Energy efficiency in buildings and facilities has become an important part of the efforts for reducing environmental pollution. In order to develop strategies for efficient allocation of energy resources aimed at reducing power consumption, certain electrical quantities needed for analysis must be measured and monitored. In this paper, we propose a low-cost architecture of the remote electrical...

Oppositeness graphs of a spherical building are generalizations of the classical Kneser graphs. Recently Brouwer [1] has shown that the square of each eigenvalue of the adjacency matrix of an oppositeness graph is a power of q, for buildings of finite groups of Lie type defined over Fq. Here we show that the incidence modules are simple. The essential part of the proof is a result of Carter and...

An overview of development of high-rise buildings is presented. Key advancements leading to highrise buildings of today are discussed. Structural analysis and design considerations for modern highrise buildings are presented and trends in design of tall buildings of the future are discussed.

A frequent point of debate is the relationship between Green Building and Sustainable Development (SD). We take the view that SD is most applicable at the urban or societal level, since it includes issues of social equity and broad issues of economics, in addition to concerns about ecosystems and human health. We find it difficult to apply these broader societal issues to buildings in a practic...

inverting large lecture classes and then presents our approach for this particular class. We also employed Pingo (Peer Instruction for Very Large Groups). 5. "The design of buildings and cities in the arctic is in large part a legacy of Two categories of manuscripts will be accepted for peer review: For further information for manuscript preparation, please refer to the Instructions for authors...

Simulation is widely used to assess and/or improve the energy efficiency of both existing and new buildings. Such an analysis has to account for heterogeneous phenomena efficiently, to manage components in a modular manner, and (which is seldom addressed in a structured way) to scale the detail level in all or part of the model, based on the particular simulation goal. In this manuscript, a pro...

The development of design seismic forces is reviewed. The earthquake engineering was shown to have developed in the last 60 years. The characteristics of ground motion and structural response were gradually understood over the last five decades. The damage statistics from recent major earthquakes indicated that the severe damage was observed in taller buildings. The ratios of buildings with ope...

In this paper, we briefly introduce different types of buildings such as spherical buildings, Euclidean buildings, twin buildings, R-buildings and describe some of their applications to many subjects: (1) differential geometry such as Mostow strong rigidity, rank rigidity of nonpositively curved manifolds, Margulis superrigidity, quasi-isometry rigidity, classification of isoparametric manifold...

This article examines how narratives surrounding qilou (arcaded buildings) have changed through three very different moments over a period of almost a century in Guangzhou, China. As a result, what public discourse once perceived as a new, modern form now serves as a symbol of traditional local culture. The metamorphosis of the qilou narrative in response to different visions, social circumstan...

This paper aims to investigate the energy saving and carbon reduction performance of cross-laminated timber residential buildings in the severe cold region of China through a computational simulation approach. The authors selected Harbin as the simulation environment, designed reference residential buildings with different storeys which were constructed using reinforced concrete (RC) and cross-...