reduction of defects. The project includes a literature study and the development of a technical-probabilistic perspective on the building process in which an opti...

A method for detection and description of rectilinear buildings from two or more aerial intensity images is described. The multiple images may be taken at different times under differing imaging conditions. Detection and description of buildings under these conditions is a difficult task. It is not possible to compute a dense 3-D map just by intensity correlation. Instead, we need to match feat...

while in the historic urban fabric of iran's cities, there are numerous traditional buildings that have stood up for more than one hundred years, today's buildings, in spite of advanced construction technologies, are not comparable with those traditional ones in terms of resiliency and durability. the sustainable vernacular strategies in design and construction of these traditional ho...