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

How can we reduce the energy consumption in the next 20 years?

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 2,269 6 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

How climate change will influences human and animal behavioral change?

The role of climate change influencing the human behavior as well as economics interest

01 June 2021 0 0 View

How to calculate BREQ 3 questionnaire?

how to calculate BEHAVIOURAL REGULATION IN EXERCISE QUESTIONNAIRE BREQ 3 ,which contain 24 questions and each question has 5 answers (0- Strongly disagree , 1-disagree, 2- Neither agree nor...

02 March 2021 811 3 View

I am interested in medicinal chemistry field, which books are highly recommended to learn from?

I am at the beginner level in drug design and drug discovery, and I am interested to learn more about this field. Which books are highly recommended to start from and gives me all essential...

02 March 2021 8,437 2 View

Please suggest a good text book for "Research Methodology in Life Sciences". Which book would be good for PhD Scholars?

Please provide Book Title and author name

02 March 2021 9,059 3 View

Could any one guide me, to write research proposal for grant? ?

We have one plant, the local people using this for controlling blood sugar, the toxicity and antidiabetic activity of the plant is not reported yet, please guide from whag should be the process ?...

02 March 2021 2,300 1 View

Is stone a sustainable material? Is it a sustainable approach to use natural stone waste in architecture?

I'm designing a zero-waste restaurant and considering using marble waste to make some tables and a bar countertop. My clients think it's not "sustainable enough" and I would like to have more...

01 March 2021 4,326 7 View

What are the countries most affected by extreme rainfall as a result of climate change?

Increased heat, drought and insect outbreaks, all associated to climate change, have increased wildfires. Decreasing water supplies, declined agricultural yields, health impacts in cities owing to...

01 March 2021 7,168 9 View

What are the harmful effects of these extreme rainfall on the health of newborns? What are the reasons for that?

Extreme rainfall associated with climate change is causing harm to babies in some of the most forgotten places.

01 March 2021 5,647 4 View

Is anyone familiar with the cyclic compressive fatigue testing (BS EN 12697 - 25) ?

I would like to get more information on the cyclic compressive fatigue testing (BS EN 12697 - 25) which is typically done for bituminous material in pavement design. Any one can advise on the...

28 February 2021 2,004 3 View

How to arrange coordinates and extract climate dataset out of MPI-ESM-MR netcdf files?

Have a nice day everyone, I'm stuck in extracting datasets out of MPI-ESM-MR netcdf files because the latitude ranges from -3*10^6 to 3*10^6 and longitude ranges -5,9*10^6 to 5,9*10^6. Plus, the...

28 February 2021 912 3 View