High demand for housing and land scarcity in the town area has increased provision of High-rise Residential Buildings (HrRB). HrRB different owners but shares same common facilities. Its facilities are generally prone to damages either from

In the SARS epidemics in 2003, cluster of cases occurred in high-rise residential(HRR) building blocks, especially in Hong Kong, which gave rise to the concern of the possible roles of air flow. In this paper, the multiple parallel airborne transmission routes are discussed. In particular we closely investigated one of the most likely virus-spread paths, which is related to single-side ventilat...

Previous studies on the price and time trade-off in real estate focused primarily on the real estate traded in the secondary market. This relation, however, depends rather critically on seller motivations. This study examines the price and time trade-off for new residential developments where developer motivations differ substantially from individual seller motivations. In addition, by using th...

Abstr act. An increasingly aging population, information technology developments and shift to high-rise residential neighborhoods combined with lack of aged facilities have led recently to a specific type of residential development in Korea. They appear in the form of silver towns integrated with smart technologies and targeted specifically at the aging population. The silver towns are increasi...

Population estimation was carried out using high-resolution (20 metres) multispectral satellite data (SPOT) in the Kowloon metropolitan area of Hong Kong, which is characterised by high population density and multipurpose high-rise buildings. The smallest areal unit for census data Tertiary Planning Unit (TPU) -was used to aggregate population. With the aid of a raster GIS (IDRISI) and a vector...

Residential buildings consume significant amounts of energy and produce large amount of emissions and waste. However, there is a substantial potential for energy savings in this sector which needs to be evaluated over the life cycle of residential buildings. Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) methodology has been employed to study the primary energy uses and associated environmental impacts of differe...