Physical Building Research Articles

Innovative products of concrete steel bone testing tools in the field of civil engineering building

Bending test is one type of material testing conducted to determine the mechanical properties of a technical material. In designing this bending test required a standard design method that uses standard machine elements as well as commonly found in the market. In practice in the field, there are only a few materials testing practitioners who pay attention to aspects and effects of variations in the dimensions of the test specimen on the data from the test results. The test is carried out with the intention to obtain information about fulfilling the quality requirements and the feasibility of the material to be used as construction material for buildings, bridges and other physical buildings. As for one application that can be done is to look at aspects of the problems that are around that are associated with practicum activities in the laboratory and in the work industry. Therefore it is necessary to adjust between making the final report with the needs needed in the industrial world. For this reason, the bending test is made to study the effect of dimensional variations on test specimens in arcing testing. For this reason, this study with the title “Innovative Products for Concrete Reinforcement Steel Curved Test Equipment in the Field of Building Materials in the Department of Civil Engineering” is very important to do. The research was conducted to improve the performance of tools in the building materials laboratory. The final results of the study are expected to function optimally and easily used for laboratory work.

Pabrikasi Unit Kontrol Berbasis Web pada Smarthome System untuk Pengoperasian Pintu Gerbang

A control unit based-on web in smarthome system has been designed and constructed. The control unit can be integrated into the smarthome system platform for gate operation via a smartphone. The research objectives, namely (i) integration of hardware and availability of raw files for applications, (ii) programming for control unit, and (iii) availability of control unit and implementation of validation tests. The result of integration is a form of successful hardware handshaking. The programming result is a form of successful software handshaking, including (i) a flowchart-based algorithm, while the syntax structure is based on the Arduino IDE, (ii) the comfiling and uploading stages of the syntax structure to the Arduino UNO R3 module, including the process online control based on RemoteXY version 4.5.1 via a web browser, and (iii) uploading files from personal computers and smartphones based on Android. The availability of the control unit physical building for the validation test process is the achievement of handshaking in hardware and software, in the form of performance measurement of the control unit with 3 (three) kinds of observations, namely (i) “open”, (ii) “close”, or (iii) lock/unlock state. In general, it is concluded that the web-based control unit on the smarthome system for gate operation can function and perform according to plan.

The GoPA! Second Set of Country Cards Informing Decision Making for a Silent Pandemic.

In 2012, the Global Observatory for Physical Activity (GoPA!) was established to provide information that would enable countries to initiate or improve research capacity, surveillance systems, program development, and policymaking to increase physical activity levels. Findings from the first GoPA! Country Cards showed an unequal distribution of physical activity surveillance, research productivity, and policy development and implementation around the world. Regular global monitoring of these factors, especially in countries with the largest data gaps, was recommended to combat the global pandemic of physical inactivity. After 6 years and using standardized methods, GoPA! is launching the second set of Country Cards based on data up to 2019 from 217 countries. Overall results showed that periodic national surveillance of physical activity was less common in low-income countries, compared with middle- and high-income countries. Large inequities were seen with more than a 50-fold difference in publications between high- and low-income countries and 32% of the countries worldwide had no physical activity policy. GoPA! has a critical role in facilitating evidence-based physical activity promotion building on international guidelines and the World Health Organization Global Action Plan. GoPA! will continue to monitor progress as we battle the global pandemic of physical inactivity.

Mapping seismic exposure of building based surface peak ground acceleration: initial seismic risk assessment in Bandung Basin, West Java

An important key to determining the disaster risk is exposure. It is truly dynamic in space and time due to the expansion and change of the settlements. A seismic hazard is an earthquake disaster that can deliver damage to the physical environment. Hence, it is required to analyse the objects exposed by an active earthquake source in the Bandung Basin. The exposed objects that experience the most impact due to the shock of the earthquake are residential buildings. The West Bandung Regency was opted as our study area due to the high-risk zone for earthquake waves based on seismic hazard calculation. This paper tried to analyse the seismic exposure as the impact of earthquake waves around the Bandung Basin on physical buildings in the West Bandung Regency using a geospatial analytics approach. The result shows that the location area with many damaged buildings correlates with the spatial distribution of surface peak ground acceleration.

Comparative study of diet variability on isotonic muscle contraction in adolescent students

Background: Isotonic muscle contraction creates force and helps to perform work like moving load. Various factors are found to affect performance of the skeletal muscle such as age, gender, height, weight, physical build, training, and race. Physical activity, exercise, and diet habits are day-to-day behavior that affects work done and health. Onset of fatigue is affected by motivation, degree of work, duration of work, and blood supply of exercising muscle. Only few studies have been conducted to show effect of gender and diet variation on work done and performance of skeletal muscle. Aim and Objective: This study aims to compare the effect of gender and diet variability on isotonic muscle contraction in adolescent students. Materials and Methods: This comparative study was conducted from May 2020 to April 2021. One hundred and fifty healthy adolescent male and female students aged 17–21 years were selected by convenience sampling. Approval from the Institutional Ethical Committee (IEC/HIMS/RR123/22-05-2020), informed consent from participants was taken. Subjects contract flexors of the right hand middle finger against resistance using Mosso’s Ergogram, till fingers get fatigued and can no longer lift load. Then, work done was calculated for flexor muscle. Data were statistically analyzed. Results: Work done using Mosso’s Ergography was higher in males when compared to females (P 0.05). Work done during intact blood supply was greater than during venous and arterial occlusion (P < 0.00001). Conclusion: Muscle performance was more in males due to height, weight, and hormonal effect. Work done during intact blood flow was better than during restricted blood flow. However, there was no statistically significant difference in work done between vegetarians and non-vegetarians.

Theoretical Minimum Thermal Load in Buildings

Summary Building cooling and heating accounts for a large portion of total global energy use and requires commensurate amounts of resources, which contribute significantly to global warming. Traditionally, addressing this issue has meant improving the efficiency of equipment supplying the thermal energy, reducing envelope heat transfer, and reducing air infiltration. However, this approach is already reaching practical limits. In this perspective, we explore (1) how to reduce thermal load in buildings theoretically and (2) how to achieve that reduction and dramatically lower the energy required to support building loads practically. First, we discuss our framework developed for calculating the theoretical minimum thermal load (TMTL) in buildings. Our analysis shows that current thermal loads in buildings are more than an order of magnitude higher than the TMTL. We also introduce an approximate formula to calculate energy savings from zonal control of thermal load, which shows that the majority of zonal control benefits can be achieved with fewer than 10 zones. Then, we discuss pros and cons of various approaches and strategies to achieve the TMTL. We conclude our perspective with some longer-term R&D ideas, such as thermally adaptive clothing and thermal storage to help approach the TMTL, while providing the additional benefit of interacting with the renewable grid of the future.

Public Knowledge

At the time of this writing, like many of you I’m sure, I am largely consumed with planning for a safe return to our physical buildings this fall. Information changes daily if not hourly. Budgets swing wildly as infusions of cash from federal sources do and don’t trickle down to the library’s bottom line. Vaccine mandates come with asterisks and exceptions. In between going round and round about safe ventilation when I don’t know more than I can google about HVAC and thinking through how much sanitizer, plexiglass, and vaccines we’ll need on hand to check out books in the coming academic year, I am reading Hester Blum’s masterful history of polar print culture, The News at the Ends of the Earth . As the climate warms in response to human industrialization, dead letters floated by balloon, buried in cairns, and stuffed into frozen tundra by European and American men seeking a northwest passage and a science of the southern hemisphere emerge from the ice. Drawing from these bits and pieces of arctic and Antarctic communication and the newspapers, playbills, and other print culture explorers made for each other, Blum describes how knowledge is constructed and shared under extreme conditions. As editor of the book reviews section of College &amp; Research Libraries here in the Anthropocene, I have been working through such questions myself.

Predicting non-residential building fire risk using geospatial information and convolutional neural networks

Building fire risk prediction is crucial for allocation of building inspection resources and prevention of fire incidents. Existing research of building fire prediction makes use of data relating to local demography, crime, building use and physical building characteristics, yet few studies have analysed the relative importance of predictive features. Furthermore, image features relating to buildings, such as aerial imagery and digital surface models (DSM), have not been explored. This research presents a multi-modal hybrid neural network for the prediction of fire risk at the building level using the London Fire Brigade dataset. The inclusion of traditional and novel image features is assessed using Shapley values and an ablation study. The ablation study found that while building use is the most effective contributor of classification performance, demographic features, apart from social class, are detrimental. Moreover, while the DSM did not lead to any notable improvement in classification performance, the inclusion of the aerial imagery feature lead to a 4% increase in median validation ROC AUC. The final model presented achieved an ROC AUC of 0.8195 on the test set.

Family Medicine, Community, and Race: A Minneapolis Practice Reflects.

The uprisings for racial justice that followed the brutal murder of George Floyd on May 28, 2020 in Minneapolis, Minnesota damaged the physical building where a family medicine residency is situated. We discuss the emotions that follow that event and reflect on ways that family medicine should address racism and discrimination. We also call on those in family medicine to work more in the communities that we serve, and to make advocacy a core part of the identity of family medicine.

THE MYTH OF MOUNT PADANG BY COMMUNITY PERSPECTIVE LOCAL AND ITS EFFECT ON THE POWER OF TOURISM ATTRACTIONS

The Gunung Padang site is one of the megalithic cultural heritage sites in West Java. Precisely located in the hamlet of Gunung Padang and Panggulan, Desa Karymukti, Kecamatan Campaka, Kabupaten Cianjur. The Gunung Padang site is inseparable from myths where myths developed in the local community and referring to local wisdom in the Priangan area alleged that this site is a place of worship of ancestral spirits, gods and fulfilling spiritual needs in the past. The existence of the site and the community around the Gunung Padang site has a role to revive the myth so that it becomes a value on the Gunung Padang site. In addition to living the myth, the local community also maintains that the physical building of the site is maintained and maintained. Values related to myths and local communities are formed through perceptions about living myths that provide their own strength for the existence of Gunung Padang which makes this site as a tourist attraction. Key words: Tourist Visits, Myths, Gunung Padang Site

Analisis Deskriptif Strategi Komunikasi Hotel Sakura Syariah

The research objective describes an integrated marketing communication strategy in developing Sakura Syariah Hotel to see a comprehensive marketing communication strategy. Hotel Sakura Syariah is a 3-star syariah concept hotel which has 70 rooms. The analytical method uses the 7P (marketing mix) approach. The research results to increase the number of guests staying the strategy consisted of products, which offer a sharia concept with various types of representative rooms. Pricing, using the appropriate price preferences. Place, hotel location that is close to the center of the district capital and easy access. Promotion, with direct selling in accordance with local government and private selling by participating in various marketing events, sales proposals and advertising. People, conduct trainings to improve human resource capabilities. Physical evidence, a physical building that has Sharia characters and is supported by fairly good technology. Process, reservation service is quite fast and excellent. The development of this Sayriah hotel must be supported by related parties, especially the local government in order to increase the number of hotel guests

Pendampingan Pembuatan Mural Sebagai Upaya Meningkatkan Edukasi Belajar Serta Perbaikan Visual Sekolah

Target kegiatan pengabdian adalah sebuah sekolah yang terletak dipinggiran Kota Medan tepatnya Perumnas Simalingkar Medan Tuntungan. Sekolah ini merupakan sekolah yang memiliki visi misi membantu masyarakat sekitar agar dapat sekolah dengan biaya murah bahkan gratis pada kondisi keluarga tertentu. Beberapa tahun terakhir terjadi penurunan siswa yang berminat untuk mendaftar pada sekolah tersebut. Kondisi ini menyebabkan biaya operasional sekolah untuk perawatan bangunan perlahan-lahan tidak teralokasikan lagi. Hal ini yang membuat tim PKM berencana untuk memberikan wawasan terkait fisik bangunan sesuai dengan bidang ilmu teknik dan seni. Salah satu upaya yang dapat dilakukan untuk mewujudkan visual yang baik dan menarik adalah memperbaiki fisik bangunan. Upaya tersebut berupa aplikasi seni mural, selain dianggap memperindah tampilan fisik bangunan, seni mural ini juga dapat memperkuat karakter sebuah kawasan. Metode yang dilakukan adalah dengan metode sosialisasi, membuat konsep desain, kemudian praktik dengan bimbingan pembuatan mural, serta monitoring dan evaluasi. Dalam kegiatan ini tahap-tahap yang lakukan adalah memberi materi pendahuluan berupa pemahaman arsitektur, tahap persiapan pembuatan desain mural dan tahap mengecat. Mural yang dihasilkan dalam bentuk mural edukasi dengan beberapa ragam pengetahuan. Hasil kegiatan ini diharapkan adanya peningkatan ekonomi, peningkatan ilmu seni bagi mitra terpilih sekaligus memperbaiki visual bangunan sekolah.

PERAN ARSIP DALAM PELESTARIAN CAGAR BUDAYA DI INDONESIA: SISTEMATIKA REVIEW

Archives have an important role in the preservation of cultural heritage buildings by the form of information about the history and development of cultural heritage buildings. Archives of heritage buildings are dynamic archives that are vital. Management thus must take priority. This study aims to the use of archives in the preservation of cultural heritage in Indonesia. A systematic review method was used with a qualitative approach. Collection data methods were conducted by planning, implementation, and reporting. The findings showed there are only two articles that review the archives in preservation heritage. Furthermore, our challenge is the lack of cultural heritage documents that most archives used were under regulations on the preservation of cultural heritage. Almost all articles thus showed a preservation model on physical forms and cultural heritage buildings.

Classroom to Cyberspace: Preserving Street Law's Interactive and Student-Centered Focus During Distance Learning

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The Sámi Art Museum: There Is No – Or Is There?

This article aims to answer two questions. The first is: What is a Sámi art museum? The second question considers whether there is no Sámi art museum, as assumed by the Nordnorsk kunstmuseum (NNKM) as the title of a museum performance and exhibition in 2017.&#x0D; To answer the first question, it is necessary to tell the long story of the Sámi cultural-historical museum in Karasjok, Samiid Vuorká-Dávvirat (SVD). This museum was inaugurated in 1972 as an act of resistance against the increasing assimilation politics towards the Sámi population in the post-war period. The building that was erected became a cultural and political centre, and a living cultural institution that housed the increasing Sámi ethno-political movement and its energy. Furthermore, as I will argue, the activity that took place at the site became a part of Sámi cultural heritage.&#x0D; The museum has also collected art since 1972 – a collection that today comprises 1400 artworks. Since the 1980s, various plans have been made for a Sámi art museum in a separate building, somehow connected to SVD, however, none of these plans have yet been realised. The article discusses the different reasons for this, and points to the connotations embedded in the SVD building as a cultural and political centre as one of the contributing factors.&#x0D; To answer the question of whether there is no Sámi art museum, a critical reading of the Nordnorsk kunstmuseum’s 2017 museum performance There Is No is necessary. My answer to the question is that NNKM, unfortunately, fell into several traps in their attempt to focus on the fact that there is no physical building. One such trap, that is very common in Western museums displaying indigenous art, is their use of traditional art-historical models as interpretive lenses when displaying indigenous art.&#x0D; A different concept of what an art museum could be today, as a place where things happen, where we could meet counter narratives, or Sámi art and culture could be presented as being part of the present as well as the past and future, would have been closer to a Sámi art museum. I offer this conclusion both through the deeper understanding of Sámi cultural and ethno-political movements as offered in the story of SVD, and through my reading of the theories of the indigenous American scholar John Paul Rangel. While there may indeed be no physical building claiming to be a Sámi art museum, it does in fact exist through the Sámi concept of árbevierru.&#x0D;

Cloud-BIM Enabled Cyber-Physical Data and Service Platforms for Building Component Reuse

While the Circular Economy in the built environment is often viewed in terms of recycling, more value can be obtained from buildings and physical components by their reuse, aided by stewardship and remanufacture, to ensure optimum performance capability. The use of cyber-physical information for online identification, examination and exchange of reusable components may improve their life-cycle management and circularity. To this end, a bi-directional data exchange system is established between physical building components and their virtual Building Information Modeling (BIM) counterparts, so that their life-cycle information—including history of ownership, maintenance record, technical specifications and physical condition—can be tracked, monitored and managed. The resultant prototype Cloud-based BIM platform is then adapted to support an ongoing product-service relationship between suppliers/providers and users/clients. A case study from a major new hospital, focusing upon an example of internal framed glazed systems, is presented for ”proof of concept” and to demonstrate the application of the proposed method. The result of the case study shows that, informed by the life-cycle data from the Cloud-BIM platform, a “lease with reuse” service option is able to deliver a lower total cost and less carbon intensity for each unit of frame-glazed module. This leads to a higher level of eco-efficiency, coupled with decreased consumption of material resources and reduced generation of waste. The research is expected to serve as a step forward in the era of Industry 4.0 and illuminate a more sophisticated way to manage building assets.

The Poetics of Access Apparatuses in Contemporary Lyric Exhibition Spaces

Cultural architecture of exhibition spaces is a complex program, which oftentimes relies on dualities and contrasts that transcend the visual, material or functional experience, thus, sometimes imperceptibly creating a dialogue between the palpable and the intangible. As a fundamental architectural theme, that, in spite of extensive research, cannot be mathematically quantified, but only holistically experienced through an accumulation of senses, feeling, thought, imagination, personal memory and identity, the intangible may be regarded as an additional dimension only experienced in profoundly designed spaces that shelter an intrinsic emotion of architecture. These spaces of cultural, historical, social representation and remembrance succeed in “speaking” without using any “words”, or even if they do, they come to rather represent the space between the “words”… The intangible aspect of representation spaces can only be analysed in regard with the human factor, as it is the one that, both through the process of creation and through the one of experimentation, doubled by the measure of time, can generate this additional dimension and lyric depth, transforming space into experience, mere visual assimilation into transcendental synaesthesia. The main feature of these spaces based on collective memory, emotions and reflexion beyond their tangible features is thus, given by their innate spatial and temporal identity. But when does this transformation from the epic to the lyric genre take place in architecture? Having this query in mind, we aim to study when and how this poetic dimension occurs, as cultural exhibition spaces are actual, physical buildings, part of tangible cities. Therefore, focusing on the boundary between the exterior and the interior of contemporary cultural spaces of exhibition, we intend to analyse and categorize types of access apparatus as part of welcoming gates into spaces with different types of immaterial depth and atmosphere. Generated through addition, subtraction, volume reinterpretation, contrast, dialogue, geometrical transformation or story-telling successive approach, accesses are the first tools the architect can use in order to design an experience. Being previously involved in collectives that designed innovative remembrance or exhibition spaces, our research will be based on both existing models and personally designed ones, as well as on both the experience of the user and the one of the architect, therefore, decoding the relationship between practice, empirical design and experiential environmental poetry. Focusing on the gateway between the pragmatic exterior and the interior intrinsic spatial consciousness, an expression of their dialogue will be revealed.

Around some Jewish Architectural Features

Central and Eastern Europe were always on the edge of cultural, historical, and political transformations. The constant modifications reshape the architecture and urban realm of cities and urban fabric. Structural and socio-political boundaries are affecting cultural minorities. In most cases, the effect is so critical that the cultural heritage of the minority in terms of archi-tecture and built environment is degrading. The memory, as a collective force to the reality of the city, always follows these modifications. The built environment in these complex areas rather of showing the truth (coexistence of physical realm and built form) is mutating and presenting the fragmentation of its different parts. The phenomenon of Jewish reality and settling stiles in Central and Eastern European cities, its transformations, assimilations and segregations became an operational tool for the research, to build a wider understanding of the problematic aspects. The characteristic generalisation was done in terms of the architectural settings. However, all the cases are specific and need a deep understanding of each one’s problems deeply. In Central Europe, the problem occurs in terms of segregation and closure, while in Eastern Europe, the cases of separation were presented along with condition that leads to structural integration. The Prague Ghetto in the old town, the Jewish settlements of Warsaw city and the shtetl in Eastern Europe state the criticality of the problem of memory in a wider range, from physical build one to the intangible. In Prague, due to the constant pressure of segregation and final demolition of Ghetto, the fragmented pieces of the Jewish culture in terms of a building fabric were left. The space was gone but the memory still alive. Jewish culture’s integration into Warsaw’s build form through years and final demolition of the city during the Second World War left singular architectural pieces of their complex reality in the city, as a fragmented island of memory. In contrast, Shtetl presents a case of physical form while the spirit of the place is absent. Memory as an operational tool ensures the collectiveness, as it depicts the contrast of elements within its architecture and urban form. The coexistence of different part of the city with their specific architectural character and memory ensures the fact of its completeness as a whole.

Analisis Peran Aktor dalam Implementasi Kebijakan Pembangunan Sanitasi di Kabupaten Probolinggo

Implementation is an important stage that must be carried out after a policy is formulated. The implementation of sanitation policies in Probolinggo District has a high complexity with various problems because what will be changed is not only the physical building but also the knowledge and also the attitude of the people to behave in a clean and healthy life. The involvement of various parties is needed in helping to overcome these problems so that goals and objectives can be achieved. This study aims to identify, map and formulate the role of stakeholders in the implementation of sanitation development in Probolinggo Regency. Data collection was carried out through interviews, observations and documentation and then analyzed descriptively qualitatively. From the results of the study, 13 actors were involved in the implementation of sanitation development. Actors who are key players are BAPPEDA, Public Health Office , the Housing and Resettlement Zone Office, the Community and Village Empowerment Office, USAID IUWASH PLUS and the Village Government. Good coordination, synergy and communication are needed in the successful implementation.

RE-DEVELOPMENT OF TOURISM AREA IN SUMBER JENON SPRING WATER TAJINAN SUB DISTRICT, MALANG REGENCY

The area of Jenon Spring Water has been determined as tourism development area in Malang Regency. Public facilities and services are a variety of physical buildings and structured programs that play a role in improving the comfort of a residential environment. Public and social services and facilities are very important in the life of city residents. This research is aimed to arrange the spatial development brief of Jenon Spring Water. The method used in this research is descriptive qualitative method. The research result show that regional arrangement is needed. Where in the area arrangement in Sumber Jenon carried out in this project has a positive effect in Gunungronggo Village, which can improve the economy of the Gunungronggo Village community and improve the quality of Human Resources in Gunungronggo Village by adding a souvenir store and other facilities in Sumber Jenon.