Such requirements typically remedy existing conditions, considered in hindsight, inimical to safety, such as the lack of automatic fire sprinklers in certain places of assembly, as became a major concern after the Station nightclub fire in 2003 killed 100 people.Although such remedial enactments addre...
Some of the major problems that occur throughout the world are: • fading and hardening of plastics • rotting of timber window frames • fading, flaking, and deterioration of paints • debonding of jointing materials • cracking of roofing materials • softening and expansion of ...
(2) procurement of all major equipment, and (3) construction of the Project, and (ii) the cumulative payments made by the Developer under the EPC or EPC Equivalents to the counterparties to those respective agreements is equal to at least thirty (30) percent of the total costs of the EPC...
Documentation written in natural language and source code are two of the major artifacts of a software system. Tracking a variety of traceability links bet... X Chen,JC Grundy - IEEE/ACM International Conference on Automated Software Engineering 被引量: 56发表: 2011年 Comparison of Several Point...
classifiers that make use of graphs as representation formalism. The proposed methodology is based on a recent graph edit distance approximation. The major observation that motivates the use of this particular approximation is that the resulting distances crucially depend on the order of the nodes of...
On a global scale, the world’s energy system has experienced two major transitions and is now going through a third [2]. The first transition took place in the mid-19th century, mainly driven by the first industrial revolution, with the wide-scale utilization of steam engines as a symbol...
The ICC constantly works to improve the IBC, putting out new editions every few years. Especially after large natural disasters like hurricane Katrina, the ICC will make major changes. These changes are usually requested by insurance companies. Some insurance companies offer discounts for buildings th...
One major reason why mold air testing may not accurately reflect the mold situation in your home is that it often grows in hidden areas. Mold can thrive behind walls, under flooring, or in attics where air samples are not collected. In these cases, even if air testing shows no signs of...
However, the current data-driven approach has three major challenges: lack of monthly energy data, trade-offs between “white box” and “black box” models, and difficulties capturing building energy use patterns. First, data limitation has hindered the development of building energy benchmarking ...
Major raw material of gypsum is natural dihydrate gypsum (CaSO4·2H2O) and naturalanhydrite(CaSO4) (also named hard gypsum). Both are named as raw gypsum. Commonbuilding gypsumis hemi-hydrate (CaSO4·12H2O), decomposed from dihydrate and anhydrite when heated to 1500-1700ºC. So it is als...