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Frequent and intense human-bat interactions occur in buildings of rural Kenya.
PLoS Neglected Tropical DiseasesSimultaneous use of domestic spaces by humans and wildlife is little understood, despite global ubiquity, and can create an interface for human exposure to wildlife pathogens.
Reilly T Jackson +5 more
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Modelling a whole building stock: domestic, non-domestic and mixed use [PDF]
Building Research & Information, 2017 Work on energy use in buildings – in university research, professional practice and government – has tended to draw a broad distinction between ‘the domestic stock’ and ‘the non-domestic stock’. A further tendency has been to focus attention on types of non-domestic buildings devoted to single uses (e.g. offices, shops or hospitals). This paper reports
Stephen Evans +2 more
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Minimization of heat gains in buildings: The case of domestic buildings in Cape Coast Metropolis – Ghana [PDF]
International Journal of Development and Sustainability, 2014 This research aims at ascertaining appropriate construction designs and techniques that could be adopted to minimize excessive heat gains in buildings. Random sampling technique was used for selecting hundred (100) domestic buildings in each of the three
Samuel Kwame Ansah
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Impact of the circulation system on domestic hot water consumption
E3S Web of Conferences, 2017 The article presents the results of researches for domestic hot water in two, the same buildings – students dormitories. There was not working circulation system in one of the objects.
Polarczyk Iwona, Fijewski Michał
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Monthly model of hot water consumption [PDF]
E3S Web of Conferences, 2019 The article presents a statistical analysis of the monthly consumption of hot water in apartment buildings. On this basis, a monthly model of hot water consumption in multi-family buildings was proposed.
Chmielewska Agnieszka
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Energy and Water Monitoring for a Large Social Housing Intervention in Northern Italy
Frontiers in Energy Research, 2019 In recent years, the awareness of the problem of the performance gap and rebound effect extends the interest in assessing the real operation of buildings, in assessing how buildings match users' needs once they are occupied, and in understanding how ...
Marco Filippi, Elisa Sirombo
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Proposal of a PCM Underfloor Heating System Using a Web Construction Method
International Journal of Polymer Science, 2017 Apartment buildings in Korea have adopted underfloor heating systems using web construction methods based on concrete and hot water systems. However, since such systems consume significant amounts of energy for heating owing to their low thermal storage ...
Sanghoon Baek, Jin Chul Park
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Modernisation of Public Buildings in Polish Towns and the Concept of Sustainable Building
Quaestiones Geographicae, 2014 This article aims to identify the scale of energy efficiency improvements in public buildings in Polish towns as representative of sustainable building. The study area is investigated from the perspective of challenges arising from the current policy in ...
Chodkowska-Miszczuk Justyna +1 more
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BARRIER DESIGN STRATEGIES TO CONTROL NOISE INGRESS INTO DOMESTIC BUILDINGS
Dimensi: Journal of Architecture and Built Environment, 2003 Noise source for buildings adjacent to streets is traffic-generated predominantly. Where people are mostly spend their time indoors, it is important for buildings to have screening or blocking to control noise intrusion into living spaces.
Christina E. Mediastika
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Revue Archéologique de l’Est, 2020 A small rural establishment from the First Iron Age, dated through ceramic analysis to the Hallstatt C2/D1, was excavated in 2015 at Weyersheim (Bas-Rhin) in the context of the extension of a gravel pit (16,200 m²).
Estelle RAULT +7 more
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