What kind of tools need the buildings' designers to give optimus answers to climate change adaptation in projects?

The climate change presents a challenge to buildings designers, because they have to include responses to reduce this phenomenon. Do you believe that this idea is true?

04 May 2015 8,231 1 View

Is necessary incorporating climate adaptation into existing buildings?

In latin america, the green government policies are concentrated in new buildings. But is important to review the consequences to climate change in existing environment, especially, existing...

04 May 2015 245 2 View

Should designers include the extreme heat events into the buildings design process?

The frequency and severity of extreme heat events is likely to increase as a result of climate change. How these events affect the buildings comfort? Designers should be prudent in their designs...

04 May 2015 4,047 2 View

Do you believe possible to develop a big energy interconnection grid that gives access to people in Latin America by using renewable energy?

When you use renewable energies to give energy in a building exist three way: individual, microgrid and interconnection grid. How do you believe these kind of ways could implement in Buildings...

10 November 2014 7,397 4 View

Is possible that buildings can control their energy consumption to give good answers to abrupt climate changes?

I'm working at Energy efficient research and the last information that I have is that the consumption will increase in 100% for the next 20 years. Do you know any strategy for reduce consumption?

10 November 2014 3,833 6 View

What is the best renewable energy solution to implement in buildings?

When you use renewable energies to give energy in a building exist three way: individual, microgrid and interconnection grid. I'm working at Energy efficient research and the last information that...

10 November 2014 9,744 14 View

What are some strategies to answer climate change that give a good design to cities?

Cities have been affected by climate change and it is necessary give cities good strategies to answer that problem.

07 August 2014 8,303 3 View

What are new technologies to design buildings that will give a good answer to climate change?

I am working in a research to study resilient buildings. I would like to know if is possible develop a new technology that gives buildings some resilient property.

07 August 2014 136 3 View

Resilient models vs. a sustainable theory - any thoughts?

Is there an overarching resilient model which is based in sustainable theory? There is a resilience thesis on a "theory of sustainability" by the field of design theory or design philosophy, but I...

06 July 2014 2,390 7 View

Beyond automation, is it possible to apply artificial intelligence to the process of building design?

06 July 2014 9,734 5 View

After a reference from Int J Body Compos Res, can any body help?

Hi, I am after the reference below, my library says it cannot obtain a copy either locally or internationally, any help appreciated! Chris Wang ZM, Heshka S, Wielopolski L, Pi-Sunyer FX, Pierson...

03 March 2021 6,193 1 View

Irradiation data for JAPAN?

Hi, Could you help me to get the latest (2019, 2020) solar resource data for a particular site in JAPAN? PV GIS and NSRDB data are not in reach to JAPAN, I'm looking for some other database for...

03 March 2021 961 3 View

Is There Any Feasible Method To Test Fluorescent Compounds Other Than Fluorescence Spectrometers ??

Is There Any Feasible Method To Test The Efficiency Of Fluorescent Compounds Other Than UV Spectrometers ? Suggestions Would Be Appreciated !

02 March 2021 5,785 3 View

How to address this issue in the analysis of Real-Time PCR results?

To dear Researchers, I was analyzing a series of concentration for estimation of Real-Time PCR efficiency. The concentration was 1:10. I used MS-excel to evaluate Slope. The result of slope was -8...

01 March 2021 8,683 4 View

How to calculate Ligand-active site distance in a ligand-protein complex from MD simulation?

I have run a MD simulation of a ligand-protein complex in GROMACS using CHARMM forcefield. Reviewer has asked me to calculate Ligand-activesite distance and binding free energy of ligand with...

27 February 2021 4,703 1 View

Why do the air flow results vary totally when adding scalar in CFD ?

Dear All, We are using Autodesk cfd to calculate the air flow in a single sided naturally ventilated room, where air flow depends only on buoyancy due to temperature difference between inside and...

25 February 2021 9,602 4 View

How to model Supercritical water gasification (SCWG) process in Homer software?

Hi everyone How to model Supercritical water gasification (SCWG) process in Homer software?

25 February 2021 4,075 1 View

How to calculate battery consumption for IoT device?

Hi, everyone I'm working on a privacy-preserving algorithm that will apply to IoT devices. So, I need to measure the power consumption by implementing this algorithm. Any suggestion, advice,...

25 February 2021 8,749 6 View

Steps to calculate activation energy by coats & redfern method?

I'm a chemistry student and I'm researching the kinetic degradation of mixed plastic waste. I'm having trouble calculating the activation energy by the coats & Redfern method. The data that...

24 February 2021 974 1 View

Is it possible to define biogas as a fuel in the reformer process(scwg) in Homer software?

Hi every one Is it possible to define biogas as a fuel in the reformer process(scwg) in Homer software? Biogas fuel is not available in the options thanks

23 February 2021 6,518 3 View