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In Switzerland, as in many European countries, new energy directives focus on decreasing the carbon footprint of buildings by promoting passive and active energy strategies and systems. Among the latter, Building Integrated Photovoltaics (BIPV), which func ...

2017

Towards the next generation of intelligent building: An assessment study of current automation and future IoT based systems with a proposal for transitional design

Maher Kayal, Georgios Lilis, Gilbert Didier Francis Conus, Nastaran Asadi Zanjani

The intelligent building, a major smart city research and development domain, has grown beyond the scope of automation, currently focusing on the occupant centered approaches and the ancillary services offered to the power grid. The Internet of Things (IoT ...

Elsevier Science Bv2017

Rehabilitación energética de edificios residenciales en España y objetivo europeo 2050

Sergi Aguacil Moreno

One of the top priorities of European countries is to reduce energy consumption and greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions in the built environment. To reach this goal, urban renewal processes are seen as a core strategy towards a sustainable built fabric, given t ...

Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya2017

Getting looped in to the web: characterizing learning processes and educational responses

Through profiling and matching processes, technology provides individuals with information that becomes redundant to their previous beliefs, attitudes and preferences. The emergence of informational redundancies encouraged by some technologies is likely to ...

2017

Path to AWAKE: Evolution of the concept

Yiming Li, Hua Zhang, Gennady Plyushchev, Shuai Liu, Frank Zimmermann

This paper describes the conceptual steps in reaching the design of the AWAKE experiment currently under construction at CERN. We start with an introduction to plasma wakefield acceleration and the motivation for using proton drivers. We then describe the ...

Elsevier Science Bv2016

From innovation in the construction sector in Haiti to social impact on Haitian society: Digital Norms by Assimilation DNA

Abigaïl-Laure Sarah Irène Kern

The impact of the earthquake of 2010 was aggravated by the precarious housindg of the vulnerable Haitian population. Although disaster risk reduction and building sector regulations are today national priorities, Haiti lacks adequate training entities. The ...

2016

Surveying the Evolution of Computing in Architecture, Engineering, and Construction Education since 2012

Ian Smith

This paper presents the results of an online survey that was conducted in 2014 to assess the evolution of computing in architecture, engineering, and construction (AEC) education. A primary goal includes contributing to the understanding of the evolution o ...

American Society of Civil Engineers2016

Circular Security Reconsidered

Serge Vaudenay, Fatma Betül Durak

The notion of circular security of pseudorandom functions (PRF) was introduced in Distance Bounding Protocols. So far, only a construction based on a random oracle model was proposed. Circular security stands between two new notions which we call Key Depen ...

Springer International Publishing2016

Physically based models to study the alkali-silica reaction

Karen Scrivener, Cyrille Dunant

The Laboratory of Construction Materials in Lausanne has been studying the alkali-silica reaction for more than 10 years, advancing the understanding of the reaction, and also producing microstructural models which can be used to predict quantitatively the ...

Ice Publishing2016

FRP sandwich structures in bridge and building construction

Thomas Keller

Selected applications of fiber-reinforced polymer (FRP) sandwich structural elements in building and bridge construction are discussed. It is shown how in building construction this technology enables the integration of functions such as load-bearing capac ...

2016

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