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Showing 1 to 20 of 85 for “"New Buildings"”.
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Applicability of a platform-based approach to design and construction of new buildings
Thesis (S.M.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Civil and Environmental Engineering; and, (M.B.A.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Sloan School of Management, 2003.
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A group of new buildings for Baldpate, Inc. : a private psychiatric sanitarium in Georgetown, Massachusetts
Thesis (M.Arch.) Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Dept. of Architecture, 1947.
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New buildings for the New England Peabody Home for Crippled Children : Oak Hill, Newton, Massachusetts
Thesis (B. Arch.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Architecture, 1954.
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Do New Buildings, Equipment, and Technology Improve Student Outcomes? A Look at One Community College's Experience
… have proven helpful, the extent to which new buildings, equipment, and technology have been integrated into these metrics has been sorely lacking; instead, the assumption has been that more modem facilities, equipment, and technology will improve students' learning and better prepare them …
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A roadmap for net-zero energy buildings in emerging economies: a study of residential new-buildings in Nigeria
… and consequently, climate change worldwide. Buildings contribute approximately 40% of global energy consumption and over 30% of total CO2 emissions. Over the past three decades, there has been progressive research interest in low-energy buildings in emerging economies. However, the issue of …
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Brandywine Village revitalized: a new environment in response to existing characteristics
This thesis deals with the design of new buildings in response to a given existing context. A neighborhood core consisting of shops, offices, and apartments was designed in awareness of the visual characteristics of the existing Brandywine Village.
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Regulating new construction in historic areas
… design regulations impacts the process of new construction in historic areas. The North End, South End, and Back Bay neighborhoods of Boston were identified as historic areas that possessed increasingly restrictive design regulations, and within each neighborhood, two recent new buildings …
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How Old Is Now?
L’Aquila is a city without new buildings. Founded in the early 13th century on a fault line, the city has been destroyed by earthquakes every three hundred years. Its buildings are repaired on the same cycle. In l’Aquila, acts of construction and maintenance are one and the same. Through centuries, …
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Low energy cooling in multi-storey buildings for hot, arid climates
… design, especially in existing and multi-storey buildings. Here, in this research, the different factors that govern the control of heat gain through the envelope of the building will be analyzed. Also, solutions to minimize the cooling load for dwellings will be suggested/provided; by means of …
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Developing a dialogue between old and new: North Carolina University Center for Art and Architecture
… adaptive nature in function. A similar sized, new building mass with a contemporary design style is added to the old church; it will also utilize a competitive contrast to the old church in its design. The integration of the old and the new buildings will find new meanings within historic …
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O! Canada? : a pavilion for the 2010 World Exposition in Shanghai
While ninety percent of new buildings in Canada are built with light wood framing, the conventions of this construction method are seldom challenged, the economic systems behind their materials scarcely exposed, and the accumulative impact on our cities, while often questioned, is seldom answered. …
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Sustainable Value Creation Through Mass Timber Development in North America
… additions to the current building stock, and new commercial space, if delivered using traditional construction methods and materials, will further increase the embodied carbon emissions of the built environment. However, there is an opportunity to mitigate the environmental impact of new …
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Urban Housing in the Park
… dependent upon the coexistence of old and new-buildings and people. A lot can be learned from the history and/or the potential of different generations; in the city this exchange is inevitable. The quality and arguably, quantity, of life are inextricably tied to both diversity and …
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Architecture and Copyright
… would provide them the confidence to create new buildings out of fear of copying by others. However, if without such protection, how is it in the United States? Pre-AWCPA still applies, e.g., plans are still not infringed by using them to construct the building architects depicted without …
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Evaluation of building energy conservation options
… conservation options in Las Vegas residential buildings merits attention of architects and engineers due to the extremely large amount of home construction taking place around the valley and the anticipated continuation of this activity. With this in mind, the purpose of this work is to …
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Holzbau : timber construction and material information exchanges for the design of complex geometrical structures
… using this information and how do we imagine new buildings? This thesis explores the use of wood as a natural material in the design and construction of complex geometrical timber structures by capturing the natural curvature found in timber into digital data and building a framework for …
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Bests Preschool
… Savings and Loan Association, about financing a new school building. First Savings and Loan was carrying the loan on one of the school’s new buildings. Mr. Jones had indicated they were willing to finance the new project several months ago when it was in the planning stages. At that time, …
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NUMERICAL INVESTIGATION OF EXPANSION ANCHORS RESPONSE TO PULL-OUT AND SHEAR LOADS
… is a foundation system that is used to support new buildings and for retrofitting deficient existing foundations. The performance of expansion anchors used to attach the helical pile connectors to foundations is assessed numerically. The anchors response to pull-out and shear loads was evaluated …
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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
… risen 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 …
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