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Showing 1 to 20 of 29 for “"Building management"”.
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Building Management Bench Strength: A Qualitative Look at a Job Rotation Program
… potential employees in order to build a strong management bench. A qualitative grounded theory approach was used to investigate how, when, and why employees succeeded and/or failed in a management development, job rotation program of a national financial services organization. Interviews were …
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Smart building waste monitoring system based on unsupervised learning
… with the physical world. The concept of smart building is a rapidly developing vision that brings intelligence closer to human life. However, transforming the existing building management infrastructure to an intelligent one requires an expensive revamp, if not an overhaul, to the physical …
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A model for performance management in real properties using statistical techniques
Within Real Property Portfolio Management. there is a conscious search for new methodologies to improve building management practice, particularly for facilities in use. An approach in this direction is realized by the application of Statistical Quality Control (SQC), a technique used for …
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La simulazione termoenergetica dinamica del sistema edificio-impianti applicata a un caso studio:l'azienda ospedaliera "G. Brotzu"
… first part that involved the validation test of building energy modeling software, in order to compare calibrate numerical solution to experimental measures of energy demand and thermo-hygrometric parameters. Once installed in the Internal Medicine Department (of the AOB Hospital in Cagliari) a …
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ENHANCING BUILDING FAULT DETECTION, DIAGNOSTICS, AND PROGNOSTICS THROUGH A HYBRID PHYSICS-INFORMED MODELING FRAMEWORK FOR OVERCOMING QUANTITY AND TEMPORAL DATA SCARCITY
… Detection, Diagnosis, and Prognosis (FDDP) in buildings is severely hindered by the scarcity of real-world fault data. This thesis proposes a hybrid physics-informed modeling framework to overcome both data quantity scarcity and temporal sparsity. First, Hybrid Conditional Generative …
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Innovative Application Research of Finance in the Building Internet of Things
… and business model innovation. Intelligent building is a product combining building technology and modern information technology based on Internet of Things technology. It is an important part of the smart city. In the financial field, driven by emerging cutting-edge technologies such as big …
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Occupant location prediction in smart buildings using association rule mining
… are significant consumers of energy, however building management systems do not typically operate them in accordance with occupant movements. Due to the delayed response of HVAC systems, prediction of occupant locations is necessary to maximize energy efficiency. We present an approach to …
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Enhancing Sustainability in Post-Construction Management: Leveraging API-Driven AI and Digital Twins for Optimising M&E Systems
… practical adoption in post-construction building management remains limited, particularly in public-sector contexts. This research investigates how API-driven AI and Digital Twin technologies can enhance sustainability in postconstruction M&E systems within the Further Education sector in …
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Soft Sensing-Driven CO<sub>2</sub> Predictive Models in Educational Buildings
… utilizing readily accessible features from Building Management System (BMS) to develop predictive models for CO2 concentration, offering a cost-effective alternative to direct sensor-based measurements. We leverage two different datasets to explore the feasibility and accuracy of the soft …
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The Du Toitskloof Tunnel project : the construction of the (south) soft ground tunnel, Western Cape, South Africa
The four kilometre twin-bore Du Toitskloof Tunnel is situated in the Klein Drakenstein mountain range, approximately 60 kilometres from Cape Town, near the town of Paarl. The tunnel will form part of the new National road system, upgraded to a freeway standard, linking Johannesburg and Cape Town. …
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An Advanced Methodology to Enhance Energy Efficiency and Performance in a Hospital Cooling-Water System
Hospitals are a type of building with especially high energy demands; and this is owing to the fact that they run life-saving services 24 hours a day, 365 days a year. Moreover, the healthcare services offered by hospitals are growing in number and complexity, which means that their energy demands …
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Development model for commercial office real estate in Thailand's green market
… of energy consumption and the barriers to green building adoption. As part of the corporations' marketing strategy, green certification is a branding approach that limits the environmental impact of real estate development. By conforming to the LEED criteria, the green certified building …
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Energy-efficient wireless sensors : fewer bits, Moore MEMS
… across a variety of industries that include building management, agriculture, transportation, and health care. Most of the technical challenges of WSNs can be linked to the stringent energy constraints of each sensor node, where wireless communication and leakage energy are the doninant …
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Sustainable Schools: Beyond Measure ?
… that were procured through the UK Government’s Building Schools for the Future (BSF) programme (2003-2010). The research strategy has adopted a mixed-methods approach using a range of quantitative and qualitative data. The principle aim was to establish a theoretical framework for Sustainable …
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Enhancing data interoperability and connectivity in digital twin applications for building operations and maintenance
As buildings contribute significantly to global energy consumption and operational costs throughout their lifecycle, digital twins have emerged as a transformative solution for enabling real-time monitoring, quick fault detection, predictive maintenance, and intelligent facility management. …
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Lighting Control Systems for Energy Saving and User Acceptance: State-of-the-art and future directions
… to 20% of the total electricity use in office buildings. Lighting retrofit measures are considered to be among the most cost-efficient way to reduce energy use in buildings. In particular, the use of advanced lighting control systems promises energy savings of between 2 and 60%, but system …
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Instances and principles of distributed leadership: a multiple case study of Illinois middle school principals��� leadership practices
… of teachers and principals, observations of building leadership and interdisciplinary team meetings during 9 visits, and document analysis. Findings from this research show that organizational structures have to be developed that permit the schools’ faculty and staff to be engaged in multiple …
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INDOOR ENVIRONMENTAL QUALITY (IEQ) AND BUILDING ENERGY OPTIMIZATION THROUGH MODEL PREDICTIVE CONTROL (MPC)
… and indoor environmental quality in office buildings. Model predictive control is one of the advanced optimal control approaches that use models to predict the behavior of the process beyond the current time to optimize the system operation at the present time. In building system, MPC helps …
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Sustainable facilities management with the support of building information modelling
The building sector can potentially support the mitigation of the effects of climate change as buildings worldwide have, both directly and indirectly, a major impact on emissions and resources usage. Among all the phases of the building life-cycle, operations have the biggest environmental impact. …
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Monitoring and evaluating the effectiveness of business operational strategies that enhance competitive advantage for facility management companies : a case study of ten (10) facility management companies in Gauteng, South Africa
… of the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in Management Sciences, Durban University of Technology, Durban, South Africa, 2019.
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