This intervention study was designed to show the effects of the renovation of moisture and mold damaged school building on the schoolchildren’s health and exposure. Microbial sampling from indoor air of the school and a health questionnaire study were performed before and after renovation. The results were compared to those from non-damaged reference school. The effect of a thorough renovation ...

In this paper, the influence of cement and some selected admixtures: redispersible polymer powder, airentraining and hydrophobing agents, on the hydrophobicity of cured renovation plaster was analysed. The results were obtained experimentally. The result of capillary action (H) over a given period of time was used to evaluate the hydrophobicity of these materials. Statistical methods based on m...

In the past three decades, Chinese economy has been arresting the worldwide attention for its doubledigit growth rate. Playing a leading part in general economic development, Chinese manufacturing has been contributing a substantial portion in the total GDP growth. However, a national key project, the Research of China National Manufacturing Strategy, has found in the last several years that Ch...

Property asset management is keenly influenced by the market rental price for the services and asset quality. Renovation is conceived as a form of redevelopment that returns the property back to its pristine state after experiencing quality deterioration. We formulate a two-factor renovation model under rental price and quality uncertainty and a fixed investment cost. The renovation policy is d...

The Student Government passed a bill Tuesday night that gave official approval of the renovation of Shorty's. Senior Allison Stewart, the SO treasurer and the chairwomanof the Shortfs Renovation Committee, emphasized that the planned renovation will be solely structural. A hallway will be made connecting Shorty's and the television alcove adjacent to the food · court. Bathrooms and a storage ro...

Good rehearsal facilities for musicians are essential. Directive 2003/10/EC necessitates that musicians are protected from noise exposure. A code of conduct gives the guidelines how this should be done. This study examines room acoustics recommendations provided by the Finnish code of conduct, and discusses whether they are adequate. Small teaching facilities were measured after renovation and ...

We extend Borovkov’s renovation theory to obtain criteria for coupling-convergence of stochastic processes that do not necessarily obey stochastic recursions. The results are applied to an “infinite bin model”, a particular system that is an abstraction of a stochastic ordered graph, i.e., a graph on the integers that has (i, j), i < j, as an edge, with probability p, independently from edge to...

The paper discusses the meaning and nature of urban cultural heritage, and the available methods for its valuation in the perspective of sustainable city development. From this perspective, decision-making problems of renovation often involve a complex decision-making process in which multiple requirements and conditions have to be taken into consideration simultaneously. In project development...