Building energy use comprises about 40% of the total electrical energy used in NSW. Since the advent of artificial heating and lighting methods and the modernist aesthetic‚ much of the traditional wisdom that informed climate-specific vernacular architecture has been abandoned. There is currently significant interest in reducing energy use in buildings and particularly greenhouse gas production in buildings‚ by: 1. Using intelligent building design that responds to the climatic conditions found at
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BUILD ENVIRONMENT The term built environment refers to the human-made surroundings that provide the setting for human activity‚ ranging in scale from buildings and parks or green space to neighborhoods and cities that can often include their supporting infrastructure‚ such as water supply‚ or energy networks. The built environment is a material‚ spatial and cultural product of human labor that combines physical elements and energy in forms for living‚ working and playing. It has been defined as
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UNIX ARCHITECTURE The architecture of UNIX is divided into three levels. On the outer crust reside the Application Programs and other utilities. At the heart of UNIX‚ on the other hand‚ is the Kernel‚ which interacts with actual hardware in machine language. The stream lining of these two modes of communication is done by the middle layer called Shell. Thus the three basic layers are:- ✓ HARDWARE ✓ KERNEL ✓ SHELL At the core is the physical
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1Organic Architecture View Full Essay Worldwide notoriety is a comment that would suggest Frank Lloyd Wright and the architecture that he left behind. This legendary American architect started a style of organic structures that remains a roadmap for the people of his genera today. His greatness not only remains by the buildings that he left behind‚ but through his school that he along with his wife started and his philosophy about designing. As a young child‚ Wright developed these characteristics
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Ancient Egyptian Architecture The Nile valley has been the site of one of the most influential civilizations which developed a vast array of diverse structures encompassing ancient Egyptian architecture. The architectural monuments‚ which include the Great Pyramid of Giza and the Great Sphinx of Giza‚ are among the largest and most famous. In Ancient Egypt and other early societies‚ people believed in the omnipotence of Gods‚ with many aspects of daily life were carried out with respect to the
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Paper for the 16th Pacific Rim Real Estate Society Conference Wellington‚ New Zealand 24-27 January 2010. How can BIM Technology assist in optimising the Life Cycle Cost of a Building? By Francis Pf Lai‚ Dulani Halvitigala‚ John Boon‚ Roger Birchmore Department of Construction‚ Unitec New Zealand Abstract The complexity of a modern construction project‚ especially in a fast track environment‚ necessities the use of Building Information Management (BIM) system to manage such a project
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Automation in Construction 20 (2011) 217–224 Contents lists available at ScienceDirect Automation in Construction j o u r n a l h o m e p a g e : w w w. e l s ev i e r. c o m / l o c a t e / a u t c o n Building information modeling for sustainable design and LEED® rating analysis Salman Azhar a‚⁎‚ Wade A. Carlton a‚ Darren Olsen a‚ Irtishad Ahmad b a b McWhorter School of Building Science‚ Auburn University‚ Auburn‚ AL‚ USA Department of Construction Management‚ Florida International
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been the same. But living outside‚ with the freedom to roam widely for the purposes of hunting and gathering‚ suggests the need for at least a temporary shelter. And this‚ even at the simplest level‚ means the beginning of something approaching architecture. Confronted with the need for a shelter against sun or rain‚ the natural instinct is to lean some form of protective shield against a support - a leafy branch‚ for example‚ against the trunk of a tree. If there is no
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Introduction What? Any research study of architecture and language dives into familiar but deep seas .Thinking architecture without any language is a vast and elongated theory of discussion. Moreover‚ it adds to a never ending psychological debate which challenges the analogous nature of writing and seeing architecture. People have their own invented worlds where they see the world with different organs of perception where ‘the eye listens’‚ greatly said by Picasso. This conversation surpass the
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UK Higher Education Space Management Project Case studies September 2006 2006/41 Space Management Project: case studies Contents Page Executive summary Introduction 1. 2. 3. Queen Margaret University College – The Relocate Project University of Newcastle upon Tyne – Versatile research buildings Sheffield Hallam University – Promoting effective utilisation The Devonshire Building space management policy 3 5 7 17 27 34 Annex 1: Space Management Project: case studies 2006/41 1
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