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Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park: an assessment of the 2012 London Games Legacies
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Springer
, 2017 , Article)
The London 2012 Olympics were the first Games with a legacy plan already in execution well before the beginning of the event. This study aims at evaluating the legacies of this Olympic edition, with particular regard to ...
The everyday urban environment of migrant labourers in Gulf Cities: the case of the old centre of Doha, Qatar
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Springer
, 2017 , Article)
Preventing the complete social restructuring and the relocation of migrant communities from traditional cores in Gulf cities to newly urbanized areas is a rising urban and social challenge. The Al Asmakh district in the ...
Study on adaptive thermal comfort in Japanese offices under various operation modes
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Elsevier Ltd
, 2017 , Article)
This research focuses on determining thermal comfort and analysing adaptive opportunities in Japanese office buildings under various operation modes including free running (FR) mode. There are very limited studies on office ...
Hierarchy based information requirements for sustainable operations of buildings in Qatar
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Elsevier Ltd
, 2017 , Article)
Information flows in construction projects are generally focused on the needs of the design and construction phases. This creates disruption of workflows across the project stages and in particular with the information ...
Experimental study on using PCMs of different melting temperatures in one cooling vest to reduce its weight and improve comfort
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Elsevier Ltd
, 2017 , Article)
This study aims at evaluating experimentally phase change material (PCM) cooling vest performance when incorporating two types of PCM with different melting temperatures with varied PCM placement on the lower, upper, front ...
Comfort temperature and occupant adaptive behavior in offices in Qatar during summer
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Elsevier Ltd
, 2017 , Article)
Qatar tops the world in per capita CO2 emissions and per capita total primary energy supply. Adaptive comfort standards and thermal comfort field survey data are not available for Qatar. We conducted a thermal comfort ...
Shading and day-lighting controls energy savings in offices with fully-Glazed façades in hot climates
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Elsevier Ltd
, 2017 , Article)
Shading devices installed on windows are designed to reduce solar radiation transmission into the space by absorbing and reflecting radiation rays. This study investigates the effect of shading and day-lighting controls ...
Cooling vest with optimized PCM arrangement targeting torso sensitive areas that trigger comfort when cooled for improving human comfort in hot conditions
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Elsevier Ltd
, 2017 , Article)
The objective of this work is to optimize the arrangement of Phase Change Material (PCM) packets in a cooling vest by targeting torso segments that can trigger comfort when cooled. An integrated fabric-PCM and bio-heat ...
Sense of Community in Al-Wakrah City: Strategies for the Development of Sustainable Communities in Qatar
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Scholars Middle East Publishers
, 2017 , Article)
In the State of Qatar, the intense and rapid urban development based on
hosting upcoming mega events, as envisioned by Qatar‟s National Vision (QNV-
2030), have raised concern about community stability as it faces ...
Cultural meanings embedded in the facade of Italian migrants' houses in brisbane, Australia
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Archnet-IJAR
, 2017 , Article)
In the Post-WWII period, while industrial production in Italy had diminished and millions of people were unemployed, Australia was facing the opposite problem of shortage of labour, due to a rapid agricultural and industrial ...