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Showing 1 to 20 of 55 for “"building practices"”.
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Development of a facilities management framework for sustainable building practices in Nigeria
There is need for sustainable building practice in Nigeria as buildings generally show signs of poor design for ventilation, natural lighting, energy management, water management, waste management and other building services. These buildings under perform in relation to the purpose for which they …
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Searching for the Past: Archaeological Research Using a Multi-Method Geomatics Approach
… with isolated geomatics tools. Using Roman building practices as a test case, the strengths of each geomatics method were utilized to identify ideal locations for Roman fortifications. Cybercartography offered a flexible environment for collecting historical data, presenting research, and …
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Extensive green roof design in the City of Cape Town : barriers and opportunities for developing a green industry
… of extreme weather events, it is critical that building practices in the next decade adopt a more adaptive and holistic approach to building design.
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Placemaking
… During the settlement of America, settlers fused building practices from their home land with local materials and passive design to create distinct vernaculars in all regions of the country. After the Industrial Revolution during the mid 1800's, regions were able to import building materials …
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Aspects of municipalities associated with occupancy of Chimney Swifts and Common Nighthawks in Illinois
… and gravel rooftops are becoming less common as building practices change, and the loss of available nest sites may be driving declines. To understand factors of decline, I conducted surveys in municipalities of varying size throughout Illinois and examined the influence of various habitat and …
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The Burford Masons and the changing world of building practice in England, 1630-1730
… focused on the named architect and the completed building. Investigation of the master craftsmen who realised the emerging architect's ideas while continuing to build to their own design has only recently been embarked upon. This thesis sets out to address this imbalance by scrutinising a group of …
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Tradition, quality, housing, development : a new paradigm for urban Bhutan
This research examines practices that achieve an urban fabric unique to its cultural heritage by promoting innovation in local building industries while embracing notions of urban livability. Prevailing urban livability theorists argue that built form is a physical manifestation of the expression …
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Drawing the Analogy: Nature as Idea, Architecture as Response
… in part on the climate, terrain and traditional building practices of rural western North Carolina, a house is then posed for its site on the border of the Pisgah National Forest.
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Green rebuilding the South Bronx : mapping the capacity to promote sustainable development in New York
… in New York City with the promotion of green building practices. I focus on the low-income minority communities of the South Bronx to ensure all of NYC-even historically marginalized neighborhoods-is part of the journey towards sustainable development. This green building study of New York …
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Architectural Tectonics: A Shift Between the Cultural Tradition of Making to Contemporary Building Processes
… has lost its sense of place by the adoption of practices like standardization and universal modularity, over the focus and influence of unique local building practices. However, looking outside of the cultural main stream works of architecture, there exists some built structures with such purity …
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kitche migawap âcimowin = Tipi tectonics: building as medicine
… tectonics that will be implemented into a building design by interweaving traditional knowledge and technical applications. The research is to propose alternate building practices as a strategy to implement Cree cultural significance into building construction to promote Indigenous health. …
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Homing in on Sufficiency: Testing and Developing Criteria for Measuring Housing Sufficiency
… was 9.4 m2 per person, indicating that current building practices and energy generation methods remain too carbon-intensive to allow for homes that are sufficient and sustainable.
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"Advancing the material interests of the Redeemer's Kingdom" : the Erskine Presbyterian Church, Montreal, 1894
… (1838-1922), as a specific example of the building of an Akron-auditorium combination plan church. Although relatively rare in Montreal, this American church type was perhaps the most popular style of church for evangelical Protestant congregations in North America from 1880 through about …
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A Case Study: Leadership for Parent Involvement
… intentionally cultivating relationships and building capacity for stakeholders falls under the guidance of a parent involvement coordinator (PIC) working in a parent resource room in a school setting. This turn-around school features a PIC collaboratively focused with an elementary school …
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Overcoming the State of Oblivion: Decolonial Approaches within Engaged Art Practices
… that claim to challenge dominant models of world-building and present alternative forms of living through the use of decolonial methodologies and political ecology approaches. In particular, I examine ‘alter-institutional practice’ in order to comprehend the role art plays in the search for social …
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Understanding the issues of project cost and time in sustainable construction from a general contractor's perspective: case study
The green building market has seen tremendous growth in the past decade. Organizations such as the US Green Building Council have emerged to become a dominant leader in the building industry. Although the green building rating systems are cross-disciplinary, much of the focus has been directed …
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Control of parts : parts making in the building industry
… have, when trying to improve conventional house building practices. However, the tool is more generally useful to product manufacturers, building industry researchers, historians of technology, and designers who need accurate descriptions of value added flows of any parts making enterprise, to …
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AeroVolt Shading: Wind-Piezo Kinetic shading facade
… ever increasing demand for energy in commercial buildings, particularly in heating, cooling, and lighting, innovative solutions are crucial in addressing these challenges. The proposed solution centers on dynamic shading systems that adjust autonomously to environmental factors, thanks to …
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Building Life Cycles: An Exploration of a Building's Transformation From One Life Into the Next
"Nothing endures but change" - Heraclitus. Buildings are designed and built to house a specific program for a set period of time. The end of a building's life marks a change in its use. In today's building practices, some building owners opt to demolish an entire building prior to constructing a …
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The influence of teacher salary, attrition patterns and relationship building in primary schools on the perspectives of University students in Malta
… salary, attrition patterns, and relationship-building practices influence the perspectives of university students enrolled in the Master in Teaching and Learning (MTL) programme at the University of Malta. Data were collected through semi-structured interviews with six participants and …
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