This paper presents a simulation study to reduce heating and cooling energy demand of a school building in Seoul Metropolitan Area, Korea. The aim of this study was to estimate the impact of passive vs. active approaches on energy savings in buildings using EnergyPlus simulation. By controlling lighting, the energy saving of the original school building design was found most significant, and in...

This study elucidates values that determine traditional Indonesian housing orientations. The diversity of cultures in Indonesia generates a firm rule design and affects some elements, encompass orientation. Recent research on the orientation locality-based buildings has not been much explained holistically, so this can be potential for further discussion. In order to produce synthesis values, e...

Human operators use an intuitive procedure of rotating laser scanner point clouds into specific projections when trying to understand the structure of buildings contained in the data. This procedure has been formalized and incorporated into an automatic building model reconstruction procedure. The method derives the building orientation from the analysis of height histogram bins. Using the orie...

Thermal infrared (TIR) images of the building hull are often used for detecting damaged and weak spots in the insulation of the building hull. However, imaging and manually analysing each face is very time consuming. This process can be carried out more efficiently using a mobile mapping system (MMS) equipped with a TIR video camera. Frontal façades of the buildings which are visible from stree...

This document presents design pattern recommendations for building Grid applications based on the principles of service orientation and using existing Web Services technologies. The design pattern described in this document is a subset of the Web Services Grid Application Framework (WSGAF) approach to building Grid applications since it only focuses on the use of the Web Services Interoperabili...

Building on the observation that finger orientation is an inherent part of human's interaction in the real world, exploiting finger orientation for multitouch tabletop interaction would facilitate more natural interaction techniques. We motivate this by means of examples where the finger orientation improves or enriches interaction. Afterwards, we present a simple and fast approach to detect th...