The drainage of low-sloped roof systems involves multiple design professionals, and often each has a different opinion as to their design responsibility. Roofing issues have been identified as being a number one source of litigation, and rain-induced roof collapses continue to occur with alarming frequency. With the backdrop of several rain-induced roof collapses, this paper illustrates the com...

This study examines the effect of the booth Recommender system (BRS) embedded in a mobile device on the goals of exhibition attendees, based on two main theories that are unplanned behaviour and goal frame theories. Previous studies have overlooked the importance of the unplanned behavioural effectiveness of IT devices for understanding motivation and delivering unexpected outcomes at exhibitio...

A virtual exhibition system was designed and implemented to interface with the National Archives of Singapore digital archive to support the creation of online virtual exhibitions. The XML-based digital archive provides different artifact types that form the contents in the exhibition through the reference and reuse model. Artifacts and exhibitions are endowed with rich metadata that include th...

This paper describes an improved version of our system for robust detection of buildings with a gable roof in varying rural areas from very-high-resolution aerial images. The algorithm follows a custom-made design, extracting key features close to modeling, such as roof ridges and gutters, in order to allow a large freedom in roof appearances. It starts by detecting straight line-segments as ro...

In this work, a multi-objective optimization on novel insulated roof with solar water heating system at low material cost has been carried out through Taguchi based grey relational analysis technique. The novel roofs have concrete, insulating polyurethane, and a channel of water in a metallic pipe tunneling the chromium block. Chromium block is used to conduct more heat to raise the water to re...

One of the most important tasks in urban remote sensing is the detection of impervious surfaces (IS), such as roofs and roads. However, detection of IS in heterogeneous areas still remains one of the most challenging tasks. In this study, detection of concrete roof using an object-based approach was proposed. A new rule-based classification was developed to detect concrete roof tile. This propo...

The design of a building can provide the highest thermal comfort in the interior without any mechanical equipment and save energy to a large extent. The roof of a building is an important part for thermal loss. This research studies the thermal performance of 14 conventional roof structures in Tehran city by using designbuilder 4.5. It is found that the polystyrene block performs best compared ...

Widespread damage to roofs in hurricanes and other high wind events has highlighted the need for improving the wind performance of roofs, including both new construction and retrofit on existing buildings. Effective and economical methods to mitigate wind effects on roof components are sought to reduce accumulated losses from frequently recurring lowand moderate-intensity events. An experimenta...

Green roofs are becoming an increasingly popular way to improve the environmental, economic, and aesthetic performance of both new and existing buildings. Along with the green roofs themselves, it is also common to install sensors to measure various environmental parameters that are affected by or important to the operation of the roof such as precipitation, temperature, and runoff. However, fo...

The urban environment is characterised by a variety of different surface materials. For the discrimination of urban materials, hyperspectral imaging proved a valuable tool. In this study, two methods for classification, Spectral Angle Mapper and Support Vector Machines, are compared on a hyperspectral dataset to derive a detailed map of roof materials. Spectral similarity of different materials...