Sentences with phrase «building physics»

This is a solidly built physics based action game that just doesn't do enough to keep me interested.

The game packs a robust level editor so you can make your own crazy creations in the well built physics world, just like the lead level designer does.

And yet they all have the same building physics being put to work for the benefit of the people in the buildings.

The fundamental principles of building physics and psychology do not change however: if teachers have to strain their voices and children can not understand what is being said, then these buildings are not fit for purpose as teaching environments.

In recent years, the Fraunhofer Institute for Building Physics IBP in Stuttgart has carried out a large number of experimental tests to investigate the drying behavior of wall, floor and ceiling structures with artificially induced water damage.

It's about 30 percent more difficult to detect those sweet and salty tastes, according to a 2010 study from the Fraunhofer Institute for Building Physics in Germany.

Researchers at the Fraunhofer Institute for Building Physics IBP already have 60 years of relevant experience in dealing with the topic of weather and tracking its development.

Low energy buildings behave differently, and the industry's broad failure to get to grips with building physics means that some considerable risks — overheating, poor indoor air quality and both surface and interstitial condensation, never mind failure to deliver anticipated energy savings — won't be discovered until tens of thousands of buildings have been built, and the damage is done.

Building physics take no prisoners.

Approaches to solving the problem using building physics are all based on the idea of reducing moisture on the surface of the façade.

But today, guided by building physics, passive house designers continue to push the boundaries of retrofit by bringing old homes up to modern standards of super-insulation.

A listing on the Nintendo eShop reveals that the indie bridge - building physics game Poly Bridge will be available on Nintendo

The primary reason for requiring airtightness in buildings has nothing to do with energy efficiency or occupant comfort, writes Helen Brown, head of building physics at Encraft — it's for the protection of the building fabric.

On that journey I discovered Building Physics and used my time on maternity leave to do some in depth reading.

Converter Tool: Building Physics SI - Imperial by Harrmann Consulting This tool allows the user to master all the imperial and metric units one will come across when working on Passive House projects in North America.

A couple of days ago I attended an AIA breakfast seminar by speaker Louise Goldberg, Senior Research Associate and Director Building Physics and Foundations Research Programs at the College of Design, University of Minnesota — that is a mouth - full, I know.

The objective of this course is to develop the understanding of basic principles of building physics, material science, and appropriate technology for a New England climate.

REFI - B «Reference weather data for building physics and impacts of climate change», project leader, 2010 — 2011

The use of the metal panels came out of an emerging discipline called «building physics,» provided here by Ove Arup & Partners, a London - based international engineering giant.

The overall objective of this project is to create a robust and reliable base of climate data to be used with the building physics simulation techniques.

In terms of building physics, this increases the probability that condensation might form on the outer surface of the façade due to the cooling effect of long - wave radiation of heat during the night.

From a building physics perspective, internal insulation is usually less desirable than external as far as thermal bridges (heat loss), condensation and drying potential are concerned.

-LSB-...] from other environmental architecture is science, building physics to be more specific, and the rigorous certification process.

And do check out the eZED blog where Paula and her colleagues write about structural engineering, building physics and passivhaus.

There are many aspects to the team's work including: Mechanical Engineering; Electrical Engineering; Public Health; Fire Protection; Vertical Transportation; Architectural Lighting Design; Building Physics and Sustainability.

I'm quite different as I take the building physics into account when I approach the structural design.

It then finishes by bringing the building physics reassuringly into an architectural context:

Assuming that we limit the definition of architecture to art, design and the human condition and exclude building science or building physics.

The book starts with a brief overview of the international Passivhaus Standard, the building physics principles and how it is being applied in different climates.

Participants learn how to apply Passive House principles in the context of building physics, windows and mechanical systems.

Participants will learn how to apply Passive House principles in the context of building physics, windows and mechanical systems.

Such a rational approach has not been applied to enclosure design because of a lack of quantitative understanding (of building physics and material properties) and no professional and research framework to create the approach for analysis, loadings, and performance thresholds.

In addition to its other work, PHI has carried out the building physics consultancy and scientific monitoring for the first Passive House office buildings (Cölbe near Marburg, Germany), the first Passive House factory (Bensheim near Darmstadt, Germany), the first Passive House schools, the first Passive House swimming pools (Bamberg and Lünen, Germany), and the first Passive House refurbishments (in Nuremberg, Frankfurt and Ludwigshafen, Germany).

Kunzel, H.M.; WUFI: PC Program for Calculating the Coupled Heat and Moisture Transfer in Building Components; Fraunhofer Institute for Building Physics, Holzkirchen, Germany, 1999.