Towards sustainable urban development: the social acceptability of high-rise buildings in a Ghanaian city [PDF]
, 2017 Over the years, many city managers, policy makers and academics alike have turned to high-rise buildings as pathway to sustainable urban development. However, the sustainability of such types of development in various geographical contexts, especially in
Agyemang, FSK, Anokye, PA, Silva, E
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Optimal and heuristic algorithms of planning of low-rise residential buildings [PDF]
AIP Conference Proceedings, 2017 The problem of the optimal layout of low-rise residential building is considered. Each apartment must be no less than the corresponding apartment from the proposed list. Also all requests must be made and excess of the total square over of the total square of apartment from the list must be minimized.
Kartak, V. M. +4 more
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Patterns of Urban Housing Shape Dengue Distribution in Singapore at Neighborhood and Country Scales [PDF]
, 2018 Dengue is the most important human arboviral disease in Singapore. We classified residential areas into low-rise and high-rise housing and investigated the influence of urban drainage on the distribution of dengue incidence and outdoor breeding at ...
Chong, Chee Seng +4 more
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Effects of Orientations, Aspect Ratios, Pavement Materials and Vegetation Elements on Thermal Stress inside Typical Urban Canyons [PDF]
, 2019 The analysis of local climate conditions to test artificial urban boundaries and related climate hazards through modelling tools should become a common practice to inform public authorities about the benefits of planning alternatives. Different finishing
Acero, J.A. +5 more
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URBAN SHANTY TOWN RECOGNITION BASED ON HIGH-RESOLUTION REMOTE SENSING IMAGES AND NATIONAL GEOGRAPHICAL MONITORING FEATURES – A CASE STUDY OF NANNING CITY [PDF]
The International Archives of the Photogrammetry, Remote Sensing and Spatial Information Sciences, 2018 Urban shanty towns are communities that has contiguous old and dilapidated houses with more than 2000 square meters built-up area or more than 50 households.
Y. He, Y. He, Y. He
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Effects of Urban Redevelopment on Surface Urban Heat Island
IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Applied Earth Observations and Remote Sensing, 2023 Urban expansion and urban redevelopment can affect the surface urban heat island (SUHI) phenomenon, a major topic in the study of urban climates. The effects of urban expansion on SUHI have been studied by numerous researchers, while the effects of urban
Dan Li, Shaofeng Yan, Guangzhao Chen
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Transfer Function Analysis: Modelling Residential Building Costs in New Zealand by Including the Influences of House Price and Work Volume [PDF]
, 2019 An accurate cost estimate not only plays a key role in project feasibility studies but also in achieving a final successful outcome. Conventionally, estimating cost typically relies on the experience of professionals and cost data from previous projects.
Liu, Zhansheng +3 more
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Numerical modelling of tsunami bore impact on low-rise residential buildings using SPH [PDF]
MATEC Web of Conferences, 2019 The resilience of buildings subject to tsunami bore impact can be improved by reducing tsunami-induced lateral hydrodynamic pressure by allowing part of the tsunami bore to pass through the buildings via openings and break-away walls.
Pringgana Gede, Adi Susila I Gede
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Low rise residential construction as the basis of building industry innovative development [PDF]
The Eurasian Scientific Journal, 2021 The article analyzes the current situation in Russian construction industry associated with the low innovation activity at all levels of construction sphere. Among the many reasons for the technological low innovative ability to technological change in construction industry, the authors outline reasons that might radically and positively influence the ...
Yuriy Losev, Konstantin Losev
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RESOURCE-SAVING TECHNOLOGIES IN THE CONSTRUCTION OF LOW-RISE RESIDENTIAL BUILDINGS
, 2022 This article discusses resource conservation in the construction of a low-rise residential building, the requirements for increasing the thermal protection of buildings and structures, the main consumers of energy. To save energy resources, a real reduction in energy consumption in individual residential buildings by increasing the level of thermal ...
Kakharov, Z.V., Islomov, A.S.
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