As the global community was wrestling with climate change issues on the international stage at the Copenhagen conference, research published by the Carbon Trust suggests that CO_2 emissions from UK non-domestic buildings could be reduced by 35% by 2020, leading to savings of 4.5bn. Longer term...
During 1999 the CEN standards for reaction to fire is expected to go through the final CEN voting procedure as well. Once the standards are put into force by the member states some countries like Sweden may start to use them for classification!Bjorn Sundstrom...
Soil for use as a building material, is considered to include all naturally occurring loose or soft deposit overlying the solid bedrock crust, which is produced by the physical and chemical disintegration of rocks (weathering), and which may or may not contain organic matter. ...
There are quite a few team-building activities for kids that use Hula-Hoops. In this game, your students stand in a circle and raise their arms with only their index fingers extended. Place a Hula-Hoop so that it rests on the tips of the children’s fingers. Tell the students they mu...
Use the Majestic Neighbourhood Checker tool to find out the IP address for any given domain. Referring Subnet This is an abbreviation for "Referring C-subnets". In the Majestic system, multiple counts calculated links, de-duplicating links across pages; (which we refer to as backlink count...
Use the Majestic Neighbourhood Checker tool to find out the IP address for any given domain. Referring Subnet This is an abbreviation for "Referring C-subnets". In the Majestic system, multiple counts calculated links, de-duplicating links across pages; (which we refer to as backlink count...
Chapter 5, Building Performance Simulation Tools, provides an overview of the use of building performance simulation (BPS) along the whole building process, illustrating basic principles, metrics, applications and main software tools. Early-stage simulation, systems sizing, life cycle analysis, code com...
Figure3shows the geographical and institutional details of the global contributions to this occupant behavior database. Köppen-Geiger climate classification has been widely used in the smart building area by researchers around the world16,17,18. Since the datasets19were contributed by researchers arou...
Energy production and use level definitions Energy production and useDefinition Primary energy Energy deriving from a source present in nature and not from transformation or conversion of any other form of energy. This classification includes both renewable energy sources (such as solar, wind, hydro,...
the load per unit area of the same type buildings of different sizes has a certain difference, so it needs to be considered in building classification. In addition, window-wall ratio refers to the ratio of window area to outer wall surface area, and the greater its value the greater the ...