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Showing 1 to 20 of 41 for “"BUILDING REGULATIONS"”.
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Violations of land use and building regulations: evidence from a case study in Bangalore, India
Land use and building controls inherited from colonial tradition guide the implementation of urban development plans in developing countries. Current planning research argues that regulatory structures like land use, zoning, and building regulations are inappropriate given existing socio-economic, …
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Impact of planning and building regulations on affordable housing development by the private sector in South Africa
… existing literary evidence that planning and building regulations affect the supply of housing and research in this area usually takes a very descriptive route that lacks an explicit theoretical framework that can guide stakeholders for better research outcomes. The rationale is based on the …
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Climate Change and its Potential Impacts on Construction in Ireland: The Argument for Mitigation and Adaptation
… their implications for current and future Building Regulations. Current and projected future wind-driven rain values were calculated. The likely outcomes were found to be greater building deterioration, increased maintenance requirements and a threat to occupant health. The implications of …
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INFRAME - design and construction of a sequentially erected elastic timber gridshell
… The design was certified compliant with the building regulations in the jurisdiction where it was constructed. The construction of the INFRAME pavilion brings a few insights towards the potential adaptation of bending-active systems to the building codes and presents a new application of …
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Total quality environmental management (TQEM) framework towards sustainability (UK novated D&B principal contractors)
… with an increasing number of environmental building regulations. Apart from the purely practical implications of compliance, there is a perception of a gap emerging from not joining up the construction cycle with management-based solutions for performance development, especially in newer …
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Wastewater Regulation: a Groundwater Protection Strategy For Christian County, Missouri
… its ideal location for work and recreation, no building regulations and low property taxes. With unregulated growth, groundwater contamination can result from inadequately installed septic systems. The amount of contamination is partly reflected by a Total Coliform water study conducted …
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Understanding Housing Supply under Stringent Energy-efficiency Regulations
… as a Green Community. This appendix to the base building code adds more stringent energy-efficiency requirements, such as including the HERS Index rating system in every new residential construction. Despite their obvious environmental benefits, more stringent energy-efficiency building …
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Decarbonising the English residential sector: modelling policies, technologies and behaviour within a heterogeneous building stock
… into the underlying issues of decarbonisation. Building regulations, assessments and certification standards are critical for motivating and driving innovation towards decarbonising the building stock. Many existing building performance and evaluation tools are shown to be ineffective and …
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Evaluation of the effect of urbanization on urban thermal behaviour using urban heat island indicators: the case of the CBD of Accra.
… of development control, non-adherence to building regulations; inadequacies in the existing building regulations; architects and building designers lacking the motivation for sustainable design etc. To adequately address the identified challenges and cushion the adverse effects of urban …
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Hydrological disasters : designing to shelter in place
… are more destructive, but also because of overbuilding and high housing density located within high risk areas. First, using several literature sources, this thesis analyzes various aspects of natural disaster response and education. This paper achieves its goal to increase awareness about the …
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Industrializing housing through factory production : future or fantasy?
… What would be a viable factory-based home building strategy for the Mid-Atlantic region of the U.S.? The thesis begins with research on the history and early ethos of the factory-built housing industry in conjunction with an analysis of the factory-built housing industry's current image, …
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The efficient collection and long term storage of solar energy in the UK, using air as the working fluid
… The level of insulation specified in the 1978 Building Regulations is found to be inadequate for solar heating with long and short term storage, because it is more economic to add more insulation than to install solar heating. While investigating the interseasonal storage of solar energy in …
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Urban Law and Housing Policy in Zambia
… and Country Planning Act and the Public Health (Building) Regulations. The Chapter also evaluates the building standards as prescribed by the building regulations in terms of their suitability in the context of the Zambian situation. Chapter Five: The Chapter discusses the legal framework for the …
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Accessible football stadia in England : what represents meaningful provision for wheelchair users and how can it be achieved?
… the design process, the legislation, the building regulations, the guidance and how they meet the needs of wheelchair users; 2.Examine the inclusivity of spectator sports and appraise the design guidance for stadia that can facilitate access to them; 3.Investigate the everyday user …
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Understanding the spatial dynamics of informal settlements: A spatial analysis case study of Oohambo DHA Nehale in the city of Windhoek
… used to determine the suitability of land for building residential purposes. Results show that the number of dwellings in Oohambo Dha Nehale increased from 465 in 2005 to 2,496 in 2011 as did its population, which grew from 1,628 to 8,729 inhabitants. During the same period, the area increased …
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Improved structural, embodied carbon and cost efficiency of single storey industrial buildings using sandwich panels
Recent changes to the Building Regulations aimed at improving energy efficiency have resulted in significant increases in the amount of insulation incorporated into building envelopes. As a consequence, composite (sandwich) panels have become deeper, considerably improving their structural …
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Calculation of smoke ventilation in building fires including atriums
… of smoke, heat and toxic gases are produced in a building fire. Due to air entrainment into the fire plume, an increasing volume of smoke is generated and spreads throughout the upper layer. The smoke forms a layer which deepens, filling the compartment while simultaneously reducing the …
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Building effectiveness communication ratios (BECs): an integrated ‘life-cycle’ methodology for mitigating energy-use in buildings
Current building regulations are generally prescriptive in nature. It is widely accepted in Europe that this form of building regulation is stifling technological innovation and leading to inadequate energy efficiency in the building stock. This has increased the motivation to move design practices …
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Design Intent compared with Performance in Practice: Residential Heat Networks with Combined Heat and Power
… technologies to reduce CO2 emissions below the Building Regulations baseline. Such polices have consequently formed a new aspect of the planning appraisal process, where the assessment of energy, CO2 and technology is now a material consideration of planning approval. Developers must submit an …
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Craft-inclusive Construction: Design Strategies for Thin-tile Vaulting
… tools can be a fertile space in which situated building knowledge, represented in crafts, act in dialogue with methods of construction. This research examines this possibility in thin-tile vaulting - a Mediterranean ceiling-craft technique that employs less material, but more skill, than the …
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