He is particularly skeptical of comparing apartments in different buildings based on their listed square footage.
But while the city could stipulate who was eligible for buildings based on income levels, it could not predict how or if the tenants would get along.
Government certification is given to some of the buildings, based on the rate at which they're sinking and when they were repaired.
[Bloomberg Businessweek] The District of Columbia outflanks all 50 states in construction of LEED-certified buildings, based on per-capita square footage.
For instance, they are assessed as if they were older rental buildings, based on rental income rather than their ever-rising sale prices.
Their future success and survival will be aided by better and more adaptable buildings, based on a well-researched evidence base.
Called LEED certification, for Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design, it provides a rating for buildings based on human and environmental health, sustainable site development, water savings, energy efficiency, materials selection and indoor environmental quality.
As part of "Living City," the designers will release in January the source code for software designed to develop an environmental communications network between many buildings, based on data collected by sensors in each location.
The Albanese Organization hopes to get 1001 Franklin Avenue certified by the United States Green Building Council, a nonprofit environmental organization that rates and certifies buildings based on factors like air quality, energy efficiency and water savings.
In (Rüppel et al., 2010) an approach to model emergency situations in buildings based on BIM is described.
Besides, the introduction of buildings based on real map data brings too many obstacles to make GPSR forward successful.
