Our traditional way of organising issues this journal is to go for a combination resonance and difference. We usually try have set papers that something in common with each other...

in some climates, massive buildings made of stone, masonry, concrete, earth and … can be utilized as one of the simplest and most effective ways of reducing building heating and cooling loads. very often such savings could be achieved in the design stage of the building and with a relatively low-cost. such declines in building envelope heat losses combined with optimized material configuration ...

This paper will describe the ongoing research work which is aimed at producing a cost forecasting and planning model most representative of the building in Malaysia. Due to the limitation of data and time, the model is targeted for a particular type of building. Its techniques can however be expanded to other types of buildings. Data was collected from the two-storey residential building projec...

modeling of relationship between ventilation rate of buildings and sick building syndrome symptoms hosseinpoor s , gholamiborujeni f *, mohammadian y received: 22 aug, 2013 accepted: 23 oct , 2013 abstract background & aims: indoor air pollution with microbilal, chemical and physical pollutants lead to sick building syndrome (sbs). suitable ventilation of buildings, is one of the best methods t...