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School Buildings for the 21st Century: Some Features of New School Buildings in Iceland [PDF]
Center for Educational Policy Studies Journal, 2011 The aim of this study is to identify features of change in the recent design of school buildings in Iceland, and how they might affect teaching practices.
Anna Kristín Sigurðardóttir +1 more
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Frost heave and thaw settlement of initially saturated-slurried and compacted-saturated materials [PDF]
E3S Web of Conferences, 2020 Soils and industrial waste in various geotechnical engineering applications are expected to experience freezing and thawing processes in various regions of the world where the winter and summer temperatures fluctuate between sub-zero and positive ambient
Tripathy Snehasis +4 more
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A Curvature Sensor Utilizing the Matteucci Effect in Amorphous Wire
Sensors, 2023 The study of wearable sensors for human disease monitoring has developed into an important research area due to its potential for personalized health care. Various sensor types have been proposed for assessing the range of joint movement in patients with
Sahar Alimohammadi +2 more
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Energy Efficient Optimization in a Typical School Building: Kurdistan Typical School Buildings as a Case Study [PDF]
Eurasian Journal of Science and Engineering, 2018 High energy consumption is one of the most serious problems globally faced today. The building sector is known to be the largest energy consumer. Energy performance in school buildings is very significant, for ascertaining the health and productivity of ...
Chro Hama Radha, Husein Ali Husein
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Energy retrofit and passive cooling: overheating and air quality in primary schools
Buildings & Cities, 2022 While building stock modelling has been used previously to investigate the space heating demand implications of national energy efficiency retrofitting, there are also implications for indoor overheating and air quality, particularly in schools, with ...
Duncan Grassie +5 more
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IET Generation, Transmission & Distribution, 2022 The integration of low‐carbon energy solutions into heating and cooling systems is a growing topic of interest towards the decarbonisation of the energy sector. The complexity of interactions between thermal‐hydraulic components in these systems requires
Ivan De la Cruz‐Loredo +2 more
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Buildings, 2023 Ventilation systems are one of the most effective strategies to reduce the risk of viral infection transmission in buildings. However, insufficient ventilation rates in crowded spaces, such as schools, would lead to high risks of infection transmission ...
Ayad Almaimani +4 more
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Buildings, 2023 Masonry buildings are generally vulnerable to seismic action, as evidenced extensively in past earthquakes. In order to improve their seismic performance, several modifications have been introduced, such as reinforcing or confining the masonry.
Rohit Kumar Adhikari +2 more
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Model-Based Control Strategies to Enhance Energy Flexibility in Electrically Heated School Buildings
Buildings, 2022 This paper presents a general methodology to model and activate the energy flexibility of electrically heated school buildings. The proposed methodology is based on the use of archetypes of resistance–capacitance thermal networks for representative ...
Navid Morovat +3 more
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Evaluating the perception of thermal environment in naturally ventilated schools in a warm and humid climate in Nigeria [PDF]
, 2021 Field study was conducted in naturally ventilated primary school buildings in a warm and humid environment in Imo State, Nigeria to determine the thermal comfort perception of young children (aged 7–12 years) and to understand the thermal conditions in ...
Ji, Y, Munonye, CC
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