Most industrial buildings in developing countries such as China have excessively high energy consumption, and the portion used by HVAC systems is significant. This investigation used a winery building in a cold region in northern China as a case study to analyze industrial building energy performance. A lack of communication, cultural differences in design requirements, and poor construction qu...

Accurate information on urban building types plays a crucial role for urban development, planning, and management. In this paper, we apply Object-Based Image Analysis (OBIA) methods to extract buildings from Airborne Laser Scanner (ALS) data and investigate the possibility of classifying detected buildings into ―Residential/Small Buildings‖, ―Apartment Buildings‖, and ―Industrial and Factory Bu...

InSAR data are used to recognise large industrial building complexes. Such buildings often show salient regular patterns of strong scatterers on their roofs. A previous segmentation which uses the intensity, height and coherence information extracts building cues. Strong scatterers are filtered by a spot detector and localised by a cluster formation. Strong scatterers are grouped in rows by a p...

The economy restructuring results industries transformation from one area to another in part or whole, and this phenomenon has left huge numbers of abandoned constructions sites. In Iraqi oil projects, due the lack land vital industrial areas a large number neglected buildings (after no longer needed), shortage been trouble for several years. Adaptive reuse may solve problem. However, it is not...

The buildings fire safety is currently an important subject for researchers and practitioners due to probable incidents that can happen inside industrial plants, large public buildings or transport facilities: fires, explosions, toxic releases, etc. Even minor events can seriously endanger life, goods and environment. Particularly, fire spreading in large buildings represents a major threat tha...

The LonWorks platform for device networking has been widely adopted in buildings, industrial facilities, Supervisory Control And Data Acquisition (SCADA) applications, homes, semiconductor equipment, and transportation systems. Historically, it has seen limited use in the more traditional industrial sectors and machine controls. The new Pyxos embedded control networking platform has dramaticall...