The need of building occupants for ventilation has been recognized many centuries ago; however, since the early 1970s, ventilation systems for buildings and transport systems have considerably evolved. This was invigorated by researchers who demonstrated the requirements for buildings to provide comfort and good air quality indoors (e.g., Fanger, 1972; Fanger and Christensen, 1986; Fanger, 1988...

While abundant research has been devoted to investigate successful learning prospects of 3D Virtual Learning Environments (VLEs), sparse research explores users’ satisfaction from buildings used within these 3DVLEs. No research depicts users’ contentment levels, preferences or requirements from 3D educational buildings’ different constructional and architectural design elements. This paper is p...

The purpose of this paper is to review computational methods in structure-soil-structure interaction. As a result of globalization, buildings are located close to each other. This issue happens especially in big cities, making the study of structure-soil-structure interaction as an essential part of structural design process. The effect of soil medium, on which the building structure stands, es...

there are several courtyards of historical buildings in iran that have changed their original function because of reuse and have adopted for physical adjustments of the renovation projects. usually they are covered by lightweight roofsand have been used as religious spaces, praying or audience halls, restaurants, exhibitions rooms, etc. unfortunately most of these lightweight roofs have inappro...

This paper is the second output of a project that examines embodied greenhouse gas emissions (‘embodied carbon’) from use concrete in buildings. In current absence either regulation or widespread industry practice quantified carbon assessment, it seems likely messaging will play powerful role influencing designers’ perceptions and decisions. Using UK as case study, this considers messages about...

This paper refers to the present state of historical buildings situated in the Karviná and Ostrava region and also to the problems of these buildings caused first of all by surface vibrations generated by mining-induced seismicity in the Karviná region and by technical seismicity caused by industrial activities and transportation in the Ostrava region. Designing of earthquake-resistant structur...

Title of dissertation: STORAGE-CENTRIC WIRELESS SENSOR NETWORKS FOR SMART BUILDINGS Baobing Wang, Doctor of Philosophy, 2013 Dissertation directed by: Professor John S. Baras Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering In the first part of the dissertation, we propose a model-based systems design framework, called WSNDesign, to facilitate the design and implementation of wireless sensor n...