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Applied Sciences, 2022 A significant portion of Europe’s historical buildings have significant potential for energy efficiency. Social policy is typically opposed to energy retrofits because it is concerned about damaging historical or cultural sites.
Gabriele Battista +3 more
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The Effect of Natural Materials-Based Climate Adaptation Techniques on Thermal Comfort in the Vernacular Architecture of Sistan, Iran [PDF]
Iranian Journal of Archaeological Studies, 2023 Adjusting indoor environment so as to provide thermal comfort is a matter of utmost importance in architecture. Despite the remarkable achievements so far made, the main challenge is to provide thermal comfort in buildings through minimum use of fossil ...
Mohammad Ali Sargazi
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Substitution of Building Components in Historic Buildings [PDF]
Sustainability, 2021 Historic buildings that have survived to the present day have been subject to maintenance, repair, and overhaul. Repair work is being carried out so that it can be enjoyed by future generations. However, there have been changes in the construction technology: some construction products have been discontinued and replaced with others of different ...
Anna Sobotka +2 more
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Buildings, 2022 Taking the atrium reconstruction project of the Wuhan Kaidi No. 1 office building as an example, this paper expounds on the closed atrium reconstruction project’s unique design methods.
Ziwei Li +5 more
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Evaluation and Optimization of Daylighting in Heritage Buildings: A Case-Study at High Latitudes
Buildings, 2022 Transforming historical listed buildings into workplaces is a serious challenge, particularly for buildings with relatively small windows in the façades, which determine scarce daylighting indoors.
Farimah Piraei +2 more
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A RESEARCH ON DIGITAL TECHNOLOGY’S APPLICATION IN PRESERVATION PLANNING OF WENMING HISTORICAL AND CULTURAL BLOCK IN KUNMING [PDF]
The International Archives of the Photogrammetry, Remote Sensing and Spatial Information Sciences, 2013 The preservation of traditional settlements plays an indispensable part in the field of heritage preservation. The traditional settlements, definitely with cumulative developmental layers, vary in elements and involving numerous stakeholders; therefore,
X. Huo, Y. Liu, G. Zhang, H. Yang
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Building information modelling for historical building Historic Jeddah - Saudi Arabia [PDF]
2015 Digital Heritage, 2015 The topic of how the municipality of Jeddah can document, produce and preserve complete engineering information and drawings for historical buildings is one of the most important issues facing the Historic Jeddah district in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.
Ahmad Baik, Jan Boehm 0001
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A Pre-historic Building at Salamis [PDF]
The Journal of Hellenic Studies, 1883 The ancient building which I propose to describe, one of the most interesting of its kind in Cyprus and the East, has been casually mentioned by A. P. di Cesnola (Salaminia, p. 2, 1882) as a wall; ‘perhaps a part of the ancient wall bounding the interior area of the harbour :’ an architectural, topographical, and geological impossibility. By R. H. Lang
Cobham, Claude Delaval +1 more
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Research on the evaluation of historical building values based on historic building mapping
Applied Mathematics and Nonlinear Sciences, 2022 Abstract Historic buildings carry the history of human civilisation, and their conservation and utilisation are widely valued by countries around the world. At present, the lack of qualitative and quantitative assessment and evaluation methods for the preservation status and attachment value of historic buildings poses a challenge to ...
Juan Wu, Hongjian Lin, Saizhi Yuxi
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Investigation of Building Materials Belonging to the Ruins of the Tsogt Palace in Mongolia
Heritage, 2021 This work focuses on the characterisation of the heritage building materials (plasters, mortars, bricks and glazed tiles) of the Tsogt Palace’s ruins located in the Bulgan Province of Mongolia.
Alessandro Sardella +4 more
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