Air quality in underground spaces has seldom been evaluated in Korea. Accordingly, the current study recently evaluated asbestos exposure among Seoul metropolitan subway workers during the renovation of the subway's air-conditioning system. To identify possible routes of asbestos exposure, suspected sources, including gaskets, ceiling boards, ceiling materials, and dust settled inside ducts, we...

This paper introduces the concept of co-renovation, which involves creating a network people, objects, and events during renovation process. The study examines effectiveness co-renovation in two ways. First, by promoting an open approach to process resulting house, it is possible stimulate connections between those involved renovation. Second, creation can encourage sense community development,...

While the use of semantic models has been explored in different areas Architecture, Engineering and Construction (AEC) industry to map formalize knowledge support tasks, building renovation seems be a neglected area this field. Therefore, paper presents Renovation-Installation (Reno-Inst) ontology, which maps from domain considering requirements, constraints, other elements related installation...

iran is one of the countries facing the most severe farmland fragmentation (ff) in rural areas and farmland consolidation (fc) is generally regarded as being a suitable instrument to solve this problem . a case study in the central area of iran was conducted to explore landholder's attitudes towards issues related to ff and fc. randomized stratified sampling frame was used to select 146 landhol...

Building renovation is a key issue for energy saving in the future. The goal of this article is to show how this traditional activity can be industrialized thanks to a BIM supported process. The critical needs are explained and the proposed BIM presented.

According to the requirements of the Russian standards, the automation schemes are necessary practically in each project of renovation of industrial buildings and facilities, in which any technological processes are realized. The model representations of the automation schemes in CAD-system TechnoCAD GlassX are described. The models follow a principle"to exclude a repeated input operations"