Three cases of male breast cancer were diagnosed among a small group of men who worked in a basement office of a multi-story office building. This office was adjacent to an electrical switchgear room which generated high magnetic fields in their work space. The risk of male breast cancer in this group was increased about 100-fold (observe three cases, expect 0.03 cases; P < 0.00001). Since 1991...

Recent advances in the development of a wave travel time methodology for earthquake damage detection in buildings, for use in rapid assessment of structural health following an earthquake, are reviewed. Its main advantages over the modal methods are the insensitivity to the effects of soil-structure interaction, local nature, and robustness when applied to real structures and strong earthquake ...

We investigated the synergetic effect between light-emitting diode (LED) lighting efficiency and building energy savings in heating and cooling using an alternative thermal operating system (ATOS) of indoor LED lighting integrated with the ventilation system of a building as an active cooling device. The heat generated from LED lighting and the indoor lighting illuminance were experimentally de...

The purpose of this paper is to provide a method for assessing the impact direct and indirect flexibilities on self-consumption office buildings. goal assess how both human actors technical interventions can affect or mitigate deviations in level building from its optimal. This considers Predis-MHi platform (a living lab) as representative case study applies Mixed Integer Linear Programming opt...

This article introduces how speech and non-speech audio can be used in ubiquitous computing office environments. We describe an iterative development of an augmented office environment that helps people in their everyday tasks in office settings. Architectural as well as interaction issues are covered in this paper. We discuss how we have addressed the problems of multimodal data fusion, concur...

We describe a decentralized system consisting of a collection of software agents that monitor and control an office building. It uses the existing power lines for communication between the agents and the electrical devices of the building, such as sensors and actuators for lights and heating. The objectives are both energy saving and increasing customer satisfaction through value added services...