In the first quarter of this year, fixed asset investment, a broad measure of building activity, jumped 25 percent from the level of a year ago and real estate investment soared 37 percent, the government said Friday.
As municipal projects play out across China, spending on so-called fixed-asset investment — a crucial measure of building that is heavily weighted toward government and real estate projects — is now equal to nearly 70 percent of the nation's gross domestic product.
By combining the risk-based methodology of the exceedance analysis with pressure and impulse data in the form of pressure impulse (P I) curves, a better measure of building damage can be generated.
For free running buildings, due to the absence of heating/cooling equipment, EC may not be an appropriate indicator and using EC as a measure of building thermal performance may cause misleading at the design phase.
However, even in cases where impressive measures can be implemented in the densely built urban environment, the less glamorous measure of building's envelope thermal insulation remains a prerequisite towards the improvement of the building's energy efficiency.
Also, results were adjusted for the number of customers of the hospital restaurant as a measure of building occupancy, like was done in one previous study also.
