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In plant construction business engineering has an outstanding influence on project success. Thereby, a plant is usually provided by a general contractor as turnkey solution. However, to win these projects, the general contractor is depending on external engineering service providers. The reasons are e.g. missing expertise in non-core-competence activities, lack of staff or too high costs of internal...
With the pace of urbanization continues to accelerate, making underground construction area is growing. More and more large underground public buildings are located in the ground, such as shopping malls, subways and so on. The fire evacuation in a large underground building has more difficulty than on the ground. In order to gain more time for evacuation, smoke design of large underground public buildings...
At present, there is a series of problems in project cost management of Chinese construction enterprise, to a certain extent, which affected the development of the construction industry China. Lean model experimental analysis which comes from lean production and management, has become the guiding ideology for a new round of management revolution. In this paper, the connotation of lean model experimental...
Mechanical, electrical and plumbing systems in buildings are becoming a greater proportion of construction costs and building operating expenses. As such, MEP systems are required content in the curricula of construction programs. The current paper describes the implementation of computer-based laboratory exercises covering plan reading, material quantity take-offs, and basic material and labor estimating...
The Drum Tower, Office of the President and Zhan Yuan Garden were selected as examples to investigate the present existence status and corresponding effectiveness of protection measures (especially chemical aspects). A new strategy of using sol-gel technique hybrided with chitosan was pertinently brought forward. The application prospect is analyzed. Results show that most of the construction and...
The aim of the paper is to present a structural characterization of the bell tower of the Cathedral of Trani (Bari, Italy) collecting the data of two different non-destructive techniques. The tower, built in 1200, is about 60 meters high and has a square plan with a side of about 7.50 meters; moreover, it is connected to the church through a step supported by a pointed arch. Firstly, an Operational...
The paper used solar energy for heating in the region where the solar energy was rich combined with paraffin phase change thermal energy storage technology in winter. The paper mainly discussed the technology feasibility on two schemes, using whole year solar energy after storing energy by paraffin in winter heating period and using some colder daytime solar energy in supplying heat after storing...
The objective of this paper was to develop an immersive Web-based learning model to assure the quality of learning through the flipped classrooms. The proposed model was guided theoretically by the flipped classroom as a new Web-based learning trend. It was also guided pedagogically by active and reflective learning principles that support transforming the teaching and learning practices from content...
This paper analyzes an electromagnetic plane wave scattering by a crack model on perfectly conducting plane and presents a simple formula for easily calculating two dimensional radar cross section from a material covered crack. Here, a narrow rectangular trough, which is filled by two-layered dielectric material, is utilized as the simple crack model to obtain the rigorous solution of the scattering...
We propose that to address the growing problems with complexity and data volumes in HPC security wee need to refactor how we look at data by creating tools that not only select data, but analyze and represent it in a manner well suited for intuitive analysis. We propose a set of rules describing what this means, and provide a number of production quality tools that represent our current best effort...
Virtual Worlds are becoming a valuable tool for teaching history and promoting cultural heritage in places like the city of Corfu, an Unesco monument. In this paper, virtual Corfu (v-Corfu) is presented, i.e., a virtual world consisting of historical buildings, monuments and other existing sites characteristic of the city of Corfu, transformed into virtual sites (v-sites). A possible way of implementing...
The envelop is one of the most important elements when one analyzes the operation of the building in terms of sustainability. Taking this into consideration, this research focuses on setting a classification system of the envelopes opaque systems, crossing the knowledge and parameters of construction systems with requirements in terms of sustainability that they may have. To have a better understanding...
This paper presents an overview and preliminary assessment of an NSF TUES funded project, “Building Sustainability into Control Systems Courses.” The new inductive teaching strategy utilizes an energy efficient academic building to provide students with direct, practical exposure to modern heating, ventilation, and air conditioning (HVAC) and building automation systems. Students are taken on tours...
Missions outside of Earth's magnetic field are impeded by the presence of radiation from galactic cosmic rays and solar particle events. To overcome this issue, NASA's Advanced Exploration Systems Radiation Works Storm Shelter Team (RadWorks) has been testing different radiation protective habitats to shield against the onset of solar particle event radiation. These habitats have the capability of...
This paper presents an analysis of the application of material flow control mechanisms at construction sites. Such control mechanisms are widely used in assembly plants to ensure the correct quantity of materials at the correct destination, to maximize the WIP and for various other essential purposes. However the advantages of material flow control mechanisms can be questionable among certain circumstances...
Information systems projects nowadays often affect more stakeholders than before and the range of users is also more versatile. Thus, a need for a fine-grained conceptualization of involved actors, including users and developers as well as various other affected stakeholder groups, has been identified in the literature. Some studies have already discussed participatory processes for information infrastructure...
Organizational ambidexterity, defined as the simultaneously pursuit of both exploitation and exploration activities, is essential for organizations' survival, thrive and mature. However, the building of this capability is still ambiguous in prior literatures. This paper draws on the organizational learning theories, presents how two types of learning (i.e. strategic learning and business learning)...
The busbar has been widely used in electrical & electronic industry because of the demand of the high power transition and the rapid development of the busbar technology. However, with increasingly demand in building applications, it is needed to be developed for the highperformance and multi-functional busbar. This paper introduces the materials used as busbars and then different busbar types...
Ontology is regarded as an effective method of knowledge modeling and has been hot researched in knowledge engineering. This paper puts it into the design of educational resource system, taking Seven-step Methodology construction as the basis, adopting the software engineering structured design methodology, proposes a general educational domain ontology construction method, and has made detailed descriptions...
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