Child running and jumping sound are one of the major noise sources in heavy structured apartment building. It was reported that physical characteristics of rubber ball (heavy/soft impact sound) was similar with child's running and jumping. As a standard impact source, rubber ball was standardized in ISO 10140 series and ISO 16283-2. However, evaluation method of rubber ball was not proposed in ...

We examined bed bug prevalence in 2,372 low-income apartments within 43 buildings in four New Jersey cities using a combination of resident interviews, brief visual inspections, and monitoring with Climbup Insect Interceptors. Infestation rates ranged from 3.8 to 29.5% among the buildings, with an overall infestation rate of 12.3%. Within each apartment, the bed area trapped significantly more ...

Modern telecommunications infrastructure is based on optical fibers for data transmission, due to their higher bandwidth and low attenuation. Today, optical fiber is starting to reach apartment buildings and even private homes, and delivers wideband services such as Triple Play (a Triple Play service bundles high-speed Internet access, television, and telephone service over a single broadband c...

Sustainability has been an absolute condition since the recent decades. To achieve sustainable building, one often struggle to reuse natural resources, minimize artificial energy, optimize natural energy, or else likewise. These efforts are in order to increase the building lifespan, as therefore construction waste can be eliminated. This paper is a part of PhD research work entitled:”Functiona...

This paper is a prospective study which looks at the possibility of configuring high performance renovation of apartment buildings by the use of constraint satisfaction problem (CSP). This study is one part of a project called CRIBA which aims to industrialize high performance thermal renovation of mid-rise (up to seven stories) apartment buildings. The renovation is based on external rectangul...

Traditional Finnish timber construction is characterized by simplicity, clarity and scanty use of decoration. The traditional construction technique used a timberwork frame, which led to simple, cube-like building masses. Nevertheless, several log buildings erected around one yard formed a rich and varied entity, both in the country and in towns. The distinctive Finnish wooden town represents t...