Unprecedented amounts of information from millions of smart meters and thermostats installed in recent years has left the door open for better understanding, analyzing and using the insights that data can provide, about the power consumption patterns of a building. The challenge with using data-driven approaches, is to close the loop for near real-time control and decision making in large build...

Landscape is the visible cognition of human environment, including natural objects such as mountains, rivers, the sea, forests and artificial objects such as buildings, bridges, and other structures. Landscape can be recognized and evaluated differently, depending on the viewer. However, people who share the same or similar local culture or aesthetics have the common recognition and evaluation ...

Indoor air pollution is ubiquitous, and takes many forms, ranging from smoke emitted from solid fuel combustion, especially in households in developing countries, to complex mixtures of volatile and semi-volatile organic compounds present in modern buildings. This paper reviews sources of, and health risks associated with, various indoor chemical pollutants, from a historical and global perspec...

Interventions on the built environment and more generally on buildings of the past, including the recent past, and their management call for fine-tuned knowledge and organization skills in all the related areas, from planning to maintenance. Special and separate attention is paid, on one hand, to older and historical buildings and structures, on the other to contemporary architecture, in both c...

Practical Experience has shown that the agglomeration and successful rate of the entrepreneurial activity in the industrial clusters was much higher than non-industrial clusters, the aim of this paper is to contribute to a greater understanding of the process about how the industrial cluster promote the entrepreneurial activities functioning as the incubator of the entrepreneurs and enterprises...

Through the design of soundscape installations for three historical museum buildings, we explore how sonic placemaking may be used to reveal intangible cultural heritage. We build on Harrison and Dourish’s distinction between space place, Jordan Lacey’s definition understand sound-scape as a process creating places that support sensory connection be-tween guest space, hereby enabling new experi...

There are a large number of historic buildings which were mainly made blue-brick masonry in today’s world. However, for the natural and man-made reasons, these have been damaged different degrees. In order to protect more scientifically learn about preservation state existing buildings, it is necessary ascertain material properties blue brick buildings. The article takes bricks historical Kaife...