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Projektimi I Objektit Shumëbanesorë (Banim+Afarizëm), Altin Sylka

Theses and Dissertations

Tema ime e diplomës në përgjithësi ka të bëjë me banim dhe afarizëm. Studimi kryesorë fillon nga analizat urbane duke vazhduar me orientimin e duhur të kthinave, varësisht nga lloji i funksionit të kthinës.

Parcela- ka një hyrje dhe një dalje.Posedon gjithashtu parkingje të jashtme, hapësira të gjelbërta, kënde për fëmijë dhe hapësira për shumë funksione.

Objekti- ka dy hyrje kryesore dhe dy sekondare. Etazhiteti i objektit është -2B+P+5.

Në bodrume janë të vendosura garazhimi dhe depot. Në përdhesë janë të vendosura lokalet afariste ndërsa katet janë të organizara me banim.

Forma përcjell funksionin.

Forma:

Duke u bazuar …

Small Housesholds Left Out In Cold By One-Size-Fits-All Policy, Lorcan Sirr

Media

In Ireland, homeowners can pay up to 31% of their after-tax income on their mortgage, and the situation is worse if you are a single-person mortgage holder. That’s according to figures released by AIB mortgage brand EBS and DKMEconomic Consultants last month.

A Method For Selecting Hvac Retrofit Solutions For Existing Small- And Medium-Sized Commercial Buildings, Bonggil Jeon

Open Access Dissertations

The primary purpose of the present study is to develop a framework and methodology for evaluating appropriate Heating, Ventilating, and Air Conditioning (HVAC) retrofit solutions that can be effectively retrofitted into different types of small- and medium-sized commercial buildings (SMSCB). Additionally, development of an advanced data-driven decision-making tool is introduced as a benefit of proposed framework. In recent years, considerable attention has been focused on retrofits of existing commercial buildings (IBE, 2013b). In fact, the Commercial Building Energy Consumption Survey (CBECS) 2003 (EIA, 2006) indicates that over 70% of existing commercial buildings across the United States are more than twenty …

60 | ‘Akko Ii: The 1991–1998 Excavations: The Early Periods, Moshe Hartal, Danny Syon, Eliezer Stern, Ayelet Tatcher

IAA Reports—Monograph Series of the Israel Antiquities Authority

chapter 1. `Akko-Ptolemais - a maritime city at the crossroads of ancient civilizitions until Roman times / Nadav Kashtan -- part I. Excavations at the courthouse site. chapter 2. The courthouse site: architecture and stratigraphy of areas TB and TC / Moshe Hartal -- chapter 3. The courthouse site: the glass from areas TB and TC / Natalya Katsnelson -- chapter 4. The courthouse site: loomweights and whorls / Orit Shamir -- part II. Excavations in the Hospitaller compound. chapter 5. The Hospitaller compound: Hellenistic and early Roman remains / Eliezer Stern -- chapter 6. The Hospitaller compound: Hellenistic and …

The Use Of Personality Type To Improve Team Collaboration Within Design Studios, Beth Rolston Jarl

Masters Theses

This study surveyed third year interior design students on satisfaction levels after participating in a 7-week team project where the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator® (MBTI®) personality assessment was used to help inform team formation. The literature review explored all aspects of team collaboration, the difference between group work, team work and collaborative work, common barriers found in team work, team development processes, successful team building strategies, and the design studio collaborative project in regards to student perceptions of learning. The portion of this study explored and measured in-depth is how students perceived their collaborative team experience using the MBTI to inform …

Investigation Of Subjective Perception And Objective Metrics Of Acoustic Room Diffusion, Jay Michael Bliefnick

Durham School of Architectural Engineering and Construction: Dissertations, Theses, and Student Research

While a variety of assessment methodologies have been proposed to quantify acoustic diffusivity within rooms, a link between these and the perception of diffusion has not been fully established. This study investigated various ways of analyzing diffusion, through both human perception and objective metrics. Numerous impulse response measurements were collected from a physical acoustics testing facility designed for diffusion research. This space featured reversible absorptive/diffusive/reflective wall panels, which allowed numerous testing configurations. One such setup investigated how changing the diffusivity of an isolated wall surface impacted diffusive room conditions. Alternatively, the effects diffuser configurations had on diffusive room conditions were …

Measuring Access To Employment To Guide And Evaluate Public Transit Service Planning In New Orleans, Kevin Harrison

LSU New Orleans Theses and Dissertations

New software and technology is making it easier than ever before for public transportation planners to evaluate how quickly residents can reach jobs and other destinations. Because in the past it was difficult to measure access to opportunities, these concepts remained primarily in the theoretical and academic realms of research. This thesis reviews methods that could be used to evaluate routine bus service improvements and performs a comparative analysis of different methods in the context of New Orleans. There are many different variables in how the analysis could be performed, but this thesis focuses on the role that time of …

The Mustang Sculpture, Natalie Gibbons, Jordan Gates

Architectural Engineering

No abstract provided.

Long Beach Remodel, John Hinrichs

Architectural Engineering

No abstract provided.

An Investigation Of Dx Cooling Coil Inherent Characteristics, Krittima Santiwattana

Durham School of Architectural Engineering and Construction: Dissertations, Theses, and Student Research

DX cooling coil (DCC) systems have dominated light commercial and household applications in the U.S for several decades. Approximately 14.5% of energy use is consumed by space cooling in commercial buildings, whereas 87% of households are installed with air-conditioners. Improper installation, poor design, and lack of optimized control/operations incur faults in HVAC systems causing 25% to 50% energy waste in a building. These consequences are subject to inefficient equipment modelling of which is developed from: (1) insufficient understanding in equipment characteristics, (2) uncertainties in testing environment and data, and (3) access and cost limitations. Therefore, in this thesis DCC inherent …

A Generic Benchmark For A Mini-Split Heat Pump System, Yuchen Wang

Durham School of Architectural Engineering and Construction: Dissertations, Theses, and Student Research

Heating, Ventilation, and Air Conditioning (HVAC) accounts for half of the building energy consumption in the U.S where Mini-Split Heat Pumps (MSHPs) are an emerging type of HVAC system. Their utilization has greatly increased by 34% from 2009 to 2013 and high potential EER is recognized for MSHPs. However, there is limited research involving MSHPs systems, and there is no generic benchmark for system testing and modeling. The available simulation tools such as VapCyc, GreatLab, and CYCLE_D are either too complicated, difficult to access, or not freely available. Therefore, an accurate and public share generic benchmark is essential and will …

Appraisal Of The Sustainability Of Compressed Stabilized Earthen Masonry, Elena Claire Hoff

Durham School of Architectural Engineering and Construction: Dissertations, Theses, and Student Research

Compressed stabilized earthen block (CSEB) masonry presents an environmentally and economically sustainable alternative to conventional residential construction materials such as clay brick masonry or concrete masonry (CMU). Earthen masonry is locally sourced and manufactured on site, thus minimizing costs associated with raw material extraction and transportation. Furthermore, CSEB requires very little use of electricity and water during both the manufacture and construction processes and it has excellent thermal resistivity while in use, allowing for additional cost and energy savings during most phases of its life cycle. Analyzing the life cycle trade-offs in a comparative study between CSEB and clay brick …

Kihefo Vocational Center: Kabale, Uganda, Jason Matthew Angerer

Construction Management

Journeyman International (JI) is a non-profit organization which acts as a platform for bringing together volunteer Architects, Designers, Engineers, and Construction Managers with humanitarian projects around the world. Kigezi Healthcare Foundation (KIHEFO) a non-profit NGO located in Kabale, Uganda is a client seeking to build a vocational center to educate the workforce of Uganda. The center will include multi-purpose class rooms, a dining hall, rabbit farm, carpentry shop, and living complex. The Architect on the project was Courtney Wedel from Cal Poly. As the Construction Manager on the project my responsibilities include; Design Assist, Feasibility Analysis, Scheduling, Estimating, and Managing …

Bs News November/December

Building Services Engineering

No abstract provided.

Heritage Tourism In Washington County, Tennessee: Linking Place, Placelessness, And Preservation, Chad F. Bailey

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

This thesis examines the formation of spatial theory and the linkage between space and place and their relationship with historic preservation and heritage tourism. First, this thesis analyzes the terms space and place, and how scholars define each term. Second, this thesis focuses on the concept of placelessness. Third, this thesis examines historic preservation as a strategy to help alleviate placelessness and as a crucial link to heritage tourism. This thesis also will use regional examples of preservation and tourism as exemplified by the preservation efforts of private organizations, citizens, and government officials in Jonesborough,Johnson City, and Washington County,Tennessee. This …

Museum 4.0 As The Future Of Steam In Museums, Mark Walhimer

The Transdisciplinary STEAM+ Journal

Informal STEAM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Art and Math) activities (programs) and exhibits are common in science centers, children’s museums and natural history museums. As museums change to Museum 4.0 models (1), the STEAM exhibits and programs in museums also change. Museums 4.0 is the transformation of museums from a monolithic fixed location institution to a nimble community driven event driven organization. The Museum 4.0 becomes personalized to the visitor without fixed outcomes and without the physical restrictions of a single fixed location. As museums evolve to a Museum 4.0 model with visitor lead activities, STEAM activities within museums also change …

Impact Of Cross Section, Web Reinforcement And Load History On The Seismic Performance Of Slender Concrete Walls, Anahid A. Behrouzi

Architectural Engineering

Many reinforced concrete buildings in seismic regions employ reinforced concrete shear walls as part of the lateral force resisting system and these walls often have non-planar cross-sectional geometries. To date, the majority of experimental tests on slender concrete walls have been conducted on planar walls which have been subject to low shear stress demands. An experimental program was developed to examine the response of flanged C-shaped walls with respect of load history and a computational parametric study was conducted to focus more specifically on the impact of web reinforcement for walls subject to a range of shear stress demands.

The …

Future Oriented Sustainable Design. Design Purpose: What Is Design And Who Is It For? [Please Note: This Is A Large File And May Be Slow To Download.], Barry Sheehan

Academic Articles

In November 2016 I was asked to make a presentation at the Future Oriented Sustainable Design International Conference in Wuhan in the People's Republic of China. My topic was Design Purpose: What is Design? And who is it for?

The presentation examines the wider aspects of design and its categories and asks who were are actually designing for.

I made a powerpoint presentation that I narrated in English whilst it was simultaneously translated into Chinese for the attendees at the conference. On my return to Ireland I created a soundtrack to accompany the presentation slides for people to watch the …

You’Ll Like The Tenancies Bill And Poppintree Build, But Not A Lot, Lorcan Sirr

Media

Two things exercised my brain this week, both of which reminded me of a late, lamented magician. The first is the government’s Planning and Development (Housing) and Residential Tenancies Bill 2016. This is the bill that will send planning applications for 100 or more residential homes directly to An Bord Pleanala. As I have said before, this will not be the panacea for a perceived problem, mostly because the problemdoes not exist. In 2015, 985 appeals in relation to residential developments were made to An Bord Pleanala, and about 75% of judgments confirmed the local authority’s decision. Indeed, 82% of …

We Should Heed Research Into What’S Happening In Rural Areas, Lorcan Sirr

Media

Ireland’s rural population has increased by just over 19%in the past 20 years, according to Teagasc, the state research body for the food and agriculture sector. A study, carried out by Dr David Meredith, senior researcher at Teagasc, looked at rural Ireland —its economy and where people are going to live. Media reports tend to focus on specific components of population decline, especially the headlinegrabbing “Can’t even field a GAA team” line, which focuses on young men. Populations comprise more than young men, however, and increases can be found in other age categories, such as the over-55s.

Kentucky Rural Development, Patrick J. Hooks

Scholars Week

The main objective of this study is to examine the development of rural areas to more urbanized ones within Kentucky. Landsat images were used to show the urban land cover change over a 10 year span, from 2001 to 2011. The study shows specifically how the city of Louisville has expanded because it was one of the most changed cities in Kentucky during the period of the study. Maps were created from these Landsat images. Studying these developments can help to predict the amount of change that might happen in certain areas in the future. Using geographic information systems (GIS) …

The Right To City In Argentina: Building Capacity Through Hecho En Buenos Aires, A Street Newspaper, Keira Philipp-Schnurer

Architecture and Planning ETDs

As the new millennium unfolds, many activists and scholars have responded to enduring inequality in urban environments by embracing French philosopher Henri Lefebvre's writings on the "right to the city" as a "rallying cry and demand." In an effort to contribute to this dialogue, this thesis explores the concept of the "right to the city" by operationalizing it as a theoretical framework rooted in Lefebvre’s original writings and applying it o a grounded examination of the street newspaper Hecho en Buenos Aires to examine the intersection of "right to the city" theory and practice. This investigation finds that the organization …

Research And Study Of Fashion And Costume History Spanning From Ancient Egypt To Modern Day, Kaitlyn E. Dennis Miss

Posters-at-the-Capitol

Through a generous donation to Morehead State University, research has been conducted on thousands of slides containing images of artwork and artifacts of historical significance. These images span from Egyptian hieroglyphs to the inaugural dress of every first lady of the United States. The slides are in the process of being recorded and catalogued for future use by students in hopes of furthering academic comprehension and awareness of the influence of fashion and costume history through the ages. Special thanks to the family of Gretel Geist Rutledge, faculty mentor Denise Watkins, as well as the Department of Music, Theatre, and …

James Joyce Dubliners Run: He Went Through The Narrow Alley Of Temple Bar Quickly, Barry Sheehan

Other resources

I write a blog www.jj21k.com which looks at the works of James Joyce, the environment which he wrote about and changes that have taken place since he wrote about them. The blogposts are predominantly about Dublin. As part of discovering Dublin by reading and Running I have written several longer pieces.

This piece creates a running narrative that runs through each of the Dubliners stories, physically connecting them and making observation on them and the city of Dublin.

You can see more background information and other posts on www.jj21k.com.

International Construction Measurement Standard, Charles Mitchell

Other Resources

The International Construction Measurement Standard Coalition (the Coalition) was formed on 17 June 2015 after meeting at the International Monetary Fund in Washington DC, USA. The Coalition, comprising the organisations listed below at the date of publication, aims to bring about consistency in construction cost reporting standards internationally. This is achieved by the creation and adoption of this ICMS, an agreed international standard for the structuring and presentation of cost reports. ICMS sets out a structure for describing construction costs in terms of project scope, attributes and values descriptors. This document setting out the provisions of ICMS is the first …

Villë Ekologjike Për Pushim, Diellza Ramadani

Theses and Dissertations

Për projektin e temës së diplomës kam zgjedhur që të projektoj objekt individual për banim perkatësisht villë e cila plotëson kushtet në aspektin mjedisor.

Pasi që qysh nga antikiteti villa ka siguruar një arratisje nga stresi i punës , perditshmeria, jeta dinamike ne qytet kam zgjedhur si lokacion nje vend malor nje ambient qetesues, i përsosur për rekreim.

Idea ka qenë që villa te projektohet në atë mënyre që të shkaktoje sa më pak ndotje të ambientit dhe konsum sa me të ulët te energjisë pra ta prodhojë vetë energjinë, të ketë ventilim dhe ndriqim natyral dhe si nga forma, …

Objekt Administrativ - Procredit Bank, Kadri Krasniqi

Theses and Dissertations

Duke u bazuar në veprimtari të shumta të ndërtesave administrative në Kosovë, përkatësisht në Prishtinë mund të themi që është tejet e nevojshme projektimi i tyre, duke pasur parasysh që shumica e administratave janë të improvizuara dhe jo adekuate për kryrjen e punëve administrative. Siç dihet tek ne nuk ka pothuajse ndërtesa të cilat janë të projektuara posaqërisht për funksione administrative, shumica e tyre janë në kuadër të objekteve me funksione të ndryshme, qoftë të banimit, afariste etj. Për përcaktim të diplomës me temë "Ndërtesat Administrative", është përzgjedhur ProCredit BANK se si funksionon një bankë, cilat janë hapësirat e nevojshme …

Objekt Administrativ – M.I.M Golesh (Minjera Dhe Industria E Magnesit Golesh), Gentian Zogaj

Theses and Dissertations

Projektimi i ndërtesave Administrative në Kosovë mund të themi që është mëse e nevojshme, duke pasur parasyshë që shumica e administratve në vendin tonë janë të improvizuara dhe jo adekuate për kryrjen e punëve administrative. Nëse duhet të diskutohet rreth bankave të cilat janë në kuader të objekteve administrative, që është temë kyqe e këti punimi, atëhere mund të themi që shumica e tyre janë në kuadër të objekteve me funksione të ndryshme, qoftë të banimit, afariste etj. Në kuader të këti punimi Diplome me temë "Objektet Administrative", është përzgjedhur M.I.M Golesh (Minjera dhe industria e magnesit Golesh) si qështje …

Krijimi I Një Blloku Banimi Me Sistem Eco Dhe Efiçiencë Të Energjisë, Florim Kosumi

Theses and Dissertations

Pasi që bota është në rrezik nga shkatërrimi i natyrës i botës së gjelbert por edhe në vendin tonë e shohim se shkatërrimi në masë të madhe ndodh për shkak të nevojës për ngrohje dhe prodhimit të energjisë , prandaj ne kemi menduar në këtë aspekt dhe kemi krijuar një projekt i cili do ta parandalonte shkatërrimin e mëtutjeshëm .

Krijimi i një eko shtëpie do të thotë që nevojat elementare për energji të mund ti krijoj nga vet natyra por pa e dëmtuar atë.

Ky punim zhvillon dhe analizon të gjitha karakteristikat se si duhet të funksionon një bllok …

Projektimi I Ndërtesës Shoqërore Fakultet I Arkitekturës, Isra Basha

Theses and Dissertations

No abstract provided.