Current characteristics of idle residential building spaces in traditional villages in Beijing, China [PDF]
Scientific ReportsWith the accelerated development of urbanization, many village populations have flowed into cities, intensifying the “hollowing out” of villages, leading directly to the idleness and abandonment of residential building spaces.
Qiang Zhou, Wen Ouyang
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Neutral Boundary Layer Urban Dispersion in Scaled Uniform and Nonuniform Residential Building Arrays. [PDF]
Boundary Layer MeteorolRetter J +5 more
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Home Energy Upgrades as a Pathway to Home Decarbonization in the US: A Literature Review
Energies, 2022 This work aims to characterize how home energy upgrade projects and programs in the US have evolved over the past decade. It also identifies what changes are needed to drive expansion of the US energy retrofit market in such a way that addresses carbon ...
Brennan D. Less +2 more
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Development of Advanced Smart Ventilation Controls for Residential Applications
Energies, 2021 This study examined the use of zoned ventilation systems using a coupled CONTAM/EnergyPlus model for new California dwellings. Several smart control strategies were developed with a target of halving ventilation-related energy use, largely through ...
Iain Walker +3 more
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International Journal for Computational Civil and Structural Engineering, 2022 Despite a fairly long period of research and a significant number of publications around the world on the problem of the complex resistance of reinforced concrete, the existing calculation models still remain far from perfect.
Vladimir Travush +3 more
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WELL Building: Criteria for Residential Buildings in a Developing Country [PDF]
Journal of Engineering, Project, and Production Management, 2023 Health, well-being, and productivity are the main notions for WELL buildings. Although the WELL building standard does exist to follow when designing a building, the concepts and elements might differ between developed and developing counties and types ...
Salma Husna Zamani +2 more
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Analysis of heating behaviour based on occupancy patterns in residential building with radiant floor heating system [PDF]
E3S Web of Conferences, 2023 To achieve a carbon-neutrality, a reduction of heating energy consumption in residential building should be achieved. Although, lots of building energy policies were implemented to reduce heating energy consumption, it still accounts the largest share of
Shim Jisoo, Song Doo-sam
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Wildfire Smoke Adjustment Factors for Low-Cost and Professional PM2.5 Monitors with Optical Sensors
Sensors, 2020 Air quality monitors using low-cost optical PM2.5 sensors can track the dispersion of wildfire smoke; but quantitative hazard assessment requires a smoke-specific adjustment factor (AF).
William W. Delp, Brett C. Singer
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Proposed Paradigms for Developing the Building Laws and Legislations of Residential Architecture in Aden City - South Yemen [PDF]
JES: Journal of Engineering Sciences, 2020 Since 1990 to date, Aden City has witnessed several changes which have their negative repercussions on the situation of building in residential areas. During that period several building decisions and laws have been made. Some of these decisions and laws
Mamdouh Ali Yousef +2 more
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New type of residential building configuration [PDF]
Facta Universitatis. Series: Architecture and Civil Engineering, 2016 A good typology, corresponding to the contemporary requirements of housing can contribute to better quality solutions in this field. Theoretical considerations concerning building configuration have defined the types of residential buildings ...
Todorovic Mirko
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