Noun1.building society- British equivalent of United States savings and loan association savings and loan,savings and loan association- a thrift institution that is required by law to make a certain percentage of its loans as home mortgages ...
Buildings account for at least 40% of total energy consumption in the world. Considering the construction process and implementation timeframe, estimates attribute 42% of total water consumption and 50% of total raw material consumption in the world to buildings. Moreover, construction activities acco...
JohannesBrozovsky, ...NikiGaitani, inSustainable Cities and Society, 2021 4.9Other concepts InSharing Cities, the significant benefits of smart city concepts and solutions are demonstrated by focusing on the needs of Low Energy Neighbourhoods. Specifically, retrofitting buildings, installing integratedene...
In order to develop a more sustainable society, the wider public will need to increase engagement in pro-environmental behaviors. Psychological research on... David,W–L.,Wu,... - 《Plos One》 被引量: 37发表: 2013年 Physical activity and the rejuvenation of Connswater (PARC study): protoc...
To account for the interdependence of the data, McNemar’s test was used for comparisons where possible. Nevertheless, the results should be interpreted cautiously. Results This section presents the results in two parts. First, findings concerning the question as to how social and cognitive openness...
Small variations, on the other hand, account for the scattering of X-rays by unresolvable features with size d, in the regime where \(\lambda /d \ll 1\). Lynch et al.22 proposed a redefinition of the refractive index to consider both the resolvable and non-resolvable interactions with ...
the presentation of a social entrepreneur's personality influences an organization's reputation. The findings show that social enterprises enjoy better stakeholder perceptions if the social entrepreneur's presentation focuses on society-oriented character traits rather than to business-oriented character ...
which is an intra-city and inter-city position metric, respectively.City_IDis a six-digit code that is unique to each Chinese city (e.g., 110100 for Beijing) and is unified by taking into account the geographic context, socioeconomic development, and administrative affiliation of a specific ...
ChenyangBi,John C.Little, inSustainable Cities and Society, 2022 2.2Assessment frameworks at the building scale Buildings serve many purposes that are associated with building systems. For example, building envelope systems protect occupants from outdoor weather; water and energysystems supportbasicbuildi...
The energy consumption of a building due to heat transfer through its envelope was observed to account for 70–80% of the total building energy consumption (Fan, 2008). Therefore, zero-energy buildings should use highly insulated building envelopes and increase building airtightness to reduce the ...