Application of SOFM network in building project classification

2010 ◽  
Vol 30 (6) ◽  
pp. 1543-1546
Author(s):  
Wen-feng FENG ◽  
Wen-juan ZHU ◽  
Yu-guang ZHOU
Keyword(s):  
Sofm Network ◽  
Building Project

TATTERSHALL CASTLE AND THE NEWLY-BUILT PERSONALITY OF RALPH LORD CROMWELL

2020 ◽  
pp. 1-32
Author(s):  
James Wright
Keyword(s):  
Fifteenth Century ◽  
Social Rank ◽  
Political Survival ◽  
Fault Lines ◽  
Building Project ◽  
Repeated Motifs

Tattershall Castle (Lincolnshire, UK) was built for the Lord Treasurer of England, Ralph Cromwell, in the mid-fifteenth century. Cromwell was a skilled politician who rose from relative obscurity via royal service; however, he never attained high social rank and made significant enemies in the royal council. He is noted to have been a prickly and self-righteous individual who wore his new-found status in society with towering pride. The architecture of Cromwell’s major building project at Tattershall offers clues towards his personality. Architectural details – grouped and repeated motifs such as ancient family armorials, the Treasurer’s purse and the truculent motto ‘Have I not right?’ – may reveal fault lines and anxieties about Ralph’s relative place in society as he struggled for political survival.

scholarly journals Post Occupancy Evaluation of School Refurbishment Projects: Multiple Case Study in the UK

Buildings ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (4) ◽  
pp. 169
Author(s):  
Hamad Ahmed ◽  
David J. Edwards ◽  
Joseph H. K. Lai ◽  
Chris Roberts ◽  
Caleb Debrah ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Intelligent Systems ◽  
Client Satisfaction ◽  
Current Trend ◽  
Inductive Reasoning ◽  
Primary Data ◽  
Philosophical Approach ◽  
Post Occupancy Evaluation ◽  
Multiple Case ◽  
The Uk ◽  
Building Project

Buildings inevitably deteriorate with time. Schools buildings are no exception and require refurbishment at times. Despite the UK Government announcing the £1 billion funding for rebuilding 50 schools over 10 years starting 2010–2021, it is common practice for builders and designers to, upon completion of a building project, move on to the next development without considering how the completed building performs. This research undertakes a post occupancy evaluation (POE) of three schools in the West Midlands, UK with specific focus on building services, viz., heating, lighting, and air conditioning and ventilation. The research adopted a mixed philosophical approach of interpretivism and post-positivism to conduct inductive reasoning. A questionnaire that collected both quantitative and qualitative primary data was distributed to the end-users of the schools. Data was analysed using the Cronbach’s alpha, one sample t-test and Kruskal–Wallis test to identify any differences between the questionnaire responses. Findings revealed that building users demanded greater control of the internal environment thus contradicting the current trend for automated ‘intelligent systems’ approaches. This research represents the first work to consider the contractor’s perspective towards developing a better understanding of client satisfaction with the school buildings. Moreover, the POE result represents a notable pragmatic advancement to knowledge that will influence the contractor’s knowledge and understanding of client satisfaction, and where to improve upon these.

scholarly journals New Concrete Technology Applied for Kajima Technical Research Institute Building Project

2012 ◽  
Vol 50 (4) ◽  
pp. 353-360
Author(s):  
T. Kanda ◽  
K. Yoda ◽  
K. Ogihara ◽  
S. Yoshikai
Keyword(s):  
Concrete Technology ◽  
Technical Research ◽  
Building Project ◽  
Research Institute

“Forward to David the Builder!” Georgia's (re)turn to language-centered nationalism

2016 ◽  
Vol 44 (4) ◽  
pp. 522-542 ◽  
Author(s):  
Christofer Berglund
Keyword(s):  
Large Scale ◽  
Nation Building ◽  
The State ◽  
Top Down ◽  
Bottom Up ◽  
The Past ◽  
Building Project ◽  
The Rose ◽  
State Language

After the Rose Revolution, President Saakashvili tried to move away from the exclusionary nationalism of the past, which had poisoned relations between Georgians and their Armenian and Azerbaijani compatriots. His government instead sought to foster an inclusionary nationalism, wherein belonging was contingent upon speaking the state language and all Georgian speakers, irrespective of origin, were to be equals. This article examines this nation-building project from a top-down and bottom-up lens. I first argue that state officials took rigorous steps to signal that Georgian-speaking minorities were part of the national fabric, but failed to abolish religious and historical barriers to their inclusion. I next utilize a large-scale, matched-guise experiment (n= 792) to explore if adolescent Georgians ostracize Georgian-speaking minorities or embrace them as their peers. I find that the upcoming generation of Georgians harbor attitudes in line with Saakashvili's language-centered nationalism, and that current Georgian nationalism therefore is more inclusionary than previous research, or Georgia's tumultuous past, would lead us to believe.

scholarly journals BIM quality control based on requirement linked data

2021 ◽  
pp. 147807712110121
Author(s):  
Adam Tamas Kovacs ◽  
Andras Micsik
Keyword(s):  
Quality Control ◽  
Linked Data ◽  
Flow Analysis ◽  
Holistic Approach ◽  
Quality Data ◽  
Ongoing Research ◽  
Data Flow Analysis ◽  
Constraint Language ◽  
Compliance Checking ◽  
Building Project

This article discusses a BIM Quality Control Ecosystem that is based on Requirement Linked Data in order to create a framework where automated BIM compliance checking methods can be widely used. The meaning of requirements is analyzed in a building project context as a basis for data flow analysis: what are the main types of requirements, how they are handled, and what sources they originate from. A literature review has been conducted to find the present development directions in quality checking, besides a market research on present, already widely used solutions. With the conclusions of these research and modern data management theory, the principles of a holistic approach have been defined for quality checking in the Architecture, Engineering and Construction (AEC) industry. A comparative analysis has been made on current BIM compliance checking solutions according to our review principles. Based on current practice and ongoing research, a state-of-the-art BIM quality control ecosystem is proposed that is open, enables automation, promotes interoperability, and leaves the data governing responsibility at the sources of the requirements. In order to facilitate the flow of requirement and quality data, we propose a model for requirements as Linked Data and provide example for quality checking using Shapes Constraint Language (SHACL). As a result, an opportunity is given for better quality and cheaper BIM design methods to be implemented in the industry.

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