Semi-automatic building detection and extraction is a topic of growing interest due to its potential application in such areas as cadastral information systems, cartographic revision, and GIS. One of the existing strategies ...

Semi-automatic building detection and extraction is a topic of growing interest due to its potential application in such areas as cadastral information systems, cartographic revision, and GIS. One of the existing strategies ...

This study develops a framework to identify and analyse the energy savings potential of an existing building stock category. The methodology consists of six basic steps: (1) a method for obtaining reference buildings, (2) ...

The good seismic performance of free-plan buildings during the last M-w = 8.8, February 27, 2010 Chile earthquake, deserves special attention in order to understand the clues for such behavior. Also, and because of economic ...

This paper presents a detailed first energy building control with a DAE structure of index 1. The model is able to capture significant characteristics such as building temperature and air quality, which can be used to ...

The development of an analytical model to predict the inelastic seismic response of reinforced concrete shear-wall buildings, including both the flexural and shear failure modes is presented. The use of shear-wall buildings ...

Since 2015, the Global Earthquake Model (GEM) Foundation and its partners have been supporting regional programs and bilateral collaborations to develop an open global earthquake risk model. These efforts led to the ...

A three-dimensional model for approximate inelastic analysis of buildings is presented herein. The model is based on a single macro-element per building storey. The inelastic properties of the model are characterized by ...

There are several ways to attempt to model a building and its heat gains from external sources as well as internal ones in order to evaluate a proper operation, audit retrofit actions, and forecast energy consumption. ...