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Showing 1 to 20 of 55 for “"floor area"”.
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Production system improvement : floor area reduction and inventory optimization
… need to introduce other production lines on the floor. MDMC gave the challenge to the MIT team to improve the production area utilization rate and inventory management for the occlusion system product. This thesis shows the Six Sigma approach and methodology the MIT team used to reduce the …
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Production system improvement : floor area reduction and visual management
… opportunities, namely removal of non-production areas on the floor, a point of use inventory system, consolidation of equipment and benches, new bench configuration. The final layout design reduced 479 ft 2 from the original layout with the same production rate. Visual management tools were …
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Production system improvement : floor area reduction and cycle time analysis
… a research team to reduce the manufacturing floor space required for an occlusion system product by one third. The team first cataloged equipment location and size, detailed the processes to make the product, and created a model for prototyping designs. The model allowed for multiple …
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Simplified Floor-Area-Based Energy-Moisture-Economic Model for Residential Buildings
… to develop guidelines based on a per-building-floor-area basis for designing residential buildings that achieve maximum energy efficiency and minimum life cycle cost. Energy and moisture-mass conservation principles were formulated for residential buildings on a per-building-floor-area basis. …
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Developing energy-loss test techniques for large buildings.
… For all non-domestic buildings with a gross floor area of greater than 1000m[2] an air leakage test would be required in accordance with CIBSE TM 23:2000 to prove that the construction was reasonably airtight. The improvements made in the thermal performance of building materials have raised …
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A Methodology to Assess Seismic Risk for Populations of Unreinforced Masonry Buildings
… motion categories, (2) number of stories, (3) floor aspect ratio and (4) wall area to floor area ratio are the most significant parameters in regional risk/loss calculations.
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Computer simulation and optimisation of solar heating systems for Cyprus
… load factor which relates the collector surface area to the annual thermal load, the storage factor which relates the capacity of the storage tank to the collector size, the collector water flow flux, which relates the water flow rate through the collector with the collector area, and other …
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Production system improvement at a medical devices company : floor layout reduction and manpower analysis
… need to introduce other production lines in the floor, the medical devices company wants to optimize the utilization of space and manpower for the occlusion system product. This thesis shows the approaches and methodology used to reduce the occlusion system's floor area from 1528 ft² to 1052 ft². …
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Homing in on Sufficiency: Testing and Developing Criteria for Measuring Housing Sufficiency
… case studies, the average sustainable floor area 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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Performance investigation of a naturally driven building ventilation terminal.
… the knowledge gaps identified in this subject area, were isolated and examined thoroughly.A new methodology for creating and dynamically modifying CFD models using complete wind vent geometry was devised. Using this technique the wind vent was subjected to systematic geometrical variation to …
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Optimization of RFID System Coverage in a Manufacturing Environment
… formation, which covers 90.7% of the production floor area, provides the highest amount of benefit when considering the system’s implementation costs. However, some companies prefer or even require a system that provides perfect information throughout the production process, so implementing an …
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Simply dense : a new paradigm for transit oriented development
… stage of the process determines the maximum floor area ratio (FAR) that could be inserted in the interest of achieving an extremely high density project.
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Characterising Space Use and Electricity Consumption in Non-domestic Buildings
… in property taxation data for a test urban area (City of Leicester). Using only 115 descriptions of space use, appliance consumption characteristics have been inferred for 91.5% of the measured internal floor area of the test dataset; this achieved the third objective. More than 80% of the …
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Alternative housing designs for changing life-styles in Japan
… the user requirement profile with required floor area for each life stage. In Chapter 2, the underlying ideas of house, family and home in Japanese culture are analyzed to determine the factors which influence housing design and the way the Japanese live. Specific changes in life-style and …
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Wide-area egomotion from omnidirectional video and coarse 3D structure
… Given a coarse model of the structure (walls, floors, ceilings, doors and windows) and a video sequence, the system computes the camera pose (translation and rotation) in model coordinates with an accuracy of a few centimeters in translation and a few degrees in rotation. The system has several …
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A computer-aided architectural design system for the analysis, synthesis and appraisal of domestic activity spaces and house plans.
… as desired, to arrive at Level 5, the complete floor plan. Subsequently, a computer graphics program was obtained, amended and complemented, which allowed implementation of the synthesis design model, thus providing the interactivity and flexibility required for the "manipulation" of planning …
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Optimization of composite floors : theory and practice
… weight values for a composite metal deck floor system are compared to existing buildings to evaluate current industry performance in regards to material efficiency in steel structures. This comparison is made to demonstrate how optimization can be used to reduce material usage in …
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Kaupunkimaisuuden mittaaminen : Suomeen soveltuva alueluokittelumenetelmä
… structures are densely concentrated in certain areas. Because of continuing urbanization and changes in society, cities will face a number of challenges in the future. Therefore it is necessary to define urban and rural areas even if dividing them strictly in two has attracted much debate over …
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Development in Cape Town's Central Business District : the office component
… of the historical development of the central area of the City of Cape Town, (c) the definition of the study area, this being the Central Business District of the city of Cape Town and (d) a discussion of the collection of land use and gross floor area data, the identification and resolution of …
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Trip generation characteristics of rural clinics in West Virginia
With the decreasing number of hospitals in rural areas, more rural clinics are being established to meet the health care needs in rural areas. Rural clinics are small health care facilities that serve the primary care needs of rural areas. There are currently no published trip generation rates …
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