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Why Reach Codes: Local Players Driving Statewide Building Standards, Gabriella Medina, Darbi Berry, Gabriela Yamhure
Why Reach Codes: Local Players Driving Statewide Building Standards, Gabriella Medina, Darbi Berry, Gabriela Yamhure
San Diego Regional Climate Collaborative
Reach codes are local energy ordinances that employ various technologies, strategies, and integrated systems that go above California Building Standards Code (CA Building Code, Title 24) standards and support greenhouse gas emission reduction efforts. A reach code is a mandated energy performance requirement for the built environment, typically incorporated as part of a city’s climate action plan, local hazard mitigation plan, or climate adaptation plan. Not only do reach codes help local jurisdictions remain in compliance with state mandates, they enable local climate leadership by signaling support for the future direction of state Building Code standards. This blog provides a …
Bird-Safe Buildings Act: Ready To Take Flight, Kerry Sean Cooney
Bird-Safe Buildings Act: Ready To Take Flight, Kerry Sean Cooney
William & Mary Environmental Law and Policy Review
No abstract provided.
Low-Carbon Rebuilding Strategies For California Communities Impacted By Wildfires, Tessa Grezdo
Low-Carbon Rebuilding Strategies For California Communities Impacted By Wildfires, Tessa Grezdo
Master's Projects and Capstones
In recent years, California’s wildfires have intensified and communities that have been impacted by these wildfires are now beginning to rebuild. Materials that are both fire-resistant and low in embodied carbon should be used when rebuilding in fire-prone regions. Embodied carbon in buildings contributes to about 11% of global greenhouse gas emissions. To help California reach its climate mitigation and resilience goals, this study examined the utilization of low-carbon and fire-resistant building materials during the post-wildfire rebuilding process. Embodied emissions are significantly reduced when building designs incorporate low-carbon materials. This study examined low-carbon and fire-resistant exterior building materials that can …
Bruhat-Tits Buildings And A Characteristic P Unimodular Symbol Algorithm, Matthew Bates
Bruhat-Tits Buildings And A Characteristic P Unimodular Symbol Algorithm, Matthew Bates
Doctoral Dissertations
Let k be the finite field with q elements, let F be the field of Laurent series in the variable 1/t with coefficients in k, and let A be the polynomial ring in the variable t with coefficients in k. Let SLn(F) be the ring of nxn-matrices with entries in F, and determinant 1. Given a polynomial g in A, let Gamma(g) subset SLn(F) be the full congruence subgroup of level g. In this thesis we examine the action of Gamma(g) on the Bruhat-Tits building Xn associated to SLn(F) for n equals 2 and n equals 3. Our first main …
Fy 2018 Umass Amherst Water & Steam Data By Building, Ezra Small
Fy 2018 Umass Amherst Water & Steam Data By Building, Ezra Small
Campus Data
Each year, UMass Amherst Utilities publishes this spreadsheet which has the monthly and annual building water and steam consumption of each metered building on campus.
Fy 2018 Umass Amherst Electricity Data By Building, Ezra Small
Fy 2018 Umass Amherst Electricity Data By Building, Ezra Small
Campus Data
Each year, UMass Amherst Utilities publishes this spreadsheet which has the monthly and annual building energy consumption of each metered building on campus. Cost data and production vs. purchased electricity data are also provided.
Fy 2016 Umass Amherst Water & Steam Data By Building, Ezra Small
Fy 2016 Umass Amherst Water & Steam Data By Building, Ezra Small
Campus Data
Each year, UMass Amherst Utilities publishes this spreadsheet which has the monthly and annual building water and steam consumption of each metered building on campus.
Syllabus: Solar Energy Systems And Building Design, Ho-Sung Kim
Syllabus: Solar Energy Systems And Building Design, Ho-Sung Kim
Sustainability Education Resources
This course introduces the fundamental concepts of solar building design and energy systems. Through project based study and possible field visits, students will explore the theory, technologies, applications, and benefits of solar design of buildings and discover how to utilize solar energy systems for residential and commercial buildings. Students will be required to research and document technology and complete a semester case study project in which they will examine various energy conservation aspects and economics underlying solar energy systems.
A Casual [Causal] Relationship Between Building Maintenance Market And Gdp: Hong Kong Study, Yong-Tao Tan, Liyin Shen, Craig Langston
A Casual [Causal] Relationship Between Building Maintenance Market And Gdp: Hong Kong Study, Yong-Tao Tan, Liyin Shen, Craig Langston
Craig Langston
Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to examine the causal relationship between the building maintenance market and GDP in Hong Kong. Design/methodology/approach: The Granger causality test is used to investigate the lead-lag relationships between the maintenance and repair work and GDP in Hong Kong. With regression analysis, the future trend of the maintenance market is forecasted. Findings: The results show that the growth of the economy will lead to the growth of the maintenance market, not vice-versa. And the building maintenance market in Hong Kong will keep increasing with the economy growth. Originality/value: This paper shows that the growth …
Experiences With Performance Tradeoffs In Practical, Continuous Indoor Localization, Azeem J. Khan, Vikash Ranjan, Trung-Tuan Luong, Rajesh Krishna Balan, Archan Misra
Experiences With Performance Tradeoffs In Practical, Continuous Indoor Localization, Azeem J. Khan, Vikash Ranjan, Trung-Tuan Luong, Rajesh Krishna Balan, Archan Misra
Research Collection School Of Computing and Information Systems
This paper describes our experiences and observations with the first version of a localization system that continuous tracks the indoor location of a large number of consumer mobile devices. Unlike past work that focuses principally on the accuracy of the location tracking algorithm, we study the performance of the localization system in terms of key additional metrics: scalability and energy-efficiency, which can sometimes conflict with the desire for high accuracy. To ensure that our solution can handle both Android and iOS-based mobile devices (& other closed mobile platforms), we adapt the conventional client-side fingerprinting-based localization approaches to develop a novel …
Groups, Representations And Haagerup´S Inequality For Buildings, Jacqueline Ramagge
Groups, Representations And Haagerup´S Inequality For Buildings, Jacqueline Ramagge
Professor Jacqui Ramagge
No abstract provided.
A Haagerup Inequality For A1 X A1 And A2 Buildings, Jacqueline Ramagge, Guyan Robertson, Tim Steger
A Haagerup Inequality For A1 X A1 And A2 Buildings, Jacqueline Ramagge, Guyan Robertson, Tim Steger
Professor Jacqui Ramagge
Haagerup's inequality for convolvers on free groups may be interpreted as a result on A1 buildings, i.e. trees. Here are proved analogous inequalities for discrete groups acting freely on the vertices of A1 x A1 and A2 buildings. The results apply in particular to groups of typerotating automorphisms acting simply transitively on the vertices of such buildings. These results provide the first examples of higher rank groups with property (RD).
Factors From Buildings, Jacqueline Ramagge, A Robertson
Factors From Buildings, Jacqueline Ramagge, A Robertson
Professor Jacqui Ramagge
No abstract provided.
Triangle Buildings And Actions Of Type Iii 1/Q2, Jacqueline Ramagge, Guyan Robertson
Triangle Buildings And Actions Of Type Iii 1/Q2, Jacqueline Ramagge, Guyan Robertson
Professor Jacqui Ramagge
We study certain group actions on triangle buildings and their boundaries and some von Neumann algebras which can be constructed from them. In particular, for buildings of order q ≥ 3 certain natural actions on the boundary are hyperfinite of type III1/q2.
Cohomology Of Buildings And Finiteness Properties Of An-Groups, Jacqueline Ramagge, Wayne Wheeler
Cohomology Of Buildings And Finiteness Properties Of An-Groups, Jacqueline Ramagge, Wayne Wheeler
Professor Jacqui Ramagge
Borel and Serre calculated the cohomology of the building associated to a reductive group and used the result to deduce that torsion-free S-arithmetic groups are duality groups. By replacing their group-theoretic arguments with proofs relying only upon the geometry of buildings, we show that Borel and Serre's approach can be modied to calculate the cohomology of any locally nite ane building. As an application we show that any nitely presented e An-group is a virtual duality group. A number of other niteness conditions for e An-groups are also established.
Model-Based Fuzzy Control For Buildings Installed With Magneto-Rheological Dampers, Haiping Du, Nong Zhang
Model-Based Fuzzy Control For Buildings Installed With Magneto-Rheological Dampers, Haiping Du, Nong Zhang
Dr Haiping Du
No abstract provided.
Slides: Impacts Of Energy Deficits In Cooking, Illumination, Water, Sanitation, And Motive Power, Paul S. Chinowsky
Slides: Impacts Of Energy Deficits In Cooking, Illumination, Water, Sanitation, And Motive Power, Paul S. Chinowsky
2012 Energy Justice Conference and Technology Exposition (September 17-18)
Presenter: Dr. Paul Chinowsky, Director, Mortenson Center in Engineering for Developing Communities; Professor, University of Colorado
25 slides
Application Of A Fuzzy Controller To Seismically Excited Nonlinear Buildings, Mohammed Al-Dawod, Bijan Samali, Kenny Kwok, Fazel Naghdy
Application Of A Fuzzy Controller To Seismically Excited Nonlinear Buildings, Mohammed Al-Dawod, Bijan Samali, Kenny Kwok, Fazel Naghdy
Professor Fazel Naghdy
Focuses on the benchmark control problems for seismically excited nonlinear buildings defined by Ohtori et al. (2000). This benchmark study focuses on three typical steel structures, 3-, 9- and 20-storey buildings designed for the SAC project for Los Angeles in the California region. The first stage of applying the fuzzy controller to this benchmark study for the 3-storey building is reported. The main advantage of the fuzzy controller is its inherent robustness and ability to handle the non-linear behaviour of the structure. This benchmark study is based on a number of evaluation criteria and control constraints and these limitations are …
Networks - I: Investigating Access To Heterogeneous Storage Systems Using Linked Data In Unicore Grid Middleware, Roger Menday, M. Shahbaz Memon, A. Shiraz Memon, Achim Streit
Networks - I: Investigating Access To Heterogeneous Storage Systems Using Linked Data In Unicore Grid Middleware, Roger Menday, M. Shahbaz Memon, A. Shiraz Memon, Achim Streit
International Conference on Information and Communication Technologies
The Grid provides access to execution and storage resources - through middleware - by normalizing the access to resources. UNICORE calls this quality dasiaseamlessnesspsila. One result of this is that a request for some action at one resource can, with relative ease, be re-targeted to another, making possible the coordinated usage of multiple resources. In this paper we describe a seamless interface to heterogeneous storage systems, using the (Semantic) Web as middleware for the Grid. Data is accumulated by experiments and simulations running on execution systems, instruments and sensors, and by importing data from other locations. Storage systems are regular …
Action On Global Warming: Making Room For Tribal Governments In The New Kind Of Wedge Issue, Dean B. Suagee
Action On Global Warming: Making Room For Tribal Governments In The New Kind Of Wedge Issue, Dean B. Suagee
The Climate of Environmental Justice: Taking Stock (March 16-17)
Presenter: Dean B. Suagee, Of Counsel, Hobbs, Straus, Dean & Walker LLP, Washington, D.C.
1 page.
Slides: Major New York State Climate Change Policies, Franz Litz
Slides: Major New York State Climate Change Policies, Franz Litz
Climate Change and the Future of the American West: Exploring the Legal and Policy Dimensions (Summer Conference, June 7-9)
Presenter: Franz Litz, Climate Change Policy Coordinator, New York State Department of Environmental Conservation.
1 page and 28 slides.
Franz Litz will briefly describe the major climate change actions undertaken by the State of New York in recent years. He will place specific emphasis on the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative, a cooperative effort of 8 eastern states to implement a regional cap-and-trade program to reduce carbon emissions from the power sector. In addition, he will explore the potential for linking the eastern initiative to one or more western state programs in development.
Cohomology Of Buildings And Finiteness Properties Of An-Groups, Jacqueline Ramagge, Wayne W. Wheeler
Cohomology Of Buildings And Finiteness Properties Of An-Groups, Jacqueline Ramagge, Wayne W. Wheeler
Faculty of Informatics - Papers (Archive)
Borel and Serre calculated the cohomology of the building associated to a reductive group and used the result to deduce that torsion-free S-arithmetic groups are duality groups. By replacing their group-theoretic arguments with proofs relying only upon the geometry of buildings, we show that Borel and Serre's approach can be modied to calculate the cohomology of any locally nite ane building. As an application we show that any nitely presented e An-group is a virtual duality group. A number of other niteness conditions for e An-groups are also established.
Application Of A Fuzzy Controller To Seismically Excited Nonlinear Buildings, Mohammed Al-Dawod, Bijan Samali, Kenny Kwok, Fazel Naghdy
Application Of A Fuzzy Controller To Seismically Excited Nonlinear Buildings, Mohammed Al-Dawod, Bijan Samali, Kenny Kwok, Fazel Naghdy
Faculty of Informatics - Papers (Archive)
Focuses on the benchmark control problems for seismically excited nonlinear buildings defined by Ohtori et al. (2000). This benchmark study focuses on three typical steel structures, 3-, 9- and 20-storey buildings designed for the SAC project for Los Angeles in the California region. The first stage of applying the fuzzy controller to this benchmark study for the 3-storey building is reported. The main advantage of the fuzzy controller is its inherent robustness and ability to handle the non-linear behaviour of the structure. This benchmark study is based on a number of evaluation criteria and control constraints and these limitations are …
The Rural Towns Program : Groundwater Modelling : The Merredin Catchment, J Matta
The Rural Towns Program : Groundwater Modelling : The Merredin Catchment, J Matta
Resource management technical reports
Agriculture Western Australia (Agwest), as part of the Rural Towns Program, was engaged to test the application of a groundwater model for potential future management options against salinity for the Merredin townsite. This report illustrates some of the options that could be implemented to achieve the objective of salinity management.
A Haagerup Inequality For A1 X A1 And A2 Buildings, Jacqueline Ramagge, Guyan Robertson, Tim Steger
A Haagerup Inequality For A1 X A1 And A2 Buildings, Jacqueline Ramagge, Guyan Robertson, Tim Steger
Faculty of Informatics - Papers (Archive)
Haagerup's inequality for convolvers on free groups may be interpreted as a result on A1 buildings, i.e. trees. Here are proved analogous inequalities for discrete groups acting freely on the vertices of A1 x A1 and A2 buildings. The results apply in particular to groups of typerotating automorphisms acting simply transitively on the vertices of such buildings. These results provide the first examples of higher rank groups with property (RD).
Triangle Buildings And Actions Of Type Iii 1/Q2, Jacqueline Ramagge, Guyan Robertson
Triangle Buildings And Actions Of Type Iii 1/Q2, Jacqueline Ramagge, Guyan Robertson
Faculty of Informatics - Papers (Archive)
We study certain group actions on triangle buildings and their boundaries and some von Neumann algebras which can be constructed from them. In particular, for buildings of order q ≥ 3 certain natural actions on the boundary are hyperfinite of type III1/q2.
The Rocky Mountain Arsenal: Groundwater Contamination And Clean-Up Activities, Connally E. Mears, Elaine H. Heise
The Rocky Mountain Arsenal: Groundwater Contamination And Clean-Up Activities, Connally E. Mears, Elaine H. Heise
Uncovering the Hidden Resource: Groundwater Law, Hydrology, and Policy in the 1990s (Summer Conference, June 15-17)
26 pages (includes illustrations and map).