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Cultural influences on the yards of Italian migrants’ houses built in Brisbane (Australia)
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SAGE Publications
, 2020 , Article)
Italian migrants, as well as diverse migrant groups, brought with them cultural practices and a way of life, which are nowadays part of the multicultural Australian built environment and society. This research study focuses ...
An optimal two-bout strategy with phase change material cooling vests to improve comfort in hot environment
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Elsevier Ltd
, 2018 , Article)
Cooling vests incorporating phase change material (PCM) packets are used to improve comfort of workers in hot environments. This work aims to investigate by modeling and experimentation the effect of dividing the working ...
Hierarchy based information requirements for sustainable operations of buildings in Qatar
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Elsevier Ltd
, 2017 , Article)
Information flows in construction projects are generally focused on the needs of the design and construction phases. This creates disruption of workflows across the project stages and in particular with the information ...
The Urban Regeneration of West-Bay, Business District of Doha (State of Qatar): A Transit Oriented Development Enhancing Livability
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Elsevier
, 2018 , Article)
Doha, the capital of the State of Qatar, has faced enormous economic growth and rapid urban
transformation over the last few decades. More recently, this has been accentuated by the construction
of major urban public ...
Expatriates' Housing Dispersal Outlook in a Rapidly Developing Metropolis Based on Urban Growth Predicted Using a Machine Learning Algorithm
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Routledge
, 2021 , Article)
Housing dispersal in emerging cities should be investigated as it occurs to achieve a better understanding of future housing dispersal. In this study, housing preferences are analyzed in Doha Metropolitan Area based on ...
Generative Adversarial Network Approach to Future Sermonizing of Housing Dispersal in Emerging Cities
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American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE)
, 2022 , Article)
This study aims to visualize the future housing dispersal of expatriates, based on the predicted urban growth in emerging cities. Generalized adversarial networks (GANs) will be utilized to predict the future urban growth ...
Experimental study on using PCMs of different melting temperatures in one cooling vest to reduce its weight and improve comfort
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Elsevier Ltd
, 2017 , Article)
This study aims at evaluating experimentally phase change material (PCM) cooling vest performance when incorporating two types of PCM with different melting temperatures with varied PCM placement on the lower, upper, front ...
Selection of slat separation-to-width ratio of brise-soleil shading considering energy savings, CO2 emissions and visual comfort – a case study in Qatar
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Elsevier Ltd
, 2018 , Article)
The addition of fixed external shading devices to glazed surfaces reduces the space loads and sensations of visual discomfort caused by excessive day-lighting. The slat-to-slat separation distance of the brise-soleil blinds ...
Evaporatively-cooled facade integrated with photovoltaic thermal panel applied in hot and humid climates
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Elsevier Ltd
, 2019 , Article)
This study investigates the performance of a hybrid passive cooling system, applied on fully-glazed facades of typical office spaces, in reducing the facade surface temperature and the space thermal loads. The proposed ...
Comfort temperature and occupant adaptive behavior in offices in Qatar during summer
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Elsevier Ltd
, 2017 , Article)
Qatar tops the world in per capita CO2 emissions and per capita total primary energy supply. Adaptive comfort standards and thermal comfort field survey data are not available for Qatar. We conducted a thermal comfort ...