Search results for " building"

Architettura contemporanea in terra cruda

2010

It is estimated that between a third and a half of the world's population, approximately three billion people on six continents, lives in building constructed of earth. Earth building are commonly perceived to be used only by the poor or found only in developing countries, but there are earth buildings of almost every architectural type in use by every economic and social class in both the industrialized and non-industrialized worlds.

Sustainable mobile vertical partition / Pannello verticale mobile sostenibile

2016

Pannello per realizzare partizioni mobili verticali, costituito da: un telaio principale in legno con funzione strutturale (a); una stuoia di canne schiacciate e intrecciate con funzione di chiusura (b); una cornice e un sistema di listelli in legno con funzione di supporto (c); uno strato di intonaco in terra cruda con funzione di finitura (d), posto su un lato della stuoia di canne (b). Panel that can be used for realize mobile vertical partition, consisting of: a main wooden frame which functions as a structure (a); a mat realized with flattened and intertwined canes which functions as a closure (b); a wooden frame and slatted framework which function as a support (c); a layer of earthen…

Utilizing the tourist Ecolabel-award scheme for singling out useful criteria for assessing a new environmental brand for residential buildings.

2009

The Eco-label scheme is becoming ever more important in the environmental certification of products and services, especially in light of the recent ambitious aim of containing greenhouse emissions and improving the efficiency of utilizing energy sources and resources. A recently-introduced hypothesis concerns the European eco-label scheme relating to buildings, due in part to the awareness that the construction industry is of primary importance to the whole economic and social life of states. This scheme should adopt an integrated approach to environmental problems and include construction, day-to-day management and the possible disposal of building materials, throughout the life cycle of t…

Impact of COVID-19 on the travel and tourism industry.

2021

Abstract Our paper is among the first to measure the potential effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on the tourism industry. Using panel structural vector auto-regression (PSVAR) (Pedroni, 2013) on data from 1995 to 2019 in 185 countries and system dynamic modeling (real-time data parameters connected to COVID-19), we estimate the impact of the pandemic crisis on the tourism industry worldwide. Past pandemic crises operated mostly through idiosyncratic shocks' channels, exposing domestic tourism sectors to large adverse shocks. Once domestic shocks perished (zero infection cases), inbound arrivals revived immediately. The COVID-19 pandemic, however, is different; and recovery of the tourism ind…

From success to failure, the disappearance of clusters: a study of a Norwegian boat-building cluster

2018

Cluster emergence: combining pre-existing conditions and triggering factors

2016

AbstractThis article argues that the emergence of regional clusters relies on both necessary pre-existing conditions for cluster appearance in general and triggering factors that cause clusters to emerge in particular places. This approach is used to analyse two ‘critical cases’; the emergence of the synthetic-knowledge boat building industry in the Arendal area in Norway from the mid-1950s and the analytical-knowledge cancer medicine industry in Oslo around the year 2000. Although the industries and the contexts are otherwise very different, the framework turns out to be useful in interpreting the emergence of the two clusters. However, the specific pre-existing conditions and the triggeri…

Automatic Segmentation and Enhancement of Pavement Cracks Based on 3D Pavement Images

2019

Pavement cracking is a significant symptom of pavement deterioration and deficiency. Conventional manual inspections of road condition are gradually replaced by novel automated inspection systems. As a result, a great amount of pavement surface information is digitized by these systems with a high resolution. With pavement surface data, pavement cracks can be detected using crack detection algorithms. In this paper, a fully automated algorithm for segmenting and enhancing pavement crack is proposed, which consists of four major procedures. First, a preprocessing procedure is employed to remove spurious noise and rectify the original 3D pavement data. Second, crack saliency maps are segmente…

Innovative systems for the redevelopment of historical buildings: BIM application

2018

Il settore delle costruzioni sta vivendo una profonda trasformazione dovuta all’impiego di Tecnologie dell’Informazione che stanno modificando il modo di vivere, di lavorare, di produrre e di scambiare informazioni (BIM). Il BIM supera alcuni limiti della tradizionale organizzazione dell’attività progettuale, fatta di passaggi sequenziali tra i professionisti dei diversi settori per la definizione dei vari aspetti del progetto. Per tale ragione, in anni recenti, è cresciuto il suo uso come strumento di controllo e gestione del progetto di architettura sia per gli edifici di nuova costruzione che per la ri-funzionalizzazione di quelli esistenti. L’articolo presenta i risultati di uno studio …

Reaching net zero energy at the neighbourhood scale: feasibility studies in the south of Italy

2020

Il concetto di “edificio a energia netta zero” è stato recentemente implementato in tutti i regolamenti dei paesi europei. Tuttavia, l’approccio dettato dall’Europa si concentra principalmente sulla scala dell’edificio singolo, tralasciando alcuni aspetti riguardanti ad esempio l’interazione di generazione e carico tra edifici e le interazioni energetiche tra edifici. L’obiettivo di questo studio consiste nell’applicazione della definizione di net zero energy building ad un gruppo di edifici ubicati nell’Italia meridionale e caratterizzati da una destinazione d’uso variegata. Lo status quo di una ventina di edifici è stato simulato in ambiente energy plus e sono state successivamente selezi…

Changing World: Changing Pedagogy

2012

The purpose of this chapter is to examine the requirements of the rapidly changing world of work with regard to vocational competences and professional expertise, as well as their pedagogical implications for vocational and higher education. The first part of the chapter deals with recent macro-level trends in the working world in terms of the development of a knowledge society and a network society. On the basis of a brief literature review, a summary of required generic professional competences is presented. The second part focuses on the pedagogical implications of the changing world. First, traditional pedagogical practices which provide little contribution to the development of the kin…