The architects’ view of buildings is drastically changing because of technical progress, especially in control and facility management. Also, the usage of many buildings is often altered during their life time. Therefore, buildings have to be designed and maintained as systems including the users and uses over time. We have developed a formal building model that integrates the domains of buildi...

Earthquakes are one major cause for the loss of many lives and properties in many regions around the world. In this project we develop algorithms based on aerial images and neural networks to better assess the risk of earthquakes for buildings. The algorithm consists of two major parts: extraction of buildings footprints from aerial photos and classification of structure type with neural networ...

Many sensors/meters are deployed in commercial buildings to monitor and optimize their performance. However, because sensor metadata is inconsistent across buildings, softwarebased solutions are tightly coupled to the sensor metadata conventions (i.e. schemas and naming) for each building. Running the same software across buildings requires significant integration effort. Metadata normalization...

Response modification factor (R-factor) is one of the seismic design parameters to consider nonlinear performance of building structures during strong earthquake. Relying on this, many seismic design codes led to reduce earthquake loads imposed to the structure. The present paper tries to evaluate the R-factors of conventional concentric braced frames (CBFs) and special moment frames (MRFs) in ...

Sheikh Safi mausoleum includes a number of buildings of different periods, which Shah Tahmasb first turned them into a single complex. Later, Shah Abbas amended this complex and added important buildings to it. In general, the great importance of this historical monument is reflected in its relationship with the Safavid dynasty.  According to the travelogues and tourists and historians’ writin...

due to human beings’ aesthetic sense, they have always been engaged in embellishing their living environment throughout the history. given the different culture, customs, beliefs and even varied policy of each society, the applied arts or decorative styles have constantly been evolved. the qajar architecture was influenced by russian and central europe styles, and by combining them with the ira...

Purpose. The issue of resuming automobile traffic is an important task for the resumption logistical state and local movements. purpose work to study implement experience restoring transport infrastructure construction fortifications, its distribution, wide implementation lessons learned in training process units State Special Service Transport other bridge specialists. using reserve beams unde...