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Occupant-Centric Simulation-Aided Building Design promotes
occupants as a focal point for the design process. This resource
for established and emerging building designers and researchers
provides theoretical and practical means to restore occupants and
their needs to the heart of the design process. Helmed by leaders
of the International Energy Agency Annex 79, this edited volume
features contributions from a multi-disciplinary, globally
recognized team of scholars and practitioners. Chapters on the
indoor environment and human factors introduce the principles of
occupant-centric design while chapters on selecting and applying
models provide a thorough grounding in simulation-aided building
design practice. A final chapter assembling detailed case studies
puts the lessons of the preceding chapters into real world context.
In fulfilment of the International Energy Agency's mission of
disseminating research on secure and sustainable energy to all,
Occupant-Centric Simulation-Aided Building Design is available as
an Open Access Gold title. With a balance of fundamentals and
design process guidelines, Occupant-Centric Simulation-Aided
Building Design reorients the building design community towards
buildings that recognize and serve diverse occupant needs, while
aiming for superior environmental performance, based on the latest
science and methods.
This book is the first to comprehensively cover research methods
for building occupant behavior. As this is of growing importance
for building design and for building performance optimization, the
book aims to provide a sound scientific basis for experimental
studies in this field. It introduces the reader to fundamental
questions about the topic and unfolds the different fields related
to occupant actions and comfort. This is followed by more general
questions about developing an appropriate research method and
experimental design. A comprehensive overview of sensors for
monitoring environmental and also behavioral and action-related
quantities helps to set up an experiment. In this context,
different experimental environments and data collection methods
(in-situ, laboratories, surveys) are introduced and discussed in
terms of their suitability for the respective research question.
Furthermore, data management and reporting is addressed. The book
concludes with fundamental challenges in conducting occupant
studies, with chapters on ground truth, ethics and privacy.
2013 Reprint of 1942 Edition. Full facsimile of the original
edition, not reproduced with Optical Recognition Software. South
Bend Lathe Works sent out this manual with every Lathe they sold.
Profusely illustrated. You get everything you need to set up a
lathe and get it running. This is the lathe manual that Dave
Gingery raves about. You get eleven chapters: history and
development of the lathe, setting up and leveling the lathe,
operation of the lathe, lathe tools and their application, how to
take accurate measurements, plain turning (work between centers),
chuck work; taper turning and boring, drilling reaming and tapping,
cutting screw threads, and special classes of work. All the basics
are here form sharpening drills to producing "super-finished"
turned bearings, grinding valves, and turning multiple screw
threads.
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When We Were Boys
William O'Brien
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When We Were Boys
William O'Brien
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Ringforts were an important part of the rural settlement landscape
of early medieval Ireland (AD 400-1100). While most of those
circular enclosures were farmsteads, a small number had special
significance as centres of political power and elite residence,
also associated with specialized crafts. One such 'royal site' was
Garranes in the mid-Cork region of south-west Ireland. In 1937,
archaeological excavation of a large trivallate ringfort provided
evidence of high-status residence during the fifth and sixth
centuries AD. The site had workshops for the production of bronze
ornaments, with glass and enamel working as well as indications of
farming. Pottery and glass vessels imported from the Mediterranean
world and Atlantic France were also discovered. That trade with the
Late Roman world is significant to understanding the introduction
of Christianity and literacy in southern Ireland at that time. This
monograph presents the results of an interdisciplinary project
conducted 2011-18, where archaeological survey and excavation,
supported by various specialist studies, examined this historic
landscape. Garranes is a special place where archaeology, history
and legend combine to uncover a minor royal site of the early
medieval period. The central ringfort has been identified as Rath
Raithleann, the seat of the petty kingdom of Ui Echach Muman,
recalled in bardic poetry of the later medieval period. Those poems
attribute its foundation to Corc, a King of Munster in the fifth
century AD, and link the site closely to Cian, son-in-law of Brian
Boruma, and one of the heroes of Clontarf (AD 1014). This study
provides new evidence to connect the location of Rath Raithleann to
high-status occupation at Garranes during the fifth and sixth
centuries, and explores its legendary associations in later
periods.
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