scholarly journals Wooden Additional Floors in Old Apartment Buildings: Perspectives of Housing and Real Estate Companies from Finland

Buildings ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (8) ◽  
pp. 316
Author(s):  
Markku Karjalainen ◽  
Hüseyin Emre Ilgın ◽  
Dennis Somelar
Keyword(s):  
Real Estate ◽  
City Planning ◽  
Project Planning ◽  
Construction Technology ◽  
Existing Building ◽  
Implementation Planning ◽  
Load Carrying ◽  
Plan Change ◽  
City Plan ◽  
Flow Of Information

This paper examined various stages and advantages of wooden additional floors from the perspective of Finnish housing and real estate companies through interviews with professionals involved in these projects. Main findings highlighted: (1) commercial conditions should be carefully analyzed for return on investment; (2) city plan change and the presence of a potential contractor and an expert were generally considered important issues; (3) considerations regarding city planning, parking spaces, load-carrying capacity, and new building codes were highlighted as critical factors for feasibility study; (4) existing building regulations and building rights regarding the subscription fee and tax issues should be considered during project planning; (5) city plan change and building rights with different tendering conditions were reported as important parameters in implementation planning; (6) an efficient flow of information between the parties involved was vital to the successful progress of the construction phase. Wooden additional floor construction, which requires commitment, investment, and cooperation between interested parties, has great potential regarding construction technology and contracting mechanisms. Additionally, this sustainable approach has many advantages concerning the environment, economy, energy efficiency, and aesthetics. In this sense, it is believed that this study will contribute to the diffusion of wooden additional floor construction in other countries besides Finland.

scholarly journals Wooden Extra Stories in Concrete Block of Flats in Finland as an Ecologically Sensitive Engineering Solution

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Markku Karjalainen ◽  
Hüseyin Emre Ilgın ◽  
Dennis Somelar
Keyword(s):  
Ecological Engineering ◽  
Concrete Block ◽  
Project Planning ◽  
Construction Technology ◽  
Construction Costs ◽  
Implementation Planning ◽  
Information Updates ◽  
Potential Improvement ◽  
Property Condition ◽  
City Plan

This chapter examined the various stages and benefits of wooden extra stories from the perspective of Finnish housing and real estate companies through interviews with professionals involved in these projects. Key findings highlighted are as follows: (1) in the feasibility study, project planning primarily focuses on property condition and potential improvement targets as well as other considerations, for example, compliance with current regulations and parking arrangements; (2) in the project planning, application of extra stories is thoroughly examined, and construction costs, profits, and the sale of building rights are discussed; (3) in implementation planning, issues related to building rights, city plan change, and conditions of the company that manages the property play an important role; and (4) during construction, frequent information updates are made to residents regarding the site arrangements and the construction program. Wooden extra floor construction, which requires commitment, investment, and cooperation among the interested parties, has great potential in construction technology, contracting mechanisms, and ecological engineering solutions. It is believed that this chapter will increase the dissemination of wooden extra stories, thus contributing to the greater use of more sustainable materials in renovation projects and the ecologically sensitive engineering approaches to meet the challenges arising from climate change.

scholarly journals A City Capability Assessment Framework Focusing on Planning, Financing, and Implementing Sustainable Energy Projects

2020 ◽  
Vol 12 (20) ◽  
pp. 8447
Author(s):  
Niki-Artemis Spyridaki ◽  
Nikos Kleanthis ◽  
Dimitra Tzani ◽  
Mia Dragović Matosović ◽  
Alexandros Flamos
Keyword(s):  
City Planning ◽  
Sustainable Energy ◽  
Ghg Emissions ◽  
Principal Component ◽  
Project Planning ◽  
Successful Implementation ◽  
Assessment Framework ◽  
Implementation Barriers ◽  
Investment Projects ◽  
Implementation Capacity

Cities are critical actors in reducing global greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions; the level of knowledge, skills, and capacity, especially regarding innovative project planning such as sustainable energy (SE) projects, is fundamental for cities to meet their untapped potential. A range of indicator-based frameworks have been developed, focusing on general city economic competitiveness, yet these are often disconnected from the actual city operation and processes relevant to the investment cycle of SE projects. This paper proposes an integrated methodology for developing a City Capability Assessment Framework focusing on city planning, financing, and implementation capacity for SE projects. A principal component analysis (PCA) was applied to the results of a European city-survey to uncover areas highly relevant for the successful implementation of local SE projects. The insights gained aid policymakers to better understand implementation barriers, leading to the development of more effective actions and policy interventions towards the implementation of SE projects. The proposed framework can further enhance cities’ efforts with the implementation of local SE projects and guide potential investors to properly evaluate city capabilities and potential, when choosing local investment projects.

scholarly journals DOES REAL ESTATE TRANSPARENCY MATTER FOR FOREIGN REAL ESTATE INVESTMENTS?

2014 ◽  
Vol 18 (4) ◽  
pp. 317-331 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mohammad Reza Farzanegan ◽  
Hassan Gholipour Fereidouni
Keyword(s):  
Real Estate ◽  
Method Of Moments ◽  
Generalized Method Of Moments ◽  
Local Property ◽  
Property Prices ◽  
Real Estate Investments ◽  
Free Flow Of Information ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Flow Of Information ◽  
Consistent Application

The purpose of this paper is to examine the impact of real estate transparency (RET) on foreign real estate investments (FREI). Most of the previous studies have argued that the free flow of information and the fair and consistent application of local property laws could attract greater amounts of FREI. Using observations from 32 countries covering 2004, 2006, 2008 and 2010 and applying fixed-effect and the generalized method of moments (GMM) techniques, our empirical results reveal that RET is not a major determinant of FREI. However, we find that the effect of RET on FREI is dependent on its interaction with the level of income implying that the higher the level of income in the host country, the higher the effect of RET on FREI. Finally, the results show that foreign direct investment (FDI) in other sector, market size and property prices are important determinants of FREI.

Mud and Concrete

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Elidor Mëhilli
Keyword(s):  
Soviet Union ◽  
Urban Planning ◽  
Material Culture ◽  
City Planning ◽  
Mass Scale ◽  
Construction Technology ◽  
The Soviet Union ◽  
Technical Solutions ◽  
City Planners

Albania’s push for planning took on the qualities of an epochal transformation. But a big problem was that it had no professional city planners. Brand new Soviet-financed plants and workshops rose, but the cities still looked pre-socialist. Urban planning had to be invented. This chapter shows how a socialist material culture came about through improvisation, by focusing on the problem of city planning in a largely agrarian country. It turned out that socialist city planning relied on the adoption of technical solutions from the much-denounced capitalist West. The country borrowed construction technology from the Soviet Union and Czechoslovakia, and these countries, in turn, also borrowed from France, Germany, and Scandinavia. Prefabrication became the socialist buzzword of the late 1950s. Materially, socialism helped produce uniformity on a mass scale. Politically, the socialist world was plagued by disagreements.

Finite element analyses of a buckling-restrained pile

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Adel Mashayekh ◽  
Lachezar Handzhiyski ◽  
Stephen K. Harris
Keyword(s):  
Finite Element ◽  
Internal Stresses ◽  
Finite Element Analyses ◽  
New Approach ◽  
Existing Building ◽  
Axial Capacity ◽  
Building Foundation ◽  
Load Carrying ◽  
Mat Foundations

<p>In existing building renovation projects, the strength of the structure is often limited by the capacity of existing foundations. Foundation strengthening typically consists of expanding existing footings and/or adding piles to supplement load-carrying capacity. These traditional methods are generally not feasible for the retrofit of mat foundations where increasing the mat footprint is unlikely to reduce bearing pressure considerably and adding piles outside the mat will change the distribution of internal stresses and may affect the long-term differential settlement behaviour of the structure.</p><p>This paper presents finite element analyses that were performed as part of the development of a new approach to retrofitting mat foundations which consists of enlarging the footprint of the existing mat and adding piles that include an innovative axial capacity-limiting mechanism. The maximum resistance provided by these piles to the existing foundation can be tuned to not exceed the maximum connection capacity that can be achieved at the interface between the existing mat and the new mat extension. The proposed design is unique in that the pile axial load is limited even under significant potential settlements experienced by the rest of the building foundation.</p>

Planning and its discontents: contradictions and continuities in remaking China's great cities, 1950–2010

Urban History ◽  
2012 ◽  
Vol 40 (3) ◽  
pp. 530-553 ◽  
Author(s):  
SAMUEL Y. LIANG
Keyword(s):  
Urban Development ◽  
City Planning ◽  
Urban Society ◽  
The State ◽  
Formal Structure ◽  
State Governance ◽  
City Plan ◽  
The City ◽  
Theoretical Overview

ABSTRACT:This article offers a theoretical overview of the urbanization legacy of China's great cities since 1949. It shows a persistent contradiction between ideology/planning and urban sprawl/cellular urbanism. The symbolic function of city planning reflects official ideology giving the city a unified formal structure, but the implementation of the city plan is compromised in the process of urban development. The state governance fragments Chinese urban society into emplaced groups. This social division takes effect through the spatial division of various compounds that negotiate with rather than conform to city planning. Using a case-study of Guangzhou's urban development, the article shows how the state-led spatial practices continue in the post-socialist era and how a new kind of developmental ideology informs urban developments.

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