ISSUES AND COUNTERPLAN OF EVACATION CENTER AT NIGHT - CASE STUDY OF NORTHEN GYMNASIUM IN SUZAKA CITY AFFECTED BY TYPHOON HAGIBIS IN 2019 -

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
H. Yamaguchi ◽  
Y. Akizuki ◽  
Y. Shimojima ◽  
N. Wakabayashi ◽  
Y. Oe ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Thermal Environment ◽  
Brightness Distribution ◽  
Living Environment ◽  
Actual Condition ◽  
Health Safety ◽  
Improvement Method ◽  
Lighting Environment ◽  
Indirect Lighting

The living environment at the evacuation center is very important for ensuring the health, safety and security of the evacuees, but at present, preparations for providing a satisfactory living environment are not enough. In order to improve that, we have to consider various conditions, such as "ensure the lighting environment for the safe and secure and sleep," "toilet ensure," "ensure the thermal environment". In this study, we investigated the actual condition of glare in the nighttime lighting environment of evacuation center and examined the improvement method. Regarding the glare improvement method, the effectiveness of indirect lighting was shown based on the results of brightness distribution simulation with Radiance.

Exploration on Traditional Courtyard Micro-Climate Characteristics and Improvement Method - Case Study of No. 6 Courtyard of Chang'anxue Alley in Xi'an Sanxuejie Historic District

2013 ◽  
Vol 357-360 ◽  
pp. 1918-1927 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ruo Bing Fan ◽  
Xiao Ming Li
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Thermal Environment ◽  
Urban Expansion ◽  
Historic District ◽  
Climate Conditions ◽  
Historic Districts ◽  
Improvement Method ◽  
New Perspective

Xian Sanxuejie district is a typical historic district of the city. Presently this type of traditional districts is surrounded by many modern buildings due to the rapid urban expansion. The historic districts are facing problems of poor courtyard micro-climate conditions and low living level, which has become the bottleneck of historic districts sustainable development. This paper studies thermal environment, luminous environment, solar environment and wind environment from a new perspective using Ecotect building environment analyzing software. The author explores micro-climate improving method suitable for traditional courtyard in order to promote micro-climate quality of historic district and to improve the comfort of local residences. The purpose is to achieve sustainable development of historic districts.

Drug abuse and drug addiction among students of University of Rajshahi

2020 ◽  
Vol 11 (3) ◽  
pp. 21-32
Author(s):  
Faiqua Tahjiba
Keyword(s):  
Drug Abuse ◽  
Drug Addiction ◽  
Actual Condition ◽  
Snowball Sampling ◽  
Case Study Method ◽  
Monthly Expenditure ◽  
Physical Problems ◽  
Depth Interview ◽  
Research Show

Objectives: The aim of this study was to investigate the actual condition of the students of University of Rajshahi (RU) regarding drug abuse and addiction. Using case study method the research was conducted with four objectives: (a) to find out how respondents began drug abuse; (b) to discover the causes of their drug addiction; (c) to understand the process of their drug abuse; and (d) to find out the economic, social and health effects of drug abuse. Methods: Case study method was used in this research. Through snowball sampling 18 drug- addicted students of RU were selected as respondents. In-depth interview with a schedule was used to collect data from the respondents in January 2019. Results: Findings of the study show that the causes of drug addiction included curiosity, frustration, friends’ request, neglect from family and friends etc. The drugs which they usually abused were Yaba, Phensydyle, Ganja (Weed), Chuani etc. Their average monthly expenditure for collecting drugs was in between Taka 8,000-10,000. They collected those drugs from rickshaw pullers at different points within the campus and from Mizaner Mor, Budhpara slum and other places outside the campus. The respondents opined that drugs were available if sufficient money could be spent. The respondents had senior and junior fellow students and local boys as companions while taking drugs. Most of them faced physical problems after taking drugs, and some of them tried to get rid of this curse of drug addiction. Conclusion: The findings of this research show that the rate of drug addiction among the students of RU was quite alarming. Therefore, all stakeholders including the students, guardians, teachers, university authority, the law makers and law enforcing agencies, researchers, civil society, NGO’s and the state must come forward together to combat this formidable foe.

scholarly journals Improvements in Energy Saving and Thermal Environment after Retrofitting with Interior Insulation in Intermittently Cooled Residences in Hot-Summer/Cold-Winter Zone of China: A Case Study in Chengdu

Energies ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 14 (10) ◽  
pp. 2776
Author(s):  
Xin Ye ◽  
Jun Lu ◽  
Tao Zhang ◽  
Yupeng Wang ◽  
Hiroatsu Fukuda
Keyword(s):  
Energy Saving ◽  
Thermal Environment ◽  
Real Life ◽  
Average Energy ◽  
Experimental Result ◽  
Cold Winter ◽  
The South ◽  
Indoor Thermal Environment ◽  
Space Cooling

Space cooling is currently the fastest-growing end-user in buildings. The global warming trend combined with increased population and economic development will lead to accelerated growth in space cooling in the future, especially in China. The hot summer and cold winter (HSCW) zone is the most densely populated and economically developed region in China, but with the worst indoor thermal environment. Relatively few studies have been conducted on the actual measurements in the optimization of insulation design under typical intermittent cooling modes in this region. This case study was conducted in Chengdu—the two residences selected were identical in design, but the south bedroom of the case study residence had interior insulation (inside insulation on all opaque interior surfaces of a space) retrofitted in the bedroom area in 2017. In August 2019, a comparative on-site measurement was done to investigate the effect of the retrofit work under three typical intermittent cooling patterns in the real-life scenario. The experimental result shows that interior insulation provides a significant improvement in energy-saving and the indoor thermal environment. The average energy savings in daily cooling energy consumption of the south bedroom is 42.09%, with the maximum reaching 48.91%. In the bedroom with interior insulation retrofit, the indoor temperature is closer to the set temperature and the vertical temperature difference is smaller during the cooling period; when the air conditioner is off, the room remains a comfortable temperature for a slightly longer time.

Spatiotemporal impact of vehicle heat on urban thermal environment: A case study in Hong Kong

2021 ◽  
pp. 108224
Author(s):  
Xuan Chen ◽  
Jiachuan Yang ◽  
Rui Zhu ◽  
Man Sing Wong ◽  
Chao Ren
Keyword(s):  
Hong Kong ◽  
Thermal Environment ◽  
Urban Thermal Environment

Open teaching mode of environmental design major in colleges

2021 ◽  
pp. 002072092110052
Author(s):  
Yi Zhang ◽  
Yingjiao Chen
Keyword(s):  
Environmental Design ◽  
Living Environment ◽  
Theory And Practice ◽  
Basic Material ◽  
Chinese People ◽  
Teaching Mode ◽  
Good Living ◽  
Economic Construction ◽  
Considerable Damage

With the acceleration of China's industrialized cities, economic construction and social development have caused considerable damage to the natural environment. Having a good living environment has become an urgent need of the Chinese people, who have already met their basic material needs. This paper mainly adopts the method of combining theoretical analysis with case study. From the perspective of theory and practice, this paper studies the following contents: the present situation of teaching development and reflection on the environmental design specialty in China, the characteristics of open teaching mode, combined with the setting of environmental design specialty curriculum system and the teaching conditions of related specialties in Chinese universities. This study takes the open teaching mode of ordinary colleges and universities as the research object, and takes a university in China as an example to study the open teaching mode.

An improved method for assessing vegetation cooling service in regulating thermal environment: A case study in Xiamen, China

2019 ◽  
Vol 98 ◽  
pp. 531-542 ◽  
Author(s):  
Wei Zhao ◽  
Ainong Li ◽  
Qingxu Huang ◽  
Yanni Gao ◽  
Fujie Li ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Thermal Environment ◽  
Improved Method
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