A significant share of future urban energy consumption is predetermined when land-use and urban form are designated. Community Energy Management (CEM) is a sustainable energy strategy which looks at how shaping the built environment and designing urban services in consideration of energy production, distribution and use could affect both the long term demand for energy and the type of energy su...

Chinese cities are experiencing major environmental e!ects from fossil fuel-based energy consumption for mainly residential and, increasingly, urban transportation uses. Community energy management (CEM) is a sustainable energy strategy which looks at how purposely shaping the built environment and designing urban services in consideration of energy production, distribution and use could a!ect ...

Urban construction is the important infrastructure of the city, and it is the material basis for the urban survival and development. In this paper, a NASUCI (Novel Analysis System for Urban Construction Information) is proposed. Using data mining technology, case-based reasoning technology, the system focused on providing better decision support for urban construction. The system is composed of...

extended abstract 1. introduction urbanization is a process which leads to the growth of cities and urban changes due to industrialization and economic development. in other words, urbanization is an inevitable and demographic force and movement which should not be neglected. informal settlements, which took place in europe after the industrial revolution at the time of the transition from the ...

A simple spreadsheet model was used to evaluate potential water quality benefits of high-density development. The question was whether the reduced land consumed by higher density development (vs. standard suburban developments) would offset the worse water quality generated by a greater amount of impervious surface in the smaller area. Total runoff volume and per acre loadings of total phosphor...

In the last years, the increasing urbanization has constrained to face the dramatic growth of the urban waste production and the consequent socio-economical and environmental impact. The relevance of finding an optimal waste management further increases when it involves hazardous materials, since they represent a vulnerable infrastructure sector for homeland defense. Although there is a general...

In Norway, the management of natural and cultural resources is subject to increasing public scrutiny. Con icts are escalating over many issues concerning the balance between preservation and utilisation . Traditionally con icts over issues like growth in commercial nature tourism, predator control, forest policies, protected areas management, cultural heritage protection , and rights associat...

Many organisations that currently engage in Knowledge Management (KM) accept that leveraging knowledge, both within their organisations and externally to their clients, is vital for the efficient execution of projects and for improving organisational competitiveness. It also helps with business entrepreneurship and for managing change. However, the increasing attention levelled at the importanc...

during a very long period of time, civil engineers have been the only ones to be designated as the experts for underground space, while the planners and architects were the ones of the development at the surface. cities worldwide tend to overlook an invaluable asset that lies beneath their surfaces. most cities and urban regions are unaware of the benefits underground space use has to offer, bo...