Achieving near-zero energy in hot climates: Retrofitting building envelopes for existing homes by Mohammed A Aloshan

“…The findings of this study reveal that the base-case scenario, with no retrofitting, had an annual energy consumption of 60,641 kWh. Optimising facade elements alone reduced energy consumption by 62 %, down to 37,801 kWh annually. …”
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A PLS-SEM Based Approach: Analyzing Generation Z Purchase Intention Through Facebook’s Big Data by Vikas Kumar, Preeti, Shaiku Shahida Saheb, Sunil Kumari, Kanishka Pathak, Jai Kishan Chandel, Neeraj Varshney, Ankit Kumar

“…The main purpose was to analyze the F-commerce pervasiveness (retail purchases through Facebook) among Generation Z in India and how could it be materialized effectively. A conceptual façade was proposed after trotting out germane and urbane literature. …”
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Eklektizismus und Experiment. ›Just Intonation‹ in Ben Johnstons späten Streichquartetten by Johannes Quint

“…Ben Johnstonʼs late string quartets offer a surprising dialectic between traditional facade and microtonal interior. The analysis of four selected examples exposes different functionalities found in Johnstonʼs use of ›Just Intonation‹: In the 2nd movement of String Quartet No. 10, the polarity major/minor is replaced by that of O-Tonality/U-Tonality. …”
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Microchimie comparative des otolithes et des écailles de saumon Atlantique (<i>Salmo salar</i>) by Matthias VIGNON, Gilles BAREILLE, Christophe PEYCHERAN, Hélène TABOURET

“…Ici, une évaluation du potentiel microchimique des écailles a été conduite sur la façade atlantique française, comme alternative non létale à l'utilisation des otolithes. …”
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Conservación neoliberal de la naturaleza en la Patagonia chilena: explorando nuevas modalidades ecoextractivistas y tensiones hidrosociales by Esteban Ortiz Robles, Robinson Torres Salinas, Alejandro Salazar-Burrows, Fabien Bourlon

“…The critique advanced in this article challenges the “green” facade of these conservation projects, arguing that they represent not genuine ecological awareness but rather a form of real estate speculation reliant on green rhetoric to legitimize and expand their scope.…”
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Aménagements de berge monumentaux d’époque laténienne et romaine à Besançon (Doubs) by Christophe Gaston

“…The maximum preserved height is 2,25 m, but it can be estimated, thanks to the levels of roadways that lean against it, that its total height reached almost 4 m, and its maximum width exceeded 10 m in places. The facade has the peculiarity of being erected along the very regular profile of a stepped slope, whose gradient, at a constant angle of almost 53° to the horizontal, made it possible to highlight the use of the Pythagorean triangle. …”
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METHAPHYSICS OF DEATH PENALTY by V. E. Gromov

“…The author believes that refusal from death penalty under the pretence of rule of humanism is just a liberal façade, plausible excuse for defective moral state of the society which, rejecting its own guiltiness share as for current disregards of the law, does not grow but downgrades proper human dignity. …”
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Prioritization of the effective factors in reducing energy consumption in a residential building using computer simulation by N. Amani, F. Tirgar Fakheri, K. Safarzadeh

“…The analysis was done by integrating building architecture engineering (the best form of orientation and facade) based on the reasonable costs of consuming common materials in the area. …”
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Optimization of construction costs and energy consumption during the operation period of residential buildings (Case study: common residential buildings in Tehran) by Meysam Zekavat, Mansoureh Tahabaz, Mohammad Reza Hafezi

“…The results indicate that the best possible scenarios for the exterior facade, stone, low-emission double-glazed windows with argon gas, the outer wall of the pottery with a window-to-south front ratio of 22.5% or Leica, with a window ratio At the level of the southern front, it is 37.5%.…”
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Study of Wind Loads and Wind Speed Amplifications on High-Rise Building with Opening by Numerical Simulation and Wind Tunnel Test by Fu-Bin Chen, Xiao-Lu Wang, Yun Zhao, Yuan-Bo Li, Qiu-Sheng Li, Ping Xiang, Yi Li

“…High-rise buildings are very sensitive to wind excitations, and wind-induced responses have always been the key factors for structural design. Facade openings have often been used as aerodynamic measures for wind-resistant design of high-rise buildings to meet the requirement of structural safety and comfort. …”
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Charakter prawny rady społecznej w samodzielnym publicznym zakładzie opieki zdrowotnej by Michał Gornowicz

“…De lege lata, the current manner of legal shaping of social councils makes it a facade, deprived of any authority enabling effective implementation of statutory objectives accompanying their establishment within the broadly understood social control of independent public healthcare institutions. …”
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Économie végétale à partir des études carpologiques du boulevard Dr Henri-Henrot à Reims/Durocortorum by Véronique Matterne

“…The “Romanization” of culinary practices is then no longer merely a façade (Mathelart et al. 2014). The increase in the number of mortars testifies to the importance of spices and the preparation of spiced and carefully seasoned sauces; cooking methods favored for stews or other dishes that are simmered. …”
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Villa d’époque romaine et habitat médiéval à Mont-Saint-Jean (Sarthe) : bilan des recherches 2008-2020 by Florian Sarreste, Paul-André Besombes, Phaedra Bouvet, Chloé Genies, Étienne Jaffrot, Florian Jedrusiak, Thomas Jubeau, Anthony Ledauphin, Annaïg Le Martret, Christophe Loiseau, Hugo Meunier, Aurore Noël, Sandrine Paradis-Grenouillet, Boris Robin

“…Following these endeavors, the eastern wing of the courtyard was demolished and the annexes were moved to the northeast, perhaps to clear the view of the new pars urbana’s northern façade. Two of these buildings were equipped with hydraulic installations: a forge and a possible mill. …”
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Identifying factors affecting the creation of brand identity in Iran's banking industry by Seyed Mahdi Saatchi, farzad asayesh, Sedighe Tootian Esfahani, Seyed Mahmood Hashemi

“…The characteristics of a bank's buildings, from the extent and number of its branches to the beauty of the facade of the building and the signs of the branches and the interior of the branches, express the visual identity of the bank's brand.Based on the results of the research, it is suggested that banks create their desired brand identity by creating a competitive advantage via focusing on providing services needed by customers and also by improving the level of customer orientation by employees. …”
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Quais et ouvrages portuaires romains de Rouen/Rotomagus (Seine-Maritime) by Marie-Clotilde Lequoy

“…On the upper part of the embankment, 15 m to the north of the dock line, a hangar-type building was discovered, the southern façade of which measures approximately 3.80 m in width, while its length remains unknown. …”
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Une ponction dans le fonds Paul Guadet : les plans de pose du revêtement de l’Hôtel Carnot, 1906-1908 by Valentin Gillet

“…Frequently referred to in technical literature for workers but rarely conserved in archival collections, the laying plans provide information on both the design and the execution of cladded stoneware facades. As we have recently celebrated the fiftieth anniversary of the demolition of the hotel Carnot, the recent listing of Paul Guadet’s holdings stored in the Centre d’archives d’architecture du XXe siècle was the occasion to consider the plans that were used to design and apply the stoneware cladding on its façades, and which have remained unpublished to this day.…”
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Seismic and Power Generation Performance of U-Shaped Steel Connected PV-Shear Wall under Lateral Cyclic Loading by Hongmei Zhang, Jinzhi Dong, Yuanfeng Duan, Xilin Lu, Jinqing Peng

“…BIPV is now widely used in office and residential buildings, but its seismic performance still remained vague especially when the photovoltaic (PV) modules are installed on high-rise building facades. A new form of reinforced concrete shear wall integrated with photovoltaic module is proposed in this paper, aiming to apply PV module to the facades of high-rise buildings. …”
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A Note on Quotient Reflective Subcategories of O-REL by Muhammad Qasim, Ch. Muhammad Afaq Aslam

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Úřední domy v Litomyšli a stavební činnost Jiřího Béby by Vladislava Říhová

“…Both the buildings are interpreted – using the analysis of decoration of the facades – to be the works of constructor Jiří Béba. …”
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Smart materials for NZEB buildings. Adaptive technological solutions for sustainable projects by Rosa Romano

“…The paper shows some of the results of the European research COST Action TU 1403 Adaptive Envelope, whose aim is to map technological innovation at an international level, linked to design and creation of adaptive façades systems, by analysing the subsystems that from the micro to the macro scale allow to reach and exceed the energy-environmental targets foreseen by the current national and international regulations. …”
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