Peking Union Medical College (PUMC), as the representative work of Chinese modern architecture, has had a great impact on development architecture. Its advanced and complete concealed works contain value are valuable materials for study This paper studies PUMC, enriches research data in this field, summarizes transformation design scheme protection repair ancient buildings PUMC.

Driven by manufacturing supply reform and regional industrial transformation upgrading, village parks are key areas for deepening urban renewal. The complex relationship between various property rights actors is a factor limiting the sustainable development of parks, thus attracts considerable research. However, existing research limited to individual cases lacks systematic approaches provide e...

Legacy Information Systems (LIS) pose a challenging problem for business organisations. On one hand, LIS are viewed as aging systems needing replacement; on the other hand, they are a valuable source of corporate knowledge and their mission-critical status makes them increasingly indispensable. Although these challenges have persisted for some time, practical solutions are only now starting to ...

Deficits in neuroendocrine-immune system functioning, including alterations in pineal and thymic glands, contribute to aging-associated diseases. This study looks at ageing-associated alterations in pineal and thymic gland functioning evaluating common signaling molecules present in both human and animal pinealocytes and thymocytes: endocrine cell markers (melatonin, serotonin, pCREB, AANAT, CG...

The Dutch cities Utrecht and Wijk bij Duurstede were founded by the Romans around 50 B.C. and the village Fijnaart and Graft-De Rijp around 1600 A.D. The soils of these villages are polluted with Pb (up to ~5000 mg/kg). Lead isotope ratios were used to trace the sources of Pb pollution in the urban soils. In ~75% of the urban soils the source of the Pb pollution was a mixture of glazed potsherd...

Research and deployment of public interactive displays is moving from laboratory environments into urban spaces and public areas (Müller et al. 2010 ). Public displays augment the activities in the space around them by facilitating different use cases, such as public statements (Ananny and Strohecker 2009 ; Dalsgaard and Halskov 2010 ), play and performance (O’Hara et al. 2008 ; Hosio et al. 20...

A considerable part of recent EU policies is currently addressed at developing effective measures to support the transition towards a low carbon society according to the principles and goals of Roadmap to 2050. In this general framework the links between the development of low-emission strategies and climate-resilient approaches to buildings play a key role. As most part of the existing buildin...

Abstract The digitalisation of the deep renovation process and built environment is enabled by ubiquitous connectivity monitoring itself, artefacts actors within it, events that occur. Such important for efficient construction management, dynamic peak demand reduction, affordability, occupants’ well-being. Sensor networks based on Internet Things (IoT) technologies represent an prerequisite bot...

This paper presents the results of a research on problems and challenges post-earthquake renovation in inner city center Zagreb, where mostly older, historical buildings are situated, which were severely damaged 2020 earthquake. Almost two years after earthquake, political actors have not been able to make much progress regarding renovation, has caused discontent among vulnerable citizens. qual...