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Showing 1 to 19 of 19 for “"Building Fabric"”.
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From Dockyard to Esplanade: Leveraging Industrial Heritage in Waterfront Redevelopment
… of preserving and incorporating industrial building fabric and related infrastructure, such as railways, docks and cranes, in redeveloped waterfront sites have yet to be fully understood by planners, preservationists, public administrators or developers. Case studies of Pittsburgh, …
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Fite Fuaite
… of the architectural re-purposing of a historic building ruin with the goal of maintaining and emphasizing its current character and state of decay. Simultaneously examining how new interventions can clearly achieve modern expectations of function and enclosure, while allowing the character of …
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Invisible Logic of Space Forming - Rethinking the Urban Growth in Yueyang, China
… changed by massive deconstructions of existing building fabric, as well as large scale new construction of imported western architecture, imitational architecture, and replicated real estate buildings, which were mostly driven by the search for economic benefits and recognition. They are …
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Authenticity and the perceptions of significance : examining Rust-en-Vrede in Durbanville, South Africa
… as a structure with little surviving building fabric from its earliest years, but a rich history of four diverse uses since circa 1808. It is located in Durbanville to the north of Cape Town, an area which has changed over the years from farmland to suburban/urban fabric. The building …
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The New Hope Experiment: An Investigation and Conservation Plan for the Antonin and Noémi Raymond Farm
… is the first investigation of the material fabric of the Raymond Farm Center for Living Arts and Design, a 1730s Quaker fieldstone farm house located in New Hope, PA that was synthesized with Japanese and Modernist elements by the architect/designer couple Antonin and Noémi Raymond in 1939. …
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A low cost, accurate instrument to measure the moisture content of building envelopes <i>in situ</i>
Buildings must be designed and built to achieve a healthy environment, low energy consumption and a predictable service life. In order to achieve these goals the effects of combined heat, air and moisture (HAM) transfer must be understood. A suitable moisture measurement technique is thus required. …
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The modelling and simulation of energy management control systems
… improving the integrity and applicability of building energy management systems(BEMS) simulation tools. The present work attempts to overcome certain inadequacies of contemporary simulation applications with respect to environmental control systems, by developing novel building control systems …
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Efficient management of environmental control within electrical substations for decarbonisation purposes
Decarbonisation of building operations is identified as a key component of national decarbonisation strategies. Reducing the energy demand of buildings is to be achieved through more stringent regulation for new construction and the retrofitting of existing stock. These are applicable to both …
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Greenwich parish church, memorialisation and community c. 1700 to the present day
… and processes which shaped these church buildings. What was forgotten, discarded or changed, where it can be detected, has provided further detailed information about how the churches were remodelled to create a new version of the parish church in each period. The historic presence of a …
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The Architectural Patronage of John, 2nd Duke of Montagu (1690-1749)
… societies, as well as studying all surviving building fabric. The thesis establishes the nature of Montagu’s domestic architectural output, addresses issues of patronage, the extent of his personal involvement in the design process, and the working methods to execute his vision. It analyses …
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Certified passive house: an effective control of radon in domestic construction
… comfort based on the principles of excellent building fabric and balanced mechanical heat recovery ventilation. Considering that the typical person in developed countries (such as Ireland and the United Kingdom) spends 90% of their time indoors, there are surprisingly few academic studies on …
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Unreinforced Masonry Precincts in New Zealand: History, Heritage, and Seismic Retrofit
… typology: unreinforced masonry (URM) buildings. The findings of the Canterbury Earthquakes Royal Commission (2012) highlighted a high proportion of deaths that occurred in public places, as a result of collapsed nineteenth- and twentieth-century URM buildings during the earthquakes. …
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Buildings in a hot climate with variable ventilation at night
During the summer, buildings in hot dry climates have the inevitable problem of cooling. These climates are characterized by hot summer days with cold nights, a high degree of solar radiation, low humidity and with a nearly fixed seasonal and daily pattern of wind. These natural phenomena could be …
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Il manuale del recupero dell'architettura storica dell'oasi di Figuig (Marocco): criticità e buone pratiche
… are the meanings and characters of the built fabric of the oasis, individuating traditions, local materials and construction techniques, focusing on the problems that occur more frequently to the technicians responsible for their conservation and thus giving guidelines on good practices giving …
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The Management of the conservation of Masjed-e Jame, Isfahan
… architectural decorations altogether in one building complex. The unique example of Iranian Islamic architecture was finally recognised as having international importance and therefore registered in 2012.The imperfections in Isfahan`s Masjed-e Jame nomination file may have delayed the …
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Heating, ventilating and air-conditioning system energy demand coupling with building loads for office buildings.
The UK building stock accounts for about half of all energy consumed in the UK. A large portion of the energy is consumed by nondomestic buildings. Offices and retail are the most energy intensive typologies within the nondomestic building sector, typically accounting for over 50% of the …
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The Impact Of Quality Management On The Thermal Performance Of Social Housing In The United Kingdom
… performance of the existing housing stock and building new energy-efficient dwellings. In 2017, housing associations were responsible for providing 16% of the new dwellings in the UK housing sector to a part of British society encompassing 73% of the lowest household incomes (lowest and second …
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Refurbishment of UK state school buildings: A strategy and framework for BIM-based Digital Twinning
… reduce carbon and greenhouse gas emissions from buildings, the UK government identified Building Information Modelling (BIM) as central to meeting these targets and it has been mandated in all public sector projects since April 2016. The increasing adoption of BIM across the UK’s AEC industry …
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A new approach to modelling process and building energy flows in manufacturing industry.
… for modelling energy flows between a factory building, its manufacturing process systems and the materials used. The need for such an approach arises from the gap in knowledge between the understanding of energy consumed by factory buildings and process systems in manufacturing industry. …