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Designing For Future Building Adaptive Reuse Using Adaptstar, Sheila Conejos, Craig Langston Dec 2010

Designing For Future Building Adaptive Reuse Using Adaptstar, Sheila Conejos, Craig Langston

Sheila Conejos

Designing future buildings with embedded adaptive reuse potential is a useful criterion for sustainability. Adaptive reuse is an emerging and significant design strategy that supports global climate protection and emissions reduction. Building adaptive reuse is a viable alternative to demolition and replacement; it entails less energy and waste, and can offer social benefits by revitalizing familiar landmarks and giving them a new lease of life. This paper describes the development of a new rating tool known as adaptSTAR, suitable for assessing future adaptive reuse potential at the time a building is designed. This paper reports on the methodology used to …


Designing For Future Building Adaptive Reuse Using Adaptstar, Sheila Conejos, Craig A. Langston Dec 2010

Designing For Future Building Adaptive Reuse Using Adaptstar, Sheila Conejos, Craig A. Langston

Craig Langston

Designing future buildings with embedded adaptive reuse potential is a useful criterion for sustainability. Adaptive reuse is an emerging and significant design strategy that supports global climate protection and emissions reduction. Building adaptive reuse is a viable alternative to demolition and replacement; it entails less energy and waste, and can offer social benefits by revitalizing familiar landmarks and giving them a new lease of life. This paper describes the development of a new rating tool known as adaptSTAR, suitable for assessing future adaptive reuse potential at the time a building is designed. This paper reports on the methodology used to …


Campaspe And Murray Shires Infrastructure Gap Analysis Report, Nadine E. White, Jeremy Buultjens, Rose Wright, Meredith Lawrence Jul 2010

Campaspe And Murray Shires Infrastructure Gap Analysis Report, Nadine E. White, Jeremy Buultjens, Rose Wright, Meredith Lawrence

Nadine E White

No abstract provided.


British Civic Architecture In The United States Of The Ionian Islands, Nicholas Patricios May 2010

British Civic Architecture In The United States Of The Ionian Islands, Nicholas Patricios

Nicholas Patricios

On 5th November 1815 the United States of the Ionian Islands was established under British protection through signature of the Treaty of Paris. British Residents were subsequently stationed on each of the seven Ionian Islands off the west coast of Greece as governors of each Island. During the Protectorate period, 1815-1864, the Residents carried out numerous public works from public buildings and structures to roads and harbors. The most prolific Resident was Charles Napier in Kefalonia. The civic architectural style of the public buildings and structures designed by British architects and engineers was inevitably Neo-Classical, ironically a new style for …


University Leadership In Energy And Environmental Design: How Postsecondary Institutions Use The Leed® Green Building Rating System, Shannon M. Chance May 2010

University Leadership In Energy And Environmental Design: How Postsecondary Institutions Use The Leed® Green Building Rating System, Shannon M. Chance

Shannon M. Chance

No abstract provided.


Determination Of Material Emission Signatures By Ptr-Ms And Their Correlations With Odor Assessments By Human Subjects, Kwanghoon Han Apr 2010

Determination Of Material Emission Signatures By Ptr-Ms And Their Correlations With Odor Assessments By Human Subjects, Kwanghoon Han

Kwanghoon Han

The objectives of this study were to determine volatile organic compound (VOC) emission signatures of nine typical building materials by using proton transfer reaction-mass spectrometry (PTR-MS) and to explore the correlation between the PTR-MS measurements and the measurements of acceptability by human subjects. VOC emissions from each material were measured in a 50-l small-scale chamber. Chamber air was sampled by PTR-MS to determine emission signatures. Sorbent tube sampling and TD-GC/MS analysis were also performed to identify the major VOCs emitted and to compare the resulting data with the PTR-MS emission signatures. The data on the acceptability of air quality assessed …


Environmental Design And Emerging Technologies: Today And The Near Future, Joseph S. Clark, Lindsay Tan Mar 2010

Environmental Design And Emerging Technologies: Today And The Near Future, Joseph S. Clark, Lindsay Tan

Joseph S Clark

Technological advances over the past 10 years have caused some significant changes to the design of the built environment. These developments, and others like them, promise to change more than just how we design; they will very likely change what we design as well. The authors will present the connection between these developments in a way that projects, realistically, how technology will affect, and are employed by, the design professions in the next five to ten years. Further, the authors will address the promises and pitfalls of embracing virtual environments as the domain of environmental design.


Daylighting And Urban Form: An Urban Fabric Of Light, Mark Dekay Jan 2010

Daylighting And Urban Form: An Urban Fabric Of Light, Mark Dekay

Mark DeKay

This article attempts to answer the question, "What would the form of the city be like if we were to take seriously the provision of daylight to all buildings?" Previous work by this author reviewed existing daylight planning tools and found that they do not assure a predictable level of daylight. Previous work also identified an empirical relationship between daylight levels inside buildings and the street canyon ratios--the Daylight Access Rule--as an objective basis for establishing development guidelines. This study identifies the important parameters available to designers and regulators that are necessary for urban daylighting. The results of the …


The Fire Learning Network: A Promising Conservation Strategy For Forestry, Bruce Evan Goldstein, Will Hale Butler Jan 2010

The Fire Learning Network: A Promising Conservation Strategy For Forestry, Bruce Evan Goldstein, Will Hale Butler

Bruce Evan Goldstein

No abstract provided.


The U.S. Fire Learning Network: Providing A Narrative Framework For Restoring Ecosystems, Professions, And Institutions, Bruce Evan Goldstein, William Hale Butler Jan 2010

The U.S. Fire Learning Network: Providing A Narrative Framework For Restoring Ecosystems, Professions, And Institutions, Bruce Evan Goldstein, William Hale Butler

Bruce Evan Goldstein

No abstract provided.


Expanding The Scope And Impact Of Collaborative Planning: Combining Multi-Stakeholder Collaboration And Communities Of Practice In A Learning Network, Bruce Evan Goldstein, William Hale Butler Jan 2010

Expanding The Scope And Impact Of Collaborative Planning: Combining Multi-Stakeholder Collaboration And Communities Of Practice In A Learning Network, Bruce Evan Goldstein, William Hale Butler

Bruce Evan Goldstein

No abstract provided.


The U.S. Fire Learning Network: Transforming Natural Resource Management Agencies And Institutions Through Collaboration (Book Proposal In Review), Bruce E. Goldstein, William Hale Butler Jan 2010

The U.S. Fire Learning Network: Transforming Natural Resource Management Agencies And Institutions Through Collaboration (Book Proposal In Review), Bruce E. Goldstein, William Hale Butler

Bruce Evan Goldstein

No abstract provided.


The Weakness Of Tight Ties: Why Scientists Almost Destroyed The Coachella Valley Multispecies Habitat Conservation Plan In Order To Save It, Bruce Evan Goldstein Jan 2010

The Weakness Of Tight Ties: Why Scientists Almost Destroyed The Coachella Valley Multispecies Habitat Conservation Plan In Order To Save It, Bruce Evan Goldstein

Bruce Evan Goldstein

No abstract provided.


The Us Fire Learning Network: Springing A Rigidity Trap Through Multi-Scalar Collaborative Networks, William Hale Butler, Bruce Evan Goldstein Jan 2010

The Us Fire Learning Network: Springing A Rigidity Trap Through Multi-Scalar Collaborative Networks, William Hale Butler, Bruce Evan Goldstein

Bruce Evan Goldstein

No abstract provided.


Offer Adolescents Suburban Habitat Positive Experiences In Their Neighborhood, Benjamin A. Shirtcliff Jan 2010

Offer Adolescents Suburban Habitat Positive Experiences In Their Neighborhood, Benjamin A. Shirtcliff

Benjamin A Shirtcliff

The adolescent population living in suburban environments is very important. This reality, however, is still too recent to be considered by practitioners of the development, which would explain why the physical environment of teenagers is rarely designed to meet their needs. This article addresses the basic needs of adolescents living in the suburbs and designers suggest ways to improve their quality of life by creating fallback places in their neighborhood. The values ​​and adolescents special needs will be used to assess the quality of suburban open spaces. We mainly interressted in the physical environment, building on the studies in the …