STUDY ON SUSTAINABLE CARPET TILE FLOORING IN 5-STAR HOTEL OF INDIA

Sustainable development is a rapidly growing area of focus for many interior design professionals. The hospitality sector of the world’s economy is growing. The environmental design of hotels can reduce the environmental impacts of growing tourism development. Interior designers can help influence this lasting movement through a suitable selection of interior finish materials that both meet the needs of our customers and could support this enduring commitment to change. The focus of this paper is to study the carpet tile floors used in hotels. The purpose of this study is designers’ important elements when highlighting the hotel with always design to consider evaluating floor materials for use. Research articles related to the design of the hotel have also been analyzed. The results of the material analysis shows that the design of a hotel good consumers feelings, self-brand links, satisfaction, preference, intentions of behavior and loyalty, beauty employees can affect enjoyment and well-being. Other contributions to hotel design Successful at business employment levels, maintenance costs, sales, increased efficiency, higher total operating profits, reduced capital and reduced investment need. The design of the hotel is also closely linked to stability.

Effect of Surface Finish Reflectance on Energy Consumed by Lighting

Efforts from both spatial and energy engineers were conceived in order to reduce the total running costs of electric consumption in buildings. An often-overlooked energy and money saving opportunity for the built environment lies in lighting. This study investigates the effect of room interior finish on electrical lighting energy consumption. Walls, ceiling, and floor finish, in accordance to light reflectance values, were taken at low reflectance model (LRM), medium reflectance model (MRM), and high reflectance model (HRM). Various occupied spaces were classified in accordance to physical dimensions and capacity in order to cover a wide range of space usage and standard illuminance requirements. It was found that the HRM reduced power consumption in lighting by about 40.62 % compared to the LRM in the case for medium museum halls, with energy saved rating at about 2.32 GWh annually; other occupied spaces show a saving potential between 22.00 % and 40.00 %.

The Delcourt House: the last house by Richard Neutra

The only French building by the architect Richard Neutra (1892-1970), Delcourt house, built in Croix near Roubaix, France, is frequently forgotten in publications on his work, and is generally considered to be of little significance in the largely American career of its designer. At the end of the 1960s, Marcel Delcourt (1923-2016), a young Chief Executive Officer at the head of the mail order company Les Trois Suisses, was attracted to the American way of life. As the final work of Richard Neutra, the Delcourt residence is a fragile heritage, the result of complex and fruitful exchanges between Europe and the United States of America (USA), between architects and the client, but also between the customized design of most of the features and the use of sophisticated techniques, products that the interior finish industry was able to supply at the end of the 1960s. The edifice now stands as a repository of domestic architecture techniques.

Moisture buffering effect of hygroscopic materials under wall moisture transfer

Hygroscopic material can moderate the indoor humidity variation due to its moisture buffering effect. This effect would change when used as interior finish mainly due to air exchange and wall moisture transfer. The author focused on clarifying the extent of the wall'’s influence on indoor moisture buffering and building humidity environment. A room model was established and the situation of no wall moisture transfer was simulated by adding a vapour barrier between the interior finish and the wall. Comparing this result with wall moisture transfer, the moisture buffering effect of the wall can be quantitatively analysed. The results verify that the buffering effect and the humidity environment, especially the seasonal buffering, change with the wall moisture transfer. The wall has great impacts on buffering in the cases of thin interior finish, high moisture production and low ventilation. Because the layer under the hygroscopic material also has buffering capacity, the difference of using various thicknesses of material is not obvious. Frequent ventilation reduces the buffering effect but improves the RH optimality.

Predicting Flammability of Railcar Interior Finish With Small-Scale Heat Release Rate Data

There is interest in providing a heat release rate based flammability requirements for interior finish materials on railcars. As a result, a research study was performed to develop a simple empirical model that can predict the real scale fire performance of an interior finish material from ASTM E1354 cone calorimeter data. A simple to use model has been developed to predict whether a material will contribute significantly to the growth of a fire inside of a railcar. The model consists of a flammability parameter, defined as the difference between the average heat release rate and the ratio of the ignition time and the burn duration. As indicated by the model, the relative flammability of materials is based on the balance between the heat release rate and the ease of ignition relative to burning duration. This work is focused on the use of the model in predicting material fire growth performance in full scale NFPA 286 room/corner tests, which has not previously been performed. The empirical flammability model was developed to use parameters which were obtained from cone calorimeter tests at 50 kW/m2 and provides a single value for a material. Generally, materials that have a flammability parameter of greater than 0.7 were determined to cause flashover in the NFPA 286 test, while those less than 0.6 did not cause flashover. The materials in the region between these values are borderline, with some causing flashover and some not. An initial assessment of a database of passenger railcar materials using the flammability parameter model revealed that about 50% of materials that meet NFPA 130 flammability requirements using ASTM E162 have the potential to cause flashover in the NFPA 286 room-corner test.