Operating a building efficiently means co-ordinating the physical plants with constantly changing needs. Building energy management is performed in different ways, on European scale, since design, manufacture, engineering, installation, commissioning and maintenance processes are contemporary involved, and it reflects the wide variations in climate, building type, space per capita, control and ...

Regulatory compliance check in the building industry is a complex task that involves cross-domain national and international standards and regulations. This paper introduces a refined approach to extract SWRL rules from building accessibility regulatory texts and then to transform them into executable rules for semi-automatic compliance checking of Building Information Models. The domain ontolo...

BACKGROUND Functional national laboratory networks and systems are indispensable to the achievement of global health security targets according to the International Health Regulations. The lack of indicators to measure the functionality of national laboratory network has limited the efficiency of past and current interventions to enhance laboratory capacity in resource-limited-settings. SCORE...

This paper is an extension of an earlier work on “building regulations‟ impact on natural ventilation in Dhaka‟s apartment buildings”. Four schemes of building regulations (each offering different „maximum allowable footprint‟ with a different „maximum building height‟) were examined. Due to unavailability of large computation resource, only bottom floors, least privileged in terms of wind acce...

In this research, the features of LEED, BREEAM, and NBRI also, their principles, are reviewed, evaluated, and compared from the aspects of the sustainability. The compliance items of standards with the principles of sustainability determine that their goals are well matched. By comparing the different and shared principles, it discovered how each standard has succeeded from the aspect of the su...

This paper discusses the key role played by public research institutes for promoting socioeconomic inclusion of local communities based on traditional knowledge and traditional medicine. Nongovernmental organizations and cooperatives have had an important role in raising financial resources, being involved with advocacy of local communities and advancing legislation changes. But strict best man...