Buildings are complex products containing relatively large numbers of distinct parts that are collected in multiple assemblies for different design, analysis and production purposes. Modeling buildings in fully parametric 3D CAD systems offers numerous benefits in terms of productivity, the ability to rapidly generate design alternatives at different levels, and elimination of errors that resul...

This paper is concerned with the design of an Incremental Radial Basis Function Network (IRBFN) by combining Linear Regression (LR) and local RBFN for the prediction of heating load and cooling load in residential buildings. Here the proposed IRBFN is designed by building a collection of information granules through Context-based Fuzzy C-Means (CFCM) clustering algorithm that is guided by the d...

We propose a model-based approach to automated 3D extraction of buildings from aerial images. We focus on a reconstruction strategy that is not restricted to a small class of buildings. Therefore, we employ a generic modeling approach which relies on the well de ned combination of building part models. Building parts are classi ed by their roof type. Starting from low-level image features we co...

This paper describes a novel method for structural health monitoring of buildings, currently being developed at the University of Southern California for future applications in earthquake early warning systems. The method uses data from vibrational sensors and is based on detecting changes in travel times of waves propagating through the structure. It is an intermediate scale method, which can ...

The topic of energy saving in buildings is increasingly raising the interest of researchers for its practical outcomes in terms of economic advantages, and long-term environmental sustainability. Many sensory devices are currently available that allow precise monitoring of every physical quantity; in particular it is possible to obtain estimates of energy consumption which can be used to enact ...

the interactive effects of adjacent buildings on their seismic performance are not frequently considered in seismic design. the adjacent buildings, however, are interrelated through the soil during seismic ground motions. the seismic energy is redistributed in the neighboring buildings through multiple structure-soil-structure interactions (sssi). for example, in an area congested with many nea...