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Showing 1 to 20 of 102 for “"Building Performance"”.
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Spatial Computing for Building Performance and Design
… design framework to investigate how building performance from an environmental and user perspective relates to spatial design. The dissertation surveys existing computational methodologies for design automation and identifies new opportunities and value propositions for architectural …
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Beyond regulated energy: delivering long-term building performance
… of sustainable built environments and long-term building performance. It is argued that in the context of the drive to deliver sustainable built environments, the current focus on near-term regulated energy and climate change mitigation may not deliver long-term building performance and could …
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Probabilistic Resilience Quantification and Visualization Building Performance to Hurricane Wind Speeds
… for quantification of resilience of different building types against different categories of hurricane is proposed. The formulation presented in this dissertation for resilience quantification is based on several parameters such as structural loss ratios and conditional probabilities of …
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Characterisation of occupancy in building performance simulation for non-residential buildings
Building performance simulation (BPS) is a powerful tool for understanding energy consumption in buildings. Occupant behaviour in general, and occupancy in particular, has been identified as an important factor contributing to the gap between building performance simulation results and actual …
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Data-driven building performance evaluation at different scales. Innovative metrics and methodological insights
L'abstract è presente nell'allegato / the abstract is in the attachment
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Building Performance - Methods for Improved Prediction and Verification of Energy Use and Indoor Climate
… the use of energy must be reduced. Thus, the building industry is facing a great challenge. Not only energy efficiency but also sustainability is desirable in the building stock. This thesis presents and suggests methods that can be used to improve prediction and verification of building …
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Analysis of residential building performance in tornadoes as a function of building and hazard characteristics
Tornadoes damage and destroy many thousands of buildings per year in the United States leading to significant economic losses and long-lasting disruption to communities. In an effort to better understand the relationship between tornado wind speeds and resulting damage, multiple data sources from …
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An occupant-centric assessment of the building performance gap in low utilisation, higher education facilities
… literature advocates that the occupants of buildings are the real consumers ofenergy, not the buildings. While this is a helpful philosophy for design and retrofit analysis, it is not entirely accommodating of operational building energy demand. An optimistic amendment would suggest that it …
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[a]sorted selection : improving building performance and diversity using a new form of interactive evolutionary algorithm
… especially in the early stages of design. As buildings become more complex, the use of optimization in design becomes more relevant. Still, there is a gap between the way architects work and the role optimization plays in the design process. This work presents a new methodology, IDEA …
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Equity and Affordability Impacts of Building Performance Standards: A Case Study of New York City’s Local Law 97
Building operations account for more than two-thirds of emissions in most U.S. cities. To reduce emissions from the building sector, cities and states are adopting Building Performance Standards. These laws require large buildings to comply with increasingly stringent emissions or energy limits, or …
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Towards Climate Resilient and Energy Efficient Buildings: A Comparative Study on Energy Related Components, Adaptation Strategies, and Whole Building Performance
L'abstract è presente nell'allegato / the abstract is in the attachment
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Assurance of Indoor Environmental Quality through Building Diagnostics at Schematic Design
… to avoid health problems caused by deficient building performance may become preferable to reactive methods. Benefits from preventive actions have been suggested for late building design phases, construction, and building operations, however, few data are available that demonstrate the …
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Environmental sustainability assessment methods for buildings in South Africa
… role in the environmental management of buildings. The activities of the construction industry are driven by economic forces, so using market mechanisms is a logical strategy to pursue the objectives of sustainable construction2 . Perhaps the question is not whether economic mechanisms …
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Integration of geospatial and environmental data to support building renovation
Building renovation can present more complexities compared to constructing new buildings due to the necessity of dealing with existing conditions. This is not only limited to the building as-is condition but also encompasses the urban, environmental, and societal context of the building. A key goal …
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A Decision-Support Framework for the Design and Application of Radiant Cooling Systems
… in the early stages of design to maximize the building performance through systems integration and minimize redesign as part of the design process. RC systems have several special demands and related variables. Architects, HVAC system engineers, and decision-makers have to understand these …
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Emergence in the self-organizing city : a multi-functional intervention
… elements which make up the fabric of a city like buildings, roads, inhabitants, cars etc. Lower-level activities refer to the interaction between these components, and define the consequential feedback into the city as a whole. An understanding of these aspects of emergence allows for the …
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Viability of naturally ventilated buildings in the UK under predicted future summer climates
… for overheating of naturally ventilated office buildings, many of which already fail to perform under current heatwave conditions. This thesis addresses the summer performance of such buildings under current and future climates by means of building performance simulation. Current industry …
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Regionalism and the design of low-rise building envelope systems
… use of a three-pronged approach to evaluating building envelopes for low-rise affordable housing in urban contexts: construction cost estimating, building performance modeling, and cradle to grave life cycle assessment. Two climate regions were investigated: hot-humid and hot-dry, in two large …
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Champs-Multizone and Virtual Building for Integrated Building Systems Design and Performance Evaluation
… develop an integrated framework that facilitates performance-based multi-stage design of buildings and comparison between the performance predicted at the design stage and that monitored at operation stage. Such an integrated framework would not only enable design optimization, but also enable …
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