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Neural network-based model predictive control system for optimizing building automation and management systems of sports facilities
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Elsevier Ltd
, 2022 , Article)
Sports facilities are considered complex buildings due to their high energy demand and occupancy profiles. Therefore, their management and optimization are crucial for reducing their energy consumption and carbon footprint ...
Performance and energy optimization of building automation and management systems: Towards smart sustainable carbon-neutral sports facilities
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Elsevier Ltd
, 2022 , Other)
Sports facilities (SFs) consume massive energy given their unique demand profiles and operation requirements. Intelligent and effective solutions are necessary to tackle the matter of facilities’ sustainability and efficiency. ...
Extending indoor open street mapping environments to navigable 3D citygml building models: Emergency response assessment
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International Society for Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing
, 2018 , Conference Paper)
Disaster scenarios in high-rise buildings such as the Address Downtown, Dubai or Grenfell Tower, London have showed ones again the importance of data information availability for emergency management in buildings. 3D ...
A dynamic approach for evacuees? distribution and optimal routing in hazardous environments
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Elsevier B.V.
, 2018 , Article)
In a complex built environment, the situation changes rapidly during an emergency event. Typically, available systems rely heavily on a static scenario in the calculation of safest routes for evacuation. In addition, egress ...
Design and performance analysis of a regenerative evaporative cooler for cooling of buildings in arid climates
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Elsevier Ltd
, 2018 , Article)
Evaporative cooling has been considered a low energy consumption process that often is associated with displacement ventilation and passive cooling strategies of buildings. While significant energy savings can be accrued ...
Quantifying thermal resilience of office buildings during power outages: Development of a simplified model metric and validation through experimentation
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Elsevier
, 2023 , Article)
A growing interest has been recently demonstrated in studying the thermal resilience of buildings that goes beyond minimum standard requirements to meet performance targets under extreme climate changes. However, there is ...
Pragmatic probe: Preference and satisfaction with built environment
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Penerbit UTM Press
, 2015 , Article)
Enhancing the quality of urban life is considered by social scientists. It has instigated a growing attention in findings from surveys aiming to measure the inhabitant image in particular places. This paper investigates ...
Enhancing staff's satisfaction with comfort toward productivity by sustainable Open Plan Office Design
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Elsevier
, 2015 , Article)
Several sustainable building assessment tools have been developed globally to manage sustainability in building's indoor environment. The sustainable building assessment tools (SBATs) measure the user's satisfaction and ...
Semiotic aspects of museum landscape: Contextual integration and symbolic application
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Common Ground Research Networks
, 2015 , Article)
This research aims to study the development of the landscape of contemporary museums, their conceptual classification, and their contextual implementation from the mid-20th century up to the present. It will highlight cases ...
Virtual reconstruction of the historic city of Al-Zubarah in Qatar
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Elsevier
, 2021 , Article)
The ruins of al-Zubarah hold within them valuable information for historians and anthropologists to know the society that once lived in it. Thanks to contemporary modelling methods, and a wealth of recent scholarship and ...