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Environmental design in domestic ancient Greek architecture

The objective of this paper is to show that the subtle climatic differences should lead to different environmental strategies in building construction. Domestic architecture is investigated since housing is the most energy demanding building type. The study aims to demonstrate that the architectural subtleties developed between different house types have direct relevance to the different ...

Apr. 13, 2011

By Inderscience Publishers

A futuristic discourse of higher education system linkages with the labour markets in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia

This research paper reports on the policy analysis of higher education policy debate together with a survey conducted among the alumni of College of Environmental Design (CED) at King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals (KFUPM). The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (KSA) is accelerating its development procedures in all levels with the priority towards the human resources development (HRD). On ...

Nov. 29, 2010

By Inderscience Publishers

LEED v4

Ushering in the Era of Transparency and Disclosure A new era has dawned for the building and construction sector that will transform the way products are measured and specified. This change was ushered in July 2013 when the United States Green Building Council’s (USGBC) announced the adoption of the latest version of the Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) rating system: ...

Sep. 20, 2017

By Sphera

Canarina CUSTIC software · noise control · algorithms 5

9. References P.M.Morse, K.U.Ingard, Theoretical Acoustics, Princeton University Press. J.Llinares, A.Llopis, J.Sáncho, 1996, Acústica arquitectónica y urbanística, Universidad Politécnica de Valencia. A.Lawrence, 1970, Architectural Acoustics, Applied Science Publishers. L.Beranek, 1962, Music Acoustics and Architectura, Wiley. ...

Nov. 20, 2011

By Canarina Environmental Software

Ecodesign for services: an innovative comprehensive method

Service organisations, as well as manufacturing ones, may be responsible for significant negative environmental impacts. To minimise them and to aim to those market segments that are sensitive to environmental issues, service organisations could improve the environmental soundness of their services through the integration of environmental issues in the design processes. In an attempt to meet ...

Jun. 4, 2010

By Inderscience Publishers

Sustainability due diligence: LEED® as the evolving national standard

This article examines current trends in the finance and real estate industries related to due diligence and sustainability. According to the authors of the article, the emergence of the U.S. Green Building Council's Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design rating system, together with the establishment and backing of the Carbon Principles by some of the world's leading financial ...

Aug. 28, 2008

By Bloomberg BNA

Environmental challenge: gaining the acceptance of society

This article discusses the change of attitude necessary in industrial organisations towards the environment from the former position which was the exploitation of the environment as a 'free' resource to the requirement of the present and future of an acceptance of responsibility for the environmental impacts of industrial activities. This leads directly to the use of environmental audits. The ...

Sep. 18, 2009

By Inderscience Publishers

Material selection in product design subject to environmental taxation and environmentally conscious consumer buying behaviour

As society is increasingly aware of environmental pollutions generated from products, the impact of toxic waste to human and the ecosystem has also received attention. However, the focus on preventing such toxic pollutions from the very source of material selection in product design has yet to gain sufficient research effort. To meet this critical need, this paper studies decision-making in ...

Oct. 12, 2009

By Inderscience Publishers

Product innovation through ecodesign

This paper shows how to develop eco-products using the Ecodesign approach. Three different product case studies show how to proceed in developing environmentally improved products. These case studies have been carried out in collaboration with industry and the identified product improvements have been realised in commercial products, which are now available on the market. The first case study is ...

Feb. 7, 2008

By Inderscience Publishers

Canarina DESCAR software · environmental impact design · commands 16

Print image.- This command send a pixel-by-pixel image of the program window to the printer. To print with Print image command, you must first display that information on the program window and then print with this command. This command is by far the easiest way to print from your application. Because it may send information to the printer at the resolution of the user’s screen (typically ...

Dec. 6, 2011

By Canarina Environmental Software

Benchmarking adaptive reuse: a case study of Georgia

Holistic construction approaches are needed to move from Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) certified new buildings to adaptive reuse of existing buildings. Adaptive reuse is an opportunity to recycle and manage the deconstruction process in a more responsible manner with focus towards the new occupancy requirements. The objective of this paper is to benchmark the architectural ...

Feb. 13, 2006

By Inderscience Publishers

Development of robbery risk analysis tools: using the Australian and New Zealand Standard

The principles of risk analysis are widely understood, but delivering reliable and consistent assessments of security related risks can prove difficult. This paper presents a case study of the development and use of a risk assessment tool that facilitates analysis of a range of variables, and delivers a qualitative description of the risk of harm to staff arising from robbery at any given cash ...

Apr. 24, 2006

By Inderscience Publishers

Framework for eco-innovative design with application in low-voltage electric appliance industry

Following several years of incremental improvements in green-design, nowadays, step changes have to be considered for developing competitive environmentally friendly products. However, many companies still see environmental issues as economical burden because eco-innovations usually require new capital investments as well as changes in product design and the related production processes and ...

Nov. 7, 2011

By Inderscience Publishers

Pollution prevention through reactor network synthesis: the IDEAS approach

A novel approach, called Infinite DimEnsional State-space (IDEAS), has been recently proposed for the synthesis of globally optimal reactor networks where homogeneous, isothermal, steady-state PFRs and CSTRs as well as mixing are allowed. Within the IDEAS framework, reactor network synthesis is formulated as an infinite dimensional linear optimisation problem. In this work, IDEAS will be applied ...

Mar. 16, 2007

By Inderscience Publishers

Transmission Lines routes environmental optimization

The Overhead Transmission Lines routes environmental optimization methodology’s design considers environmental restrictions due to physical, biotic and sociocultural aspects. Priority is given to the most important environmental component on the study area. Geographic Information Systems GIS are used to select best project alternative by means of overlapping operations and map calculator ...

Nov. 6, 2013

By GRN CONSULTORIA AMBIENTAL

A decision-making methodology for best product End-Of-Life scenario selection using an improved compromise ranking method

The development of environmentally sound products requires new paradigms and new approaches for the product development process. Responding to constantly more demanding legislation, manufacturers have to develop product End-Of-Life (EOL) scenarios. Very few studies are available in the literature dealing specifically with selecting the best product EOF scenarios. This is considered in this paper ...

Nov. 22, 2010

By Inderscience Publishers

The Rouge Goes Green: Ford showcases sustainable design in revamp of historic River Rouge plant

From Engineering News-Record Architect William McDonough claims he first heard about Ford Motor Co.’s $2-billion makeover of its River Rouge production plant in Dearborn, Mich., on May 4, 1999, the same day that Ford CEO William Clay Ford Jr. called a press conference to announce that McDonough would lead the design team. Picking McDonough, a wry Charlottesville, Va.-based iconoclast who ...

Nov. 11, 2002

By Arcadis

The concept of designing a corporate environmental strategy

External pressures and internal drivers related to the change of employees' environmental awareness have led executives to consider the environmental variables as a significant competitive priority. The increased importance of the environment for the operation of modern organisations makes it sensible to incorporate environmental management into an area of strategic interest. The article presents ...

Apr. 16, 2009

By Inderscience Publishers

Environmental Alternatives Office Building, Canyon City, Colorado - Case study

Project Name: Environmental Alternatives Office Building Product: Gravelpave2 porous parking lot Application: Permeable Parking Lot City: Canyon City State/Province: Colorado Install Date: 2007 Install Size: 160 m2 (1720 sq ft) Address: Canyon City Client: Environmental Alternatives, Inc. Designer: Environmental Alternatives, Inc., Angela Bellantoni Contractor: Environmental ...

Jan. 12, 2011

By Invisible Structures, Inc.

Computational benefits using artificial intelligent methodologies for the solution of an environmental design problem: saltwater intrusion

Artificial Neural Networks (ANNs) comprise a powerful tool to approximate the complicated behavior and response of physical systems allowing considerable reduction in computation time during time-consuming optimization runs. In this work, a Radial Basis Function Artificial Neural Network (RBFN) is combined with a Differential Evolution (DE) algorithm to solve a water resources management problem, ...

Oct. 1, 2010

By IWA Publishing

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