Although passive remote sensing technology allows us to detect and map urban buildings and infrastructures, they have several limitations when it comes to extracting their heights. However, by using a combination of data from passive and active sensors, it is possible to overcome some of those limitations and produce highly accurate 3-D height maps of urban areas. In this paper, a combination o...

The National Health Service in Scotland (NHSScotland) has, in recent years, done much to reduce energy consumption in its major healthcare buildings (hospitals). On average, a reduction of 2% per year has been achieved since 2000, based on hospital buildings. However, there had been little or no attention paid to smaller premises such as health centres, clinics, dentists, etc. Such smaller heal...

Results indicated that although the majority of subjects reported no problems with wayfinding and orientation in campus buildings, 9% of respondents reported becoming lost often or almost always, 14% have been quite or totally lost, and 8% have experienced frequent and severe disorientation. In one building, almost 40% of users reported having become quite or totally lost. Comparisons between r...

Resilience is often regarded as an attribute of communities rather than of individual buildings, bridges and other civil infrastructure facilities. Previous research to support development of resilient infrastructure has considered, for the most part, actions and policies to achieve resilience objectives at the community level. While it is clear that a community cannot be resilient without resi...

In this paper, we show that the building at infinity of a two-dimensional affine Rbuilding is a generalized polygon endowed with a valuation satisfying some specific axioms. Specializing to the discrete case of affine buildings, this solves part of a long standing conjecture about affine buildings of type G̃2, and it reproves the results obtained mainly by the second author for types Ã2 and C̃2. ...

Because of its scale and the role it plays in our lives, a healthy built environment is of vital importance. As a part of material culture, buildings have to support human needs. But mainly because of their static nature, obtained through design, most contemporary buildings and their components have a negative impact on their surroundings. The huge quantities of waste produced during demolition...

The complexity of planning requirements and aims for energy-efficient buildings has significantly risen, however the buildings are mostly planned with traditional planning methods based on sequential planning model. The main hypothesis states that successful energy-efficient and even -producing buildings can be realized only through more integrated, interdisciplinary and life-cycle oriented des...

ISSN 2277-5056 | © 2012 Bonfring Abstract--The major cities of India are going through huge metamorphosis under the impact of globalization, population increment, housing demand and tremendous financial investment in building industry. Rapid development of high-rise and four-five storied residential buildings are observed at every possible part of the city. In designing the city so, residentia...

We present a prior-knowledge based shadow prediction model, focused on outdoors scene, which allows to predict pixels, on the camera, which are likely to be part of shadows casted by surrounded buildings. We employ a geometrical approach which models surrounding buildings, their shadow and the camera. One innovative aspect of our method is to retrieve building datas automatically from OpenStree...