Fast-moving lava flows during the 2014–2015 eruption of Fogo volcano in Cape Verde engulfed 75% (n = 260) of buildings within three villages in the Chã das Caldeiras area, as well as 25% of cultivable agricultural land, water storage facilities and the only road into the area. The eruption had a catastrophic impact for the closeknit communities of Chã, destroying much of their property, land an...

various view points of the library planners about the future’s library buildings have been explained in this paper. with the advances in information technology, some librarians believe that modern and well planned library buildings are not so necessary in the future. on the other hand, many others believe that more modern and well technologically equipped library buildings should be built to fu...

In 2018, Silberzahn, Uhlmann, Nosek, and colleagues published an article in which 29 teams analyzed the same research question with data: Are soccer referees more likely to give red cards players dark skin tone than light tone? The results obtained by differed extensively. Many concluded from this widely noted exercise that social sciences are not rigorous enough provide definitive answers. art...

he article is devoted to the analysis of assessment direct losses for restoration fixed resources destroyed and damaged as a result hostilities. The physical damage was carried out according data open sources information on situation real estate objects. distribution evaluation number objects are investigated. methodology involves use indirect methods, statistical certain assumptions, in partic...

This work examines an application of Augmented Reality (AR) for architectural education and fire prevention training for Korean Traditional Buildings. In February 2008, the Namdaemun Gate (Korean National Treasure N o 1) burned down, despite efforts of many firemen, as the main difficulty was getting fire under control without any structural knowledge of wooden buildings. Hence, in state of the...

The period of ottoman occupation of Iraq was characterized by the same style of buildings and they used local materials as did their predecessors. At the beginning of ottoman occupation, governors were focusing on build mosques and religion schools (Tkaya). Houses were built in random styles depending on the experiences of the builders. For this reason, the houses became irregular and expanded ...

On October 28th 1943 Winston Churchill said "we shape our buildings, and afterward our buildings shape us" (Humes, 1994). Churchill was pondering how and when to rebuild the British House of Commons, which had been destroyed by enemy bombs on May 10th 1941. The old House had been small and insufficient to hold all its members, but was restored to its original form in 1950 in order to recapture ...

the interactive effects of adjacent buildings on their seismic performance are not frequently considered in seismic design. the adjacent buildings, however, are interrelated through the soil during seismic ground motions. the seismic energy is redistributed in the neighboring buildings through multiple structure-soil-structure interactions (sssi). for example, in an area congested with many nea...