Toward Health Impact Assessment of Residential Buildings

Assessment of construction defects in residential buildings in Spain

The housing industry is characterized for its repeated building defects causing cost increase and time delay during the construction. In Spain, despite the Ley de Ordenación de la Edificación (Building Regulation Act) which establishes a general framework within which to promote overall building quality, defects during construction in houses remain a pervasive problem. This paper presents the f...

The Impact of Tilting Northern Open Space Wall on Daylight Performance of Residential Buildings

the impact of training on second language writing assessment: a case of raters’ biasedness

چکیده هدف اول این تحقیق بررسی تأثیر آموزش مصحح بر آموزش گیرندگان براساس پایایی نمره های آنها در پنج بخش شامل محتوا ، سازمان ، لغت ، زبان و مکانیک بود. هدف دوم این بود که بدانیم آیا تفاوتهای بین آموزشی گیرندگان زن و مرد در پایایی نمرات آنها وجود دارد. برای بررسی این موارد ، ما 90 دانشجو در سطح میانه (متوسط) که از طریق تست تعیین سطح شده بودند انتخاب شدند. بعد از آنها خواستیم که درباره دو موضوع ا...

Smart Control of Residential Buildings

Performance assessment of a SOFC cogeneration system for residential buildings located in eastern Iran

It is expected that residential units may replace   traditional heat and power production systems with cogeneration ones. Among the different cogeneration systems, fuel cell based systems are a suitable choice due to their high efficiency, high power density, low emission and low noise. In this paper, a cogeneration system based on solid oxide fuel cells is examined. The system, including the f...