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Showing 1 to 20 of 57 for “"Building Technology"”.
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Exploring Earth-Building Technology for Liberia.
<p>This paper discusses earth as a building material and the extent to which earth building technology has evolved over the years. In particular it addresses the adobe, compressed and rammed earth techniques of earth building as suitable techniques for Liberia consumption. In addition, the paper …
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Design Approach for Building Technology with Indigenous Communities
… The motivation behind this study is to make technology less exclusive, and more accessible to a diverse population.
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Using Semantic Web Technologies to Recommend Sustainable Building Technology Products
… led to an increase in the uptake of sustainable building technology products and photovoltaic (PV) systems technology. However, despite the wide adoption of PV globally as a substitute to the grid, it faces information-related challenges that hinder its adoption. The enormous volumes of …
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Bamboo construction as a sustainable building technology from a structural and materials engineering perspective
… is to establish whether this would be a suitable building technology for South Africa. The research is desk-top in nature and involves reviewing articles in online journals and publications and collating the information into a coherent form. Eleven species of bamboo commonly used in construction …
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An Investigation of the Utilisation and Barriers to the Social Acceptance of Alternative Building Technology in Housing Construction in South Africa
Social acceptance and the adoption of Alternative Building Technology (ABT), with a focus on Sandbag Building Technology (SBT) in housing delivery, are imperative to bridging the ever increasing deficit in housing provision in South Africa, which stands at about 2.2 million units. However, ABT's …
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Holistic Building Technology Selection for Sustainability: A Market Analysis and Multi-Attribute Decision Making Approach for Residential Water Heaters in U.S.
Water heating in the United States has the largest energy consumption of any residential related use. It uses more energy than all other home appliances combined. They have also been implicated as the source of waterborne disease outbreaks. With such high stakes, it is recommended that a Decision …
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Knowledge modelling of emerging technologies for sustainable building development
In the quest for improved performance of buildings and mitigation of climate change, governments are encouraging the use of innovative sustainable building technologies. Consequently, there is now a large amount of information and knowledge on sustainable building technologies over the web. …
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Rethinking emergency habitats for refugees : balancing material innovation and culture
… to include a balanced combination of building technology, material innovation and culture, that promotes an environment for sustainable development: a habitat.
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Design trends of tall building in Hong Kong
… high demand of space is required. With improving building technology, buildings in Hong Kong are reaching higher limits. This thesis presents an overview of design trends of tall building in Hong Kong from both architectural and structural perspectives. It also provides the design details of a few …
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Thermal properties of structural details in wood frame homes : analysis and recommendations
… abundant American wood supply. However, while building technology in other sectors has advanced, we continue today to build single family homes in essentially the same manner that was done 150 years ago. This study centers around the analysis of the thermal properties of structural details in …
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Explorations in additive, associative design : an assemblage of collective use of forms for part of the M.I.T. West Campus
… thesis does not include detailed or extensive building technology studies. The first part of this thesis - "WORDS" represents a brief look at associative additive environments and their generative principles respectively . The second part - "WORK", in the form of form- making exercises, is a …
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Investigation of Steel Joist Supported Wood Floor Systems
… criteria were investigated: Swedish Building Technology Design Guide, Australian Standard Domestic Metal Framing Code, Canadian Timber Floor Criterion, Murray's Criterion, and Johnson's Criterion. The results from these criteria were compared to the measured results of each floor …
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Integrating technology into the middle school social studies curriculum
… study was to evaluate the effect of integrating technology into the social studies curriculum on the delivery of instructional services to middle school students. The use of integrating technology for the middle school means providing teachers and staff with the opportunity to innovatively and …
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Modeling and characterizing bi-directional airflow in natural ventilation
… integrated in CoolVent, the software designed by Building Technology Lab.
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The impact of introducing artificial intelligence technology to architecture and its leverage on the concept of design automation
… into the domain of architectural design and building technology. This thesis, essentially, is an exploration of the ways that "Artificial Intelligence" techniques may support systematic and rational architectural design and, by extension, the "Building Systems" process. The motivation for …
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Development of computer controls for a goniophotometer
… The Heliodome system developed in the Building Technology department is a new type of goniophotometer for analyzing the spectral and angular properties of these materials. The Heliodome system relies on two cameras to transmit images to a user interface in order to provide immediate …
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Embracing the shadows : inhabitation of an infrastructural landscape
… a local scale: The School of Industrial Arts and Building Technology, which is modeled on collaborative research and development groups, supplements the existing workshops and emerging galleries of the neighborhood; the adjacent Public Transit Interchange becomes a hub for the school and …
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Investigation of the Time-Dependent Longitudinal Flexural Behavior of the Varina-Enon Bridge
Post-tensioned concrete is a building technology which provides a compressive force to concrete via steel tendons. This combination of steel and concrete allows for the construction of lighter and stiffer structures. Post-tensioned concrete is widely utilized throughout the United States highway …
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Analysis of buoyancy driven airflow patterns in a model of a naturally ventilated building
… climate conditions inside naturally ventilated buildings in order to improve the efficiency of the design. Naturally ventilated buildings use temperature gradients to create buoyancy forces in the space and drive the airflow pathways in the space. One architectural design feature that …
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The unmanned ship sets sail - is South Africa prepared to open The Ship Register?
… will lose out in the competition to attract ship building, technology development, job creation and a whole new branch of industry. As a shipping nation in a strategically high important geographic area, South Africa's perspective is highlighted and it is examined whether the time has already come …
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