Retrofitting our current building stock is a vital part of meeting emissions reductions targets, using energy in a more efficient way and creating sustainable lifestyles. However, one of the key barriers identified is a lack of tools to support making retrofitting decisions. In this paper, the creation of a transparent and flexible building energy performance simulation model SdSAP is reported ...

This paper considers the survivability requirement for production operating systems that underlie typical information systems. Since economic incentives give competitive advantages to imperfect and therefore insecure software, it seems inevitable to consider retrofitting some form of security to existing systems. This approach has long been anathema in the security community. We outline the pra...

Existing buildings can be at a greater seismic risk due to non-conformance current design codes and may require structural retrofitting improve building performance. The most recent example of that seen from the 2015 AD earthquake in Nepal other sub continental regions, where numbers were destroyed with more fatal consequences have drawn attention government authorities general public for resis...

Traditional building retrofitting planning is a decision making process prior to the building retrofitting investment. Although the long term energy and financial issues of the retrofitting project are considered in some cases, the energy efficiency potentials due to the maintenance and operation of the retrofitted facilities are not sufficiently explored in existing studies. In the broad field...