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Showing 1 to 20 of 95 for “"residential building"”.
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Residential Building
Current residential building designs have become very close and confined. This confinement has made the house lacking in the feeling of open space and the gradual transition from the outdoor to the indoor spaces. These units lack to ventilation, natural lighting, and the connection with the natural …
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A cost design system for residential building systems.
Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Dept. of Architecture. Thesis. 1972. M.Arch.
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Design and thermal modeling of a residential building
… trends of green energy upgrade in commercial buildings show promise for application to residential houses as well, where there are potential energy-saving benefits of retrofitting the residential heating system from single-zone to multi-zone temperature control. The objective of this thesis is …
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Climatic design in the city : a residential building in Athens
… For illustrative purposes. a typical multi-story residential building in downtown Athens. Greece. will be used as a case study. Its goal is to use the rich and ever increasing vocabulary of climatic design in order to enhance the dialogue between the urban building and the physical environment as …
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The Social Sustainability of Standardisation in the Hungarian Residential Building Sector
… In Hungary, the first examples of prefabricated residential buildings have just appeared after a 30-year-long break. At the same time, in post-socialist countries, the general attitude towards modern methods of construction is rather complex. While the Western examples of modular constructions …
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Post Pandemic Residential: Converting an Office Building to a Residential Building
… I explored approaches to convert an office building to a residential building considering social activities and new normal. Focused, productive work is likely carried out a home, at times which best suit individual lifestyles, while collaborative and socially interactive activities bring …
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Combined heat and power: technology review and analysis for a residential building
… In the second part, a case study is analyzed for residential application in the USA. Three Micro-CHP systems are chosen: Otto engine, Stirling engine, and fuel cell. Also two locations, Chicago and Atlanta, are selected to represent the northern and southern region. The calculations are based on …
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A STUDY OF FAÇADE THERMAL PERFORMANCE FOR NON-AIR CONDITIONED RESIDENTIAL BUILDING
… very critical especially for nonair- conditioned residential buildings. Fagade system is the 'skin' of the building, which separates the indoor and outdoor environment and is the most important part of the building to provide suitable thermal environment to the indoor space. In this study, the …
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Residential building energy analysis : development and uncertainty assessment of a simplified model
Effective design of energy-efficient buildings requires attention to energy issues during the preliminary stages of design. To aid in the early consideration of a building's future energy usage, a simplified building energy analysis model was developed. Using this model, a new computer program was …
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The Challenges and Opportunities to Achieving Equitable Residential Building Electrification in Chicago
… opportunities to achieving a just and equitable residential building electrification strategy in Chicago? The focus on equitable residential building electrification is motivated by 1) Chicago’s need to tackle residential building gas emissions in order to meet its decarbonization goals, and 2) …
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Residential building design : comprehensive comparative guidelines for building single-family dwellings in Hawaii
… strategies that can be applied to site planning, building orientation, building form, roof design, wall design, and foundation design. In addition to energy efficiency, homes in Hawaii must also provide protection from natural disasters. In the past, earthquakes and hurricanes have caused much …
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Analysis of residential building performance in tornadoes as a function of building and hazard characteristics
Tornadoes damage and destroy many thousands of buildings per year in the United States leading to significant economic losses and long-lasting disruption to communities. In an effort to better understand the relationship between tornado wind speeds and resulting damage, multiple data sources from …
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Sustainability in the built environment : the embodied carbon of steelwork in non-residential building structures
… on the embodied carbon of steelwork used in non-residential buildings. The broad area of sustainable development in the built environment is reviewed first and a reasoned rationale for the narrowing of the research topic to structural steelwork provided. The research then concentrated on steel, …
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Building Blocks of a Just Transition: Green Banks and Residential Building Decarbonization in New York
… investment in climate energy projects such as residential building decarbonization. Given the recent increased investment and policy attention on green banks, we should assess whether the green bank model delivers their professed goals of socially equitable outcomes, market creation, and …
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Design projections for a small non-residential building: towards a theory of "associative-use" spaces.
Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Dept. of Architecture. Thesis. 1974. M.Arch.
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A methodology for evaluating the cost-effectiveness of residential building stocks retrofits in Italy and Denmark
Buildings are at the centre of our social and economic activity. Not only do we spend most of our lives in buildings, we also spend most of our money on buildings. The built environment is not only the largest industrial sector in economic terms, it is also the largest in terms of resource flow1. …
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Environmental ethics and sustainable design: A case study on the traditional Korean residential building type: Han oak
… become an extremely important issue that prompts building designers to perform in accordance with sustainable principles to create comfortable, eco-friendly space. Moreover, it is to be our obligation to preserve the environment for the future generations to come. This research studies …
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Did Sarajevo's Multiethnic Spatiality Survive?: A Study of a Residential Building in the City through War and Peace
… spatiality are assessed through a study of a residential building in central Sarajevo. The thesis argues that the apartment building under study was a concrete manifestation of the ideology and political economy of Tito’s Yugoslavia. It was a space made possible by an authoritarian political …
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