It now seems inevitable that power grids of the future will be massive stochastic networks whose nodes are themselves microgrids comprising generation and storage units, inverters and power conditioning elements, together with controllable aggregations of appliances and other load classes. There will be significant amounts of power coming from wind, solar, and cogeneration enabled by combined h...

Traditional whole building energy modeling suffers from several factors, including the large number of inputs required to characterize the building, the specificity required to accurately model building materials and components, simplifying assumptions made by underlying simulation algorithms, and the gap between the as-designed and as-built building. Prior work has attempted to mitigate these ...

Commercial buildings are attractive targets for introducing innovative cyber-physical control systems, because they are already highly instrumented distributed systems which consume large quantities of energy. However, they are not currently programmable in a meaningful sense because each building is constructed with vertically integrated, closed subsystems and without uniform abstractions to w...

In the 24 months to December 2005 recorded incidents of malicious damage to property increased by eight per cent in NSW. This bulletin provides information about the nature of malicious damage to property incidents through a detailed analysis of police database records and narratives of incidents occurring in 2005. These data reveal that the most frequent targets of malicious damage are private...

In essence, the Irish banks have become deeply involved in two distinct areas of commercial property lending. On one hand, they have provided capital for property developers to acquire sites, get planning, engage contractors and market their finished buildings. However, the banks have also supplied commercial real estate investors with credit to buy finished and fully let properties (mostly off...

We examined potable water in Los Angeles, California, as a possible source of infection in AIDS and non-AIDS patients. Nontuberculous mycobacteria were recovered from 12 (92%) of 13 reservoirs, 45 (82%) of 55 homes, 31 (100%) of 31 commercial buildings, and 15 (100%) of 15 hospitals. Large-restriction-fragment (LRF) pattern analyses were done with AseI. The LRF patterns of Mycobacterium avium i...