scholarly journals Energy Efficiency Criteria for Green Highways in Malaysia

2013 ◽  
Vol 65 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Rozana Zakaria ◽  
Foo Kian Seng ◽  
Muhd Zaimi Abd. Majid ◽  
Rosli Mohamad Zin ◽  
Mohd Rosli Hainin ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Energy Efficiency ◽  
Urban Growth ◽  
System Development ◽  
Operation And Maintenance ◽  
Journal Paper ◽  
Relevant Reference ◽  
Car Park ◽  
Toll Plaza ◽  
Maintenance Process

Green highway is a roadway planned and designed with desires to integrate transportation functionality and ecological. A green highway takes high consideration on the approach of environment to the transportation system development, the ecosystem, urban growth, public health and also to surrounding communities. Reference to standard system such Green Roads Rating System becomes more popular being used to measure the classification of a green highway. This journal paper aimed to discuss on how important is the energy efficiency criteria to be measured in the green highway development. Energy is considered highly related to highway development due to it is the most infrastructures involves in massive construction activities from its construction up to the operation and maintenance process. Relevant energy criteria in green highway development had been figured out and a checklist of the comparison among the current relevant reference in the green highway is highlighted in this paper. These identified criteria for energy efficiency are importance to be considered in Malaysian Highway Index. The criteria include the consideration on Energy Plan for Green performance strategies, energy plan for maintenance, grey and green compound and car park, rest and service area (RSA), toll plaza and interchange.

scholarly journals System development for its disclosure of Portuguese digital type design

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Vítor Quelhas ◽  
Vasco Branco ◽  
Rui Mendonça
Keyword(s):  
Early Stage ◽  
System Development ◽  
Complete Agreement ◽  
Collaborative System ◽  
Test And Evaluation ◽  
Usability Tests ◽  
Type Design ◽  
Third Stage ◽  
Further Development

This study aims to cover the current development of a platform for the disclosure of the Portuguese type design community, since the beginning of the desktop revolution, until today. 
To deepen our understanding, interviews were made to a selected and representative group of type designers from our sample based on several criteria. The interview tested six dimensions: people, processes, products, uses, identity and platform. The results analyzed in the last dimension, through content analysis and quantitative data, lead to the development of an online digital collaborative system – one of our specific objectives. 
Our hypothesis – that the development of a online digital collaborative system would allow further development of knowledge between products, users and authors, as well as, processes and uses – was also corroborated by the interviewers. 
Reviews have been made to reference international online projects to identify their purposes, areas of activity, objectives, mechanisms of interaction, usability and accessibility. This previous research brought together a set of notes that would become essential in the definition and development of our concept. 

The classification of typefaces is a subject of study by researchers and designers, but it is certainly not a topic for complete agreement. Organizing and balancing the content for the database was our first challenge since we were expecting users with good knowledge on the field, but also beginners. Several diagrams were put into test during the early stage of information architecture to better define categories, filters, and sorting methods, as well as users role in the system. The items and categories chosen were redefined in a second stage, and in the third stage hi-fidelity wireframes were produced, to concentrate on design aspects and decisions, and put the system into test and evaluation. 

The current results on the platform development, with the improvements made through several user tests, evaluations and refinements undertaken in all phases of the project have been crucial. We are expecting to run some pilot tests, as well as usability tests prior to the full implementation to further improve the system and meet the expectations.DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.4995/IFDP.2016.3351

scholarly journals ANÁLISE DE EFICIÊNCIA ENERGÉTICA EM INSTITUIÇÕES DE ENSINO SUPERIOR MULTICAMPI E UMA NOVA PROPOSTA DE ROTULAGEM AMBIENTAL

2020 ◽  
pp. 1-19
Author(s):  
Osvaldo Augusto Vasconcelos de Oliveira Lopes Da Silva ◽  
José Machado Moita Neto ◽  
Marcos Antônio Tavares Lira
Keyword(s):  
Energy Efficiency ◽  
Management Strategies ◽  
Relative Energy ◽  
Administrative Management ◽  
Environmental Labeling ◽  
Performance Indexes ◽  
Environmental Management Strategies ◽  
Low Efficiency ◽  
Environmental Labels

The expansion of Brazilian higher education institutions (HEIs) organized in multicampi structures brought a significant complexity to the academic and administrative management. In this context, environmental management strategies become quite relevant, especially when considering the low effectiveness of the Brazilian Labeling Program (BLP) for the classification of buildings in practice. The main objective of the present paper is to evaluate the BLP efficacy as applied to HEI buildings, aiming to develop a new environmental labeling model for multicampi HEIs. For this purpose, the BLP was applied to the labeling of Instituto Federal de Educação, Ciência e Tecnologia do Piauí (IFPI), employing data obtained from electricity bills between 2016 and 2018. The energy diagnosis was performed considering distinct indicators,performance indexes, levels and rankings of relative energy efficiency, from which energy efficiency labels could be developed. The results allow the verification of the low efficiency of the BLP, especially in the environmental labeling of HEIs. From the detailed analysis of bills, it is possible to develop environmental labels inspired by the BLP, resulting in a different approach. A novel type-II environmental labeling methodology is then introduced based on the breakdown of electricity bills and statistical methods.

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