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Aksoy, Gokhan. "The Building Performance Of The Metro Station Buildings." Master's thesis, METU, 2004. http://etd.lib.metu.edu.tr/upload/2/1136043/index.pdf.

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Station buildings are the most significant components of metro systems that combine underground facilities to the outer world, and include public life in itself. Thus, it is the main objective of that research, to put forward an acknowledgement documentation, which identifies the main design and construction problems of existing and under construction metro station buildings&trade<br>entrances, and which comes up with solutions to these problems. In the scope of thesis, foremost, basic terminology about station buildings are given and historical development of these buildings in abroad and Tur

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Hall, Samantha Jane. "Green building performance evaluation for existing commercial buildings." Thesis, Curtin University, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/1002.

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Existing commercial buildings are performing poorly relative to the demands of the decarbonising agenda. The result is not only excess carbon emissions, but working environments that are sub-optimal for occupants. This thesis covers the development and trial of the Green Performance Evaluation Tool (GPET) which identifies five key elements impacting holistic building performance. The GPET shows interlinked and interdependent weaknesses across the five elements and proposes a new concept called ‘Conscious Building’.

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Aksoy, Gökhan. "The building performance of the metro station buildings' entrances." Ankara : METU, 2003. http://etd.lib.metu.edu.tr/upload/1136043/index.pdf.

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Sjögren, Jan-Ulric. "Energy performance of multifamily buildings : building characteristic and user influence." Licentiate thesis, Umeå University, Department of Applied Physics and Electronics, 2007. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:umu:diva-35598.

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<p>Today many professional property holders use different types of software for monthly energy analyses. The data is however often limited to energy and water use, that is paid for by the property holder. In year 2001, financed by the Swedish Energy Agency, the first steps were taken to create a national web based data base, eNyckeln. A property holder may then enter consumption data together with about 50 other building specific parameters to this data base in order to enable benchmarking and energy performance evaluations. Due to EU-regulations and the increasing awareness of energy and envi

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Sheppard, Barbara Dorothea. "Assessing the environmental performance of building developments : the Green Building Tool." Title page, table of contents and abstract only, 2000. http://web4.library.adelaide.edu.au/theses/09ENV/09envs549.pdf.

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Bibliography: p. 119-122. Aims to show how the GB Tool (Green BuildingTool) can be used to access the environmental performance of residential building developments, with a focus on South Australia. Describes the history of, and rationale for, the GB Tool; and its practical implementation. Identifies some theoretical short comings of the GB Tool, as well as some practical difficulties with using it.

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Aquino, Eddie Villanueva. "PREDICTING BUILDING ENERGY PERFORMANCE: LEVERAGING BIM CONTENT FOR ENERGY EFFICIENT BUILDINGS." DigitalCommons@CalPoly, 2013. https://digitalcommons.calpoly.edu/theses/1077.

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Reducing and managing the environmental impacts of building structures has become a priority of building stakeholders and within the architecture, engineering and construction (AEC) community; although, conflicting approaches and methods to combat the issues are present. For example, green building standards are widespread throughout the world; however each one has its own characteristics and consequently its own specific requirements. While all have proven to be effective rating systems and have similar requirements, the distinguishing characteristic that separates them is their treatment of

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Robinson, Darren. "Integrated building environmental performance monitoring." Thesis, Anglia Ruskin University, 1998. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.263988.

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Michael, Gary E. "Team Building and Performance Improvement." Digital Commons @ East Tennessee State University, 2009. https://dc.etsu.edu/etsu-works/6430.

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Hussein, Johari. "Assessment of Building Performance Measurement Tanzania." Thesis, KTH, Fastigheter och byggande, 2011. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:kth:diva-39806.

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Provision of an understanding of the complexes and implications associated with building performance measurement in relation to supporting the organizational objectives by Tanzania facility managers. The study involved the use of questionnaire sent to both public and private organizations and literature reviews in Tanzania with the aim of developing the process associated with the assessment of building performance and the way to improve its operational processes. The study observed that BPM practices are affected by managers control over the buildings facilites because there are no specific p

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Yau, Yung. "The safety performance of apartment buildings empirical evidence from Hong Kong /." Click to view the E-thesis via HKUTO, 2006. http://sunzi.lib.hku.hk/hkuto/record/B36853422.

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Mayouf, Mohammad Adnan Amin. "Improving the delivery of building performance using building information modelling (BIM)." Thesis, Birmingham City University, 2016. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.705054.

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Purposefully-designed buildings are complex by nature, because they are host to a variety of human activities that require them to perform adequately and be well suited to their intended functions. Building ‘performance’ has been an area of major research interest, so that efficient buildings are constructed that operate effectively to support the functional purposes for which they are being used. It is a complex concept that has been difficult to measure and incorporate into building design. Many methods and approaches have been developed to assess ‘performance’ for the purpose of addressing

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Zhao, Yajie 1970. "Industrial property performance and building functionality." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2003. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/29777.

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Thesis (S.M.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Architecture, 2003.<br>Includes bibliographical references (leaf 52).<br>This paper uses statistical regression techniques, Ordinary Least Squares (OLS), to develop models to explain the relationship between physical characteristics and performance of industrial properties. The physical characteristics studied in this paper include building size, building age, building type, and tenant type. Rent and occupancy rates are used as a proxy for performance. The results show that building size, building age, building type and tenant type

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Fifield, Louis-James. "Monitoring UK hospital building type performance." Thesis, Loughborough University, 2017. https://dspace.lboro.ac.uk/2134/24623.

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The British National Health Service (NHS) is one of the largest public services in the world and consequentially in 2004 it produced 25% of the total public sector carbon emissions for England. To meet national carbon targets the NHS must reduce its emissions; 26% by 2020, 64% by 2030, 80% by 2050 and is therefore interested in the development of strategies for reducing carbon dioxide emissions from buildings. The NHS building stock consists of a range of building archetypes constructed over the past 100 years. The energy used for heating and cooling hospital premises is the source of 22% of a

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Arshinov, Alex. "Building high-performance web-caching servers." Thesis, De Montfort University, 2004. http://hdl.handle.net/2086/13257.

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Chambers, Cynthia R. "Building an Inclusive Performance Arts Community." Digital Commons @ East Tennessee State University, 2013. https://dc.etsu.edu/etsu-works/3866.

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Xuereb, K. "Future-proofing buildings : a novel approach to measure the performance of building structures." Thesis, University College London (University of London), 2015. http://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/1465688/.

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This research is a fundamental step towards intelligent building structures with load sensing characteristics. It is argued, with evidence from industry leaders, that these will become ubiquitous. It draws inspiration from developments in structural health monitoring of infrastructure projects. It addresses the current gap between the intellectual effort spent by design teams to conceive building structures that satisfy client brief and informational lacunae on the performance of the building structures. This gap restricts opportunities to adapt buildings in future investment cycles. The resea

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Jaffery, Syed Raza Ali. "Envisioning a building information model (BIM) integrated building performance visualization (iPViz) interface." Thesis, University of British Columbia, 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/2429/58925.

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The dispersed nature, complexity, and amount of information available in modern buildings with advanced management and control systems, makes it challenging for building operators to holistically understand building performance. One of the reasons is the lack of integration among multiple information sources and tools making it harder to align performance data with user’s experiential model of the physical systems. The goal of this research is to envision an integrated building performance visualization interface that provides contextually relevant, on-demand information to building operators.

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Ngan, Kwok-hip, and 顔國協. "Building energy conservation: an overview of building energy performance in Hong Kong." Thesis, The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong), 1995. http://hub.hku.hk/bib/B31253234.

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Kwok-hip, Ngan. "Building energy conservation : an overview of building energy performance in Hong Kong /." Hong Kong : University of Hong Kong, 1995. http://sunzi.lib.hku.hk/hkuto/record.jsp?B14723098.

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AlmÃ¥s, Johannes. "Building Performance Evaluation: An Organization for Documentation." Digital WPI, 2003. https://digitalcommons.wpi.edu/etd-theses/954.

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"An organization of a variety of useful references and tools for evaluating typical situations that have to be addressed in a performance based fire safety design are structured in this project. The chapters in this paper are arranged the same way as the situations may appear in fire scenarios. Each chapter discusses relevant issues for regulatory required sub evaluations in fire safety engineering. In this paper the sub evaluations are named; Fire spread within the origin, Barriers and fire spread beyond the origin, Fire detection and initial action, Automatic sprinkler systems, Smoke movemen

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Mumford, Peter John. "Enhancing performance-based regulation : lessons from New Zealand's building control system : a thesis submitted to the Victoria University of Wellington in fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy [in Public Policy] /." ResearchArchive@Victoria e-Thesis, 2010. http://hdl.handle.net/10063/1206.

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Grandgirard, Alex. "A model to foresee building heat performance." Thesis, KTH, Byggnadsteknik, 2018. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:kth:diva-228193.

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In the last decades, the rehabilitation market has become increasingly significant in France. In particular, the renovation of university sites and hospitals from the 1970s, which is a fast growing segment of the French construction market. In parallel, the office and residential buildings construction sector is becoming a lot more environmentally friendly, with more efficient buildings and more advanced sustainable systems such as better design and implementation of renewable energy sources. This Master thesis, carried out in France with the company Elioth, focuses exclusively on the renovati

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Alms̊, Johannes. "Building performance evaluation an organization for documentation." Link to electronic thesis, 2002. http://www.wpi.edu/Pubs/ETD/Available/etd-0822102-183645.

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Thesis (M.S.)--Worcester Polytechnic Institute.<br>Keywords: building performance -- fire safety -- fire spread -- fire detection and initial action -- automatic sprinkler systems -- smoke movement, control and toxicity -- structural frame -- fire brigade intervention -- life safety. Includes bibliographical references.

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Surmeli, Ayse Nesen. "Assessing Thermal Performance Of Office Building Envelopes." Master's thesis, METU, 2004. http://etd.lib.metu.edu.tr/upload/2/12604916/index.pdf.

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In this study, the energy conservation potential of selected retrofitting interventions on an office building were investigated, on the basis of which some rational strategies for the improvement of building envelopes in terms of energy, environment and comfort design were proposed. Examined were various measures on envelope constructions that can be retrofitted to existing buildings. By using simulation techniques, the effectiveness of such measures in reducing energy consumption and environmental threat were also assessed. Effects of glazing types, effect of insulation and thermal mass were

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Rogers, Jane Brenda. "Performance benefits of atrium office building occupancy." Thesis, Ulster University, 2016. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.714497.

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The rationale of this study is to investigate the relationship between the design characteristics of atrium office buildings and the performance of the occupants leading to organisation effectiveness. A central theme is to understand the spatial configuration of the accommodation within and surrounding the atrium space and how this affects office worker behaviour. The background to this study was established through a comprehensive literature review that considered what is known about knowledge worker performance and workplace productivity and how these are measured from a behavioural perspect

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Jiang, Min. "Building high performance main memory Web databases." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 2001. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk3/ftp04/MQ61915.pdf.

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wei, zheng. "IMPROVEMENT OF BUILDING PERFORMANCE BY MULTIZONE MODELLING." Thesis, Högskolan i Gävle, Avdelningen för bygg- energi- och miljöteknik, 2012. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:hig:diva-13822.

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This paper is aiming to analyze the energy consumption of a building located in Satra, GAVLIE. Computer simulations of multizone airflow and thermal transport are performed in order to analyze the indoor climate and at the same time reduce the use of energy in the present building. At the same time, economic factors need to be considered based on energy-saving. Via use economic analysis tool to determine the feasibility of the energy-saving program in order to make sure the program getting recovery. With energy prices going up and increasing environmental awareness, designing an energy-effic

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Crawley, Drury Browne. "Building performance simulation : a tool for policymaking." Thesis, University of Strathclyde, 2008. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.501691.

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Building energy and environmental performance simulation programs have the capability to evaluate a wide range of responses to external stimulus. Typically, these software tools are used by practitioners evaluating individual building design or retrofits. Other uses for building simulation include overheating prediction, heating and cooling equipment design. evaluation of alternate technologies (energy efficiency and renewable energy), regulatory compliance or, more recently, integrated views of multiple simulation results.

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Rouchier, Simon. "Hygorthermal performance assessment of damaged building materials." Phd thesis, Université Claude Bernard - Lyon I, 2012. http://tel.archives-ouvertes.fr/tel-00980172.

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An importantmatter in the field of building physics is the questioning of how wellbuildings sustain ageing, and how their overall efficiency evolves over their lifetime.Many causes for degradation are carried by moisture transfer through these porousmaterials. Indeed, infiltratedwatermay transport chemicals, altermechanical properties,and cause freeze thaw damage or mould development. It may also affect thermalproperties and energetic efficiency, as well as the health and comfort of the occupants.The understanding of how moisture transfer properties evolve during the lifespan ofbuildingmateria

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Bhayroo, Hiran. "Building high performance teams in virtual organisations." Thesis, Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/10019.1/97311.

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Thesis (MBA)--Stellenbosch University, 2015.<br>ENGLISH ABSTRACT: The research assignment was conducted to evaluate the influential dimensions for building high performing teams in virtual organisations. The new business unit, Middle East and Africa has the challenge of operating globally for the first time. The leadership has the daunting task of getting the virtual team to become a high performance team. An intensive literature review was conducted to draw on the knowledge of previous theory for both high performance teams as well as virtual organisations. A representative sample of the orga

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Wallace, E. "Service employee performance and brand building (Thesis)." Thesis, University of Birmingham, 2007. https://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.755763.

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D'AMICO, Antonino. "ALTERNATIVE MODELS FOR BUILDING ENERGY PERFORMANCE ASSESSMENT." Doctoral thesis, Università degli Studi di Palermo, 2020. http://hdl.handle.net/10447/395388.

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The research activity carried out during the three years of the PhD course attended, at the Engineering Department of the University of Palermo, was aimed at the identification of an alternative predictive model able to solve the traditional building thermal balance in a simple but reliable way, speeding up any first phase of energy planning. Nowadays, worldwide directives aimed at reducing energy consumptions and environmental impacts have focused the attention of the scientific community on improving energy efficiency in the building sector. The reduction of energy consumption and CO2 emissi

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Jack, Richard. "Building diagnostics : practical measurement of the fabric thermal performance of houses." Thesis, Loughborough University, 2015. https://dspace.lboro.ac.uk/2134/19274.

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This thesis is concerned with measuring the fabric thermal performance of houses. This is important because the evidence shows that predictions of performance, based upon a summation of expected elemental performance, are prone to significant inaccuracy and in-situ performance is invariably worse than expected the so-called performance gap . Accurate knowledge of the thermal performance of houses could cause a shift in the way that houses are built, retrofitted and managed. It would enable quality-assurance of newly-built and retrofitted houses, driving an improvement in the energy performance

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Shakoorian, Amirali. "Performance Assessment of Building Commissioning Process as a Quality Assurance System." Diss., Georgia Institute of Technology, 2006. http://hdl.handle.net/1853/10534.

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The aim of this thesis was to develop a methodology to systematically investigate the effect of different procurement options on the outcome of a construction project. This methodology combined the qualitative analysis based on experts' performance assessment of each procurement option with quantitative analyses of generic process models for each option, in order to perform a comprehensive analysis of different procurement alternatives. This methodology was further applied to the specific problem of this research which was to assess the performance of Commissioning Delivery Systems (CDS). The

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Blush, Aaron. "Impact of ASHRAE standard 189.1-2009 on building energy efficiency and performance." Kansas State University, 2010. http://hdl.handle.net/2097/6909.

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Master of Science<br>Department of Architectural Engineering and Construction Science<br>Fred L. Hasler<br>The purpose of this report is to provide an introduction to the new ASHRAE Standard 189.1-2009, Standard for the Design of High-Performance Green Buildings. The report will include an overview of the standard to detail what the purpose, scope and requirements for high-performance buildings will be. The entire standard will be overviewed, but the focus of this paper is in the areas of energy efficiency and building performance. Next, the report will examine further impacts that the standar

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MONTANA, Francesco. "MULTI-OBJECTIVE OPTIMISATION OF BUILDINGS AND BUILDING CLUSTERS PERFORMANCE: A LIFE CYCLE THINKING APPROACH." Doctoral thesis, Università degli Studi di Palermo, 2021. http://hdl.handle.net/10447/472442.

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MONTANA, Francesco. "MULTI-OBJECTIVE OPTIMISATION OF BUILDINGS AND BUILDING CLUSTERS PERFORMANCE: A LIFE CYCLE THINKING APPROACH." Doctoral thesis, Università degli Studi di Palermo, 2021. http://hdl.handle.net/10447/496758.

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Sun, Yuming. "Closing the building energy performance gap by improving our predictions." Diss., Georgia Institute of Technology, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/1853/52285.

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Increasing studies imply that predicted energy performance of buildings significantly deviates from actual measured energy use. This so-called "performance gap" may undermine one's confidence in energy-efficient buildings, and thereby the role of building energy efficiency in the national carbon reduction plan. Closing the performance gap becomes a daunting challenge for the involved professions, stimulating them to reflect on how to investigate and better understand the size, origins, and extent of the gap. The energy performance gap underlines the lack of prediction capability of current bui

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Makarechi, Shariar. "Automation Performance Index." Diss., Georgia Institute of Technology, 2006. http://hdl.handle.net/1853/14063.

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Automation is intended to improve overall building performance. Building Automation Systems (BAS) are attractive and popular due to their promise of increased operational effectiveness. BAS can be optimized and a well-designed and well-implemented BAS is expected to increase a buildings overall appeal and value as a result of improvement to its performance. In order to improve the level of automation in buildings, a measurement tool in the form of a performance index is needed. The goal of this research is to quantify a buildings level of automation-performance. The specific objective is to de

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Whitney, John Emmett. "My approach to building a character." Thesis, University of Iowa, 2015. https://ir.uiowa.edu/etd/1799.

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The goal of this work is to explain the process through which I develop a character as an actor. I will explain the crucial elements that I believe great actors exude and also where I have been able--and also unable--to adopt these elements. The act of writing down these ideas is beneficial to myself because it requires me to express on paper what could easily be discussed with any other actor endlessly in circles comparing and contrasting processes and tendencies of practice. I will be able to look back to this particular work in the future and see how I have grown and what principles I'm sur

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Costanzo, Vincenzo. "Cool Roofs for improving thermal performance of existing EU office buildings." Doctoral thesis, Università di Catania, 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/10761/3822.

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Cool materials are characterized by having a high solar reflectance - which is able to reduce heat gains during daytime - and a high thermal emissivity that enables them to dissipate the heat absorbed throughout the day during night. Despite the concept of cool roofs - i.e. the application of cool materials to roof surfaces - is well known in US since 1990s, many studies focused on their performance in both residential and commercial sectors under various climatic conditions for US countries, while only a few case studies are analyzed in EU countries. The present thesis work aims at analyzin

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Zhang, Kaiying. "Studying building behaviors by using the Building Management System of a new teaching building : A study case of a school building in Stockholm." Thesis, KTH, Hållbara byggnader, 2020. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:kth:diva-278537.

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Building management system (BMS) offers a wide range of measurements and historical data about the building but few types of researches use these data to analyze the building performance. This study aims to explore the indoor climate and building insulation by taking advantage of the BMS of the study case, which 767 sensors are installed in the room and wall structures and the signal data are available at the online web application. In addition, during the inspection, several error sensors and meters are detected are discussed as feedback for the system. It is concluded that the building manag

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Banerjee, Partha Sarathi. "Performance benchmarking of complex infrastructure projects." Thesis, IIT Delhi, 2016. http://localhost:8080/iit/handle/2074/7020.

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Elkhatieb, Mahmoud Ahmed. "A performance-driven design model of Territorial Adaptive Building Skin (TABS) for daylighting performance optimisation in office buildings in Egypt." Thesis, University of Liverpool, 2017. http://livrepository.liverpool.ac.uk/3007311/.

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Building skins have become an expression of the unique forces that are defining their context, either tangible such as weather conditions or intangible, such as social and cultural heritage. Egypt is currently experiencing excessive importation of Western technology and design concepts in architecture due to the desire of rapid development accompanied by social and political changes, threatening its culture and causing an identity crisis. Nowadays, office building design in Egypt adopts the design principles of fully glazed western buildings that were built for different environmental conditio

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Djuric, Natasa. "Real-time supervision of building HVAC system performance." Doctoral thesis, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Faculty of Engineering Science and Technology, 2008. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:no:ntnu:diva-2215.

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<p>This thesis presents techniques for improving building HVAC system performance in existing buildings generated using simulation-based tools and real data. Therefore, one of the aims has been to research the needs and possibilities to assess and improve building HVAC system performance. In addition, this thesis aims at an advanced utilization of building energy management system (BEMS) and the provision of useful information to building operators using simulation tools.</p><p>Buildings are becoming more complex systems with many elements, while BEMS provide many data about the building syste

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McElroy, Lori Barbara. "Embedding integrated building performance assessment in design practice." Thesis, University of Strathclyde, 2009. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.501849.

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This thesis relates to a number of connected initiatives, which over a 20 plus year period assisted design professionals to transfer building energy and environmental simulation technologies from the domain of specialists to routine use in practice. It is written in the context of worldwide concerns relating to climate change, energy profligacy and depleting reserves of finite resources, from fossil fuels to materials, and associated legislative measures relating to the environmental impact of the construction industry. The research conjectured and tested mechanisms, including performance asse

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Tsapos, Christos L. "Passive solar building performance : energy and social aspects." Thesis, University of Strathclyde, 1995. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.368062.

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Huang, Puxi. "Hygrothermal performance of Moso bamboo-based building material." Thesis, University of Bath, 2017. https://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.715306.

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This study focuses on the hygrothermal performance of Moso bamboo. The knowledge in this aspect is remarkable important for the research of building energy saving and the low carbon building design. However, the detailed hygrothermal properties of Moso bamboo are fairly rare. To obtain these data, a series of experimental works have been done for measurement of density, porosity, thermal conductivity, specific heat capacity, water vapour permeability, hygrothermal expansion and sorption isotherm of Moso bamboo. To obtain further understanding on the hygrothermal performance of Moso bamboo, a n

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Aijazi, Arfa N. (Arfa Nawal). "Machine learning paradigms for building energy performance simulations." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2017. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/111280.

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Thesis: S.M. in Building Technology, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Department of Architecture, 2017.<br>This electronic version was submitted by the student author. The certified thesis is available in the Institute Archives and Special Collections.<br>Cataloged from student-submitted PDF version of thesis.<br>Includes bibliographical references (pages 134-138).<br>This research seeks to overcome a technical limitation of building energy performance simulations, the computation time, by using surrogate modeling, a class of supervised machine learning techniques where the output is a

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Buie, Kevin. "Leadership in Systems Engineering: Building High Performance Teams." Digital Commons at Loyola Marymount University and Loyola Law School, 2008. https://digitalcommons.lmu.edu/etd/375.

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