The ancient Maya quarried immense quantities of building stone (usually limestone), which they cut by using harder stones such as chert.
Mathematics plays a role in many aspects of life, such as cooking (ratios and proportions), sports (scorekeeping), home upkeep (calculating quantities of building materials and paint, budgeting), and others.
They found that the estimated quantity of building waste in 2000 greatly exceeded the actual stock of building waste, and this gap was designated as "missing stock".
A mathematical model to forecast the amount of building waste in the earthquake-hit area is preliminarily proposed, the type and the quantity of building waste are statistically analyzed from several aspects.
However, since the advent of Building Information Modeling (BIM), which has been used for managing semantic building information, determining spatial relationships as well as quantities and properties of building components in CAAD systems has become easier.
In Table 1, we can see that the accumulated quantities of buildings and roads in Japan increased by approximately 1480 and 1360 million tonnes, respectively, from 1992 to 2008.
These are inevitable in a successful economy but exacerbated by the shortage of housing supply, by planning restrictions that limit the quantity of building land, by the disproportionate concentration of investment in the southeast, and by the excessive incomes of top earners.
For the data on the accumulated quantity of buildings and roads, I make use of the estimates from Tanikawa et al. (2015).
Conversely, the increase rate of the accumulated quantity of buildings in Wakayama Prefecture in the Kinki region is only 1%, which is the lowest value among the 46 prefectures.
Cities can be known for their cultural offerings, their pace of life or their public transportation systems, but some metropolises have a special quality or quantity of buildings that creates a unique urban thumbprint and resonates with people across the globe.
Regarding the increase rate of the accumulated quantity of buildings during the 17-year period, Saitama Prefecture in the Kanto region shows the highest value (33.3%), whereas Kyoto Prefecture in the Kinki region shows the highest value (66.5%) for the increase rate of the accumulated quantity of roads.
