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Showing 1 to 20 of 43 for “"Residential housing"”.
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Custom residential housing construction : a case study.
This report is a synopsis of research conducted with Mickey Smith Professional Builders, Inc. (a successful custom home construction firm in Gainesville, Florida). The goal was to broaden my technical engineering knowledge and gain practical construction experience. The majority of time was spent …
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Computerised scheduling and control of residential housing projects
… model for scheduling and control of residential housing projects. The model is designed using an Object-Oriented modeling approach and incorporates 18 classes that are designed to facilitate the scheduling and control of residential housing projects. The model also includes two newly …
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Is There a Commercial Residential Housing Bubble in China
… are plenty of arguments about the Chinese residential housing market bubble. Making improvement of the analyses Yu (2011), the present paper present a more reasonable “discount cash flow model” to detect the existence of the bubble in the residential house market from 1998 to 2010. The …
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A New Conceptual Automated Property Valuation Model for Residential Housing Market
… In the state of Victoria, Australia alone, residential property values surpassed one trillion dollars in 2012. A typical weekend property auctions in Victoria could see tens of millions of dollars change hands. Residential property evaluation is important to banks or mortgage lenders, …
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Evaluation of Rainwater Harvesting on Residential Housing on Virginia Tech Campus
… study evaluates the potential impacts of RWH on residential housing on Virginia Tech campus in southwestern Virginia in regards to potable water offset, energy conservation, stormwater mitigation, carbon emission reduction, and financial savings. Potential rainwater collection was estimated from …
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Engineering classification of pedologic soil groups in Knox County, Tennessee, for residential housing
The proper location of residential housing sites within large areas requires preliminary investigations of soil conditions. It is possible to process for engineering purposes the information contained in geologic and pedologic maps and reports. In this way, adverse site conditions, such as …
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Engineering characteristics of soils of Fayette and Union Counties, Indiana, pertinent to residential housing
… data applicable for light commercial and residential structures. Foremost among problems that this would alleviate are flooding, foundation failures due to adverse soil conditions, and improper location of absorption field disposal systems. This study investigates the feasibility of …
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Internet use and the duration of buying and selling in the residential housing market, economic incentives and voting
… on the duration of non-sequential search in the housing market. We develop a model of partial equilibrium in the housing market which suggests an ambiguous effect on the search duration when internet resources are employed in the search. In this model, the impact of using the internet can be …
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Investigating the drivers and barriers to implementing green building features and initiatives (GBFIs) in South Africa's private residential housing sector
… of implementing GBFIs in South Africa's private residential sector. A literature review was conducted to identify key drivers and barriers for the adoption of GBFIs from a global perspective. The study employed a qualitative research approach comprising multiple case study analysis, where …
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Urban carbon and energy analysis: calculation of energy flows and emissions from residential housing clusters and assessment of sustainable energy options
… simulation package TRNSYS was used and a residential area in Southampton that represents a typical UK area, was chosen as a case study. The notion of combining a number of houses to form a local microgrid proved to be beneficial for all the technologies examined in this research. It was …
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Disaster debris management and recovery of housing stock in San Francisco, CA
… particularly the implications on San Francisco's residential housing stock and impacts on the construction and demolition waste stream. The study uses System Dynamics methodology to analyze the feasibility of recycling disaster debris as new construction material to rebuild the diminished housing …
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DEVELOPMENT AND APPLICATION OF A CENSUS-BASED REGIONAL RESIDENTIAL GROWTH MODEL FOR BIODIVERSITY RISK ASSESSMENT
… AND APPLICATION OF A CENSUS-BASED REGIONAL RESIDENTIAL GROWTH MODEL FOR BIODIVERSITY RISK ASSESSMENT Stephen D. Smith, Ph.D. Cornell University 2018 The USGS National GAP Program is a biodiversity mapping program implemented at the state level via the Cooperative Fish & Wildlife Research …
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Mixed-use building at Washington Circle inspired by the Situationist ideas
… the sharp distinctions between workplace, residential housing and leisure, the building aims to integrate all aspects of human endeavor. The building should reflect all aspects of the city, hence being a condensed image of the city. The building contains shops, cafes, restaurants, …
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Choosing Rowan University: a study on contributing external factors amongst native residential freshmen
… contributing external factors amongst native residential freshmen students at Rowan University were when it came to making the decision to attend. The study also investigated if there was a significant relationship between external factors and a particular group of students. Native residential …
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HOUSING ACCESSIBILITY: THE ROLE AND PERSPECTIVE OF DEVELOPERS IN PHILADELPHIA
… Philadelphia view their responsibility to build housing units that are accessible to people living with disabilities. It relies on data collected by interviewing major developers who build several different types of housing, including high-end condominiums, university residential housing, …
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Redefining Suburbia
Suburban housing is a building type and form of development that has been neglected by many architects. Architects are responsible for designing only two percent of suburban residences. This means that the profession has largely ceded the best opportunity to be relevant and useful to ordinary …
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A finite mixture approach for household residential choices
In the housing sector, on the demand side, attempts to characterize the nature of housing demand have been primarily implemented through hedonics whereby hedonic price functions relate market value to residential housing stock. Hedonic price models, however, do not identity sub-markets and thus may …
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Adult Independent Living Outcomes for Persons with Autism Spectrum Disorders
… Disorders (ASDs) may benefit from lifelong residential, independent living. Often residential housing for persons with ASDs, other than those isolated in the family home, is institutional in nature. The purpose of this research is to identify aspects of a specially designed supported living …
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The Operations of FNMA in the Secondary Mortgage Market
The Federal Government has been interested in housing and housing problems for a little more than three quarters of a century, but its active and continuing concern for the housing market covers a span of less than four decades . The initial effort of the Federal Government to establish a …
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Community-Based Optimal Scheduling of Smart Home Appliances Incorporating Occupancy Error
… should be deployed in a real community of residential housing and simulate in realistic conditions.
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