The EU Green Deal, beginning in 2019, promoted a roadmap for operating the transition to sustainable economy by turning climate issues and environmental challenges into opportunities all policy areas making fair inclusive all. Focusing on built environment, voluntary adoption of rating systems sustainability assessment is growing, with an increasing market value, perceived as social responsibil...

The results of building evaluation and feed back have been used for centuries, particularly following a major building failure. These evaluations have resulted in regulations that historically have often been the only systematic and research-based source of direction to building design. Regulations evolved into building codes, which began to control critical aspects of buildings. Over the years...

This randomized controlled study was performed to evaluate the effectiveness of an educational program entitled 'Capacity building for community leaders in a healthy living environment,' and to assess the usefulness of a participatory style of education and the applicability of an intersectoral approach in the educational process. An intervention group and a control group (consisting of 150 and...

Quality primary education is a key focus in development. Educational software has the potential to help teachers provide good education. Due to limited computer resources in low-income schools, there has been substantial ICTD interest on multiple-user educational tools. Building on the foundation of research that addressed the technical problems and the humancomputer-interface (HCI) concerns of...

This paper presents two prototype software architectures that are used for building applications that are used for enhancing the on-line educational environments. The software architectures are based on the concept of educational data/knowledge flow. The presented software architectures are designed with the goal of setting up an infrastructure whose implementation will offer functionalities fo...

introduction reducing and optimizing energy consumption and consequently environmental pollution reductions, besides improving building performance providing occupants comfort conditions, make the building's concept closer to the concept of green building and sustainability. once the decision to build green has been made, one of the first steps in the green design process is to establish f...

The World Wide Web offers access to a wealth o interlinked and fail to make explicit any real-world re identified and stressed as one of the key limitations educational systems enabling knowledge sharing and r combining the strengths of hypermedia systems with high quality, semantic-enabled web-based education hypertext framework for building generic web-based e studies showing how the framewor...

In this paper we report on some problems arising during the building of an educational system in the area of human computer interaction in the Czech Republic. An overview of teaching and educational activities, courses and study programs related to the HCI field being offered by the most significant Czech universities as well as the overview of public and common activities in the HCI developmen...