Green Infrastructure Performance In Stormwater Quality,
2015
Utah State University
Green Infrastructure Performance In Stormwater Quality, Hailey Wall
Research on Capitol Hill
No abstract provided.
Sensible Air To Air Heat Recovery Strategies In A Passive House,
2015
Portland State University
Sensible Air To Air Heat Recovery Strategies In A Passive House, Santiago Martin Rodriguez-Anderson
Dissertations and Theses
Due to rising energy costs and concerns about global climate change, high performance buildings are more in demand than ever before. With roughly 20% of the total energy consumption in the United States being devoted to residential use, this sector represents a significant opportunity for future savings. There are many guidelines and standards for reducing building energy consumption. One of the most stringent is the Passive House Standard. The standard requires that that air infiltration is less than or equal to 0.6 air changes per hour at a 50 Pascal pressure difference (ACH 50), annual heating energy is less than …
Ua12/13 2015 Sustainability Report [Western Kentucky University],
2015
Western Kentucky University
Ua12/13 2015 Sustainability Report [Western Kentucky University], Wku Office Of Sustainability, Christian Ryan-Downing
Sustainability Publications and Resources
2015 was a great year for WKU Sustainability, marked by significant new initiatives, special recognitions, and continued progress in advancing sustainability in the way Hilltoppers live, learn, and work. This report highlights the sustainability accomplishments of WKU students, faculty, staff, the Office of Sustainability, and the campus community in 2015.
Establishing A Framework For The Recognition Of Local Arboricultural Practitioners,
2015
Technological and Higher Education institute of Hong Kong (THEi)
Establishing A Framework For The Recognition Of Local Arboricultural Practitioners, Paul Yuen King Chan
Faculty of Design & Environment (THEi)
No abstract provided.
Air Change Rate Vs Airflow Pathway: Bioaerosol
Containment And Removal In Patient Rooms,
2015
University of Nebraska-Lincoln
Air Change Rate Vs Airflow Pathway: Bioaerosol Containment And Removal In Patient Rooms, Kevin R. Grosskopf
Durham School of Architectural Engineering and Construction: Faculty Publications
Recent studies have shown that higher air change rates may have the unintended consequence of creating turbulent airflows that entrain high concentrations of infectious particles within the breathing zone, and possibly, breakdown pressure relationships necessary to contain the spread of infectious particles to other clinical spaces.
M.Sc. Sustainable Development Group Project On The Environmental Design And Management Of Darndale Park.,
2015
Technological University Dublin
M.Sc. Sustainable Development Group Project On The Environmental Design And Management Of Darndale Park., Daniel Blanchfield, Andrea Culjak, Meadhbh Ní Lochlainn, Orla Gilleece, Lin Zhao, Niall Thomas, John Lucey, Zainab Mansary
Students Learning with Communities
No abstract provided.
Northside Partnership Healthy Communities Pilot Area Walkability Audit,
2015
Technological University Dublin
Northside Partnership Healthy Communities Pilot Area Walkability Audit, Lin Zhao, Meadhbh Ní Lochlainn
Students Learning with Communities
No abstract provided.
Adaptive Predictive Functional
Controller,
2015
Sidney, OH
Adaptive Predictive Functional Controller, Fadi Alsaleem, Arvind Rao
Durham School of Architectural Engineering and Construction: Faculty Publications
A controller device and a method for controlling a system that utilizes an adaptive mechanism to self-learn the system char acteristics and incorporates this adaptive self-learning ability to predict a control parameter correctly to provide precise control of a system component.
An Adaptive Photovoltaic Topology To Overcome
Shading Effect In Pv Systems,
2015
University of Nebraska - Lincoln
An Adaptive Photovoltaic Topology To Overcome Shading Effect In Pv Systems, Mohamed Amer Chaaban, Lana El Chaar, Mahmoud Alahmad
Durham School of Architectural Engineering and Construction: Faculty Publications
Shading in photovoltaic systems can cause many undesired effects.When shading occurs, the power generated from the PV system is much less than nominal power, increasing the electrical mismatching losses between PV system components. Active research to address this power loss focuses on static and adaptive systems.This paper addresses an adaptive system solution and proposes a new method to adaptively overcome losses due to shading during low radiation conditions. In addition, a statistical analysis for choosing the most feasible and efficient configuration for the system size is presented. The proposed system has been validated under shade conditions in a simulation and …
Building Envelope And Interior
Grading Systems And Methods,
2015
Troy, OH
Building Envelope And Interior Grading Systems And Methods, Fadi Mohammad Alsaleem
Durham School of Architectural Engineering and Construction: Faculty Publications
A difference module determines differences between an out door ambient temperature and an indoor temperature, deter mines a first average of the differences, and determines a second average of the differences. A storing module stores a first data point, the first data point including the first average and a first total run time of a heating, ventilation, and/or air conditioning (HVAC) system, and stores a second data point, the second data point including the second average and a second total run time of the HVAC system. A fitting module fits a line to the first and second data points. An …
Speed And Resolution In The Age Of Technological Reproducibility,
2015
Virginia Commonwealth University
Speed And Resolution In The Age Of Technological Reproducibility, Shawn Taylor
Theses and Dissertations
The rate of acceleration of the biologic and synthetic world has for a while now, been in the process of exponentially speeding up, maxing out servers and landfills, merging with each other, destroying each other. The last prehistoric relics on Earth are absorbing the same oxygen, carbon dioxide and electronic waves in our biosphere as us. A degraded .jpeg enlarged to full screen on a Samsung 4K UHD HU8550 Series Smart TV - 85” Class (84.5” diag.). Within this composite ecology, the ancient limestone of the grand canyon competes with the iMax movie of itself, the production of Mac pros, …
Rapid Urbanization And The Informational Metacity In China,
2015
Chulalongkorn University
Rapid Urbanization And The Informational Metacity In China, David Grahame Shane
NAKHARA (Journal of Environmental Design and Planning)
An informational revolution created a new awareness of recent rapid global urbanization, with China providing a clear case study. Big data and global statistics created a governmental model ofan informational Metacity exemplified by China's Shanghai Expo, but this model has unintended consequences. Some consequences such as mass tourism are global in character with Chinese characteristics. Others such as the conversion of old factory Danwei and urban villages are local and specifically Chinese. The scale and speed of China's urbanization and the Shanghai Expo provides a special laboratory for the study of the development of multi-scalar and mixed-use in a context …
Smart City: A Case Of Seoul,
2015
Chulalongkorn University
Smart City: A Case Of Seoul, Myounggu Kang
NAKHARA (Journal of Environmental Design and Planning)
Smart City is a city that efficiently and effectively solves its challenges in advancing the quality of life and work of its citizens by adequately making use of the best available technologies, which are mainlyinfrastructure technology in the early stages of urbanization and information technology for everyday use. In addition, it is also argued that a city requires not only technology but also new regulations to become a smart city. With new technology and rules Smart City successfully achieves prosperity and sustainability. This paper briefly reviews what defines a smart city and discusses the case of Seoul.This paper discusses two …
Urban Spatial Development To Mitigate Urban Heat Island Effectin The Inner Area Of Bangkok,
2015
Chulalongkorn University
Urban Spatial Development To Mitigate Urban Heat Island Effectin The Inner Area Of Bangkok, Jittisak Thammapornpilas
NAKHARA (Journal of Environmental Design and Planning)
An urban heat island is one of the factors that cause a climate change to become more critical. Bangkok is one of the mega cities in the world in which urban areas have been affected by the urban heatisland, especially the inner area of Bangkok and its CBD. The survey data from a satellite confirmed the hypothesis of the affected area in the inner zone of Bangkok. From the study it has been found that the urban heat island problem in the urban area of Bangkok was developed by the augmentation of its physical surroundings of all the man-made construction. …
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2015
Chulalongkorn University
.Flt.Cn, Timothy Jachna
NAKHARA (Journal of Environmental Design and Planning)
This paper presents a near-future scenario for urban China, derived through application of scenario planning techniques to extrapolate components of a possible urban future, based on analysis ofrecent and current digitally-mediated urban spatial practice in Chinese cities. The scenario provides a framework for exploring the interplay of top-down modes of control and bottom-up "performance" in the digital city; the co-forming relationship between urban spatial practices and the appropriation of digital communications networks for social and spatial experimentation; and the culturally and socially conditioned roles that digital technologies play in the formation and evolution of urban morphology and urban societies.
White Building: Smart City,
2015
Chulalongkorn University
White Building: Smart City, Pen Sereypagna
NAKHARA (Journal of Environmental Design and Planning)
This article examines a single purpose building known as the "White Building" that has the acquired complexity as a microcosm of an Asian Smart City due to its adaptability from being a well-planned,minimal housing unit in the well-known 1960s Bassac waterfront district, to becoming an art-based, community, mixed - use building.
Bhutanese Dwellings: Sustaining The State Of Wellbeing-Ness,
2015
Chulalongkorn University
Bhutanese Dwellings: Sustaining The State Of Wellbeing-Ness, Waricha Wongphyat
NAKHARA (Journal of Environmental Design and Planning)
Although Gross National Happiness (GNH) is acclaimed as the Bhutanese overarching goal of development, the country's pursuit of modernization and urbanization has inevitably brought about adecline in vitality of traditional communities and indigenous dwellings. This paper aims to explore how to sustain the state of wellbeing-ness of the Bhutanese dwellings in the evolving context. Considering the abundance of natural and cultural landscape vis-à-vis the deficiency of human resource and skill in agriculture, Shari village is selected as the case study representing the nationwide concerns. Based on field surveys, interviews and documents provided by the DCHS, this paper proposes the smart …
วัสดุปูพื้นสำหรับโครงการคอมมูนิตี้มอลล์,
2015
คณะสถาปัตยกรรมศาสตร์
วัสดุปูพื้นสำหรับโครงการคอมมูนิตี้มอลล์, ณัฐวดี อยู่เรือนงาม
Chulalongkorn University Theses and Dissertations (Chula ETD)
การศึกษาวิจัยนี้มีวัตถุประสงค์เพื่อศึกษาวัสดุปูพื้นในโครงการคอมมูนิตี้มอลล์ ในเรื่องสภาพทั่วไป ขั้นตอนการดูแลรักษา และปัญหาที่เกิดขึ้น โดยการรวบรวมข้อมูล จากการสำรวจ สังเกตการณ์ ถ่ายภาพ และสัมภาษณ์ผู้ดูแลโครงการ และเลือกคอมมูนิตี้มอลล์โครงการเควิลเลจ เดอะไนน์เนเบอร์ฮู้ด เสนาเฟส พอร์โตชิโน่ ศาลายามอลล์ และท่ามหาราช เป็นกรณีศึกษา เพราะบริษัทผู้ดูแลโครงการเป็นบริษัทเดียวกัน จากการศึกษาพบวัสดุปูพื้นหลายชนิด ได้แก่ ซีเมนต์ขัดหยาบ ซีเมนต์ขัดมัน คอนกรีตพิมพ์ลาย หินขัด กรวดล้าง ทรายล้าง กระเบื้องเซรามิค หินแกรนิต ไม้ธรรมชาติ และไม้เทียม ซึ่งแต่ละโครงการมีการใช้วัสดุปูพื้นหลายชนิด วัสดุปูพื้นที่พบบริเวณทางรถยนต์และลานจอด คือ ซีเมนต์ขัดหยาบ บริเวณทางเดินและพื้นที่ภายนอกอาคาร คือ ซีเมนต์ขัดมัน คอนกรีตพิมพ์ลาย กรวดล้าง และกระเบื้องเซรามิค บริเวณทางเดินและพื้นที่กึ่งภายนอกอาคาร คือ กระเบื้องเซรามิคและคอนกรีตพิมพ์ลาย ในพื้นที่กว้างพบพื้นคอนกรีตพิมพ์ลาย และในพื้นที่เล็กพบพื้นไม้ธรรมชาติและไม้เทียม นอกจากนี้ยังพบว่าวัสดุพื้นประเภทหินขัดและกระเบื้องเซรามิค มีสภาพดีมาก ซึ่งอยู่ในสภาพที่สะอาด ไม่ชำรุดแตกร้าวหรือแตกหัก คอนกรีตพิมพ์ลายและซีเมนต์ขัดมัน มีสภาพดี อยู่ในสภาพที่สะอาดปานกลาง มีการแตกร้าวบ้างบางส่วน และกรวดล้างและทรายล้าง มีสภาพพอใช้ อยู่ในสภาพที่พบการแตกร้าวและหลุดร่อน ส่วนในด้านการดูแลรักษาที่แบ่งออกเป็นงานประจำวัน ประจำสัปดาห์ ประจำเดือน สามเดือนและหกเดือนนั้น พบว่าวัสดุที่มีรอบการดูแลรักษาน้อย คือ ซีเมนต์ขัดหยาบ กรวดล้าง ทรายล้างและไม้เทียม วัสดุที่ต้องมีการดูแลรักษาปานกลาง คือ ซีเมนต์ขัดมัน หินขัด และกระเบื้อง และวัสดุที่ต้องมีการดูแลรักษามาก คือ ไม้ธรรมชาติ หินแกรนิต และคอนกรีตพิมพ์ลาย ซึ่งเมื่อใช้งานไปแล้ว สภาพของวัสดุจะเปลี่ยนแปลง มีคราบสกปรก วัสดุเสียหายจากการใช้งานและเสื่อมสภาพ ทำให้ต้องมีการดูแลรักษาเพิ่มขึ้น กล่าวโดยสรุปแล้ว วัสดุปูพื้นในคอมมูนิตี้มอลล์ที่พบ 10 ชนิดจาก 6 โครงการ มีการใช้งานแตกต่างกันตามลักษณะความนิยม จากการพบเห็นและจากปริมาณพื้นที่ใช้งาน ตามลักษณะการใช้งานที่ส่งผลต่อภาพลักษณ์ของโครงการ และตามลักษณะขั้นตอนการทำงานดูแลรักษา
Towards A Gis-Based Urban Information System To Plan A Smarter Chiang Mai,
2015
Chulalongkorn University
Towards A Gis-Based Urban Information System To Plan A Smarter Chiang Mai, Somporn Sangawongse, Vittaya Ruangrit
NAKHARA (Journal of Environmental Design and Planning)
The concept of the Smart City has recently been introduced to help make urban planning in Chiang Mai more effective. In particular, the Smart City idea is being integrated with Geographical InformationSystems (GIS) and Information and Communications Technologies (ICTs ) to support better decision- making. This paper employs GIS-based ICTs as a means for updating the land use database of the Public Work and Town & Country Planning within the Chiang Mai Comprehensive Plan Boundary between 2000 and 2015. Results show that built-up areas of all urban land use categories have increased. The biggest change was found in the low …
Spatial Composition Andconfiguration Changes In The Bangkok Metropolitan Regionlandscape,
2015
Chulalongkorn University
Spatial Composition Andconfiguration Changes In The Bangkok Metropolitan Regionlandscape, Komgrij Thanapet, Shiann-Far Kung
NAKHARA (Journal of Environmental Design and Planning)
Bangkok and five provinces in the vicinity, called Bangkok Metropolitan Region, BMR, occupies 7,650 Square Kilometers of the most significant delta area and productive agricultural lands of Thailand. According to 2012 database of the Land Development Bureau, Thailand, the BMR has more than 140 types of land-use classifications related to various agricultural usage; paddy fields, crop fields, orchards, perennial plots, horticulture, farming facilities and aquaculture lands. It could be said that BMR's surrounding landscapes, the richness of patches and the diversity of ecology are defined by complex patterns of mixed land-uses. The goal of this study is to understand the …
