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Showing 1 to 20 of 82 for “"building stock"”.
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Adaptive reuse : analysis of building stock.
Thesis. 1978. M.Arch--Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Dept. of Architecture.
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More than just a school : an exploration in tractable neighborhood building stock
… society's space needs within the existing building stock. Most existing buildings were not designed for alternate use, however, and an enormous price is being paid to convert these buildings to new functions. Architects and builders need to transcend what has proven to be a shortsighted …
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Decarbonising the English residential sector: modelling policies, technologies and behaviour within a heterogeneous building stock
… into the underlying issues of decarbonisation. Building regulations, assessments and certification standards are critical for motivating and driving innovation towards decarbonising the building stock. Many existing building performance and evaluation tools are shown to be ineffective and …
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Developing a Probabilistic Stock Turnover System Dynamics Model to Forecast Whole-life Energy of Chinese Urban Residential Building Stock
… major driving force of the growth of the global building stock – in 2018 alone, 2.5 billion m2 in new buildings were constructed, amounting to 34% of the global total. In the same year, the final operational energy consumption of Chinese buildings was 504 million tonnes of oil equivalent (toe). …
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Building effectiveness communication ratios (BECs): an integrated ‘life-cycle’ methodology for mitigating energy-use in buildings
Current building regulations are generally prescriptive in nature. It is widely accepted in Europe that this form of building regulation is stifling technological innovation and leading to inadequate energy efficiency in the building stock. This has increased the motivation to move design practices …
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A flexible infra-architectural system for a Hybrid Shanghai
… the city has generated a rapid turnaround of building stock. In rapid developing cities like Shanghai, neighborhoods are replaced by higher density buildings every 30 to 40 years. Areas of extreme diversity in population and program have been replaced by high density residential towers that …
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Establishing energy benchmarks for commercial buildings in the City of Cape Town
… to energy efficiency in their commercial building stock, but no clear strategy for tackling existing buildings. This research redresses this by examining international approaches to the benchmarking process and applies these in the context of South Africa.
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The future of manufacturing in Somerville
… an abundance of old and irregular industrial building stock. Mayor Curtatone is on record as being interested in biotechnology, green, and clean energy businesses and City staff are actively seeking opportunities in these areas. At the same time, the City is increasingly becoming a regional …
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The profitability of green retrofitting the building envelope of commercial buildings in Cape Town
… attention on the construction of new green buildings, rather than optimizing existing building stock. Producing new buildings, while many existing properties are utilized on a sub-optimal level, with low rental income and high vacancies is not only resource inefficient, but also contributes …
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Passive solar for urban tenement housing : case study and retrofit design for West-Berlin
… access, fixed city layouts, and constrictive building laws (1,2,3,4). Multifamily housing in German cities accounts for a major portion of the existing building stock. A range of German energy standards try to enforce the improvement of old and poorly insulated structures by these efforts only …
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Simulation-based fragility relationships for unreinforced masonry buildings
… a significant portion of the residential building stock of the Central and Eastern United States (CEUSA), accounting for 15% of homes in the 8-state region impacted by the New-Madrid Seismic Zone and an even greater portion of the building stock in most other regions of the world. In …
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Economic and environmental impacts of several retrofit options for residential buildings
… are deployed to reduce our actual residential building consumption which represents about 40% (25% for the residential sector and 15% for the non-residential sector) of the total energy consumption in Europe. The aim of this paper is to evaluate the environmental and economical impact of …
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Resourceful urbanism: revisions of typology a network of resource 'add-ons' for a population of 400 000 in down-town Johannesburg
… for living in and how the existing, decayed building stock has been reused and transformed accordingly by its 400 000 new residents. This 90% increase in population density and occupancy rates has to function in underserviced buildings and an under-resourced public environment that has to …
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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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Daylight in façade renewal : using new metrics to inform the retrofitting of aging modern-ear façade types
… planners. While these methods have enabled new building facades to better balance the admission of daylight with the maintenance of thermal control, they have generally not been applied to the existing building stock. This project uses these new methods of quantifying daylight to inform the …
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Sustainable Value Creation Through Mass Timber Development in North America
… necessitate significant 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 …
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Fire & Flood: How the Lessons of the Past can Apply to the Present to Build the Future
… suffered two major fires; the first burning 856 buildings and the second 212. These were significant losses in a city that had a building stock of approximately 1,000 buildings before the events. By recognizing the lessons learned in the earlier reconstructions of New Orleans, we can gain a …
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Vital Traditions: Assessing the Status of Skilled Trades Work in Toronto’s Heritage Policy
… rehabilitation and maintenance of existing buildings are hampered in Canadian jurisdictions by difficulties contracting appropriately skilled workers to carry out that maintenance. This phenomenon is general, but it is produced by local market conditions and demands locally directed study. …
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Design and development of a novel liquid desiccant air-conditioning system
… flexibility to install the system in existing building stock without costly changes to the structure. This work lays out the basic operating cycle of the DECAL system and shows its thermodynamic merits in terms of ideal system performance against other LDAC systems. Design studies show DECAL …
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