Outline Of Building Research Articles

Development of distributed multiple‐source and multiple‐use heat pump system using renewable energy: Outline of test building and experimental evaluation of cooling and heating performance

AbstractThe development of a distributed heat pump system that utilizes several renewable energy sources to meet building heating and cooling demands was reported in this paper. We refer to this system as the multiple‐source and multiple‐use heat pump (MMHP) system. A unique sky source heat pump, ground heat exchangers, and various heat pumps are connected through closed‐loop piping system within a building. This kind of configuration enables improved matching of supply and demand which offers a high flexibility. The winter and summer field testing are conducted to investigate the system performance using a testing building.

Why Factory1: The Spatial Significance of Architectural Education Buildings

The educational space of the Architecture faculty is used to cultivate architects. At the same time, it becomes the carrier of architectural ideas and teaching methods. The type of architecture and its spatial organization reflect the architectural education philosophy and attitude. Back in history, as early as the Renaissance, there had study places for architects emerged. After the industrial revolution and the modernist process, the types of architectural education sites are more diverse, and their main features are the spatial form of hybrid and box-in-box. This article preliminarily analyzes the evolution of the outline of architectural education building and interprets the spatial ideas in each period. The study focuses on the famous Dutch architectural school–BKCity of the Delft University of Technology, analyzing the teaching space logic of its distinctive Why Factory and exploring how the related space could stimulate the vitality of architectural education. By the analogy of some architectural schools, it also tries to compare the differences and characteristics of Chinese and Western architectural academies, finding out the spatial significance in architecture discipline, education method as well as sustainable application.

Geoarchaeological evidence of late and post-Antiquity (5th-9th c. AD) climate changes recorded at the Roman site in Plemići Bay (Zadar region, Croatia)

Remains of a vast Roman pottery production complex were found on the shore of the Plemići Bay (Općina Ražanac, Zadar county) in 2012, and confirmed by geophysical survey. Ground-penetrating radar measurements revealed outline of a rectangular building that finds analogies with Roman storehouses (horreum). The area occupied by remains of the Roman pottery workshop was covered by immense soil-debris flows. Three geological exposures located to the north of the remains of the Roman building were documented using lithological and malacological analysis, and magnetic susceptibility measurements. The profiles revealed at least three generations of slope sediments, formed in result of intensive soil or debris flows in a dry climate, most probably in 5th c. AD. In the next, wet phase sediments were transported downslope and deposited on the Roman structures after 5th c. AD. Environmental conditions at Pelmići were supply with paleoclimate evidence from the Adriatic region. At ca. 1.5 cal. BP lake levels in the eastern Adriatic area were drastically reduced, probably because of strong decrease in humidity, correlated with the so-called North Atlantic Bond event 3. The drought was followed by a humid episode, also attested at the Plemići archaeological site.

オフィスビルにおけるパーソナル温熱環境の最適化の追及 （第 1 報）建築・設備概要とパーソナル温熱環境制御システムの開発

オフィスビルにおけるパーソナル温熱環境の最適化の追及 （第 1 報）建築・設備概要とパーソナル温熱環境制御システムの開発

Materiality and external assurance in corporate sustainability reporting

Purpose– The purpose of this paper is to provide a preliminary examination of the extent to which the UK’s leading house builders are embracing the concept of materiality and commissioning independent external assurance as part of their sustainability reporting processes and to offer some wider reflections on materiality and external assurance in sustainability reporting.Design/methodology/approach– The paper begins with a review of the characteristics of materiality and external assurance and a brief outline of house building in the UK and of the sustainability challenges the industry faces. The information on which the paper is based is drawn for the top twenty UK house builders’ corporate Websites.Findings– The paper reveals that only a minority of the UK’s top 20 house builders had embraced materiality or commissioned some form of independent external assurance or verification as an integral part of their sustainability reporting processes. In many ways this reduces the reliability and credibility of the house builders’ sustainability reports. Looking to the future growing stakeholder pressure may force the UK’s house builders to embrace materiality and commission external assurance as systematic and integral elements in the sustainability reporting process.Originality/value– The paper provides an accessible review of the current status of materiality and external assurance in the UK house builders’ sustainability reporting process, and as such it will interest professionals, practitioners, academics and students interested in sustainability in the construction industry.

A Lovely Building for Difficult Knowledge: The Architecture of the Canadian Museum for Human Rights

One only needs to look at the Canadian Museum for Human Rights (CMHR) logo, with its abstract outline of the CMHR building, to see the way in which the museum's architecture has come to stand in fo...

ゼロ・エネルギー・ビル実現可能性の検討 （第1報）モデル建築の概要

ゼロ・エネルギー・ビル実現可能性の検討 （第1報）モデル建築の概要

環境配慮技術を導入した都市型高層テナントオフィスビルの運用実績と環境評価 （第1報）建物概要と初年度の運用実績

環境配慮技術を導入した都市型高層テナントオフィスビルの運用実績と環境評価 （第1報）建物概要と初年度の運用実績

Explosion Performance of a Ball Powder Production Facility

A ball powder production facility recently experienced two subsequent explosions which occurred due to the detonation of 2,800 kg and 17,000 kg ball powder components in the mixer building and the temporary storage building, respectively. Consequently, three persons were killed; and these two structures were damaged heavily. In this study, the outline of the mixer building is explained as well as the details of explosion and the behavior of the structural system of the mixer building against explosion. The observed damage mechanism of the mixer building is explained through a nonlinear dynamic blast load analysis as well as the evaluation of the original design, in situ material characteristics, and construction details. Furthermore, the potential reasons of the second explosion in the temporary storage building and the effects of this explosion are discussed considering the separation and public route distances given in related standards.

プレストレストコンクリートの改正告示の概要

PC造告示改正の概要について紹介した。主要な改正点は, 従来の終局強度設計法に加えて2000年6月の改正建築基準法施行令で導入された限界耐力計算法と同等な設計法が追加されたことである。その他, 主要構造部材へのアンボンドPC鋼材の使用, 後硬化型PC鋼材の使用などが挙げられる。

Britons and Romans at Chatteris: Investigations at Langwood Farm, Cambridgeshire

A 10-ha site discovered on Langwood Ridge, a spur of Chatteris Island, during the Fenland Survey is amongst the largest open Iron Age settlement scatters known in Britain (Site 26; TL4180 8520). Correlating with a series of linear cropmarks and the possible outline of a stone building on aerial photographs, in the course of the survey a distinct Roman component was also identified. This multi-period settlement, whose ‘in-fen’ situation is directly comparable to Stonea, was assessed by the Cambridge Archaeological Unit of the University of Cambridge in the winter of 1993 in conjunction with the Fenland Management Project (FMP). Nine other Iron Age/Roman scatters are known upon the ridge, including two within the immediate vicinity (Sites 24 and 25; FIG. 2). Moreover, cropmark complexes, respectively involving large field boundaries and more minor paddocks, lie just north-east of the main scatter (Sites 12 and 13). The nearest, the Site 12 field-system, was also trenched in conjunction with the Site 26 fieldwork. Given these densities, one theme of the programme was that of site definition; it is difficult to know where each site begins and ends. As a result, in part, of not being able to adequately delineate the allocated scatter, the investigations grew and to provide broader landscape context neighbouring sites were also sampled (Sites 13, 14, 23–25, and 29).

B-29 大規模複合施設における環境負荷削減の取り組みについて : (第1報)施設概要と運転実績

B-29 大規模複合施設における環境負荷削減の取り組みについて : (第1報)施設概要と運転実績

U字形差し筋を用いたSRC造柱・S造梁接合部の中層建物への適用

A new type SRC-column to S-Beam joint which composed of U-shaped reinforcing bars and horizontal diagonal diaphragms, is proposed and is applied to a 9-story office building. This joint has been developed to obtain good quality of cast-insited concrete in the joint and good seismic performance of the joint, and also to simplify actual execution at the site. In this paper, outline of the objective building, structural design method, lateral loading test of interior beam and column subassemblage and results of actual execution of the joint are shown.

Generating Symbolic Interaction

Production systems are ordered sets of if-then rules linking knowledge and action. The authors show how these systems, developed and applied in artificial intelligence and cognitive science, can be used to construct empirically based symbolic interactionist models of situated human interaction. The authors argue that production system models enhance the conceptual clarity and formal analytic capabilities of key ideas in Herbert Blumer's methodological directives for sociology's symbolic interactionist perspective. The authors present both a general discussion and outline of production system model building and a case study in which they evaluate a model for the detailed analysis of customer-waitperson interactions in a restaurant setting.

The Delights of Memory, II: Doss

(The lights rise on the freight yards in Mesa City. On one side, we see a field heaped with fine-grained coal, and, beyond that, on the same side, a small adobe bungalow used as a resthouse and office for railroad men. In the accessible interior of this bungalow, there are: an old woodstove; wall lockers; a plain rectangular table; some straightbacked, wooden chairs; a few railroad lanterns hung on the wall behind a square, heavy oak desk; a water pitcher with a glass draped over its spout; an old axe, and a poster with the rules of the resthouse. Upstage, toward the center, a well-appointed private car sits, on a track, in state. Beyond this, there is the vague outline of a large adobe building, the city train station.