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Net ZEB case study buildings, measures and solution sets
No full textThe chapter summarises techniques - combined in solution sets - used in the case studied buildings to achieve buildings with net zero energy or energy neutral standard
Avaliação das condições de ventilação de lares de idosos
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Funchal, 16-19 Dezembro 2014
Cerqueira, F., Azevedo, S., Aelenei, D., Viegas, J., (2014). “Assessment of Ventilation in Elderly Care Centres”, 40th IAHS World Congress in Housing – Sustainable Housing Construction.
Porto, 26 – 28 de Março 2015
Aelenei, D., Nogueira, S., Viegas, J., Mendes, A., Cano, M., Cerqueira, F. (2015),
“Caracterização experimental das taxas de renovação horária em residências para pessoas idosas”, 5ª Conferência sobre Patologia e Reabilitação de Edifícios – PATORREB 2015Os utentes das estruturas residências para pessoas idosas (ERPI) permanecem grande parte do tempo em ambientes interiores. Portanto, a exposição a uma fraca qualidade do ar interior (QAI) poderá afetar a saúde e qualidade de vida dos mesmos. A ventilação, é uma técnica reconhecida que visa melhorar a QAI e da qual se espera um impacto significativo na saúde dos ocupantes. Assim, este estudo, inserido no âmbito do projeto GERIA, pretende avaliar as condições de ventilação dos lares de
idosos.
Como parte do projeto GERIA, 33 instituições na cidade de Lisboa, foram escolhidas aleatoriamente e convidadas a participar. Em cada um dos lares efetuou-se o levantamento das características construtivas, assim como medições de CO2 no interior dos quartos, durante a noite. Uma vez que no interior dos quartos não há afetação do ar interior por parte da combustão de combustíveis fosseis as emissões de CO2 consideradas devem-se exclusivamente à ocupação humana.
O objetivo deste trabalho foi avaliar as condições de ventilação em lares de idosos. Ao aplicar o método do gás traçador, mais concretamente as técnicas de emissão constante, decaimento e regime estacionário foi possível determinar as taxas de ventilação nos quartos de dormir. Estas medições ocorreram entre Novembro de 2013 e Julho de 2014.
Concluiu-se que 70% dos quartos possuem concentrações de CO2 estacionário acima de 1250 ppm. Através da técnica da emissão constante, 44% dos quartos possuem taxas de renovação de ar inferiores a 0,4 h-1.projeto (GERIA) Estudo Geriátrico em Efeitos na Saúde da Qualidade do Ar Interior em Lares da 3ª Idade em Portugal (PTDC/SAL-SAP/116563/2010),projeto financiado pela Fundação para a Ciência e Tecnologi
What is an Adaptive Façade? Analysis of Recent Terms and Definitions from an International Perspective
Get PDFAdaptive façades can improve the building’s energy efficiency and economics, through their capability to change their behaviour in real time according to indoor-outdoor parameters, by means of materials, components, and systems. Therefore, adaptive façades can make a significant and viable contribution to meeting the EU ́s 2020 targets. Several different types of adaptive façade concepts have already been developed, and an increase in emerging, innovative solutions is expected in the near future. According to recent research, the word ‘adaptive’ in the context of building façades is often associated in the literature with a long list of similar words. Moreover, there is no consistent definition of façade adaptability, although studies exist in relation to characterisation issues, design parameter, and classification. Even within the discipline of architecture and engineering, words such as ‘smart’, ‘intelligent’, ‘interactive’, ‘adaptive’, or ‘responsive’ have been used loosely and interchangeably, creating confusion as to their specific meaning and their conceptual relationship to building performance and design. In response to this, the goal of this paper is to build a provisional lexicon, or descriptive, behavioural, and methodological words, to assist researchers and designers in navigating the field of high-performance façades that incorporate materially innovative and feedback-based systems. It offers a brief overview of current advances in this nascent and rapidly evolving field and articulates a broader conceptual territory for the word ‘adaptive’, used in many cases to describe the technological systems that interact with the environment and the user by reacting to external influences and adapting their behaviour and functionality. The objective of this paper is to contribute to these developments by presenting the findings. Furthermore, common definitions will be proposed, based on the characterisation design parameters, classification approaches, and real case studies
Report on Meteorological Research March 1, 1935 (m-1)
No full textThe object of the report was to elucidate in detail the various features of the research program in meteorology being carried on at the Daniel Guggenheim Airship Institute in Akron, Ohio. Mr. L. J. Fangman, of the U.S. Weather Bureau, was collaborating with the author in carrying out work such as a study of autographic records of the various meteorological elements during frontal passages with a view to the possible prediction of the intensity of the accompanying disturbance as it may affect the operation of aircraft and a study of atmospheric gustiness with a view to finding the dependence between frequency end amplitude of velocity fluctuations and the vertical temperature and velocity gradients
(Fourth) Report on Meteorological Activities at the DGAI (8-1-36)(Weather Bureau Copy)
No full textThis report is on the investigations of frontal phenomena at the Daniel Guggenheim Airship Institute in Akron, Ohio from January 1, 1935 through August 1, 1936. The investigation was carried out with the cooperation of the U.S. Bureau of Aeronautics, the U.S. Weather Bureau, the California Institute of Technology, and the Guggenheim Airship Institute. Mr. R.C. Robinson of the Weather Bureau cooperated with the author in carrying out the investigation. The object of the investigation was to determine the intensity of the atmospheric disturbances (i.e. rapidity of wind shift and gustiness) accompanying the passage of cold fronts, along with a study of the characteristics of the air masses involved and other features which might affect the intensity of the disturbance. The report treated thirty cold fronts which passed the station during 1935 to 1936
Archives and Images as Repositories of Time, Language, and Forms from the Past: A Conversation with Daniel Eisenberg
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Case Studies - Adaptive Facade Network
Get PDF“Case Studies – Adaptive Facade Network” concentrates on the definition and classification of adaptive facades by describing the
state-of-the-art of materials, components and systems for adaptive facades, as well as future trends for products and systems. It also provides information about a database that is published on COST TU 1403 website
Daniel Akech
Get PDFabstract: Daniel was a little boy when the war came to his village. He witnessed people being shot and running for shelter. There was no food or water so he drank urine and ate tree leaves.
“Lost Boys Found” is an ongoing, interdisciplinary project that is collecting, recording and archiving the oral histories of the Lost Boys/Girls of Sudan. The collection is a work-in-progress, seeking to record the oral history of as many Lost Boys/Girls as are willing, and will be used in a future book.Age: 24Region: Upper NileThis picture and bio was donated to the "Lost Boys Found" oral history project from The Arizona Lost Boys Cente
Daniel Emmett postcard
No full textPostcard of Daniel Emmett and his home in Mount Vernon, Ohio. Emmett is considered to be the author of the antebellum song "Dixie," written in 1859, which became the unofficial song of the Confederate soldiers during the American Civil War. He was born in Mount Vernon in 1815 and taught himself the fiddle, and later became associated with minstrel shows and helped to define that genre. Minstrel shows traveled around the United States, presenting skits and musical performances. Emmett also composed many other songs, including "Old Dan Tucker," "Turkey in the Straw," and "The Blue Tail Fly." He died in 1904
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