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Showing 1 to 20 of 30 for “"building services"”.
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Modern building services for listed historic buildings: problems and risk
… Heritage Press Office has estimated that listed buildings represent a finite cultural resource of approximately 6% of England's building stock. Many of these listed buildings are historic. It is often necessary to find an appropriate use for them, in order to preserve them for future generations. …
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An Investigation into the Management of Energy Performance for Building Services Systems: Design to Operation
Non-domestic buildings account for 12% of UK greenhouse emissions (CIBSE, 2017). There is acceptance that the energy performance of buildings must improve. Presently building energy data is only available in terms of total annual fossil or electrical energy totals. These are blunt instruments for …
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Modelling the Supply and Demand for Construction and Building Services Skills in the Black Country
… economic growth, the UK’s construction and building services sector is experiencing severe skills crisis of between 40 – 50 per cent retention rate and declining numbers of entrant trainees. More importantly, the level of this severity varies with sub regional and regional peculiarities. To …
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The Engineering Council’s influence on Building Services Engineering education and qualifications: towards an internationalist education and training model
A large number of Building Services Engineering (BSE) graduates from UK universities either already live and work abroad, or aspire to do so, and the destinations for such migrants are most often English-speaking countries or countries where English is commonly used in business. Academic programmes …
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Mechanical building services craft training in Great Britain, France and Germany: Towards a more efficient model for industry
The mechanical building services craft training systems in Great Britain, France and Germany set out with the same fundamental aim: to produce skilled trades people in sufficient numbers for the mechanical building services industry in each country. The vocational education and training (VET) …
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Development of a management framework to improve the building services engineering design process; a case study of engineering management in an Irish consultancy practice
The building services engineering (BSE) design process is a major source of problems at construction stage, even to the extent of undermining systematic management. Managerial practitioners have wrestled with this productivity gap for many years, and the time has come to innovate. The current …
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Development and validation of a safety and health performance model for low cost housing
Sustainable building and construction practices in Malaysia are primarily aimed at improving the safety and health performance of buildings while minimizing its impact on resources and the natural environment. Thus, a comprehensive understanding of the factors that contribute to safety and health …
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The structure of things to come: New movements in the architectural profession
… Scope of Total Architecture Regrettably, the building-design industry Gropius imagined never came about. Buildings, specialization, professionalism, project delivery and contracts, as they developed over the century, all seemed to conspire against such a reality; but the industry has not come …
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The choice between public and private sector agencies for the provision of local authorities services : a methodological analysis of selected case studies of services provided by the Cape Town City Council
… agency for the provision of local authority services. A methodological approach was devised to examine each potential case for privatisation and to evaluate both the public and private sector agencies in terms of the three identified criteria viz. economic and financial, strategic and …
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Towards a spatial energy model: A theoretical comparison of accessibility and energy-use in regional settlement patterns
… use of energy within them for both transport and building services. The literature of scenarios of energy futures is reviewed, and three scenarios of future constraints on regional planning are adopted. The adopted scenarios emphasise constraints imposed by energy policy and the availability of …
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The Architecture of the Transformation of Folding and the Design of an Alexandria Law Firm
… an Old town, Alexandria, Virginia law firm building. Folding is conceptually used in the spatial and inhabitable forms of the building as well as the materials, textures, and finishes of the walls, ceilings, and floors. Folding is structurally investigated by taking once planer and flimsy …
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Viability of naturally ventilated buildings in the UK under predicted future summer climates
… for overheating of naturally ventilated office buildings, many of which already fail to perform under current heatwave conditions. This thesis addresses the summer performance of such buildings under current and future climates by means of building performance simulation. Current industry …
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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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Governance at the margins : the challenge of implementing slum housing policy in Maharashtra, India
Building Services for the Urban Poor (BSUP) is an in-situ slum housing up-gradation policy that was initiated in 2005 by the Central Government of India under the Jawaharlal Nehru National Urban Renewal Mission (JNNURM). It is one of the few housing policies in the long history of slum housing …
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A model for performance management in real properties using statistical techniques
… 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 monitoring quality in industrial products. This thesis presents …
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E-Policing as a Service: The Way Forward in Zambia
… to police service and other factors such a building services around citizen choices, provision for social inclusion, and making better use of information from a centralized database system the way forward in Zambia. KEY WORDS: Electronic policing, Policing strategies, Information sharing, …
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E-Policing as a Service: The Way Forward in Zambia
… to police service and other factors such a building services around citizen choices, provision for social inclusion, and making better use of information from a centralized database system the way forward in Zambia. KEY WORDS: Electronic policing, Policing strategies, Information sharing, …
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Mechanical systems / passive envelopes: integrative architectural approaches?
… mechanical, energy intensive approach based on building services: complex networks of heating, ventilation and air conditioning that supply comfort conditions despite variable weather conditions. These are internal ducting and piping, seldom visible, supporting the building operation “from the …
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Sensing Buildings: Environmental Impact of Sensor Technologies and Data Infrastructure in Buildings
Building operations and the construction sector are one of the largest contributors to global carbon emissions and energy consumption. While novel construction materials and insulation offer lower embodied carbon solutions, improved heating and cooling devices offer cost and energy effective …
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Natural Ventilation of Buildings: From Fluid Mechanics to Architectural Design Guidance
Over the last two decades, natural ventilation of buildings has rapidly established itself as a viable low-energy alternative to air-conditioning and mechanical ventilation systems. With careful design, natural ventilation has the capacity to reduce the energy expenditure of buildings and can …
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