Building Inventory and Refurbishment Scenario Database Development for Switzerland

Building Maintenance Strategy: A Sustainable Refurbishment Perspective

The entire life cycle of a building include construction, operation, maintenance, demolition and removal, and the normal expected life span of a commercial building may up to 100 years. During this time span, building refurbishment is an important topical in facilities management but limited attempt has been made to study the sustainable refurbishment. In fact, refurbishment strategy should alw...

LiDAR SIGNATURES TO UPDATE JAPANESE BUILDING INVENTORY DATABASE

Developing an efficient method to quickly update the building inventory database of dense urban areas is our focus of interest. Disaster mitigation requires an up-to-date and reliable building inventory database for damage assessment. However, it has been slowly updated through conventional procedure comprising the compiling aerial photographs, manually or semiautomatic updating GIS database an...

Efficent Solution to Develop Building Inventory Database with Lidar Observation

Our current research focuses in developing an efficient solution to generate and update the building inventory database. Conventionally, the geo-database has been updated mainly based on the acquired aerial photographs. It suffers from the problems of shadow, poor contrast and occlusion. To avoid those problems, we propose the employment of LiDAR (Light Detection And Ranging) data in developing...

Earthquake Damage Scenario in Visp ( Switzerland ) From Active Fault to Building Damage

A Multi-Scenario Zero-Energy Building Techno-Economic Case Study Analysis for a Renovation of a Residential Building

According to the previous pieces of research, the building sector consumes about 40 % of total yield energy and produce one-third of GHG pollution emission. This point shows the significant potential in two aspects of energy optimization and pollution reduction in this field. The purpose of this research as a case study is to construct a residential building and develop the paths for reaching a...