School is the place where children spend much of their time every day. The school environment should be safe from any violence and danger. The question, “Do school buildings in Michigan provide safe environments for children and teachers?” has been asked by many community members. Our team of environmental design faculty and urban planning faculty …
Recent Publication
November 1, 2019
5 years ago
The main research question of this project is, if schools in the State of Michigan are designed to secure students from violent crimes or during an emergency situation. To answer this question, this research aims to examine students’ and parents’ opinions about school safety in terms of both indoor and outdoor environments. The study conducted …
December 31, 2017
7 years ago
Recently, it is becoming increasingly difficult to ignore carbon emission implication of building operations due to the significant rate of energy usage in buildings. In the building sector, our normal expectation implies that large building floor area induces more greenhouse gas (GHG) emission. In this research, the correlation between building total floor areas and GHG …
November 17, 2017
7 years ago
Significant amounts of energy are consumed in the commercial building sector, resulting in various adverse environmental issues. To reduce energy consumption and improve energy efficiency in commercial buildings, it is necessary to develop effective methods for analyzing building energy use. In this study, we propose a data cube model combined with association rule mining for …
April 27, 2017
8 years ago
In these days, it is becoming increasingly difficult to ignore energy shortages due to increasing energy usage in buildings. In building sector, we could expect that greater building areas imply more greenhouse gas (GHG) emission. In this paper, the correlation between building size and GHG emission is clarified by extracting a regression line and analyzing …
January 30, 2017
8 years ago
This study explored demographic characteristics based everyday lifestyle patterns and preferred spatial requirements of potential collective housing residents in Korea who would pursue 'Ambient Assisted Living' with 'Aging In Place' initiatives. Online questionnaire survey was commissioned for the pre-elderly and elderly age groups of 40s, 50s and above 60s, 801 individuals in total. Survey participants …