Abstract The research aimed to evaluate the effect of seismic loads on tall buildings through four geometric shapes: square, circle, equilateral triangle, and regular hexagon, around X Y axis, in three evaluation stages structural regularity condition system adopted verification phases regarding story drift limit according E.030 Peruvian standard. Modelling was conducted ETABS ® v.16.2.1, with ...

The robot automates the operation painting on exterior walls of high-rise buildings. The robot is designed to ensure safety during work at high elevations, assure the quality of the coating, enhances efficiency and maintain the privacy of guests in the building. At the Shinjuku Center Building (54 above-ground storeys, 220 m in height, 100,000 m' of coating) one of Tokyo's high-rise buildings, ...

General Authority for Educational Buildings (GAEB) in Egypt is responsible for new construction and maintenance of the educational building [1]. According to the Sixth Five- Years Plan in Egypt, the program of educational structures includes new construction of about 2915 schools, with 39.8 thousand classes. Also, maintenance works for buildings about 1250 schools. These works needs a high budg...

Nowadays, many buildings are equipped with a building management system (BMS), which plays a key role in maintaining the operation, energy efficiency, and safety of a building. With the rising concerns in energy conservation and the fact that buildings are major energy consumers, there is an increasing interest in studies on building management systems in computing society. One key difficulty w...

In the last decades, several studies have revealed how critical the urban heat island (UHI) effect can be in cities located in cold climates, such as the Canadian one. Meanwhile, many researchers have looked at the impact of the city design over the urban microclimate, and have raised concerns about the development of too dense cities. Under the effect of the “Places to Growth” plan, the city o...

Various problems often arise in high-rise buildings during the winter months due to stack effect. In this study, building of interest, located South Korea, was experiencing constant loud noises Thus, we created a noise level reduction plan by creating method for pressurizing zones according outdoor conditions. To discover appropriate pressurization operating modes, applied two-year commissionin...

background: tangential irradiation of intact breast is one of the most common procedures performed in any radiotherapy center. this method is performed by using 2d and 3d treatment planning. the aim of this study was to compare 2d with 3d plans in breast conserving radiotherapy. homogeneity of isodose, and lung received dose were compared. materials and methods: twenty patients with breast canc...

Existing buildings represent the greatest opportunity to improve building energy efficiency and reduce environmental impacts. However, millions of decision makers of the buildings usually lack sufficient information or tools for measuring their building’s energy performance. The goal of this project is to develop and evaluate rapid low-cost measurement and modeling approaches that will allow “v...

ir conditioning as we know it, providing thermal comfort by mechanical methods, first appeared in buildings about a hundred years ago. The ability to control temperature, humidity and air purity made urban development possible in the most inhospitable of locations. Together with electric lighting, air conditioning also eliminated restrictions on plan form and fenestration that architects had be...