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THE EFFECT OF LEED CERTIFIED BUILDING ON THE SURROUNDING NEIGHBORHOOD IN NEW YORK CITY

  • Min Jae Suh;Annie R. Pearce;Young Hoon Kwak
    • International conference on construction engineering and project management
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    • 2013.01a
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    • pp.28-35
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    • 2013
  • The construction industry has introduced the Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) rating system to promote objective evaluations of the sustainability of buildings. Three important values to consider when implementing sustainability are the associated environmental, social, and economic impacts. Recently, researchers have begun to investigate the real estate value of LEED certified buildings in terms of the rental cost, occupancy rate, cost per unit area, and resale value in order to better understand the economic benefits of the LEED rating system. However, the economic benefits also encompass economic effects such as the impact of LEED certified buildings on neighborhood real estate values surrounding the certified buildings. This research examines whether the enhanced real estate value of LEED certified buildings in New York City extends to surrounding commercial buildings, utilizing spatial analysis via a Geographic Information System (GIS) and the hedonic pricing method to derive meaningful economic relationships. The results provide practical insights into the economic effect of LEED certified buildings that will be of interest to city officials and planners, as well as the owners, developers, investors and other stakeholders of surrounding buildings.

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Investigation and Numerical Analysis of Node Connectors in Free-Form Spatial Structures

  • Hwang, Kyung-Ju;Park, Don-U;Park, Sun-Woo;Knippers, Jan
    • Journal of Korean Association for Spatial Structures
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    • v.7 no.3 s.25
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    • pp.87-95
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    • 2007
  • The recent completions of free-form spatial structures provide us a very attractive form. To realize such an extraordinary shape, it is absolutely necessary that the connector systems have to be investigated the characteristics of the systems and analyzed with a practicable method. In this context, this research consists of not only literature research but also numerical analysis with selected connector systems, which was adopted in real free-form spatial structures. For numerical analysis, especially, finite element analysis (FEA) is performed with a various test parameter using a commercial program ANSYS. Consequently, the general characteristics of node connectors the moment-rotation-curves are presented by considering a large deformation effect as well as a multi-linear material properties.

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Interior design for Sanbon Oriental Medical Center, Wonkwang University (원광대학교 산본한방병원 인테리어디자인)

  • Park, Sang-Hyun
    • Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Interior Design Conference
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    • 2006.05a
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    • pp.91-92
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    • 2006
  • The aim of this project is to Improve the environment for Sanbon Oriental Medical Center, Wonkwang University. Since 1997 both Occidental Medical and Oriental Medical have occupied this building. Last year most of Occidental Medical except emergency and operating parts moved to the next new building. The serious problem was the fact that the building was designed as function for office not hospital. Especially, I tried to express the images of Won-buddism as well as Oriental Medical and the design targets are : 1. comfortable, creditable atmosphere, 2. traditional, scientific image, 3. ergonomic approach, 4. faith in Oriental Medical, 5. bright, smart space. This is also to create the optimum CEI(Commercial Environmental Identity) by the value pyramid.

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Parametric study on equivalent damping ratio of different composite structural building systems

  • Farghaly, Ahmed Abdelraheem
    • Steel and Composite Structures
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    • v.14 no.4
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    • pp.349-365
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    • 2013
  • Structures consisting of concrete and steel parts, which are irregular in damping ratios are investigated. This investigation is a code-based seismic design of such structures. Several practical difficulties encountered, due to inherent differences in the nature of dynamic response of each part, and the different damping ratios of the two parts. These structures are irregular in damping ratios and have complex modes of vibration so that their analysis cannot be handled with the readily available commercial software. Therefore, this work aims to provide simple yet sufficiently accurate constant values of equivalent damping ratios applied to the whole structure for handling the damping irregularity of such structures. The results show that the equivalent damping ratio changes with the height of the building and the kind of the structural system, but it is constant for all accelerations values. Thus, available software SAP2000 applied for seismic analysis, design and the provisions of existing seismic codes. Finally, evaluation of different kinds of structural system used in this research to find the most energy dissipating one found by finding the best value of quality coefficient.

A Numerical Study on the Dynamic Characteristics of Water Hammer Arresters for Building Service Applications (건축설비용 워터햄머흡수기의 동특성에 관한 수치 연구)

  • 노승환;차동진
    • Korean Journal of Air-Conditioning and Refrigeration Engineering
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    • v.14 no.4
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    • pp.269-277
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    • 2002
  • Dynamic characteristics of water hammer arresters installed in a building water supply system have been investigated numerically by utilizing a commercial rode that employs the method of characteristics. Some preliminary results with those arresters produced in this study agree well with the previously reported. Then, the arresters have been incorporated into a water supply pipe system of a $59m^2$ apartment unit constructed by a leading construction company, and their dynamic characteristics, especially on the reduction in the water hammer pressure, are investigated. It is found that the setting of the arresters in the pipe system, which is recommended by the company, may not be proper for reducing the pressure to less than 1082.0 kPa when buick-closure valves in the pipe system are closed within 30 ms at the static pressure of 542.6 kPa. More arresters in the system may be required to meet a pressure criteria.

Wind load on irregular plan shaped tall building - a case study

  • Chakraborty, Souvik;Dalui, Sujit Kumar;Ahuja, Ashok Kumar
    • Wind and Structures
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    • v.19 no.1
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    • pp.59-73
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    • 2014
  • This paper presents the results of wind tunnel studies and numerical studies on a '+' plan shaped tall building. The experiment was carried out in an open circuit wind tunnel on a 1:300 scale rigid model. The mean wind pressure coefficients on all the surfaces were studied for wind incidence angle of $0^{\circ}$ and $45^{\circ}$. Certain faces were subjected to peculiar pressure distribution due to irregular formation of eddies caused by the separation of wind flow. Moreover, commercial CFD packages of ANSYS were used to demonstrate the flow pattern around the model and pressure distribution on various faces. k-${\varepsilon}$ and SST viscosity models were used for numerical study to simulate the wind flow. Although there are some differences on certain wall faces, the numerical result is having a good agreement with the experimental results for both wind incidence angle.

A Basic Study on Construction Costs Comparison between LEED and non-LEED Certified Educational Buildings (교육시설물의 LEED 인증유무에 따른 공사비 비교를 위한 기초연구)

  • Ha, SunGeun;Jang, JunHo;Kim, JiMyong;Son, Kiyoung
    • Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Building Construction Conference
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    • 2017.05a
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    • pp.262-263
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    • 2017
  • Currently, the environmental certification such as BREEAM and LEED has been improved for the sustainable development and related research is conducted continuously. Especially, in the respect of economy, it is reported that the construction costs of the certified buildings are more increased than non-certified buildings. However, the report has not focused on the educational building but the residential and commercial buildings. Therefore, the objective of this study is to analyze the difference of construction costs between LEED and Non-LEED educational buildings. To achieve the objective, the buildings data are collected in 21 universities then T-test is used for examining the construction costs. As a result, it shows that the construction costs of LEED buildings are increased by 3.8% comparing with non-LEED buildings.

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A Study on the Fire Scenarios according to Initial Fire Source Classification and Fire Statistics Investigation of Business & Sales Faciliteis (업무·판매시설의 화재통계조사 및 초기화원분류를 통한 화재시나리오에 관한 연구)

  • Lee, Byeong-Heun;Kwon, Young-Jin
    • Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Building Construction Conference
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    • 2017.05a
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    • pp.42-43
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    • 2017
  • In Korea, The buildings are getting higher and bigger, and also the fire risk is getting increased. The PBD was introduced in 2009 for the fire safety of these buildings, but the study on making scenario based on actual case of fire is insufficient. Therefore on this study, it will conduct an experiment about initial fire classification and making fire scenario based on that actual fire statistic investigation classification of PBD buildings as official and commercial facilities.

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A Proposal of the Building Methodology for the Public Agency Enterprise Architecture thru the Project of MND-EA (구축사례를 통한 효율적 공공기관 EA 구축 방법론 제안)

  • Lee, Kwang-Je;Ahn, Jong-Deuk
    • Journal of Information Technology Services
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    • v.7 no.3
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    • pp.87-95
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    • 2008
  • The Law of effective building and operation for the information systems took effect at Dec. 2005. Every government and public agency have to build own enterprise architecture(EA), sometimes it's called the Information Technology Architecture(ITA), by this law. The Ministry of National Defense(MND) built the enterprise architecture(EA) during 2006. 12$\sim$2007. 11 by this law too. We knew the specific characters of the public sector thru the EA project. The public sector is less active than commercial sector and most members of the public sector are just looking on the project as a spectator. So the most of key for the success of EA is how to catch the Sponsorship and Participation of members. In this paper we propose the effective building methodology for the Enterprise Architecture of public agency applying the MND-EA. The other governments and public agencies can build own the EA easily by the proposed methodology.

Characterization of Live Fire Load in Buildings - Heat Release Characteristics of Typical Live Fire Load in Post Office Building - (건축물의 적재가연물 특성에 관한 연구 -우체국 적재가연물의 연소성상 -)

  • Nam, Dong-Gun;Yuji, Hasemi;SaKong, Seong-Ho;Jung, Jong-Jin
    • Proceedings of the Korea Institute of Fire Science and Engineering Conference
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    • 2008.04a
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    • pp.7-10
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    • 2008
  • Heat release characteristics of live fire load are an important parameter for performance oriented fire safety design of a building. While investigations have been carried out on the fire load and its burning behavior in office, residential and commercial buildings and so on, little effort has been paid for the rational treatment of fire load in post office buildings in Japan. In this report, burning behavior of typical combustible objects in post office buildings are studied by measuring heat release rates of plastic palettes with and without postal envelopes or packages and special containers loading numbers of palettes. The test results suggest that dynamic heat release rate is highly dependent on the condition of palettes especially if they load appropriate amount of postal envelopes or not.

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