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Thermal Effectiveness Characteristics Of Low Approach Indirect Evaporative Cooling Systems In Buildings, Ben Costelloe, Donal Finn Jan 2007

Thermal Effectiveness Characteristics Of Low Approach Indirect Evaporative Cooling Systems In Buildings, Ben Costelloe, Donal Finn

Articles

Meteorological enthalpy analysis of temperate and maritime climates above latitude 45°N suggests that the water-side evaporative cooling technique has considerable unrealised potential with contemporary “high temperature” building cooling systems—such as chilled ceilings and displacement ventilation. As low approach conditions are the key to exploiting the cooling potential of the ambient air, thermal performance at such conditions needs to be investigated. To address the research issues, an industrial scale test rig, based on a low approach open cooling tower and plate heat exchanger and designed to maximise evaporative cooling potential, has been constructed. The thermal effectiveness of such systems (as a …

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Improving Access To Housing For People With Disabilities., Myles Keaveney Jan 2007

Improving Access To Housing For People With Disabilities., Myles Keaveney

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No abstract provided.

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Winy Maas, Noel Brady Jan 2007

Winy Maas, Noel Brady

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Interview with Winy Maas, Architect with MVRDV Architects.

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The Main Line As Model, Edgar Adams Jan 2007

The Main Line As Model, Edgar Adams

Architecture, Art, and Historic Preservation Faculty Publications

Using historical mapping this presentation examines the evolution of Ardmore Pennsylvania on Philadelphia's Main Line and compares it with more contemporary Transit Oriented Development on the West Coast.

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Mind The Gap: Understanding The Interface, Edgar Adams Jan 2007

Mind The Gap: Understanding The Interface, Edgar Adams

Architecture, Art, and Historic Preservation Faculty Publications

This paper uses Transit Oriented Development as a means to explore different means of engaging transportation infrastructure within the "middle" or suburban landscape. The site is the former location of a train station in Taunton MA that occupies a sensitive location near the Taunton River.

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Bearers Of Meaning, Dale Kinney Jan 2007

Bearers Of Meaning, Dale Kinney

History of Art Faculty Research and Scholarship

No abstract provided.

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Ua1f Wku Archives Vertical File - Off Campus Housing, Wku Archives Jan 2007

Ua1f Wku Archives Vertical File - Off Campus Housing, Wku Archives

WKU Archives Records

Digitized vertical file materials regarding off campus housing options.

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Ua3/9/2 Gordon Ford College Of Business, Wku President's Office Jan 2007

Ua3/9/2 Gordon Ford College Of Business, Wku President's Office

WKU Archives Records

Promotional piece showing proposed new Gordon Ford College of Business building.

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The Regenerative Rebuilding Strategy For Sustainable Coastal Communities. An Architectural Thesis And Case Study Of Rebuilding Post-Tsunami Sri Lanka., Kristina Iverson, Shannon Chance Jan 2007

The Regenerative Rebuilding Strategy For Sustainable Coastal Communities. An Architectural Thesis And Case Study Of Rebuilding Post-Tsunami Sri Lanka., Kristina Iverson, Shannon Chance

Conference papers

Developments are occurring at a rapid pace along coastlines all over the world. In fact a full two-thirds of the world’s population, or 4 billion people, live within 250 miles of a coast1. In the United States architects have recognized the negative effects of existing building practices on beaches. In fact, designers have eagerly adopted methods of “sustainable design” to band-aid the problem. While seemingly an improvement upon past building practices, current movements in sustainable design focus on slowing down the degradation to the beach environment instead of encouraging healing practices. If we are to sustain the existence of both …

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Investigating The Heart Of A Community: Archaeological Excavations At The African Meeting House, Boston, Massachusetts, David B. Landon, Teresa Dujnic, Kate Descoteaux, Susan Jacobucci, Darios Felix, Marisa Patalano, Ryan Kennedy, Diana Gallagher, Ashley Peles, Jonathan Patton, Heather Trigg, Allison Bain, Cheryl Laroche Jan 2007

Investigating The Heart Of A Community: Archaeological Excavations At The African Meeting House, Boston, Massachusetts, David B. Landon, Teresa Dujnic, Kate Descoteaux, Susan Jacobucci, Darios Felix, Marisa Patalano, Ryan Kennedy, Diana Gallagher, Ashley Peles, Jonathan Patton, Heather Trigg, Allison Bain, Cheryl Laroche

Andrew Fiske Memorial Center for Archaeological Research Publications

In collaboration with the Museum of African American History, an archaeological research team from the University of Massachusetts Boston carried out a data recovery excavation at the African Meeting House on Beacon Hill. The African Meeting House was a powerful social institution for 19thcentury Boston’s free black community. The site played an important role in the abolition movement, the creation of educational opportunity, and other community action for social and political equality. The Meeting House was originally built in 1806, and renovations in preparation for the 2006 bi-centennial celebration prompted an investigation of areas of the property to be impacted …

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Evaluation Of Time Independent Rheological Models Applicable To Fresh Self-Compacting Concrete, Dimitri Feys, Ronny Verhoeven, Geert De Schutter Jan 2007

Evaluation Of Time Independent Rheological Models Applicable To Fresh Self-Compacting Concrete, Dimitri Feys, Ronny Verhoeven, Geert De Schutter

Civil, Architectural and Environmental Engineering Faculty Research & Creative Works

Self-Compacting Concrete is a New Type of Concrete Which is More Liquid Compared to Traditional Concrete and Which Does Not Need Any Form of External Compaction. as a Result, This Type of Concrete is Suitable for a New Placing Technique: Pumping SCC from the Bottom in the Formwork and Letting It Rise in the Formwork Due to the Applied Pressure. in Order to Understand the Phenomena Occurring during Pumping Operations, the Rheological Properties of SCC Must Be Investigated and Controlled. Tests Have Been Performed with Two Different Rheometers, Which Are Described in This Paper. for the Tattersall MIk-II Rheometer, a …

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Ecologically Performative Landscapes And Water Management, David Hopman Jan 2007

Ecologically Performative Landscapes And Water Management, David Hopman

Landscape Architecture Faculty Publications

Performative theory has been applied to many facets of social theory including economic theory, sexual orientation, and regionalism in architecture. Simply stated, it is the notion that a thing becomes what it purports to be through actions and behaviors. The term is applied here to landscapes in complex cultural environments with environmental features that are used to mitigate or even to enhance the environmental footprint of the landscape. These landscapes are a recognition that designers should no longer separate "natural" areas from the places where people actually live and work.

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Multifunctional Rural Landscapes: Economic, Environmental, Policy, And Social Impacts Of Land Use Changes In Nebraska, Twyla M. Hansen, Charles A. Francis, J. Dixon Esseks, J. Allen Williams Jr. Jan 2007

Multifunctional Rural Landscapes: Economic, Environmental, Policy, And Social Impacts Of Land Use Changes In Nebraska, Twyla M. Hansen, Charles A. Francis, J. Dixon Esseks, J. Allen Williams Jr.

Department of Agronomy and Horticulture: Dissertations, Theses, and Student Research

The conversion of farmland near cities to other human uses is a global trend that challenges our long-term capacity to provide food, fiber, and ecosystem services to a growing world population. If current trends continue in the United States, the population will reach 450 million by the year 2050. At the same time, an accelerating change in land use will reduce today’s two acres per person of farmland to less than one acre per person. This is scarcely enough to produce food for our domestic population, without any food available for export – even assuming advances in technology. We need …

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