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Showing 1 to 20 of 130 for “"Existing Buildings"”.
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Greening existing buildings with LEED-EB!
The market of existing office buildings is going green. While early adopters of green buildings were owner-occupiers, there is a current wave of nonowner-occupied office buildings seeking Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) for Existing Buildings certification. This thesis examines …
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Peering In: Improving Existing Buildings with Colorful Increments
<p>Existing office buildings’ embodied energy, history and culture offer something a newly constructed building cannot. On the other hand, new office buildings’ adoption of new technologies and building philosophies offer a range of sustainable efficiencies previously unavailable. Combining these …
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The retrofitting of existing buildings for seismic criteria
… begins with acquiring information about the existing building and its surroundings. The building owner or client then needs to work with the design professional to establish an acceptable performance level, or rehabilitation objective. A rehabilitation method must then be selected that …
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Optimizing the selection of sustainability measures for existing buildings
Buildings in the United States have significant impacts on the natural environment, national economy, and society. According to the U.S. Green Building Council, buildings in the United States account for 41% of energy consumption, 73% of electricity consumption, 38% of carbon dioxide emissions, and …
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Life Cycle Thinking: Strategies for Sustainable Renovation of Existing Buildings
… renovation, with the awareness that re-using existing buildings allows to reduce the impact on the environment and also to maintain our cultural sources and ecosystems. The largest part of the European building stock is composed of buildings older than 30 years that will continue to account …
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Assessment of energy and cost effectiveness in retrofitting existing buildings
The construction of buildings and their operation contribute to a large proportion of total energy end-use worldwide; indeed, buildings account for 40% of the total energy consumption and for 36% of CO2 emissions in the European Union. The sector is expanding, which is bound to increase its energy …
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The adaptation and demolition of existing buildings on masterplan sites
… demolition decisions at the masterplan scale. As existing adaptation theory mainly focuses on individual buildings or the city level, it is not sufficient for explaining decisions on large brownfield sites being redeveloped through the implementation of a masterplan. A qualitative inductive …
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Investigating the potential use of existing buildings for vertical farming
… This research aims to investigate whether or not existing buildings can be used to accommodate urban vertical farms. The objectives were focused on reviewing existing legislation, building design considerations, the possible usage of VF as a solution to urban decay, reviewing the global VF trends, …
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New technologies for energy savings in the refurbishment of existing buildings.
… cycle of a building. The refurbishment of the existing building stock offers an opportunity to take effective and environmentally friendly solutions. A thermal energy storage system is very effective item to reduce the energy consumptions because it allows the possibility of using solar energy …
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Automated Geometric Digital Twin Construction for Existing Buildings from Point Cloud Datasets
… operation and maintenance stages. However, most existing buildings lack DTs because they were constructed before the widespread adoption of digital technologies, while their design models are unreliable in representing as-is conditions of assets. Creating DTs requires capturing the as-is geometry …
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Generating As-Is BIMs of existing buildings: From Planar Segments to Spaces
… in the management, maintenance and renovation of existing buildings. However, most existing buildings do not have an accurate geometric depiction of their As-Is conditions. The process of generating As-Is models of existing structures involves practitioners, who manually convert Point Cloud Data …
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Low Carbon Architecture: New Approach Toward Sustainability in Relation to Existing Buildings
… the production of CO2. By keeping and reusing existing and historic buildings rather than discarding them and building new, the embodied energy, or the energy that is locked up, can help to mitigate future damage. These buildings already exist, which indicates that the energy consumed to build …
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Performance of drains in earthquake-induced liquefaction mitigation under new and existing buildings
Damage in buildings documented after recent earthquake-induced liquefaction events emphasises the importance of improving vulnerable regions using countermeasure techniques. Further investigations are required to evaluate the performance of currently available mitigation techniques. Vertical drains …
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A study of facility management knowledge classification for the effective stewardship of existing buildings
… the building. The handover and management of the buildings to Facility Managers occurs within the occupancy phase of the buildings life cycle meaning that the building was inherited without due consideration of continued operational efficiencies or functionality affecting the overall cost …
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Analysis of Code Procedures for Seismic Assessment of Existing Buildings: Italian Seismic Code, EC8, ATC-40, FEMA356, FEMA440
… may induce unacceptable levels of damage in existing buildings located in seismic regions. This vulnerability has been attributed to several reasons, such as insufficient strength and stiffness, poor detailing, irregularities in plan and elevation, domination of brittle failure modes over …
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Improving the daylighting conditions of existing buildings : the benefits and limitations of integrating anidolic daylighting systems using the American classroom as a model
… in recent years, and the designs of many new buildings take daylighting into consideration. However, the majority of our built environment is older than this recent trend, and was not designed with daylighting as a top priority. A need exists, therefore, to find an efficient means of improving …
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A Case Study on the Viability of Electricity Generated from a Solar PV Installation as an Alternative or Supplement to Traditional Electricity Supply in Existing Buildings
… to supplement traditional electricity supply in existing buildings.
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